Sunday, January 31, 2016

Hundreds Apple employees to work on Virtual Reality technology – CURVED

While the announcement of Apple’s current CEO Tim Cook business figures said that he for “cool” think Virtual Reality. According to a report by the Financial Times, Apple holds the technology seem even so cool that now has several hundred employees are engaged in the work on it.

patent applications indicated out that Apple even before many years has been dealing with virtual reality. According to 9to5Mac Apple is said to have developed in the mid of the last decade under the leadership of Steve Jobs prototype of VR headsets. The efforts, however, were then adjusted, because the technology was still considered immature. Now Apple is designed to promote the development in this area aggressively again.

Since the takeover of PrimeSense in 2013. Apple is said to have the report says not ceased to strengthen its team for Virtual and Augmented Reality. The company then bought had been involved, among others, Microsoft’s Kinect camera. Meanwhile, Apple also won employee of Microsoft HoloLens team and the light field camera Lytro developers themselves. Recently the company purchased with Flyby a software developer, a who has worked with Google on the 3D position determination for Project Tango.

Even if Apple’s chief designer Jony Ive said in an interview some time ago that the face is not the right place for the use of technology, Apple is said to have already built several prototypes for virtual reality headsets in recent months. When to expect a finished product, unfortunately, still remains unclear. The report says, however, that Apple wants his team for Virtual and Augmented Reality enlarge even further.

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942.48 million euros in sales: This age-old technology gives millions in profits – CHIP Online

Among the winners in the music market next one just the record, which is currently experiencing a small revival. About 30 percent of the sales of vinyl grew last year. . Bottom line, the plates but continue to do so only a small portion of sales, just 3.3 percent

As before, the largest revenue driver CDs: 61.2 percent of sales to make them out. Despite her advanced age – over 25 years have passed since the commercial breakthrough – that generates the CD still huge amounts. On total turnover converted, she is responsible for revenues of over EUR 940 million.

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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Carbon3D’s CLIP technology is already used at Legacy Effects – 3Druck.com

Legacy Effects is one of the most exciting Effects specialists in Hollywood. The company is responsible for many effects and makeup in the greatest movies.

Among them are films like Terminator, Godzilla, Jurassic Park, Iron Man and the Avengers. For several years, uses Legacy Effects 3D pressure in various forms for its projects.

Now Carbon3D announced that Legacy Effects one of his first test customers.

Jason Lopes, Lead Systems Engineer at Legacy Effects:

“In this industry, you want to believe everything you hear, but you have to pull back and ask more questions. What Really Attracted me even more to working with Carbon were the questions They asked about me and my work flow-They really cared about solving our problems -. It was a breath of fresh air “

The technology also promises a more beautiful finish and less rework than other 3D printing technologies. Jason Lopes adds,

“CLIP Allows us to do what we do best: focus on art. I can let my creative hands Work Where They deserve to be creatively. That’s huge. I’d rather use my talent in areas where they ‘re off exploring rather than going back and cleaning up prototypes. “

In the video shows Legacy Effects as 3D printing in the film industry used is:

Learn more about the projects of Legacy Effects

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Market potential of smart home technology is still far from exhausted – SolarServer

“Smart Home Technology does not sell long as they could, although technical standards set and custom products on the market. There is great potential, but somewhere it hooks, “says Dr. Wolfgang Neubarth of the technology market research at GfK firmly.

It bases its findings on market surveys of more than 370,000 trading partners and on current GfK studies. About the consequences for trade and commerce, he reported at the trade fair IFH / Intherm which until April 8, 2016 will take place from 5th in Nuremberg.

High expectations of intelligent home technology

Consumers have high expectations of intelligent building technology: they want security, control, comfort, enjoyment of technology, but also a little luxury feeling. “It’s about modernity and ultimately to facilitate the daily life,” says Neubarth. In many consumer wishes the smart home technology already have a smart answer today.

There are already heating systems which are linked to the smartphones of the residents. Once all the inhabitants have left the house, the heating slows their performance. Be a resident approaches the house, the heating goes beyond a certain distance back up.

In the “Smart Energy” are loud Neubarth not only battery systems on the rise, but also control units for photovoltaic modules with an active energy management of solar power plant, heat pump and boiler.

crafts and trade should be more inform about smart home technology

GfK surveys showed that the majority of you ever heard about “smart home” or read on demand but can not explain what exactly is hidden behind it.

Consumer, when asked why they do not have smart home devices, costs and data protection as reasons to. “On these issues must be worked, but lack of communication is the main obstacle,” said Neubarth. He advises crafts and trade, therefore, for increased education.

