Tech Demonstrator Research

Put together by Melissa Wood for the purpose of being a resource for research into emerging technology.

Cryptocurrency

• The future of Cryptocurrency
• Mark Carney - Bank of England - cryptocurrency requires regulation
• Llyods banning purchase of Cryptocurrency on credit cards
• Bank of England
• Financial Times - banks and the impact of Amazon

Extended Reality (XR)

• Entended Reality

TechnoSapian / Wellbeing

• Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook - don’t let kids use social media
• Report into youth and social media effects

Social Media

• Snap Mapping - Snapchat’s global map of snaps in ‘Our Stoies’ and map page

Information Security

• Hacker of BBC blog post
• IoT 4 critical secruity challenges
• IoT Security challenges
• Swedish Land Registry Blockchain process
• Blockchain for food industry
• FaceBook feed - feed algorythms

AI

• Google’s DeepMind - Photo results
• Smartphone AI - Smartphones which will learn according to user preferences
• With Google - AI Experiment - Thing translator - use on smartphone for best outcome. Take photos and tries to work out what most likey it is
• Alexa skill development
• Google AutoDraw - smart draw to let Google’s AI to suggest images for you. Drawing tool experiment
• Googles Font Map - a tool that helps designers understand and see relationships across more than 750 web fonts
• The truth behind Google AI Experiments
• Amazon Rekognition - Deep Learning-based image & video analyser
• AI driven Health Assistants - Chatbots
• AI driven Chatbot - Jubi
• IBM’s Watson - question / answer machine learning computer. 19 companies of how using Watson
• AI for fighting crime
• China Law AI - predicting crimes before they happen
• Dubai’s robot police force member
• Alexa available on iOS
• AI startup Knowhere - produces non-biased news
• AI’s ‘Black Box’ - time to open it?

Mixed Reality:

• Microsoft Headsets
• Windows Marketing Video
• Acer Windows Mixed Reality headsets
• Magic Leap - MR Goggles
• How the Motion Controllers & Head Mounted Display tracking work

Hololens:

• YouTube Reiviewer
• Create hologram from live video

Broadcast examples:

• ITV - Dance Dance Dance
• BBC Sport Piero AR game facts
• Piero PDF tech details
• BBC Research & Development
• Snapchat NBCUniversal partnership - TV shows on Snapchat
• HDR broadcasting & screen tech
• Disney - broadcast

5G

• What will 5G mean for industry & consumer

Economics

• Snap in talks to set up in Saudi Arabia in bid to overhaul the otherwise oil-rich economy by 2030 focussed on a domestic technology sector

Augmented Reality:

• Holo - AR Holograms for photos & videos
• 19 Crimes AR Wine Marketing
• Affordable AR
• GooglePal - google fitted tech from Google Glass
• BBC Sport - printed programmes demo
• BBC Sport - Install Motion Analysis’ CamTrak Systems - AR to programmes
• Facebook - AR replacing TV’s? Making camera first approach
• DHL Google Glass - Vision Picking
• Samsung Vision Picking demo
• Iron Man AR mask game
• AR Glasses roundup 2018

ARKit:

• World Brush iOS app - leave paintings around the world
• Fitness AR - Strava data mapped in AR Kit
• Animoji - ARKit TrueDepth theory
• Developer demo of using TrueDepth camera and ARKit to make 3D face
• Apple Insider - TrueDepth & ARKit vs. Tango & Depth Sensor camera

Internet of Things:

• If This Then That - connect devices & app together
• Data Security of IoT
• Zigbee - open global standard for low powered wireless devices. Echo + uses this in its built-in Home Hub
• Amazon Echo Alexa stats

Home Management

• ZLINK - Extends Amazon Echo devices to support ZWave devices. IndieGoGo
• Google reunites Nest for bring Google AI to smart home devices

Virtual Reality:

• Styly - VR public creation
• Block Smith XR - creation of VR spaces
• HTC Vive Pro - new for 2018!
• Visualise VR - Thomas Cook example / Visualise VR Thomas Cook ‘Fly Before You Buy’ / Visualise VR - VR for tourism
• How the R&D team recording Turning Forest Binural Audio & Synced to VR

4k Broadcast

• 4k Broadcasters

Voice Assistant Devices:

• Google Home
• Sphero Spiderman toy - security (last paragraph)

Misc. Links for Tech:

• Life Saver - gyroscope in tablets example of CPR
• Trinus App - make normal PC games VR
• BBC R&D unconventional screens development
• Water Drone - app controlled camera
• 3D capture device for ipad
• 3D camera capture - WeeView
• Realsense 3d camera
• Lyrebird - building cutting edge speech synthesis technologies
• Amazon Echo Look - fashion advice from Echo
• Experiments with Google - Open source experiments with Google code base
• CES 2018 - round up of the best
• Impact of Scoail Media on Journalism
• Wellness in children & social media - Childrens Commissioner 2017 report
• Education Policy Institute
• Sony XZ Series phone - 3D Creator for AR personal Avatars

Images:

• Ivan Sutherland (1968) - first working AR headset