Intel, Nokia Join Forces for Smartphone Hologram Video Calling

From DailyTech: Back in February at the Mobile World Congress, Intel and Nokia announced that they were merging their Moblin (Intel) and Maemo (Nokia) Linux distributions into a single distribution dubbed MeeGo. MeeGo was intended both to be an ideal graphics-rich OS for smartphones, most of which run ARM processors. It would also be an optimized OS for netbooks/tablets that sport Intel's Atom (x86) mobile processor, which Windows 7 only weakly supports according to Intel.

Now Intel and Nokia, along with the University of Oulu, have announced that they're opening a joint lab dubbed "the Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center" in Oulu, a city in central Finland. Finland is Nokia's home country.

One of the lab's top priorities will be to develop new open source 3-D Linux skins and interfaces. The goal here is to allow the user to employ "real world" gestures to accomplish meaningful tasks. While that objective may seem a little nebulous, you can look to recent Google acquisition BumpTop for an example of how gestures and a 3-D OS skin can improve the user experience. MeeGo's experimental extensions will likely follow a similar path.

Rich Green, Senior vice president and chief technical officer, Nokia comments, "3-D technology could change the way we use our mobile devices and make our experiences with them much more immersive. “Our new joint laboratory with Intel draws on the Oulu research community’s 3-D interface expertise, and over time will lay down some important foundations for future mobile experiences."

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