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)
TechnoSapian / Wellbeing
Social Media
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:
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
Economics
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
Voice Assistant Devices:
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