Intel Corp (INTC.O) officials made their first public comments on the company’s strategy for tapping into the “metaverse,” saying the company is working on software that will allow laptops to tap into computational power from other devices, including chips from competitors.
While the term “metaverse” has a broad connotation, it often refers to immersive virtual worlds that can be accessed via the internet and other technologies such as virtual reality headsets.
The trend is expected to necessitate a massive increase in computing power, and companies like Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), which makes chips and software for virtual reality headsets, and Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O), which makes chips for virtual reality headsets, have both seen their stock prices rise in recent months as a result of investor interest in the metaverse.
Raja Koduri, head of Intel’s accelerated computing systems and graphics group, said the company’s first technology push into the metaverse will be software that helps devices take advantage of computing power that already exists but is unused, during a news conference after a presentation on metaverse technologies at the RealTime Conference on Monday.
The trend is expected to necessitate a massive increase in computing power, and companies like Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), which makes chips and software for virtual reality headsets, and Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O), which makes chips for virtual reality headsets, have both seen their stock prices rise in recent months as a result of investor interest in the metaverse.
Raja Koduri, head of Intel’s accelerated computing systems and graphics group, said the company’s first technology push into the metaverse will be software that helps devices take advantage of computing power that already exists but is unused, during a news conference after a presentation on metaverse technologies at the RealTime Conference on Monday.
For example, if a gamer is playing a graphics-intensive game on a laptop that is taxing the system’s chips but has an underused gaming PC in another room, the program may detect the idle power on the PC and tap into it across a home network to improve the performance of the laptop game.
According to Koduri, the program will operate with chips from other companies. The program is intended to help customers solve technical problems rather than create significant money for Intel. Some of it will be shared, according to Koduri.
“The way we are architecting all the layers is that it is going to work with everybody’s hardware, as long as they are on industry-standard specifications,” Koduri told reporters. “There’ll be a lot of open-sourcing involved with everything that we build.”
