Waching daily Mar 29 2018

Everybody, thanks for joining me

today for my talk about the AR Cloud,

why is the future of MR as

a device not a device, it's all of them.

I'm Jesse McCulloch. I've been doing

HoloLens development for about three years now,

pretty much since the beginning.

I got here by watching

Alex Kitman get up on stage one

day and unveil the HoloLens,

and my mind was blown.

I couldn't believe it, I watched

the whole presentation but

there's no way this thing's real.

Then I got online in a bunch

of Tech bloggers that I follow,

got to go down and try it,

and they convinced me that it was real and I was in.

I set up a bunch of alerts on my news feed,

started reading anything and everything about

mixed reality that was coming out

on Windows Holographic at that time.

And then they put out a call for

developers who were interested in Dev Kits,

so I went to fill out the application.

There was about five questions on there

also the gist of what are

some things you going to build with

the HoloLens, and I had no idea.

This was all new to me, I had never done

any 3-D or spatial stuff.

So, I pretty much said I don't know.

To all five questions,

and pretty much thought

there's no way I'm ever getting one of these devices.

Now behold in February,

I get an email that says,

"Congratulations, you're a Wave-1 developer,

we're going to get you on the list right away."

And I went "Holy crap,

now I have to find $3,000."

I decided that I was going to try

and come up with an idea for

building apps for the HoloLens,

racked my brain, thought,

I'd only having good ideas building on HoloLens,

so I'm not going to get one.

Talked to a couple people and came to the realization,

I didn't have to have cool ideas,

I just have to learn how to build for it,

and then I could build

other people's cool ideas and still make a job out of it.

So, I bought a HoloLens and started

doing development just in my spare time,

and realized that there was not

a community out there for

HoloLens development at the time,

so I went in and created one.

I had been a part of a few other Slack Communities

and decided that that's where I'd start.

So I created a Slack Community,

got a cool little auto register Website and

started throwing it out

there on Twitter, and all of a sudden,

Alex Kitman found it,

retweeted me and I went from having about 10 members of

my group to about 200 in

a matter of a week, which is awesome.

And now, we are up to a little

over 1,700 members as of this week.

So, very active community,

all developer driven,

helping each other out and it's really awesome.

About February of this last year,

I decided that I was going to

become a freelance HoloLens developer.

So, I went part time at my job,

and then in June I went full time doing that.

And then about October,

I got approached by my current boss,

his name is Michael Reed with Practical VR,

and we are building the AR Cloud.

So that's kind of what I'm up to now,

we're going to talk about that in a little bit.

I also host and put on a Mixed Reality Developer Summit,

we had our first one in February.

I had about 30 developers out

to Microsoft's Redmond campus,

and it was super successful,

and we're doing another one in August,

so if anybody's interested in that,

definitely reach out to me,

we've got tickets available.

I'm also doing some planning with

the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft for Build 2018,

putting together a really good Mixed Reality content.

So, more on that to come as well.

You can find me via

any of my social media or Email there,

I'm pretty prevalent on all of them, I'm really active.

Yeah. The AR Cloud

or MR Cloud or XR Cloud or

whichever acronym we're using today,

it's going to change, there's going to be convergence.

But there is a lot of people

who haven't really put any thought into what

the AR Cloud is or even know what the AR Cloud is.

And so, I want to talk about that a little bit.

Right now, AR is a very interesting experience.

There's some really good things,

it's amazing technology, the HoloLens.

All way Top Tier device in AR right now,

puts digital content in

your real world though I should interact with it.

It knows about all the different stuff in

your world and it's a lot of

fun, super amazing technology.

Some of the good things about it,

there's no experts in it yet.

We've only been doing it a couple of years,

there's only a few thousand

of us that are super actively doing anything with it,

and so it is still

a great time to get into this

if you haven't yet and you're interested.

There is nobody in this corner of the market,

there is still a ton of ideas that haven't been

explored and there's a lot of room for new people in it.

So, that's some of the good things.

Some of the bad things about AR at

the moment, varying hardware level,

here things again like the HoloLens, Top Tier,

developer device is $3,000,

keeps a lot of people out from doing it.

And then you can go all the way down to Phone AR,

where you're holding it up with your cell phone.

AR kit, AR core, super accessible.

Everybody's got a phone these days,

a lot of them are capable of doing it,

but a lot of the capabilities that are

built into the HoloLens here aren't available.

And so as a developer, you have to think about that,

you have to think about what am building it for,

what can it handle graphics-wise and

processing-wise and how do I

build a great app experience around it?

It's definitely not mainstream.

Again there's a few thousand people

maybe doing HoloLens development,

so it's hard to find other people to bounce ideas off of.

If you're an enterprise.Net developer,

you have thousands upon thousands upon thousands

of resources out there.

