Umajin powered the real-time IOT dashboards for PwC connected solutions at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We were also showing off the Umajin Spatial technology that is being deployed in market with the leading hotel brands LINK. There were three custom-built bays loaded with sensors for different vertical markets which were all easily connected up to the Umajin real-time platform. In the amusement and entertainment bay we were showing some...

ARIA was a good opportunity to catch up with others working on AR/VR and to present at MIT about some of our discoveries building co-spaced AR and VR applications. We have found some surprising side effects of having multiple people interacting while collaborating in the real world and in the virtual world. Click for the PRESENTATION LINK We are using an amazing high-speed tracking system from our partner PhaseSpace which allows...

Umajin Spatial is a new generation of 3D geospatial services that are part of the Umajin platform and are being delivered for the hospitality industry through our partner PwC. Umajin Spatial is a family of technologies including 2D and 3D mapping, 2D and 3D geofencing and software that can locate a small sensor in 2D and 3D both inside and outside without the need to install additional audio/RF/IR beacons. This...

Umajin has a new LLVM frontend. This is integrated alongside LLDB and using our QT creator IDE we can now perform step by step debugging and watching variables in JIT compiled Umajin code. We can even step from Umajin code into the underlying C++ engine! Our new front end adds some amazing language features to Umajin taking advantage of lots of new capabilities in the recent versions of LLVM, bumping...

Umajin has new PBR lighting model. Physically based rendering or PBR is a shading model in computer graphics that seeks to render graphics in a way that more accurately models the flow of light in the real world. Basically, you get to decide the lighting information for each pixel, its shininess, its roughness, its color, its occlusion. The underlying shader models the materials microsurfaces and how they reflect, absorb and...

Umajin demonstrated a multi-person co-spaced VR environment at the combined ISMAR/AWE show in Munich. There were three different demos, in this specific demo users had to triage inbound events occurring in Hong Kong. The two users were huge in scale compared to the city and could see incoming events as orange markers. When they picked a marker the details of the event would be transferred to a tablet. From the...

Umajin showed off its data presentation and dashboarding layer, digital agents, 3D animation and VR rendering in this interactive experience, generated from the underlying data for each of the WPP BrandZ international reports. This event was focused on the new top 100 China brands report and was powered by BrandZ, Semaphor, Umajin and the new Intel NUC.  The experience allowed visitors to the House of Lords to go through a...

It seems like every major technology vendor is delving into the augmented and virtual reality space, claiming to have the latest and greatest solution for the market. Unfortunately, these technologies may not live up to expectations when it comes to enterprise use — whether it’s platforms like AWS Sumerian, Microsoft Visual Studio, or hardware such as the HoloLens and the upcoming Magic Leap. Right now, gaming is the area that...

See article on Information Management (more) We are moving toward a digitally-enabled world, where the lines between real and digital are blurring. As the digital world becomes an increasingly detailed reflection of the physical world, it creates fertile ground for new business models and ecosystems. To embrace a digitally-enabled world, businesses need to digitally enable and transform every aspect of their operations. And they know this, with 55% of IT...

AI & Chatbots Umajin started using AI and machine visions systems to build visual chatbots back in 1998 while. The idea of adding vision, personality and character to make human computer interaction more fluid has always been an important goal. The voice recognition back in 1998 wasn’t great, but having an animated character talking really helps people connect. We did a lot of work on educational materials for kids and the...