Something interesting about VR/AR/AI/Blockchain

Like many people expected, this year's MWC Shanghai show did not have much surprise. The VR field is still slow, hardware iteration speeds slow, yet the content has once again raise everyone's attention. With the advent of Apple ARKit and Google ARCore, mobile AR has been making rapid progress this year. Both hardware vendors and content providers are following suit. In the following we will review the MWC Shanghai show this year on VR/AR and related issues. This year, MWC Shanghai has opened 7 exhibition halls for N1-N5, W4, and W5. Among them, N1-N4 focuses on industrial fields. For example, IoT, Smart City, and robots are basically all around 5G, and AR/ Exhibition areas such as VR/MR are concentrated in Hall W5. HTC Vive showcases a lot Apps and new features of Vive Focus A large part of the W5 zone was packaged by the HTC Vive. This HTC Vive showcased almost all the products including Vive Pro, Vive Focus and U12+ mobile phones. Last month, HTC released the Vi...

Recently, Baidu China signed a contract with Ford to further break into the automBaidu cooperates with Ford China to create an AI car togetherotive industry. The cooperation between the two companies will be dedicated to enhancing the "intelligence" of China's driving experience. This is not the first time that the two companies have collaborated. It was more famous that they used Velodyne, a startup company that manufactures Light Detection And Ranging sensors, to jointly invest 150 million U.S. dollars (about 9,000 million U.S. dollars). In the cooperation they launched cars equipped with technologies such as car networking, artificial intelligence and digital marketing. They will launch a new vehicle-mounted system based on the Baidu DuerOS AI platform. It is also part of Baidu's Apollo platform (car Android) and Ford is also one of the founders of the platform. Some of the noteworthy features of the onboard DuerOS system include Speech recognition, Natural...

Recently, Magic Bear Technology announced that it will complete a round of RMB 100 million in Series B financing, and the investor is a word-of-mouth network. Previous investors also included the Meituan and PricewaterhouseCo. As a wedding program design and VR cloud rendering company, Huanxiong Technology has independently developed nearly 200 sets of wedding design programs, which can present VR rendering effects of 3D panoramic effects and design solutions for more than 12,500 banquet halls in more than 200 cities. The VR technology among wedding couple Now, VR+ wedding seems to have become one of the labels of fantasy bear technology. Now that I'd like to talk about VR+ weddings: Currently, the application of VR technology in the wedding field. At present, the presentation form of VR+ weddings can be roughly divided into three types: first, the VR of a new wedding couple itself, such as wearing a VR head-displayed marriage; second, marrying a virtual person; and thir...

On June 26th International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking,  anti-drug publicity and education activities were held at the anti-drug work base in Hongshan District, Wuhan. In the anti-drug experience zone, Sun Shihao, a Wuhan University anti-drug volunteer with VR (virtual reality) glasses, feels like being in a real drug scene. "The experience is very realistic. When I saw drug addicts 'enjoy', I was curious and nervous. When I saw them gradually ulcerating, I began to feel sick and disgusted." After Sun shared experience and comprehension, other volunteers also Try to experience it. "Drug addiction is difficult to abstain from because of peoples' addictions in heart." Xin Xianzhu, deputy general manager of the technology developer and the heart technology company, introduced VR virtual reality detoxification correction method through eye tracking technology, physiological parameter detection, quantitatively assess the level of ...

In recent years, the wave of sports has subverted the training mode of athletes and integrated the training mode of innovative technology to make quantitative performance possible. It includes athletes' movements, tactical judgments, and the ejection or movement path of various kinds of balls. The data and simulation training modes can shorten the training time of athletes and achieve more customized training and thoroughly improve the performance of athletes. In outdoor sports, the use of VR can provide a virtual scene in 3D design, which not only provides the task of overcoming difficulties when the weather is poor, but also can be used as a pre-match familiar training for large-scale events, with the US national Olympic Ski Team special. In cooperation with STRIVR, for example, STRIVR hired a professional skier to put on GoPro and recorded the situation of skiing on the ski track in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Based on the film, he designed a VR content that simulates skiing in...

More and more marketing departments are beginning to use AR technology to promote their products. In the past week, there have been numerous examples of entertainment using augmented reality technology. For movies, Disney/Pixar and Universal Studios use multiple AR platforms to attract fans to watch movies on the premiere weekend. In terms of sports, Fox has invested in AR technology to play the FIFA World Cup Spain against Portugal in order to increase ratings. Disney/Pixar promotes Superman Story 2 with Snapchat Pixar took the second installment of "Superman Mobilization" formally into the summer of various highly anticipated sequel movies. "Superman Mobilization 2" uses AR technology to promote movies, just like its competitors. Click Snapchat, the inside of the AR function can be used to the well-known Superman family mask "on" the face, just a few simple mobile phone can activate a variety of virtual superpowers. After opening the rear-v...

If you come to the airport on the return journey of overseas travel, you will find that there are still many local currencies on you. What do you usually do? In addition to changing money at the airport, there is now an airport that can help you switch to Bitcoin. On June 20th, at the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a Bitcoin ATM machine was added to support the exchange of Euros to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Both are the most popular cryptocurrencies in the world. Schiphol Airport is an important transportation hub linking Europe to Asia and the Americas, as well as an airport that provides such currency conversion services in the world. "Schiphol Airport always offers a variety of creative and meticulous services for passengers. With this ATM, it is hoped that it will provide more ways for passengers to use the locally used Euro at airports to become more international. Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Ethereum." The Bitcoin ATM will be commiss...

According to the 2018 World Robot Report recently released by the International Robot Federation (IFR), in 2017, the global sales of industrial robots reached 380,000, an increase of 29% year-on-year. China is the largest buyer, buying 138,000 units in 2017. This figure exceeds one-third of the total global sales in the year, a year-on-year increase of 58%. South Korea and Japan, which also enthusiastically embraced industrial robots, ranked second and third with 40,000 and 38,000 respectively. In Europe and the United States, the best sales of industrial robots are the United States (33,000) and Germany (22,000). These five countries accounted for 71% of the total sales of industrial robots in 2017. The report also analyzed the global demand for industrial robots. The data shows that the automotive industry has the greatest demand. In 2017, 125,000 new robots were added. Followed by electrical / electronics, metals, chemicals and food industries, including me...

In March of this year, FIFA voted to use the VAR technology (Video Assistant Referee, video assistant referee) during the 2018 Russia World Cup. The VAR (Video Assist Referee System) technology was used for the first time in the World Cup. Although "VAR" looks like the popular "VR", it is not the same thing at all. The VAR technology is provided by Sony. It combines the game screen with the virtual screen to achieve multi-angle, clear and real-time 3D game detail restoration. In addition, the advanced dynamic scanner can also determine whether the player is going to fall, and the referee can put on the headset and see it more quickly to make a precise penalty. According to reports, VAR technology can make 100% correct decisions in determining the offside of players. The International Football Council is full of confidence that they believe that VAR can achieve "the smallest interference, the biggest benefit." "VAR is an absolute thing to h...