Getting much closer to reality for all of us.
From 5G
The fixed 5G equipent -- using Verizon's own "5GTF" specification -- will provide a wireless 1-Gbit/s connection over-the-air for homes to surf the web, stream video and make live virtual reality (VR) connections, according to Samsung.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it will launch three to five fixed 5G by the end of this year. Sacramento is the only market that Big Red has announced so far. (See Verizon Says 'Up to 5' Fixed 5G Markets Will Go Live in 2H18 and Is Atlanta the Next 5G Market for Verizon?)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has now approved Samsung Corp. 's indoor 5G router. Previously, it has approved Samsung's access unit and outdoor 5G router. Samsung says this now means that its "end-to-end system" is ready for Verizon to use.
This 28GHz system will likely be the first commercial millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G system ready for use in the US. "The indoor 5G home router is a small consumer device that receives and transmits the 5G signal to provide ultra-high speed broadband wireless service," Samsung says, in a statement, this shares this 5G signal to multiple devices via WiFi. (See Samsung Supplying 5G for Verizon's First Market and Verizon's Fixed 5G: Are You Ready for the Wireless Gig Rush?)
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Uber's Autonomous Car Detected a Pedestrian, chose not to stop
This is where the benefit of a steerable and dense point cloud comes in handy. Or a LiDAR that can tell the difference between a cat and a brick.
Technology Review
The Information
CNBC
"Pedestrian Fatalities Skyrocket"
The news: According to a report by the Information, the vehicle’s software did in fact detect the pedestrian, but it chose not to immediately react. The car was programmed to ignore potential false positives, or things in the road that wouldn’t interfere with the vehicle (like a plastic bag). But those adjustments were taken too far.
Why? The car may have been part of a test for increased rider comfort. Autonomous cars aren’t known for their smooth rides, and by ignoring things that are probably not a threat, a vehicle can cut down on the number of start-and-stop jerks riders experience.
What’s next? Uber is conducting a joint investigation with the National Transportation Safety Board, after which more details are expected to be released. In the meantime, the report could inspire other self-driving-vehicle companies to treat potential false positives with more caution.
(Scraped to retain.)
Technology Review
The Information
CNBC
"Pedestrian Fatalities Skyrocket"
The news: According to a report by the Information, the vehicle’s software did in fact detect the pedestrian, but it chose not to immediately react. The car was programmed to ignore potential false positives, or things in the road that wouldn’t interfere with the vehicle (like a plastic bag). But those adjustments were taken too far.
Why? The car may have been part of a test for increased rider comfort. Autonomous cars aren’t known for their smooth rides, and by ignoring things that are probably not a threat, a vehicle can cut down on the number of start-and-stop jerks riders experience.
What’s next? Uber is conducting a joint investigation with the National Transportation Safety Board, after which more details are expected to be released. In the meantime, the report could inspire other self-driving-vehicle companies to treat potential false positives with more caution.
(Scraped to retain.)
Now, imagine that robots like this can recognize you.
Say the grocery store brand you usually shop has them...
Say you live in Seattle and shop at Safeway. You have a few items you regularly head in for.
But this week you're feeling prosperous, and head to Newport Rhode Island for a week-long sailing charter.
You go to the Safeway in Newport, and a little bot like this recognizes you, and knows what you usually head to Safeway for. It knows you're not at home.
It wheels over, greets you by name, and says "Would you like help finding the tenderloin and Grey Goose?"
Hitachi Robot
Say you live in Seattle and shop at Safeway. You have a few items you regularly head in for.
But this week you're feeling prosperous, and head to Newport Rhode Island for a week-long sailing charter.
You go to the Safeway in Newport, and a little bot like this recognizes you, and knows what you usually head to Safeway for. It knows you're not at home.
It wheels over, greets you by name, and says "Would you like help finding the tenderloin and Grey Goose?"
Hitachi Robot
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Original premise still solid
When I originally noticed MicroVision in 2006, a very simple and powerful premise presented itself, and it still stands. It's more valid now than it was then. The ecosystem is much improved since then.
