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Showing posts with label Interactive Projection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interactive Projection. Show all posts
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Catching up on the call.
Was flying when it started.
(Right here when my phone started buzzing with comments.)
Didn't hear it live, and playing catch up. Called a few friends yesterday who heard it.
- I didn't expect much in 4th Quarter results. If you did, you probably weren't paying much attention.
- I was hoping for, but didn't expect an announcement that MVIS is in Hololens. I'm still very confident that MicroVision's tech is inside, (only because it hasn't been officially announced do I retain a microscopic level of doubt.)
- The result was exactly what I expected...because this is precisely what the company telegraphed.
As it relates to our April 2017 contract, we have been advised that our customer is committed to launching its product in the second half of this year. We expect to receive orders this month or next to supply components in support of the customer’s product launch in the second half of the year. We expect to begin shipping in Q2. While we are not in a position to identify this customer because of our confidentiality agreement with them, once the product has been released our involvement would become evident. Until such time or unless the customer gives us permission, we cannot share the name of the customer or the type of product that they are making. - Also very confident that there will be orders and appearances in multiple products this year.
- Display only has a lot more market potential than many people think
- I'm sure that interactive display has attention of some very big players
- Don't forget this quote -- it's a market size baseline: "The potential market for its wearable PC is larger than Microsoft's current 1.5 billion PC installed base."
Folding Phones are cool, Hololens is cooler.
Reuters Transcript of Call
Microvision CC
Thursday, February 7, 2019
IOT - Price Calculator
More than one request has been made for a price target calculator that includes smart speakers. (or for specifically smart speakers.)
This would be primarily to see the market potential of MicroVision's Interactive display.
There aren't many years of data to establish any kind of trend of only smart speakers, which makes this kind of thing problematic.
It's also too limiting.
Many of the devices in the "Internet of things" are going to be excellent places for interactive displays: Like the smart thermostat as an example. What used to be a coil of metal with a mercury switch now has the brains of a high-end 1990's PC -- and when you can crunch that much data, it begs for a display. When you have that much intelligence on a thermostat, you can connect it to your calendar, program your days off, or set up profiles for events. Some way of programming this remotely may be common, but a way to adjust it at the source would be very useful, and desirable.
How big is the internet of things going to get? It's going to get probably gigantic, and where it goes is anyone's guess. There are a lot of strange connected devices, and nearly anything that is connected might be wanting for a screen & controller. Easier to design and manufacture than adding buttons, and complex button patterns. (Short list from the linked article: Toothbrush, flip-flops, luggage, camera for dogs, salt shaker, umbrellas, trash cans, mirror, condom(yes, sorry), toaster, liquor decanter, wine bottle, fork, etc.
Ikea is going to be launching smart blinds -- I think smart blinds are going to be very popular soon, because they could help regulate the temperature in a home, save energy, and make a place more livable.
If we take Gartner's numbers and assume that we're going to add 12 Billion smart devices in the next year.... and we get 1% adoption of smart displays in those 12 billion devices -- that could be 120 million interactive laser displays in use.
If half of them are "smart speakers" and adoption is stronger than 1% of those, the number could be much higher.
Interesting new things could appear from nowhere -- remember the smart speaker, is a very new product category, and all of a sudden everyone seems to be competing in the space.
ZDNET
This would be primarily to see the market potential of MicroVision's Interactive display.
There aren't many years of data to establish any kind of trend of only smart speakers, which makes this kind of thing problematic.
It's also too limiting.
Many of the devices in the "Internet of things" are going to be excellent places for interactive displays: Like the smart thermostat as an example. What used to be a coil of metal with a mercury switch now has the brains of a high-end 1990's PC -- and when you can crunch that much data, it begs for a display. When you have that much intelligence on a thermostat, you can connect it to your calendar, program your days off, or set up profiles for events. Some way of programming this remotely may be common, but a way to adjust it at the source would be very useful, and desirable.
How big is the internet of things going to get? It's going to get probably gigantic, and where it goes is anyone's guess. There are a lot of strange connected devices, and nearly anything that is connected might be wanting for a screen & controller. Easier to design and manufacture than adding buttons, and complex button patterns. (Short list from the linked article: Toothbrush, flip-flops, luggage, camera for dogs, salt shaker, umbrellas, trash cans, mirror, condom(yes, sorry), toaster, liquor decanter, wine bottle, fork, etc.
Ikea is going to be launching smart blinds -- I think smart blinds are going to be very popular soon, because they could help regulate the temperature in a home, save energy, and make a place more livable.
If we take Gartner's numbers and assume that we're going to add 12 Billion smart devices in the next year.... and we get 1% adoption of smart displays in those 12 billion devices -- that could be 120 million interactive laser displays in use.
If half of them are "smart speakers" and adoption is stronger than 1% of those, the number could be much higher.