“This is an enormous need for information in order for the market potential of smart home technology will be developed in the future. In the field of intelligent building automation builders, architects and the craft also have gatekeeper function. Finally, they recommend the technology to be incorporated or give them before. So it is up to them, her competence and communication, whether the owner in future smart building and living. ”

The presentation “Smart Home – What is desired and bought what” takes place at IFH / Intherm 2016 daily from 10.30 clock in the special exhibit Smart Home in the passage between Halls 3A and 4A instead.

01/30/2016 | Source: IFH ​​/ Intherm 2016 | solarserver.de © Heindl Server GmbH

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Friday, January 29, 2016

10/27/2016: Conference on Health and Technology ‘at the HSG – Lokalkompass.de

On 27th October 2016 8.30 until 16.30 clock will at the College of Public Health (HSG, Health Campus 6-8) in Bochum for the first time a conference on “Health and Technology”, which is based on the theme “eHealth in interactions” will focus.

“At the moment it comes at the conferences on eHealth to the technology or the supposed benefits for physicians and the health care system. The effects on the interactions per se, have hardly been the subject of scientific discussion. We want to change and therefore invite the end of October 2016, the HSG a “explained Dr. André Posenau, visiting professor” advice in the applied health sciences “Department of Applied Health Sciences in at the HSG, his motivation for organizing the conference.

“In the daily work of health professionals will find lots of new health technologies currently no or only rarely used. The fact that the innovation potential of new health technologies are not exploited, is only partly due to the lack of technical interoperability between software and hardware solutions. Above all, it is often unclear how new health technologies can be successfully integrated into existing treatment and interaction processes between treated and treated, “said André Posenau.

The focus of applied research and development lies in this sense still too heavily on the technical feasibility and too little on the consequences that have new health technologies for the relationship and interaction level of the treatment process, he added. However, these interactional effects are factors that significantly determine whether new technologies can be implemented in a sustained ongoing care processes.

In this context, the acceptance of new technologies is still low in many healthcare stakeholders. On the other hand however, many health-related technologies and software solutions for segments of society have become financially affordable, and partly also already spread. For this reason, the communication researcher wants to address the question of what it then needs to tap the diverse potential of this incoming in width technologies for the practice of health professionals.

The conference is precisely examine this issue. It is on the one hand to present results of scientific research on this topic and on the other hand offer providers and providers of eHealth applications, such as tracking products, Health Apps or smart textiles, the opportunity to showcase their products. This combination of application-oriented research with exemplary practical demonstrations should form the basis to discuss the pros and cons of new medical and therapeutic technologies.

The aim of the conference is an exchange between research and practice of technology-based health care to enable. Posenau: “It must be the task of such a discourse be to find scientifically proven solutions to tap the diverse potential of new health-related technologies effective and cost-efficient health care”

For more information see here.

Contact: Dr. André Posenau, School of Health, Health Campus 6 – 8, 44801 Bochum, Tel: +49 234 77727-650, E-Mail: andre.posenau (at) hs-gesundheit.de

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That is why the industry is so fascinated by 3D printers – Berliner Zeitung

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Topping out at technology companies – high-tech, but top secret – Süddeutsche.de

Rohde & amp; Black is the most mysterious companies of Munich: It develops security and encryption techniques – and has been growing

The doors are now wide open, an exception. And precisely in honor of that building, which in future will resemble a high-security wing. Topping out ceremony for the “Technology Center II” at Rohde & amp; Black -. At Munich geheimnisvollstem Group and in whose heart, the development department helps

secrets and their protection, they are the core of the electronic and broadcasting company, the security agencies and States, companies and the military case, which, what they do best to conceal from the public eye. Even and especially in front of those eyes that can look very good and even have techniques to make Encrypted and hidden readable in spite of all obstacles.

So it has a quirky touch when all the guests of honor, including the Urban Economic Affairs and deputy mayor Josef Schmid (CSU), found via the site, about the company and its economic benefits for Munich praise. But that no one, including Managing Director Manfred Fleischmann, talks about what the company intends in the new building when it is based in 2017, because at all. “We are very restrictive,” says a spokeswoman for the company. “High-quality electronics” point to her, says Fleischmann. “We are a high-tech company that thrives on innovation.” That’s it. What Rohde & amp; Black ever makes that can hardly be inferred from the rare information that reveals the ever-growing family worldwide with currently 9900 employees. Much has to do with communication, with data. With broadcasting, mobile and metrology. So Rohde & is amp; Black strong growth since the nineties – as the whole sector. The subsidiary SIT as developed encryption techniques and has built the first mobile Chancellor in Berlin-Adlershof.





topping the new building: Rohde & amp; Black is with 2500 employees one of the largest holdings of Munich.

