Novasentis CEO introduces their flexible, thin, light, multi output haptic technology, here demonstrating how it may be used to enhanse sensing for AR/VR applications where you already have video and audio, and the haptic feedback that can be customized for each finger and programmed so that you can get a variety of “sensations”, smart variable haptic frequencies can emulate the feeling of touching different materials in the AR/VR world. Francois did not name his customers but they are working with companies that are making AR/VR devices, gaming controllers and wearable devices. I have previously video blogged about the flexible wearable devices and they are making further progress with that application also where the haptic actuators are embedded into the smart watch strap. I can think of many more applications for this technology including smart clothing. Watch my channel to hear latest updates about Novasentis that is the only company that has this type of technology.
Category: VR
Flexible Haptic feedback by Novasentis for AR/VR controllers, smartwatches, e-textiles and more
Movidius, computer vision for IoT, drones, smartphones, IP cameras and more to come
Movidius provides machine vision technology, they released Myriad 2, they claim to be the industry’s first always-on vision processor. It delivers high-performance computational imaging and visual awareness in devices where every last drop of battery power counts, performing at under 1.2W of power means Myriad 2 can be deployed into tiny IoT devices such as smart cameras, drones and wearables, featuring a balance between programmable and hard wired elements, giving developers immediate access to its advanced vision processing core, while also allowing them to develop proprietary capabilities through the Myriad development platform. Movidius is being acquired by Intel, you can read more here. Movidius won the Best IoT Technology development award at IDTechEx USA 2016, you can read more here.
Intel RealSense 400 for self-driving cars, autonomous drones, Robots, for indoor and outdoor use
Intel RealSense Camera 400 Series is their next-generation RealSense camera that offers improved accuracy with more than double the number of 3D points captured per second and more than double the operating range compared with Intel RealSense 300.
iNet Smart Sonic Toothbrush, Smart Food Scale, Smartwatch, VR and POS with Datamini
iNet is one of the leading design houses in Shenzhen, here presenting their latest IoT Smart Devices, their smart connected toothbrush, their smart food scale, smart kitchen scale, for potentially healthier more accurate better tasting cooking, smart doorbell with camera video call, the smart weight scale. iNet also shows their all-in-one VR using the octa-core Allwinner H8vr. iNet also shows their special VR which is powered through the gamepad remote controller. They also show the smart car mirror, also showing bluetooth temperature and pressure monitors for car tires, smartwatches with transparent display. An NXP54101 powered classical smartwatch with bus payment, NFC/smartcard, wireless charge. MIPS ingenic Android Smartwatch. And also a POS system with fingerprint, smart card reader, nfc, and more developed with Datamini on MediaTek and Intel x86.
360 video: China Sourcing Fair 2016 part2
Watch this video in your VR headset or use your phone with a cardboard/VR adapter for best experience! Walking around the China Sourcing Fair AsiaWorld Expo showfloor from filming the JingTeng turning head security robot, filming at the Veidoo booth showing their $28 All-in-one VR headset, Foxcom, Appscom Smartwatches booth, the latest Alldocube 2-in-1 Laptops and Snapdragon 210 Phablets and finishing off with the 10.3″ E Ink mockup at the Boyue booth. Filmed using the Shuoying 1080p dual-lens Panoview 360 VR camera, see my Interviews and my Factory Tour with Shuoying here: http://138.2.152.197/category/companies/shuoying/
$28 All-in-one VR and $63 Tablet by Veidoo
Veidoo shows some of their latest MediaTek Tablets and their Allwinner powered All-in-one VR headets starting at $28 for “just a player” and $40 for the Android enabled All-in-one VR for a 1000 pieces minimum order.
Evomotion 360 cameras using Nvidia Tegra TK1, Quad 4K 360 camera
Evomotion dual Cameras offer 2.5k resolution for the recording of 360 degree video. The dual camerasuses Novatek processor. The dual cameras sell for about $100 for 1,000 pieces. Evomotion quad cameras at $2000 based on Nvidia Tegra TK1 has 4 hd cameras, and they even has one with 4 Blackmagic 4K cameras combined recorded onto a big PC and suitable high VR productions such as in Hollywood. You can experience me filming at this booth in 360 VR from my hat towards the 1st minute of this 360 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktxThATWiKI
360 video: China Sourcing Fair October 2016 part1
Watch this video in your VR headset! Follow me at the Hong Kong Fair, China Sourcing Fair, Asiaworld Expo October 2016, look around from my hat as I walk from Pipo to filming at Evomotion 360 cameras booth, to Effire, then passing by to film at Pimax 4K VR’s booth, then Phonemax, Blackview, Ubtel, Firstview, Alldocube, Aikun, Emdoor, Neostra and Maysun finally. Filmed using the Shuoying 1080p dual-lens Panoview camera, see my Interviews and my Factory Tour with Shuoying here: http://138.2.152.197/category/companies/shuoying/
Pipo Smartpen, Foldable Scooter, MediaTek based All-in-one, Convertible Laptops and 360 Camera
Pipo smart pen captures writing from paper using a camera sensor and translate it into digital text over bluetooth an Android device. Pipo makes a foldable scooter with both standing and sitting positions with a 30km range. Pipo has a dual lense camera for 360 degree recording. Pipo makes 15″ Android based Meditek tablet for media consumption, the device sells for 199 USD. Pipo sells a VR headset for $29 which requires a smartphone. Pipo makes a several Rockchip based all-in-one VR headsets for $129-200. Pipo has several ultra portable laptops as well 2-in-1 tablets with Intel processors and Windows. Pipo tablets can also be used for point of sale and business applications.
