Hands-on: Intel’s RealSense cameras can easily plug your image into a Twitch livestream

Game livestreamers are going to love this.

With the Intel RealSense camera for the PC, it’s going to be really easily to automatically capture video of your face and insert it into a Twitch livestream of a game in real-time. As Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich demonstrated today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the Intel RealSense-powered cameras provide motion-sensing, gesture recognition, and 3D scanning.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.