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...

Pavan Bahl from MouthMedia Network hosted a great panel with John Gibson from Samsung, Megan Berry from Reveal (and myself from Umajin). It was very interesting to dig into the trends that are actually driving users to repeat interactions and conversion versus those which might get a lot of attention but do not show high repeat-ability. An example of a popular cool interaction would be a custom skill for Amazon...

Umajin was privileged to share the AGA booth with two of our partners, PwC and SalesForce. This was at the huge G2E event (Global Gaming Expo) that was hosted at the Sands Expo Center. Umajin was able to demonstrate how resorts can create their own touch interfaces and visual digital agents that can utilize IoT to control lighting and HVAC. How they can incorporate wayfinding, parking and location based offers....

This event was hosted by WPP and features some amazing speakers including Paul Sweeney the Director of US Research for Bloomberg, Andy Hood Head of Emerging technologies AKQA, Michael Ross Chief Scientist for Dynamic Action to name a few. Umajin was presenting our new face of retail. The ability for companies and brands to build 24/7 visual digital agents to represent their products and services. Using natural language processing, text...

Umajin presented technology and spoke at the AGA and PwC Innovation Summit. With Umajin having a big focus in the hospitality space it was very interesting to work through some of the enormous challenges the AGA member organisations face in transforming their businesses to be more nimble and digital.

It’s very exciting to have version 2.0 of Umajin live. Here are some of the new features: http://help.umajin.com/overview/new-in-umajin-2-0/ We also have a new developer website: http://developer.umajin.com/ Along with a new solutions page showing off some of the capabilities of Umajin: http://www.umajin.com/solutions/ Lots of new tutorials and examples are going up on the help and developer sites.  Its cool to see what all our users are creating and we are trying to capture this...

The BrandZ event in Beijing was a great opportunity to showcase Umajin and what it can do for agencies and brands. We were showing the sales enablement solution and how it can help digitise a brands sales process. We also showed off the latest version of Rozie which used Umajin’s machine vision stack to analyse peoples faces and draw their portrait. Having some of the top brand CEO’s made for...

Our partners NexCom and Intel were at ISE 2017. NexCom’s booth had an area showing off retail solutions built on Intel, powered by Umajin.

Here we see the HTC Vive headset and high speed tracking used to explore a Umajin scene with two animated characters. Because of the level of immersion an application designed to really surprise people can be more stressful that just watching a horror movie. Given you are not focusing on the surprise horror genre – it is very important for VR to manage the users physiological load. The general goal...

A very exciting new feature for Umajin is editing and integrated debugging for your JS components, actions and feeds. We are using the excellent new lightweight Microsoft Visual Studio Code. This debugger lets a developer stop the program wherever they want using a breakpoint. They can then step through the code a line at a time. While they are looking at the code they can also see all of the values...