Augmented Pixels, enabling fully autonomous Drones, Robots, Augmented VR
Vitaliy Goncharuk is the Founder of Augmented Pixels, explains how his company’s technology can enable computer vision for fully autonomous drones, robots on ARM Processors, providing the SLAM SDK to enable real-time obstacle avoidance, object/person follow tracking and more on basic ARM Processors, even on ARM Cortex-M based processors, enabling DJI Phantom 4 like features on sub-$100 ARM Powered Drones, maybe.
Latest Allwinner products, Laptops, 2-in-1, VR, Tablets, IoT, Robots, Drones, Car DVRs
Tour of the Allwinner showroom at China Sourcing Fair 2016, with Damien from the Allwinner Business Development group (industry insiders can contact him at Damien@allwinnertech.com), showing the latest products powered by Allwinner on the market, such as the Phoenix OS based Laptop, Double OS (dual UI of Android) for 2-in-1 market developed in partnership with the Phoenix OS team, the latest Android Marshmallow tablets, including the Aikun Morphus X300 powered by Allwinner. Here also are presented the latest Allwinner powered all-in-one VR devices starting with Allwinner A33 and support for A83T and A64 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. Allwinner also shows some Smart Home IoT type products powered by Allwinner such as smart vacuum cleaner, smart home robot and smart wifi speaker (Amazon Alexa or Google Home possibly possible), talking about next year’s successor of the Allwinner A33 for the tablet market, which they might do on a lower nanometer to lower power consumption and optimize the low-cost Tablet market further. Allwinner shows some of their Phablets released in partnership with qualcomm, where Allwinner is helping to get shipped Qualcomm based LTE tablets on Snapdragon 200 and 400 series working with the design houses and factories in Shenzhen to get them done more. Allwinner has a big position in the auto market with after market smart Android powered smart mirrors, smart car dashboard and Smart car-dvr products which are quite popular in China, adding object recognition, car parking support, lane departure and car distance alerts and more. Allwinner is also in Drones with their camera chip, in E Ink Android based e-readers, smart speakers (with multi-room sync), and web-TV Karaoke tablets popular in the Chinese market.
Neostra VR Headsets and Laptops
Neostra’s Virtual reality headset supports full hd 1080p resolution and runs on a Rockship rk3288 with options for higher resolutions and other processors. The 1080p virtual reality headset sells for 105 USD 125 for 2k resolution.
Neostra also makes ultra portable laptops based Intel z8300 processors.
Neostra also makes tablets and other devices for companies such as Acer and Hewlett Packard.
4K VR Headset by Pimax
Pimax presents their 4K VR headset with 110 degree field of view on 5.5″ 4K display. The VR headset is compatible with Windows and the steam gaming platform. The Pimax VR headset sells for about $350.
http://en.pimaxvr.com/
Eken 360 dual lens camera
Eken is a Chinese manufacturer of Cameras. Eken makes the 360 camera which supports 4k and a full array of connectivity options.
Yuko RK3399, RK3288, RK3126 VR Headsets
Yuko makes a Virtual Reality headset with a Rockchip RK3399 processor and a resolution of 2k on a screen size of 5.5″. Yuko VR headsets run on modified Android systems. Yuko VR also can be used with bluetooth controllers. Yuko also produces a lower end VR headset with a Fullhd resolutiona Rockchip Rk3288. Yuko also makes a VR heaset with a 720p resolution and a Rockchip RK3126 processor. The 2k VR headset 150 USD, the 720p model is 48 USD, and the fullhd model is 93 USD, all in quantities of 1,000 pieces or more. Yuko also makes stand alone headsets with no components built in which attach to smartphones in various designs.
Distributors can contact YUKO here:
Sunny Wang, Sales Director
sunny@sc-digital.cn
Movie Power Big VR Machines and 3Glasses VR Glasses for PC
Movie power is a leading producer of virtual reality equipment. Movie power virtual reality equipment enables the simulation of motion, either standing motion or driving motion. The standing VR sells for 6,500 USD and the driving VR for 9,000 USD.
3glasses sells a 3d virtual reality headset called the Blublur S1 featuring a 2880×1440 resolution and a POV 110″ at 120hz. The Blublur s1 is 120 USD.
NAVVIS 3D Mapping hardware and software demonstrated with IoT
NAVVIS is a Tokyo-based company that is showing their 3D spatial mapping technology – using a combination of lasers, multiple cameras in different directions and a display unit, the setup is moved about on the exhibition floor, with immediate results showing variables (moving objects such as people) in a different shade from statics (walls, floor, stalls etc). The company also has a lineup of IoT products, wireless technologies and a drone.
Merlin Leonardo VR kit for on-screen editing
Merlin shows the Leonardo virtual reality kit that allows one to control 3D images displayed on the screen, using their proprietary controller that uses 3 IR sensors to monitor the position. The software also allows for direct import of 3D CAD files, supporting output to 3D printers. Based in Budapest, Hungary, the Leonardo sells for US$1000 and uses an open API that can be used for creating 3D games. The kit includes a pair of 3D glasses, the software suite and the wired controller.
Multiplayer VR gaming on Mars by IEEE and Globalcore
IEEE demonstrates here their VR demo, that puts three players in an environment that resembles Mars. The concept is meant to demonstrate the capabilities of VR and is developed with GlobalCore. The Mars Rover game is developed using the Unity game engine, and the VR headsets used are Oculus Rift DK2 units. The players interact with the environment using a thruster and a joystick.
