What part did you design? I used an IMX8, and had issues with the CSI-MIPI RX, the fifo kept overflowing and crashing the AXI bridge, which could only be fixed by rebooting the SoC, such a pain!
Maybe Intel is developing a new chip architecture and want to support linux from day 0? Or does Intel want a team of Kernel developers for their AI Silicon play, support the lower level architecture, or for their GPU play?
A tutorial introduction to the direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) signal chain and typical artifacts introduced due to detector and processing electronic limitations.
Short of a dot-com burst I don't see a glut of software engineers. However, as the career prospects are better known there are more people thinking they want to be a software developer, will this increase the talent pool and decrease demand?
There are plenty of other 3D depth cameras out there, just not with the brand recognition of Intel, and now the quick and easy purchase of one unit at $200USD.
Makes sense, if you have a product where you can make a profit on the manufacturing, why would you stop supply. Intel never broke out Realsense in any public finical data, I wonder if the R&D was not profitable, and is not a core part of Intel's business so the new CEO decided to shut it down.
Shameless self promotion, I'm a co-founder of Chronoptics and we design bespoke iToF depth cameras, have been thinking we should release a module to fill up the gap in the market caused by Intel's move.
Im guessing like Sony, it's hard to support such chips because of the underlying complexities. Melexis has open datasheets and can purchase individual sensors off mouser.
The microsoft kinect does 3 frequency measurements to get the higher distance precision of higher modulation frequencies and to extend the maximum distance so the phase wrapping (aliasing) can be solved.