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...

Here is a Umajin showcase application which is highlighting our high quality rendered 3D character capability. The facial animation is driven in real time with a fully synthetic voice all on device. Then the back-end conversation API is powered by IBM Watson and allows you to carry out different tasks. We believe this combination of chat bots combined with 3D interactive characters has amazing potential in so many areas of...