If you're a HoloLens developer,

you have dozens and dozens of resources out there.

Something that we're actively working

on changing as more and more people get

involved especially with the advent

of the immersive headsets get into it a lot cheaper,

development's roughly the same for those in

the HoloLens with few considerations.

The bad, same as the good, there's no experts.

So, you can come across

a problem and be

the only one that's come across that problem,

and there is not very many people

that can help you out with it.

So, that's kind of a double edged sword there,

there's not a lot of experts that you're competing

with and there's not a lot of

experts that can help you out.

We get to the ugly, the ugly

about AR is it's a very lonely experience.

I put on my HoloLens at

home and I'm going through a game or an experience,

and my girlfriend walks in,

all she sees is me walking around going like this.

She has no idea what I'm doing,

so there's no way for her to take part in it.

There's very few experiences that will

let you have to hold hands together,

but now you've got a $6,000

investment instead of a $3,000 investment.

So, it's not very

easy for a lot of people to get involved.

The ugly is what we want to change.

We want AR to be

experience that anybody can get a hold of,

anybody can take part of,

and so what we have to do with that is bridge

the gap of devices and experiences.

So, how do we get there?

What's the next steps?

The next step that my company practically is taking

is we want especially map the world.

We want people to help us do it.

So, what we're doing is we're building

experience that developers can put in front of their app.

Now, they don't have to build a mapping experience.

You let us handle that.

So, you put it in front of your app,

you put it your app together and publish it.

Now, when the user puts it on,

they go through our mapping experience.

We guide them around the room,

make sure they're getting a good clean map.

And then after they've got a good clean map,

it gets uploaded to our server.

Now, if there's 12 developers who have apps that all use

our mapping experience and somebody has already map

the space that you're in with one of those other apps,

we can detect that and we can say, "Hey.

You don't have to map this room.

We've already got it. Here you go."

And that's kind of

the incentive we have to have people map for

us using our services

that as more and more of these maps get into our service,

fewer and fewer people will have to do mapping.

Why are maps helpful? Maps are helpful

because it allows digital objects

to interact with your physical space.

And it also helps us to make it

more accessible to other devices.

So, if I've mapped with the HoloLens and have

a common knowledge of the world space and I

can give that to an ARKit phone and they can

understand the world the same as the HoloLens does.

Now, I can say, "Put a hologram on that bench."

And the ARKit phone can say,

"I know where that bench is."

So, I can see that hologram there too.

Now, it's less of a lonely world for AR.

Once we get past maps,

we can start figuring

out what objects are and this is off in the future.

We're not quite there with the technology yet,

but with machine learning and better sensors,

we'll be able to do things like say, "Oh.

I understand that this is a bench

or I understand that this is table."

The nice thing about that is that,

when you look at a space,

you can look at it and say, "Okay.

Some of these structures are permanent structures,

and some of these things are

temporary or can be moved around."

A table can be easily moved around,

a wall, unless you're doing construction,

it's not so easily moved.

Once we can start categorizing that kind of stuff,

it gets a lot more

interesting with what you can do because you can

say play something on

any table that you can find in the space,

or on any bench,

have a character in my game sit down on

it and not have to

actually pre-map and figure that stuff out.

Now, beyond maps and

objects and we start getting in actions.

This is way down the road,

but once we have an understanding of

our physical world in

a digital sense and the objects in it,

we can start inferring actions.

And you get into some interesting concepts

of being able to reward people for

doing stuff based on

what they've got going on in their physical world.

So, say the city of San Francisco decides that they're

going to make an initiative to help clean up their parks.

And at this point, instead of a big HoloLens,

everybody's got AR glasses

that they're wearing around all the time.

Now that we know the physical world,

we know where you're at, you're in the park.

And we know that there's objects like a trash can

and we can see that you reach down pick

something up off the ground and put it in the trash can.

The city of San Francisco go, "Hey.

I'm going to reward you with

a quarter for every piece of trash you pick up."

Now, you've got incentive to

start picking up trash as you walk by it,

because it didn't take

any really extra effort

and you can start getting rewarded for

your actions based on the technology

knowing what you're interacting within the world.

So, that's kind of where we're

going with this technology.

Again, it's a lot of fun to use cases actually really

start to stand out for themselves

after you really start thinking about this.

A store could go in and digitally

map and allow you

to put your shopping list in into their app.

And we get to the store, you fire it up,

and they show you a trail on the ground,

how most efficiently to go get all your groceries.

And it will be custom for everybody

based on their shopping list and what they know is in

their store location wise and everything. Starbucks app.

Go into Starbucks, they could display

their digital content in there and it doesn't

matter if you're wearing a HoloLens or you've got

an ARKit phone or any other device.

The same digital objects will

show up in the same physical space regardless.

So, the possibilities are really,

really interesting as you start thinking about this.

