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@Rise from the ashes
I find the following extract very compelling after the recent Edge Impulse presentation describing AKIDA as science fiction and comparing it to a GPU running at 900 megahertz. Just consider the possibilities and doors he could open:
“IEEE Spectrum: What are the remaining technical challenges?
Nayampally: There is a great deal of computation that needs to be done in a very small footprint at a low power to deliver a compelling visual, audio, and haptic experience while maintaining a form factor for the glass that is fashionable, light, and practical—so you don’t have to charge [the device] every two hours. There still are big challenges on power, energy consumption, thermal, and form factors [as well as a] continuing need for improved display and battery technology.
IEEE Spectrum: How will we get there?
Nayampally: With VR headsets today, you see the possibility of making augmented reality compelling. However, a large part of what has been happening with VR has been on general purpose, high-performance processing, using a lot of software to run the algorithms. This is not optimal for a smaller form factor. The key algorithms—like vision, gesture recognition, and hand tracking—are going to have to go into hardware—programmable, but hardware-accelerated implementations The computation platforms also need to be designed with use cases and workloads in mind, the software applications and development environments need to be further optimized. And all these things are beginning to happen.
IEEE Spectrum: Who will be first to get AR glasses out there?
Nayampally: There already are a number of products in the market that are taking big strides toward untethered head-mounted displays—companies like
Microsoft,
Magic Leap, and
Nreal, just to name a few. I’m not going to make a guess on who delivers a compelling “fashionable,” “all-day-wear” smartglass which supports advanced mixed reality features. But you will see more announcements in the near future like the one you saw from
Facebook in September. Within the next year or so, you will also see products that support hand-tracking, which is important for more general use because, while serious gamers love their specialized controllers, those end up being too cumbersome for the average user. Amazon also recently announced
Echo Frames with Alexa—that’s AR audio, but still AR.”
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA