The essential variety is an algebraic subvariety of dimension in It encodes the relative pose of two calibrated cameras, where a calibrated camera is a matrix of the form with and . Since the degree of this variety is , there can only be at most complex solutions. We compute the expected number of real points in the intersection of the essential variety with a random linear space of codimension . My aim is to tell you about these computations and our results. This is joint work with Paul Breiding, Samantha Fairchild, and Pierpaola Santarsiero.