So, with our service,

once you fire it

up and you start mapping,

we are creating point cloud through

that mapping and storing that app in our cloud.

And this is kind of what those look like.

So, those first two

are a coffeehouse in Santa Clara called Hannah House.

These two are my hotel room

that I map last night actually.

And then this was the airport

in Portland when I was waiting for my plane.

We can actually see the windows looking out

over the tarmac and everybody waiting

because our flight was delayed by two hours.

So, we have a mapping experience. Again, that's guided.

So, when people put it on,

little tokens show up and we say,

"Hey, look at this token."

It disappears as you collect it.

And then another one spawns and we have

a little list that lead you around. It's pretty awesome.

We're going to be launching here

in the next couple of weeks

a contest for a mapping experience.

So, if you've got a HoloLens and you

want to be involved, make sure and reach out to me.

We're going to be

rewarding people based on the number of maps.

We have a leaderboard and everything.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

And as we collect more and more of this map data,

we can start analyzing it

and running some machine learning stuff on it,

and it's going to be a bright future.

I was talking to the guys

over at Channel 9 earlier and they were asking

about what I see being the future of

this stuff and how long it's going to be?

And we look at it and you say,

"This is a 10 year technology."

It's going to be 10 years

out and you can wait for it to happen.

We decided to look at it and say

we're going to start building it today,

and hopefully, in two or three years we

get to where most people think it will be in 10 years.

And in five years,

we'll be the leader in the market.

So, anybody have any questions?

So, right now, we are limiting it to

HoloLens only because it's

got the best sensors right now.

As other devices come to market,

we'll be working on those.

And then also ARKit and ARCore are plans for us as well.

Once we're able to figure out how to turn the slam into

a better point cloud. Great. Thank you guys.

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My name is Dora

I just got this

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Thanks

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You know the Department of Labor is really fantastic.

You know they come out to your business and they will work you through the process

and say well there's here's our vision of what you're trying to do. They listen to you.

They work with you and then they suggest your partners.

I was directed to the Department of Labor in the Registered Apprenticeships program ...

where I talked with Greer Sisson from the Des Moines office and Richard Madden, and they kind of stepped it out for me.

you know how a company like mine in a rural market could

establish their own registered apprenticeship program what that look

like how get how to get there and what it looked like for the journey for the

for the apprentices over time once you get in you know I've partnered up in the

Department of Labor and they'll work with you because they own it they

understand the problem ain't like they don't want you to do this they want you

to do this so you've just got a look to make the motion they'll meet you in the

middle to make this happen but you got to do it they really made it easy we

just they gave us what we needed to do we did it we turned it back in and it

was just a you know it really wasn't as onerous as I thought it was going to be

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Is WALL-E The Villain? Pixar Fan Theory - Duration: 1:53.

Pixar would like you to believe that Wall-E is just a cute

little robot trying to keep the Earth clean, but what if he

is actually something far more

sinister?

Is it possible that Pixar's friendly janitor is actually one

of its greatest villains?

Many people see Wall-E as a classic Messiah figure, a

savior who

sacrifices himself for the good of mankind.

What if there's a more sinister

reality to everyone's favorite yellow robot?

Reddit user vixx Elias believes

that Wall-e isn't telling the story of mankind's rise but of

its fall and that

the movie is actually a retelling of the book of Genesis.

In Genesis, Adam and Eve

live in the Garden of Eden, an earthly paradise where

they have no problems or

suffering and all of their needs are taken care of.

Their lives are perfect...

until a serpent gives Eve forbidden fruit from the Tree of

Knowledge and God

casts them out into the world to suffer.

In Wall-E, Eden is the Axiom-- the

spaceship where all of humanity lives after ruining the

Earth. It's not just

that all of their basic needs are taken care of, like food

and shelter but

there's no conflict, no fighting, and no war. All of the

problems that plagued

them on Earth have been left behind...

Until Wall-E shows up. After he gives Eve the seedling,

she returns it to the

spaceship where the captain studies it. He gains

knowledge about Earth. This is the

forbidden fruit. Once humans gain knowledge, they lose

paradise and are

forced to return to Earth, which is a toxic, garbage-

strewn wasteland where

only the cockroaches can survive. Okay, so, if Wall-E

caused man's downfall after

giving Eve the forbidden fruit, then he isn't the Savior...

He is the serpent.

What do you think?

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Cha Tae Hyun Is In Talks To Reunite With PD Yoo Ho Jin Through New Variety Show

Cha Tae Hyun and producing director (PD) Yoo Ho Jin may be working together again!.

The PD is currently working on a new exploration variety program where people will directly experience the greatness of nature. The show will reportedly begin filming in April, in a desert somewhere on the Arabian Peninsula. Soompi. Display. News. English.

