about Intel® RealSense™ Developer Kit Camera

[Emily_L_]

Hi, 

   I'm a researcher of an University in China. We are very interested in your Intel® RealSense™ technology and we want to develop some application based on the Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2014.Now i see your website has two devices.One is the Intel® RealSense™ Developer Kit and the other  one is the Intel® RealSense™ 3D Camera (R200) Developer Kit.What are diferences between them?If i want to develop some applications on phone with android operation system,which device should i choose?Can you provide any chip or other device about the  Intel® RealSense™ technology?Maybe later we will use your  Intel® RealSense™ technology to make ourselves' camera or integrate the technology to a phone.Thanks.

[Colleen_C_Intel]

F200 is the camera that will be user facing in all-in-ones, ultrabooks, 2-in-1s . It has gesture, hand tracking, face, tracking, face recognition and voice as the main features. (Other items see SDK). That SDK is in release 2 of Gold. 
The R200 is the "world facing" camera that will be in some tablets and all in ones (and perhaps other form factors). The Scene Perception, Enhanced Photography and 3D scanning are the main functions to start with. It has alpha level support in the R2 version of the SDK. 
The current RealSense SDK is for Windows 8.1 and above, there will be an Android SDK available later this year for use with the R200.

[Emily_L_]

hi,i know you have worked with major OEMs to integrate 3D cameras into many of these devices in an effort to give PCs human-like senses.I want to know which compony do Intel cooperate with?If we also want to work with you to integrate 3D cameras to our device, what should we do?Thanks.

[Emily_L_]

And another question.If we want to develop some applications based on Intel® RealSense™ technology.Is the Intel® RealSense™ 3D Camera necessary?Do we must have both PC with  4th generation  Intel® Core™ processors and the Intel® RealSense™ 3D 
camera?

[MartyG]

Hi Emily, you can develop RealSense applications in the Unity game engine without the camera plugged in but when you try to run the program, you will get an error message saying "Unable to initialise all modalities" and the non-camera parts of the program will run but any parts with a camera script inside them won't work.

The same is true for applications developed in other systems like C++ and C#.  In the samples packaged with the RealSense SDK, if you try to run the programs without the camera plugged in then you get error messages like "Init failed" and nothing happens.