AI Technology & Industry Review
“Our research provides enriched AR user experiences by enabling a more fine-grained visual recognition feature in AR, which is desirable in a wide range of application scenarios including technical support,” IBM researchers say.
Synced has identified a few significant technical advancements in the 3D photo field that we believe may be of interest to our readers.
Tencent announced the TIME Ecological Partner Program at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit.
Researchers from MIT Media Lab and Adobe Research recently introduced a real-time interactive augmented video system that enables presenters to use their bodies as storytelling tools by linking gestures to illustrative virtual graphic elements.
The traditional retail industry is facing challenges as the rapid development and continuous improvement of AI tools and techniques ushers in the era of New Retail.
AI startup Orbbec (奥比中光) today closed an over US$200 million Series D funding round led by Ant Finance. Other investors include Saif Partners, Green Pine Capital, Telstra Ventures, and Renzhi Capital.
Mapbox, a San Francisco-based digital mapping startup, released its Mapbox AR at the Mobile World Conference 2018 in Barcelona. The AR platform comprises a suite of tools, a low-level AR core kit, and a framework.
I purchased a Tmall Genie X1 — Alibaba’s flagship smart speaker — at the discounted price of US$15 during China’s November 11 “Singles Day” shopping festival. I was given order number 560,000-ish, and received the product a month later. The speaker is regularly priced at US$79, about the same as its American counterpart Google Mini.
At this year’s ATEC Developer Challenge, Futuristic won Best Creative Idea Award, while RADIAnt won Best Social Value Award.
Amber Garage’s HoloKit is quickly positioning itself as a market stimulator. Just as Google Cardboard increased access and interest in virtual reality, so might HoloKit for augmented reality.
“Why did I go to such extremes? Because I realized that the future of computing was as much about communications between people wearing computers as it was about preforming colossal calculations.” — Steve Mann