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(Patent) Microsoft Seeks a Patent for Techniques to Set Focus in a Camera in a Mixed-Reality
[Tech]
2021/01/10 09:07
U.S. patent application, US20200404159, discloses an auto-focus method for a mixed-reality head mounted display (HMD) device. The method includes triggering an auto-focus subsystem based on a location and motion of a user’s hands to reduce the occurrence of auto-focus hunting during camera operations. The figure below illustrates the user’s view of the mixed-reality display device.Patent Appl...
Virtual Beauty App YouCam Makeup, Closes $50M Series C Led by Goldman Sachs
[Investing]
2021/01/10 09:06
Spending on cosmetics has usually weathered economic crises, but that changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, with stay-at-home orders and masks tempering people’s desire to wear makeup. This forced retailers to accelerate their online strategies, finding new ways to capture shoppers’ attention without in-store samples. Virtual beauty try-on technology, like the ones developed by Perfect Corp.,...
Elon Musk is the World’s Richest Person in 2021
[Investing]
2021/01/10 09:05
Elon Musk’s rocketing net worth may be the fastest accumulation of wealth in history.- Just six days into the new year, Elon Musk became the world’s richest person in 2021.- His personal fortune is $188 billion, up 548% from one year ago. - Tesla shares are up 1,030% since the market bottom in 2020And as far the pecking order of global wealth goes, the new year has already delivered. Just six...
Cloud Service will Turn Any Photo Into 3D Holographic Image
[Product]
2021/01/10 09:04
The Looking Glass Factory cloud-based service will be able to transform almost any 2D phot into a 3D holographic.Last month, the Looking Glass Factory launched on Kickstarter to fund production of a personal holographic image display called the Portrait. Now the company has announced a new cloud-based service capable of adding depth to any two-dimensional photo to create a holographic image for...
Lenovo’s New Lavie Mini Hopes to be Everything from a Laptop to a Gaming Console
[Design]
2021/01/10 09:03
It seems that the guys at Lenovo and NEC have some ideas to bridge the gap between desktop gaming and mobile gaming.Sure, companies like Razer, Alienware, and Nvidia have tried in the past to make Windows-based PC gaming more mobile and handheld, but what Lenovo and NEC’s LaVie Mini aims at doing seems much more interesting… because the LaVie Mini isn’t a portable Windows gaming device… it...
(PDF) Deloitte - Global Powers of Luxury Goods 2020
[Business]
2021/01/07 09:10
The pandemic is proving to be an accelerator for brands to adopt new paradigms of value creation. Now more than ever, luxury goods companies are seeking new ways to connect with their customers. They are reinventing and re-imagining themselves in ways that were previously unimaginable.The pandemic is proving to be an accelerator for brands to adopt new paradigms of value creation. Now more than...
(Patent) Apple has been Granted a Pair of 2-Way Charging Patents for a Future MacBook Pro that could Recharge iDevices and more
[Tech]
2021/01/07 09:09
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple two patents for 2-way charging, also referred to as reverse charging. Apple's work on this invention dates back to their original patent filing back in March 2016. With the advent of iPhone 12 introducing MagSafe Charging using magnetics, Apple's patent for inductive charging between a future MacBook Pro and/or iPad Pro and iDevices such...
COVID-19 Fuels a 50% Increase in Omnichannel Shopping
[Consumer]
2021/01/07 09:08
The COVID-19 pandemic has democratized e-commerce for all types of consumers, and over 18 million CPG buyers (and counting) in the U.S. have flooded the online space since March. Online shoppers have been mirroring their purchasing within the channel to their constantly shifting, pandemic-related needs and are becoming further entrenched in their shopping behaviors. But not all online engagemen...
OpenAI Debuts DALL-E for Generating Images from Text
[Tech]
2021/01/07 09:07
OpenAI debuted two multimodal AI systems that combine computer vision and NLP: DALL-E, a system that generates images from text, and CLIP, a network trained on 400 million pairs of images and text..OpenAI today debuted two multimodal AI systems that combine computer vision and NLP: DALL-E, a system that generates images from text, and CLIP, a network trained on 400 million pairs of images and t...
(Video) Reactive Video Slows Onscreen Instructors to Stay in Sync with Viewers
[Tech]
2021/01/07 09:06
When trying to learn a physical skill such as judo or yoga from a video, it can be frustrating if you're not able to keep up with the onscreen action. That's where Reactive Video playback comes in, as its slows videos down to match the speed of their viewers.The system is being developed via a collaboration between Britain's Lancaster University, California's Stanford University, and the FX Pal...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Charging in Buildings can Power Up the Electric-Vehicle Industry
[Business]
2021/01/07 09:05
More than 50 million electric vehicles could be sharing roads in the next five years. Updating charging infrastructure is key to scaling the industry.E-mobility has reached a tipping point. More than 250 new models of battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) will be introduced in the next two years alone, and as many as 130 million EVs could be sharing roads t...
Will You have to Carry a Vaccine Passport on Your Phone ?
[Business]
2021/01/07 09:04
What seemed so impossible at the beginning of the pandemic is now real: vaccines are here, in record time. They bring much-needed hope to a holiday season shadowed by death and fear.[In Singapore, people are already required to check in with a contact tracing app before entering places like cinemas. Will these systems also track vaccination status?]While authorities work out details for this ma...
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