Intel’s director of technology management and microprocessor research Jerry Bautista recently gave some clues and a few real examples that indicate how Intel is helping create an Internet that is more of an Immersive Connective Experience (ICE), according to V3.

Bautista made his remarks at the Semicon 2009 Conference held in San Francisco. His remarks about the ICE basically state that the digital world will, increasingly, merge with the real world.


As an example, he cited the work Intel is doing creating automated avatars that would augment videoconferencing. This would create a virtual space of people with realistic facial expressions and avatars that appear to be in the same space, rather than the current wildly varied avatars that appear on some sites.

He also noted that Intel has been looking beyond Second Life. He said the company has been developing software modeling systems that render more accurate 3D images, and that Intel has also been working on a technology where users could send in multiple photos of an object to a computer, from which the computer would build the virtual object automatically.

Bautista noted that Intel, of course, is also on the vanguard of coping with the loads that are placed on servers and microchips due to the heavy computing power needed to power virtual worlds and ICE computing.

"This is where Intel smiles," said Bautista. "This requires a pretty heavy computing load. If you try and access sites like Second Life with an old laptop, the site brings it to its knees."

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