AR & VR Driving Returns

Thanks Joe D

We're in the early stages of something that is already driving returns for major corporations. (they WILL invest in something that delivers strong returns), and in early stages we'll have upgrade cycles that will continue to pay us.

It's still relatively unknown.... so think like you're investing in Personal computers in the early stages  (DELL in the early stages. )

"The Hololens presented this opportunity where we could capture the tribal knowledge of our most experienced staff..." --- That is GOLD.

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King County Uses Manifest from Taqtile on Vimeo.


Venture Beat

While consumer AR/VR is proving itself, enterprise AR/VR is already delivering strong return on investment for major corporations like Walmart, Lockheed Martin, and Verizon. But the market remains a series of connected point solutions, not a fully functioning ecosystem (yet). As major players like Microsoft build toward an end-to-end stack and win half-billion dollar contracts from the US military with HoloLens 2, we’re still in the earliest stages of what we call the “Enterprise Reality Ecosystem.” How is enterprise AR/VR driving ROI today, and what else does it need to scale across platforms?

Unbox therapy

Thanks Doug!

Pushing 2 million views.... 

Blackview Max

Well, this phone is certainly on the radar of GetDroid Tips.. 


Recovery Mode

Force Reboot

Factory Reset

Fastboot Mode

Change Language

Safemode Boot

3D Personal Assistant?

This is entirely possible, and I'd be very surprised if this isn't on the radar of Amazon and Google as well.

I have experienced this in person and the effect is stunning -- 2D video of it really can't do it justice.

Their promo video might be a joke... but a 3D display in a personal assistant is completely possible -- and very likely to become a reality.

Follow the Reddit/MVIS post...



Remember -- Microvision has already been part of a working 3D projector.





NVIDIA RON (Holographic Personal Assistant)

Hololamp Videos (this blog)

Shocked I am! -- folding phones breaking within days...

If you want a significantly larger screen on your phone, there's really only ONE good way....

Project it.

Yes, that big, that well.

 

Daily Mail

Patent from the Fruit Company

Thanks Ron!

https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2019/04/apple-won-patents-today-covering-the-macbook-pros-touch-bar-and-their-next-gen-scanning-depth-engine.html#more

"Scanning Depth Engine

Today the U.S. Patent Office granted Apple their third patent for a "Scanning Depth Engine" under number 10,261,578. Apple's patent covers their invention related to methods and devices for projection and capture of optical radiation, and particularly to optical 3D mapping. The mapping apparatus includes a transmitter, which is configured to emit a beam including pulses of light, and a scanner, which is configured to scan the beam, within a predefined scan range, over a scene.

3 X SCANNING DEPTH ENGINE

You could review our report covering Apple's second granted patent for this invention in general here. You could review today's newly granted patent here. The fine addition to Apple's invention could be found in their patent claim #4 which now mentions their transmitter comprises a laser.

In January Bloomberg reported that "Apple Inc. plans to launch iPhones with a more-powerful 3-D camera as soon as next year, stepping up the company’s push into augmented reality, according to people familiar with the plans.

The rear-facing, longer-range 3-D camera is designed to scan the environment to create three-dimensional reconstructions of the real world. It will work up to about 15 feet from the device, the people said. That’s in contrast with the current iPhone 3-D camera system, which points toward users and operates at distances of 25 to 50 centimeters to power Apple’s Face ID facial-recognition feature.

Apple’s new system uses a laser scanner, rather than the existing dot-projection technology which doesn’t work as well over longer distances."

Microsoft Presentation....

I must admit I've only watched part of this so far...

99%+ confidence that MVIS is providing the near eye display for this device. 

3D computing is going to be bigger than PC's.

One of the most important things about this, is the statement they've made a number of times: "anyone can build their own Hololens." -- delivered in slightly different terms here. (If I remember correctly, "the democratization of mixed reality.")

This is going to be huge -- and remember both Microvision AND Hololens are almost entirely unknowns by the general public. (and the investing public!)

Microsoft expects this to be bigger than the PC. I think they are correct. In a couple of years it's going to be a different world.

Skepticism of reporting

A good bit of what reporters report is hype -- or just plain wrong. This article illustrated that for Hololens.

Microsoft has made it pretty clear that this is anything but a gaming headset.