(Photo: Catherina Hess )

In Munich speaks Rohde & amp ; Black on urban design rather than on business. It is a grateful topic because recently the company has its factory premises in the east of Munich revamped completely. The visible growth correlates with the positive growth figures, the Rohde & amp; Black Every year proclaimed in June. Approximately 1.83 billion in sales, the company has earned in the past financial year to June 2015 4.1 percent more than last year. Particularly benefits it has since the NSA affair: Since the data leak that has torn a man named Edward Snowden, has revealed many new insights into intentional and unintentional data flows and enterprises want to protect more than before themselves against intruders. . Holes that need to stuff, and here the Munich group helps

For Munich was Rohde & amp; Black immensely important, not only as a good business tax payer who is with 2500 employees one of the larger Munich businesses as Josef Schmid says. At the same time, Rohde & is amp; Black for the city and especially the economy Speakers also an object of prestige. Coming from Munich, will remain in Munich. The company was actually also the namesake of the business district, Schmid said – after the operation is the last remaining “work” in the new city in the city, which will be built behind the Ostbahnhof. To mix of apartments, culture, art and shopping steer Rohde & amp; Black high-quality jobs in, said CEO Fleischmann



So is the” look again Technology Center II “. It will probably resemble a high-security wing. Simulation: HHVISION

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Since 83 years there the company in Munich, the operation is still in family ownership. Lucrative he is not just for the owners but also for the location. CEO Fleischmann knows this, and therefore he is also confident: “not inconsiderable tax revenue”! Give to the city, he said. To leave Munich and to relocate the head office abroad, out of the question come for the company nonetheless. “Mia san mia – the motto goes well with us”

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

New Technology: Bloom from the 3-D printers – Tagesspiegel

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Researchers have created objects that change shape when water is added occurs.

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As of himself be flowers at sunrise. This natural self-organization rendered American scientists are now on complex structures that they made quick and easy with a 3-D printer. In the journal “Nature Materials” they show how arbitrary objects are printed with a sophisticated blend of soft plastics and harder cellulose fibers which automatically convert to three-dimensional shapes. This biomimetic 4-D printing could be the development of autonomous robots, medical implants or intelligent textiles continue to forge ahead.

“Our approach to 4-D printing can be structures with predefined functions created” says Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University in Cambridge. With his colleagues, he first developed a hydrogel that is used as a kind of printer ink. In this hydrogel, the researchers mix cellulose fibers, tiny clay particles and plastic monomers together. The liquid can be arranged in layers in arbitrary structures with a 3-D printer. Cured under ultraviolet light, complex objects, which deform when recording liquid according to the design of the object. Also deformations which again assumed its original shape at varying temperatures were possible

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The digital templates for the 3-D-pressure emerged on complex mathematical models. Everyone to be shaped portion of an object consists of a two-tier system. Each one of these layers can absorb water, swells up and turns the object into a three-dimensional structure. The second layer serves to stabilize. Mahadevan and his colleagues created according to this principle as an artificial orchid flower or a five-petalled ring structure in which the blades to small blades deformed. When taking water the transformation took about half an hour.

In further experiments it was possible to mix other materials such as ink liquid or metallic nanorods, the researchers believe. This would allow the objects as electrical conductivity, switching capacity and other properties can be imparted. But up to deployment will probably take several years. (ESC)

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

NVIDIA: prototype of a virtual reality glasses with stereoscopic Lichtenfeld … – 4Players Portal

NVIDIA is the prototype of a VR goggles presented at the VRLA Expo (Virtual Reality Los Angeles), which is being developed in collaboration with Stanford University. Unlike other virtual reality headsets like Oculus Rift VR or PlayStation classic no screens are used. Instead, put on the light field technology, which is intended to ensure a fraud free VR experience. In games business, the technology is described as follows: “is simplistic terms means thousands of microlenses the image so broken that a three-dimensional image is created using one of vector data can be considered a fair view from every angle within the light field, the eyes. . course can focus This is, for example, enable a more realistic depth of field. “

The VR-nerds go rather an on the stereoscopic 3D display and the associated benefits: ” The stereoscopic Lichtenfeld VR prototype can represent a natural depth of field for each eye, the two displays that represent the images that get to see each eye from a slightly different angle. This creates the stereoscopic 3D effect. (…) is probably the most fascinating part of Lichtenfeld VR but that allows the VR glasses, his eyes wander more naturally and to rest at certain points. This reduces eye fatigue and imitates our seeing even more lifelike. Currently, the prototype has a resolution of 640 x 800 per eye. Of course, this will increase in the coming years, but rapidly. “

The first test results with the light field-VR headset to be quite promising, because the eyes focus less the screen, but rather the . image displayed It is expected that the technology could be used in three to five years in VR headsets

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Better 3D technology with the help of mantids – WinFuture

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Ideal study object

The director of the study, Jenny Read, explains why the mantis is particularly suitable as an object of study: “praying mantises are great because they a show by their reactions, what they see. You can not move inside of her head her eyes. So if they are interested in something, they move her head to look at it. And they are predators. If you see something and think that they can get it, then they will also try that. “

‘) mantises have a 3D view, but see only in black and white. As early as the 1980s, researchers have found that these insects to see in 3D. If you show them a beetle in 2D, they do not respond, but as soon as he appears in 3D, attack them. The scientists want to develop with the help of observations new algorithms.