Interesting new things could appear from nowhere -- remember the smart speaker, is a very new product category, and all of a sudden everyone seems to be competing in the space.
ZDNET
Big and getting bigger -- there are already more connected things than people in the world. Analyst Gartner calculates that around 8.4 billion IoT devices were in use in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016, and this will likely reach 20.4 billion by 2020. Total spending on IoT endpoints and services will reach almost $2tn in 2017, with two-thirds of those devices found in China, North America and Western Europe, said Gartner.
Out of that 8.4 billion devices, more than half will be consumer products like smart TVs and smart speakers. The most-used enterprise IoT devices will be smart electric meters and commercial security cameras, according to Gartner.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Another smoking gun....
Putting this up before I get my translations -- but this looks like all of our verticals (possibly +1) in the same place, with a prime suspect for our 10 million exclusive projection agreement. More support for the Sharp/Foxconn theory.
My translations from Japanese are a little slow.
Request any readers fluent in Japanese to translate a little. The Katakana on item 3 (looks like interactive projection, and projection alone, the Kanji by the camera, and the 3D item at the bottom right I'm particularly interested in the particulars.)
Thank you Joe
My translations from Japanese are a little slow.
Request any readers fluent in Japanese to translate a little. The Katakana on item 3 (looks like interactive projection, and projection alone, the Kanji by the camera, and the 3D item at the bottom right I'm particularly interested in the particulars.)
Thank you Joe
シャープ 半導体レーザのご提案 (proposal of Sharp Semiconductor Laser)
Friday, September 7, 2018
Voice User Interface
A week ago I attended a meetup that featured an Amazon engineer (echo show focus... yes it was fascinating... ) the presentation she gave was about how they program the device for speech recognition.
It's WAY more involved (tedious?) than programming for visuals. When you're programming a typical program you can easily lay out all of the options that you will allow for a user, and they must choose one of them. The ways all of us speak varies a lot, and that makes programming for voice recognition particularly challenging.
The programming example she used was a "skill" for choosing a dog, and Alexa asks the user "what size dog do you want?"
With a visual program, you could handle this in a variety of ways that make getting a usable answer easy: You show options: small, medium, large. You could even use a sliding scale from "tiny" to "huge."
The engineer described the difficulty of programming for voice... so they want a big dog... how do you process all the possible words for "big?" If they're doing a good job of "conversing" you're more likely to get something strange.
{big, large, a hundred pounds, colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, immense, massive, substantial, vast, a whale of a, ginormous, hulking, humongous, jumbo, mammoth, the size of a baby elephant, super colossal}
... and if the system is to respond, each option must be programmed into the skill...
Which makes me quite sure that visuals need to be integrated into even the best voice programmed devices -- trying to program for all of the nuances of voice communication would be extremely difficult.
We make requests, build relationships, and get some information through speech.
We get most of our information visually. I don't ask a smart speaker for the weekly weather report, because receiving the speech necessarily requires more time -- I would use speech to request the weekly forecast if I could then SEE it -- because making the request by voice can save me time, and seeing it saves me time.
Voice plus display will save time, and be more efficient...
Medium.com
VUI allows for hands free, efficient interactions that are more ‘human’ in nature than any other form of user interface. “Speech is the fundamental means of human communication,” writes Clifford Nass, Stanford researcher and co-author of Wired for Speech, “…all cultures persuade, inform and build relationships primarily through speech.” In order to create VUI systems that work, developers need to fully understand the intricacies of human communication. Consumers expect a certain level of fluency in human idiosyncrasies, as well as a more conversational tone from the bots and virtual assistants they’re interacting with on a near-daily basis.
Natural Language Processing — we’re not currently capable of developing a VUI with an inbuilt, natural and complex understanding of human communication, not yet. Regional accents, slang, conversational nuance, sarcasm… some humans struggle with these aspects of communication, so at this point can we really expect much more from a machine?
Visual feedback — including an element of visual feedback helps to reduce the level of frustration and confusion in users who aren’t sure whether or not the device is listening to or understanding what they’re saying. Alexa’s blue light ring, for example, visually communicates the device’s current status e.g. when the device is connecting to the WIFI network, whether or not ‘do not disturb mode’ has been activated, and when Alexa is getting ready to respond to a question…etc.
It's WAY more involved (tedious?) than programming for visuals. When you're programming a typical program you can easily lay out all of the options that you will allow for a user, and they must choose one of them. The ways all of us speak varies a lot, and that makes programming for voice recognition particularly challenging.
The programming example she used was a "skill" for choosing a dog, and Alexa asks the user "what size dog do you want?"
With a visual program, you could handle this in a variety of ways that make getting a usable answer easy: You show options: small, medium, large. You could even use a sliding scale from "tiny" to "huge."
The engineer described the difficulty of programming for voice... so they want a big dog... how do you process all the possible words for "big?" If they're doing a good job of "conversing" you're more likely to get something strange.