I think the truth -- in all it's awesomeness is due out soon.

The UK SUN

SECOND SIGHT 

Gaming headset

lets soldiers see through walls, shoot around corners – and get instant replay for kills

3D Computing will be a GIGANTIC leap forward

Since human beings first started recording data to share they could work only in two dimensions... that's true until now, but that's changing.

We added audio and video, which helped of course, but even video is two dimensional. We can fake it, but it's not that useful, and you still need to be anchored to a chair to use it -- sort of. (With smartphones and tablet computers,  you can abandon the chair, and get your video or other data wherever you happen to be. PicoP display only can feature here.)

The Clay Tablet with Cuniform and the iPad, are the same in that they are two-dimensional.

The clay tablet was a huge leap forward from having to speak or demonstrate information in person at all times. That concept became much more user friendly as materials improved: first to papyrus, then paper. Then duplication improved -- scribes, the printing press, huge improvements on the printing press over centuries, then we started using electronics and duplication could happen millions of times instantly.

So, what happens now?

Doing is going to get easier. Learning is going to get a lot easier. A new teaching tool will make it possible to make people much more effective -- smarter and more capable. Which will improve life significantly for most people.

Information and entertainment could be layered everywhere.

The difference between 2D doing stuff and 3D doing stuff? I've been trying to figure out how to relay that effectively for a while now. Mostly because there aren't many good examples depicting what 3D computing will actually look like.

Auto fuel and hydraulic systems... 

If you work on cars now, you have to have developed some skills at reading schematics.. and you must have the experience of finding what is referenced on the schematic and finding it in reality... it's a significant skill set.  You get pictures like the above... that's it.

What it's depicting looks like this in reality. (Now take the picture below and put it in motion -- zooming in and out -- superimposed on the actual vehicle AS you work on it.) What was very difficult before becomes an order of magnitude easier.



That's going to be the difference.

I can't wait to learn languages with Hololens. Imagine being able to walk around and have an immensely patient teacher telling you what everything is in a foreign language all day long. What used to take years will take a month or two.

Tech companies know that this is going to be huge, and all the big tech companies are getting involved..... selling shovels to gold miners.

Teaching and learning

The Army and Hololens

There's a lot here.

Reading between the lines, there's a notable benefits of a laser display (and further evidence of a laser display.)

Better equipment is a deterrent.

The Verge
CNBC
Gizmodo
C|NET

Night vision goggles currently used in the field emit a green glow, which the enemy can see. IVAS doesn’t glow as much, and still allows soldiers to see other people in the dark.  

(Only uses the light required to deliver information to the user -- no glow -- lasers.)

When I tried it, people glowed bright white, as if everyone in the room had suddenly turned into ghosts. With the lights off, I could see someone standing plainly behind a set of ferns, which I wouldn’t have been able to see otherwise.

McCarthy explained, “With current night vision, smoke can blur what you see. With thermal, you can see through the smoke and engage and destroy a threat. This is a game changer on the battlefield,” he said, noting that Russia, China and other potential adversaries that know about these capabilities “will not want to engage us.”  

(Deterrence!)

And This is going to be very good attention for MVIS.

I’m inside a Black Hawk helicopter flying from the Pentagon to Fort Pickett, Virginia.

I’m flying with Under Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and Command Sgt. Maj. Michael A. Crosby, who are explaining how Microsoft’s technology will be used to better train soldiers and make them more effective in the real world. Soon, I’ll see for myself.

The Army recently invited CNBC to see how it will use specially modified Microsoft HoloLens 2 headsets. They’re part of a $480 million defense contract won by the company. The military wouldn’t say how much its version costs, but the consumer one costs $3,500.

5G in action

5G Is here --- and a lot of changes coming because of it.

Could make display only significantly more attractive. 

Qualcomm's current 5G modem has a theoretically max speed of 5Gbps, but of course nothing is going to hit the theoretical maximum. Carriers are happy to crow about 5G rollouts and upcoming devices, but it has been rare to see actual numbers attached to 5G. Weissmann's test is the closest we've come so far to seeing what real 5G performance is like, and today's press release from Verizon claims "early customers in Chicago and Minneapolis should expect typical download speeds of 450Mbps, with peak speeds of nearly 1Gbps, and latency less than 30 milliseconds."

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