I spoke to a friend the other day about the concept of "hope" in his life, as in hoping things would go well for his business that day, or that week or this year.
He's in a business that is more reliant on hope than most. Service is held out to the public; when people want the service they come. Sometimes, for no particular reason (beyond things you "hope" about) business will be booming, maybe unexpectedly. Sometimes it will be pathetically slow -- without explanation. People call, or they don't, and from the viewpoint of a small business, it's difficult to predict. They "hope" for a good outcome on any particular day.
With larger audiences, "hope" is much less of a factor. When you have an enormous audience, you hope you can get a large part of it. You can count on -- you can depend on -- getting a small fraction of it.
If you're producing a product that answers the largest desire for an improvement in that product you need even less hope.
If you're producing a product that answers the two largest desires for improvement in a hugely popular product you can count on positive results.
When the two biggest desires for improvement of a popular product are directly contradictory to each other and you can still deliver BOTH improvements. You're made of gold.
Everyone wants two things from a smartphone: something that's smaller and easier to carry, with a much larger display.
Mobile companies MUST use PicoP...
1.4 Billion smartphones are produced and sold annually.
I have asked many people, after showing them a PicoP powered projector: "when it's readily available, what percentage of the smartphones made will incorporate a projector like this one?" The most common answer is "All of them."
With answers like that we can count on 10% -- no hope required. (What price?)
(Which is 140,000,000 units per year)
Of course, MicroVision also has or has added:
It is very much a bleeding edge company. (Was perfectly capable of being problematic for 10 years.) But all indications are that now we are very close.
How much would you pay for a phone like that? (More for this than any iPhone)
Thanks Christian!
The phone is at the bottom, the projected picture is the rest.
I spoke to a friend the other day about the concept of "hope" in his life, as in hoping things would go well for his business that day, or that week or this year.
He's in a business that is more reliant on hope than most. Service is held out to the public; when people want the service they come. Sometimes, for no particular reason (beyond things you "hope" about) business will be booming, maybe unexpectedly. Sometimes it will be pathetically slow -- without explanation. People call, or they don't, and from the viewpoint of a small business, it's difficult to predict. They "hope" for a good outcome on any particular day.
With larger audiences, "hope" is much less of a factor. When you have an enormous audience, you hope you can get a large part of it. You can count on -- you can depend on -- getting a small fraction of it.
There are more people on earth with smart phones than there are people on earth with flushing toilets -- what most of the world regards to be basic sanitation.If what you're producing a product that has applications to an enormously popular other product. You don't need hope.
If you're producing a product that answers the largest desire for an improvement in that product you need even less hope.
If you're producing a product that answers the two largest desires for improvement in a hugely popular product you can count on positive results.
When the two biggest desires for improvement of a popular product are directly contradictory to each other and you can still deliver BOTH improvements. You're made of gold.
Everyone wants two things from a smartphone: something that's smaller and easier to carry, with a much larger display.
Mobile companies MUST use PicoP...
1.4 Billion smartphones are produced and sold annually.
I have asked many people, after showing them a PicoP powered projector: "when it's readily available, what percentage of the smartphones made will incorporate a projector like this one?" The most common answer is "All of them."
With answers like that we can count on 10% -- no hope required. (What price?)
(Which is 140,000,000 units per year)
Of course, MicroVision also has or has added:
- LiDAR (A massive up and coming demand for this. Backup cameras were just introduced as a requirement for vehicles, what happens when LiDAR is required?)
- Near Eye Displays (Augmented Reality? Mixed Reality -- Talk of the town in Tech Circles.
- Some other something that isn't any of the other things... (the black box)
It is very much a bleeding edge company. (Was perfectly capable of being problematic for 10 years.) But all indications are that now we are very close.
How much would you pay for a phone like that? (More for this than any iPhone)
Thanks Christian!
