Author – Vitaliy Goncharuk.
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In this short video I talk about:
1. The future of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)
2. Why AR/VR data is very useful for Artificial Intelligence
3. AR vs. VR in our current life concept (i.e. living in a real world without prevalence of life simulations)
Video:
Continue reading “Mixing Augmented Reality with Artificial Intelligence”
In 2015-2016 I have been observing a huge buzz in media around Virtual Reality (VR).
It seems that Virtual Reality is literally everywhere while Augmented Reality is receding.
But actually it is not true.
Of course, if we were planning to switch to a concept of life shown below,
the development of virtual reality technology would be a key priority.
July 9-10, 2016 – was a wonderful and very interesting weekend: on Saturday I organized the Eastern European Computer Vision Conference, and on Sunday I held a private event for 20 people with INCOSE Russian chapter research director to discuss the burning issues in the field of Systems Engineering.
A lot of conclusions after such intellectual weekend have been made.
The most interesting of those that can be published is the following:
The education system in the last years has been actively discussing issues of reforms and changes in teaching methods, but nothing really revolutionary has been offered – it is mainly the “imitation” of changes and reforms.
Why do I think so? Continue reading “Will employers “hire” neural networks /robots instead of Harvard/Stanford students?”
I was born in the Soviet Union and still remember that before 1991 there were futile attempts of society organization according to Karl Marx’s sayings.
But people did not survive the 75-year-old experiment and during 5 years(1986-91) destroyed the system of fake communism and started creating the wild capitalism by copying the available simplified models and ruthlessly instilling its (capitalistic) qualities and meanings to all levels of society.
Originally published at medium.com – Virtual Reality could be the Best Visual Interface for Drones
As you may know, there will be a rapid utilization of drones for commercial purposes (products delivery, inspections, other commercial services, etc.) in the next 2–3 years.
In order to provide services in different areas drones will require either completely autonomous navigation or manual co-piloting, meaning human labor.
For the last 3 months we have been experimenting in our lab with more natural interfaces for the manual drone control. We expect that they can minimise the risk of crashing and increase the accuracy of co-piloting due to clarity and intuitive interface, which will be based on our navigational system and SLAM SDK.
One of the most interesting and intuitive interface ideas is to use virtual reality headset together with the gesture recognition sensor(like Leap Motion):
View in the headset: Continue reading “Virtual Reality could be the Best Visual Interface for Drones”
In the last 4-5 years, you could observe an investment boom in B2B startups.
It has become a great business: attract investments, make a product/technology and sell the company to a major technological Empire.
The popularity of this model can be probably explained by the bigger profitability corporations get from these external investments compared with in-house investment in R&D. Continue reading “Early investors in B2B startups pay for free pilots for big empires”
I sell Virtual Reality solutions of my company Augmented Pixels since 2011.
For the last 2 years we have participated in exhibitions on three continents – North America (the United States), Europe (the Great Britain) and Asia/Middle East (the UAE, Turkey)
As I represent the company at the booth, and communicate directly with people, first feedback about our products comes directly to me.
It is a lot of fun to observe how unexpected obstacles sometimes arise on the way of new technologies due to gender differences and religious traditions of people. Continue reading “Virtual Reality: Gender and Religious barriers”
I have invested in Semantic Sales project.
Below is an article(translated from Ukrainian language) about this project, published in AIN.ua:
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In the previous blog post “Automotive modeling – my childhood hobby in the USSR” I wrote about how I was building car models and participated in competitions with them when I was 7 years old.
After two years of building model cars, I wanted to focus on creating model aircrafts.
They do not look like modern drones, but definitely are their predecessors.
What is a model aircraft?
It is an airplane with a gasoline or a kerosene engine that flies around the pilot and is controlled by means of special wire ropes. These models are called control line aircrafts in the USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_line
Continue reading “My Dream is to finish building the drone from my childhood :=)”
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For the last two years my company is developing a navigation system for drones.
I am very glad that we work in this field, as it is the realization of my childhood passion!!
At the age of 7 (1990, the USSR), I went to the aircraft and car modeling club and within the next 3 years my models took 1-3 places in competitions.
I think my readers would be interested to know how the models were created in the USSR and how the competitions took place. Continue reading “Automotive modeling – my childhood hobby in the USSR”