{big, large, a hundred pounds, colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, immense, massive, substantial, vast, a whale of a, ginormous, hulking, humongous, jumbo, mammoth, the size of a baby elephant, super colossal}
... and if the system is to respond, each option must be programmed into the skill...
Which makes me quite sure that visuals need to be integrated into even the best voice programmed devices -- trying to program for all of the nuances of voice communication would be extremely difficult.
We make requests, build relationships, and get some information through speech.
We get most of our information visually. I don't ask a smart speaker for the weekly weather report, because receiving the speech necessarily requires more time -- I would use speech to request the weekly forecast if I could then SEE it -- because making the request by voice can save me time, and seeing it saves me time.
Voice plus display will save time, and be more efficient...
Medium.com
VUI allows for hands free, efficient interactions that are more ‘human’ in nature than any other form of user interface. “Speech is the fundamental means of human communication,” writes Clifford Nass, Stanford researcher and co-author of Wired for Speech, “…all cultures persuade, inform and build relationships primarily through speech.” In order to create VUI systems that work, developers need to fully understand the intricacies of human communication. Consumers expect a certain level of fluency in human idiosyncrasies, as well as a more conversational tone from the bots and virtual assistants they’re interacting with on a near-daily basis.
Natural Language Processing — we’re not currently capable of developing a VUI with an inbuilt, natural and complex understanding of human communication, not yet. Regional accents, slang, conversational nuance, sarcasm… some humans struggle with these aspects of communication, so at this point can we really expect much more from a machine?
Visual feedback — including an element of visual feedback helps to reduce the level of frustration and confusion in users who aren’t sure whether or not the device is listening to or understanding what they’re saying. Alexa’s blue light ring, for example, visually communicates the device’s current status e.g. when the device is connecting to the WIFI network, whether or not ‘do not disturb mode’ has been activated, and when Alexa is getting ready to respond to a question…etc.
Thanks Carmen O!
Thursday, August 30, 2018
IFA 2018 -- Google Assistant
"The Consumer Electronics industry works in cycles of infatuation."
That's so true, and great news for us. Consumers, (CE writers) and investors need things to be infatuated with.
Old things fall out of favor, new things come into favor. These personal assistants are coming into favor in a big way.
We KNOW they are coming with interactive projection, because the guts of it with Microvision include are already at one of the worlds largest electronic distributors.
We know that it's Google based: It's android, and I've done the Google smart Screens Walkthrough here before.
Of course, I'm looking for more "google on your countertop" I expect we'll see more, the show isn't even open yet.
(Oh, and I've seen the Bosch Countertop projector -- let them make the concept popular -- what MVIS has is WAY better.)
IFA 2018
The Verge
The consumer electronics industry works in cycles of infatuation. Every couple of years, some new technology captures the attention of most manufacturers and triggers a wild race to be the first, cheapest, or best with it. We’ve been through the netbook and e-reader manias, followed by the tablet deluge, the 3D TV moment, the 2-in-1 laptop transformation, the flood of Bluetooth speakers and headphones, and, most recently, the Alexa-fication of everything. This year at IFA, the unmissable common thread to new announcements is shaping up to be the Google Assistant.
That's so true, and great news for us. Consumers, (CE writers) and investors need things to be infatuated with.
Old things fall out of favor, new things come into favor. These personal assistants are coming into favor in a big way.
We KNOW they are coming with interactive projection, because the guts of it with Microvision include are already at one of the worlds largest electronic distributors.
We know that it's Google based: It's android, and I've done the Google smart Screens Walkthrough here before.
Of course, I'm looking for more "google on your countertop" I expect we'll see more, the show isn't even open yet.
(Oh, and I've seen the Bosch Countertop projector -- let them make the concept popular -- what MVIS has is WAY better.)
IFA 2018
The Verge
"Good luck trying to find a new gadget at IFA 2018 without Google Assistant on it"
****
Amazon deserves a measure of credit for proving the viability and appeal of smart speakers with its Alexa-powered Echo, but what Google is doing with the Assistant is fundamentally different because it plugs users into a whole different ecosystem. Sure, once integrated within smart speakers or displays, the Assistant can be your voice remote control for music, or a cooking timer, or a deliverer of reminders, like Alexa can. But it’s the Google-on-your-countertop experience that truly differentiates it.
ALSO..... they like it, Microvision's projector is WAY BETTER.
Bosch Countertop Projector
Amazon deserves a measure of credit for proving the viability and appeal of smart speakers with its Alexa-powered Echo, but what Google is doing with the Assistant is fundamentally different because it plugs users into a whole different ecosystem. Sure, once integrated within smart speakers or displays, the Assistant can be your voice remote control for music, or a cooking timer, or a deliverer of reminders, like Alexa can. But it’s the Google-on-your-countertop experience that truly differentiates it.
ALSO..... they like it, Microvision's projector is WAY BETTER.
Bosch Countertop Projector
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