Friday, May 4, 2018
Projection Smart Speaker Solution
Projection Smart Speaker Solution Based on Microvision Thunderbird PSE-0403st-101
See it at WPG Here (At distributor)
Go to pages 6 & 18
UBI Interactive
Apple's Tim Cook "“HomePod is widely recognized for having the best sound quality for its size and class,” Cook says, skirting concerns over HomePod sales. “We’re looking forward to adding new features to HomePod.” (The Verge -- Thx R)
Most smart speakers use intelligent voice assistant as the main method of human-machine interaction. However, at present, the intelligent voice assistant is still in infancy. The voice recognition development direction of the voice assistant is basically based on instructions. Basically, the understanding of simple and clear instructions will not go wrong, but when it comes to daily chat, their weaknesses are fully exposed. For the complex human language and emotions, the understanding of the machine is still quite low. The matter of letting the machine understand humans is just beginning to take off.
Therefore, in order to improve the user experience, smart speakers need to add other interactive methods. Microvision and UBI launched the laser projection touch solution to solve this problem. Microvision's Thunderbird laser projection module features small size, low power consumption, and no focusing, which fully meets the needs of smart speaker products. UBI's Camera and infrared laser modules can solve the user's need for interaction.
MicroVision , the founder of PicoP® laser scanning technology, developed a series of ultra-micro laser scanning projection solutions using laser beam scanning methods. MicroVision's advanced display solutions can adapt to a wide range of applications and unique styling designs. The solution has the characteristics of small size, low power consumption, no focusing, large viewing angle, high contrast, and high chroma, which can bring new experiences and applications to the field of mobile devices.
DragonBoard 410C (Qualcom)
System functions
1, support WiFi connection router2, support laser projection and multi-touch
3, support for voice recognition
4, support for online music, video, interactive games
Project features
1, built-in Android OS2, the projection size can be adjusted with the height
3, the output image resolution 1080 * 720
4, free focus, you can in various shapes of the background surface imaging
5, HDMI and MIPI interface, supports a variety of smart speaker program .
Thursday, May 3, 2018
LiDAR Highest Resolution, Steerable point cloud, Inexpensive, Tiny
APPLICATIONS:
- Security
- Robotics
- Driver Assistance
- Self Driving Vehicles
- Interactive Displays
If this company were to go public right now (with zero debt and ready for mass production), what would the market cap be right after IPO?
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UPDATE -- Nice they're providing news... :-)
MicroVision Delivers LiDAR Sensing Samples with New Time-of-Flight ASICS
REDMOND, Wash., May 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MicroVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:MVIS), a leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection display and sensing technology, today announced that it has provided product samples for customer evaluation that include the company’s latest time-of-flight ASICS. These new ASICS have specialized circuitry that enables MicroVision’s MEMS scanners to be used as LiDAR sensors.
MicroVision’s Time-of-Flight (MTOF) ASICS were developed specifically for use with the company’s MEMS scanners and other system components to create highly accurate, small form-factor LiDAR sensors that capture 3D point clouds of the area in front of the device.
The MTOF ASICS were developed on a high-performance RF process and achieve the low power and low cost objectives of MicroVision’s ASIC program.
“Our MTOF ASICS represent a tangible step forward in our goal to bring small, inexpensive LiDAR-based products to the consumer, smart home, and automotive markets. Our interactive projector for IoT applications, and our consumer LiDAR for smart home and office applications will use these ASICS,” said Perry Mulligan, MicroVision’s Chief Executive Officer.
MicroVision is working to bring to market LiDAR sensors for various applications that have point cloud densities of 5 million to 20 million points per seconds in resolutions of approximately 720 vertical lines. These products are expected to be available for volume production in early 2019.
The competition? Much bigger, much heavier, less dense point cloud...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Backup Cameras now required
And with that, it's only a matter of time before LiDAR sensors become required too.
USA Today
New cars sold in the U.S. must have backup cameras to help drivers avoid accidents under a federal regulation that took effect Wednesday.