300x250. Mobile. English. 300x250. ATF. On March 29, a source representing PD Yoo Ho Jin revealed, Its true we sent [Cha Tae Hyun] a casting offer, and we are currently in the final stages of coordinating his appearance.

A source from Cha Tae Hyuns agency Blossom Entertainment also stated, Right now, he is positively considering appearing in PD Yoo Ho Jins new variety show. We are in the final stages of discussion..

Cha Tae Hyun and Yoo Ho Jin first worked together when the producing director was a rookie PD on KBSs 2 Days and 1 Night, which he directed until 2016. They also co-directed the variety drama Greatest One-Shot in 2017.

In addition to Cha Tae Hyun, actor Ji Jin Hee is also currently in talks to join PD Yoo Ho Jins new program.

The show is set to air sometime in the first half of the year, with a May premiere being the aim. Are you excited to potentially see these two work together again?.

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In our people is unquenchable power, For the Homeland the love is so hot!

Lenin is with us, and in us it's still burning - Fighting soul of Ilyich.

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It's heard by the mountains, valleys and rivers, And by every herblet on the way:

Lenin is with us! With us in the ages! In the coming fierce struggle he is!

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What is 5G? | CNBC Explains - Duration: 5:14.

That is 4G - the mobile network that's used around the world

to make calls, send messages and surf the web.

Now there are plans for 4G to be replaced by, you guessed it,

5G - a new, faster network that has the potential to transform the internet.

5G is a software defined network - it means that while it won't replace cables entirely

it could replace the need for them by largely operating on the cloud instead.

This means it will have a 100x better capacity than 4G -

which will dramatically improve internet speeds.

For example, to download a two-hour film on 3G would take about 26 hours,

on 4G you'd be waiting 6 minutes,

and on 5G you'll be ready to watch your film

in just over three and a half seconds.

But it's not just internet capacity that will be upgraded.

Response times will also be much faster.

The 4G network responds to our commands in just under 50 milliseconds.

With 5G it will take around one millisecond -

400 times faster than a blink of the eye.

Smartphone users will enjoy a more streamlined experience

but for a world that is increasingly dependant on the internet just to function,

a reduction in time delay is critical.

Self-driving cars, for example, require a continuous stream of data.

The quicker that information is delivered to autonomous vehicles,

the better and safer, they can run.

For many analysts this is just one example of how 5G

could become the connective tissue for the internet of things,

an industry that's set to grow threefold by 2025,

linking and controlling not just robots, but also

medical devices, industrial equipment and agriculture machinery.

5G will also provide a much more personalized web experience

using a technique called network slicing.

It's a way of creating separate wireless networks on the cloud,

allowing users to create their own bespoke network.

For instance, an online gamer needs faster response times and greater data capacity

than a user that just wants to check their social media.

Being able to personalize the internet will also benefit businesses.

At big events like Mobile World Congress for example - there is a mass influx of people

in one particular area using data-heavy applications.

But with 5G, organizers could pay for an increased slice of the network,

boosting its internet capacity and thus improving its visitors' online experience.

So when can we start using 5G?

Well, not yet and according to some analysts not until 2020.

5G was created years ago and has been talked up ever since.

Yet it's estimated that even by 2025, the network will still lag behind

both 4G and 3G in terms of global mobile connections.

Its mainstream existence faces multiple hurdles.

The most significant of these of course is cost.

According to some experts, 5G could cause network operators

to tear up their current business models for it to make business sense.

In the U.K. for example, 3G and 4G networks were relatively cheap to set up

because they were able to roll out on existing frequencies, on the country's radio spectrum.

For 5G to work properly however, it needs a frequency with much bigger bandwidth

which would require brand new infrastructure.

Some analysts believe that the extensive building and running costs will force

operators to share the use and management of the mobile network.

This has been less of an obstacle for countries like China,

who are taking a more coherent approach.

The government, operators and local companies such as Huawei

and ZTE

are about to launch big 5G trials that would put them at the forefront

of equipment production for the new technology.

That may be at the expense of the West,

where there is concern regarding Asia's 5G progress.

A leaked memo from the National Security Council to the White House

called for a nationalized 5G network

to keep the U.S. ahead of their global competitors.

White House officials dismissed the idea, but some experts predict that by 2025

nearly half of all mobile connections in the U.S. will be 5G,

a greater percentage than any other country or region.

It's still likely however that much of the West will have a more gradual approach to 5G,

driven by competition but with a patchy style of development.

For example, AT&T pledged to start rolling out 5G later this year

but in just a handful of cities.

For key industrial zones however, it's predicted the technology will be adopted quickly,

while for many in rural areas 5G may be a long way off.

But when 5G does establish itself and fulfills its supposed potential,

it could even change how we get the internet at home and at work -

with the wireless network replacing the current system of phone lines and cables.

It may not happen overnight, but 5G is coming.

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