Microsoft - Samsung relationship deserves to be watched.

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Samsung and Microsoft will team up on a suite of new product integrations, combining their sizeable market powers against Google and Apple.

Microsoft Word recently became one of the rare Android apps not made by Google or Facebook to pass 1 billion downloads, thanks in part to the app often coming pre-installed on new phones.

Samsung plans to ship the Note 10 with Microsoft’s Your Phone app pre-installed too, which mirrors text messages and notifications onto Windows 10 PCs.

Microsoft head of mobile and cross-device experiences Shilpa Ranganathan announced this morning the app will also let users make and receive calls from their PC later this year, similar to a feature that allows Mac users to place calls from their computer through a connected iPhone.

Three new Microvision Videos

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Northland Capital Call....

Call with Northland Capital yesterday

Heard some excellent stuff here.

I'm liking the way they're talking about markets, upgrade cycles, making money for customers, price points.... and product volumes. (7 figure and 8 figure product volumes.)

That coupled with acknowledging that there are limited companies that do this... ans we're working with all of them. (Specific mentions of Amazon, Google and Samsung's "Bixby.")

To make it easier to find....

What Mentioned	Who Mentions	TIME
Amazon (echo)	PM	3:23
Amazon, Google, Samsung (Bixby)	SS	3:49
Amazon voice services (just the beginning)	SS	4:46
Nvidia	SS	12:50
Alexa Skills	SS	14:00
Amazon business	SS	14:30
We're talking to all of them	PM	19:50
iRobot	ML	22:15
iRobot (cloud mapping)	SS	23:50
7 & 8 figure volumes	PM	26:35

An edge computer. Before the computer can infer something.... The computers / voice services need more input. Visual and touch. Subset of machine learning in the modules which

Saving sending lots of of stuff up the connection.
Point Cloud
Predictive travel (relatively low power analytics at the device)
Automotive environment / Latency advantage
Lean, launchable, right price point

We can now detect motion, and focus the engine on the motion.

Is the platform we're creating scalable?

Seamless interaction between the user and projection.

If you're a busy person can you order $100 in groceries in 4 minutes?
Can you order an Uber without seeing where it is?

Smart speakers 50 million installed / Benefits of display

Those companies have invested huge in this technology, this is how they will monetize this.

Competing solutions, better with lower cost

Component costs: "Any components that are too high priced?"

Leverages standard processes and components, and a working with a world-class supplier.

7 figure and 8 figure volumes is how they define success.

Samsung Smart Speaker Patent

I don't know if this was posted last year as well, but I suspect so.

So, also of note is that there have been some issues with Bixby, but recent news is that it may collaborate with Google on Bixby. 

It's also a reminder of how many moving parts there are for systems like this, and how important timing is -- the timing is very good right now.


Thank you R!

Patently Apple
Patently Apple posted a report on Wednesday titled "Samsung's President of Mobile Communications has confirmed that a Smart Speaker is in fact coming to Market." We first reported on this possibility back in early July. Samsung had also been granted design patents for a possible future smart speaker that we covered in a previous report. Then yesterday a utility patent from Samsung came to light that revealed a new radical smart speaker system in detail. The system includes a master unit designed to communicate with a series of secondary units spread throughout the home. The interactive smart speaker includes a video projector that's in sync with its digital assistant called 'Bixby.' The system is designed in a certain way to resemble the head and face of a robot which enables the device to physically move when spoken to as well as redirect video responses or the playing of video content unto a nearby wall with its built-in projector.

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Where there is an optimal distance range or distance limit between the projector and the projection surface, the device may be able to move itself (e.g., using wheels or rollers attached to the base) to the optimal position to display the image.

Furthermore, by using the sensor, the device can find a flat, blank surface for the large-screen display mode. This will avoid visual content from being displayed on an artwork or any other surface that would not be suitable.