The regulation requires rearview cameras and video displays on new models, a move aimed at preventing accidents in which pedestrians — often children — are run over because a driver can't see them as they back their vehicles.
Congress passed a law in 2008 requiring regulators to enact measures requiring the adoption of technology to greatly improve rearview visibility.
After years of delays, the Department of Transportation announced the camera requirement in 2014, giving automakers several years to prepare.
Many higher-end models and mainstream vehicles with extra safety packages already have rearview cameras. But the technology will now be standard in even the cheapest of new cars.
Backover crashes kill more than 200 people annually and injure more than 12,000.
New cars sold in the U.S. must have backup cameras to help drivers avoid accidents under a federal regulation that took effect Wednesday.
The regulation requires rearview cameras and video displays on new models, a move aimed at preventing accidents in which pedestrians — often children — are run over because a driver can't see them as they back their vehicles.
Congress passed a law in 2008 requiring regulators to enact measures requiring the adoption of technology to greatly improve rearview visibility.
After years of delays, the Department of Transportation announced the camera requirement in 2014, giving automakers several years to prepare.
Many higher-end models and mainstream vehicles with extra safety packages already have rearview cameras. But the technology will now be standard in even the cheapest of new cars.
Backover crashes kill more than 200 people annually and injure more than 12,000.
Financial Results and Conference Call
REDMOND, Wash., May 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MicroVision, Inc. (MVIS), a leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection display and sensing technology, today announced that it will report results for its first quarter 2018 after the market closes on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Following the issuance of the company’s financial results press release, interested parties can listen to the company's conference call which will start at 5:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. Pacific Time by accessing the Investor Relations’ section of MicroVision’s web site on the Investor Events Calendar page or dialing 1-877-883-0383 (for U.S. participants) or 1-412-902-6506 (for international participants) ten minutes prior to the start of the call using pass code number 9474035. A replay webcast of the call will also be available from the Investor Relations’ section of MicroVision’s web site on the Investor Events Calendar page.
Apple CC, STM, Other Apple suppliers
Yesterday, I asked what STM has that others do not.
Listen to Apple Earnings Call
Analysts surprised
Many suppliers reported "soft sales" to Apple -- not STM.
Listen to Apple Earnings Call
Analysts surprised
Many suppliers reported "soft sales" to Apple -- not STM.
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
I wonder what STM has that the others do not?
Good Morning Malta.
CNBC
A bunch of Apple suppliers — Samsung, Corning, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Teradyne, and SK Hynix — have reported financial results that hint at slowing smartphone orders. That's reflected badly on Apple and its other suppliers, leading Wall Street analysts to slash expectations for the stocks. Sales in China — Apple's third-largest market after Americas and Europe — might also be weak, third party data indicates.
Reuters
PARIS, April 25 (Reuters) - STMicroelectronics on Wednesday delivered an upbeat assessment on second-half demand for its smartphones-focused products, brushing off investor anxiety over the soft takeoff of Apple’s iPhone X.
The Franco-Italian chipmaker, whose customers range from carmakers to industrial groups and makers of new connected devices, said sales should grow in the first half, offsetting a seasonal smartphone dip in the first three months of the year.
CNBC
A bunch of Apple suppliers — Samsung, Corning, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Teradyne, and SK Hynix — have reported financial results that hint at slowing smartphone orders. That's reflected badly on Apple and its other suppliers, leading Wall Street analysts to slash expectations for the stocks. Sales in China — Apple's third-largest market after Americas and Europe — might also be weak, third party data indicates.
Reuters
PARIS, April 25 (Reuters) - STMicroelectronics on Wednesday delivered an upbeat assessment on second-half demand for its smartphones-focused products, brushing off investor anxiety over the soft takeoff of Apple’s iPhone X.
The Franco-Italian chipmaker, whose customers range from carmakers to industrial groups and makers of new connected devices, said sales should grow in the first half, offsetting a seasonal smartphone dip in the first three months of the year.
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