Better vision for robots

“We do experiments to find out what they can see and what they do not see. We check as many hypotheses about its 3D view. We constantly make new hypotheses. We refute sometimes and if we can confirm it, we hope that we are one step ahead and we will soon have an algorithm that mimics this view, “says Jenny Read.

The researchers assume that the 3D view of praying mantises as that is easier ours. It could help them for robots in the development of 3D view. Through the work of scientists could possibly also new treatments for people who squint, to be developed.

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Better 3D technology with the help of mantids – WinFuture

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Ideal study object

The director of the study, Jenny Read, explains why the mantis is particularly suitable as an object of study: “praying mantises are great because they a show by their reactions, what they see. You can not move inside of her head her eyes. So if they are interested in something, they move her head to look at it. And they are predators. If you see something and think that they can get it, then they will also try that. “

‘) mantises have a 3D view, but see only in black and white. As early as the 1980s, researchers have found that these insects to see in 3D. If you show them a beetle in 2D, they do not respond, but as soon as he appears in 3D, attack them. The scientists want to develop with the help of observations new algorithms.

Better vision for robots

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The researchers assume that the 3D view of praying mantises as that is easier ours. It could help them for robots in the development of 3D view. Through the work of scientists could possibly also new treatments for people who squint, to be developed.

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“The technology of this freight tunnel is simple” – Tages-Anzeiger Online

Why Zurich participates in the project cargo Metro says Councillor Filippo Leutenegger in an interview.

 50 meters deep in sunk to the ground and then taken away: A model shows how

50 meters deep into the ground and then taken away: A model shows how “Cargo Sous terrain” is to function.

Mr. Leutenegger, why does the Civil Engineering Department of the City of Zurich in the construction of an underground rail freight ( Click here with the report)?
 We help with the planning principles, but are not investor.

What brings such a tunnel of the city?
 We have an excellent transport infrastructure. But she is in peak periods – especially morning and evening – overloaded already. We are therefore interested in intelligent solutions for the future, in order to distribute this load better on all times of the day.

So is the underground Metro work. (Video: Cargo sousterrain)

And Cargo Sous terrain is such a future solution
?
 That will still have. But the idea is good. Because the technology of such goods tunnel is relatively simple in contrast to a high-speed tunnel like Swissmetro. Cargo Sous terrain seems to be a pipe dream. We might goods around the clock, with no ban on night driving, unmanned and environmentally friendly through the whole of Switzerland consign. This also provides for the City Logistics completely new opportunities.

How so?
 The fine division may be carried out with smaller trucks. 2030 can drive unmanned and electrically they may. So they make hardly any noise, which they can distribute goods at night with a low pace, without the residents being disturbed in their sleep. Thus, the infrastructure could be used better and we could relieve the peak periods.
  

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Will Switzerland in 15 years have a cargo Metro?

Yes, the project will be implemented

No, the project fails to Finance

No, the project fails to politics

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In a first rough planning the goods Metro provides access nodes before in Oerlikon and in the Herdern. Is this enough? Or it needs a further stroke in the Brunau?
We’ll see. So far we have not.

What is because the commitment of the Civil Engineering Office at Cargo sousterrain?
 We bring our know-how, especially historical information on traffic flows.

Also Urban money?
 So far we have only spoken by a small amount over which the Civil Engineering Department could dispose itself.

In Franken?
 It is – as I said – a symbolic amount, in order to document the interest

If a later, more substantial contribution to the discussion
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 This can still not say. (Tagesanzeiger.ch/Newsnet)

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The world in pictures

When it’s cold On Westlake in China adorn icicles a bridge and transform the Zhejiang Province in a wintry landscape. (25 January 2016)
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Economics and Technology – Berlin has to catch up on the digital highway – Berliner Zeitung

Crowd Work

The Internet has created a new form of work, which rapidly spread: Crowd Work. more …

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All restarts this week: All films from today: All cinemas:

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Virtual Reality: Companies use … – Südwestpresse

In three dimensions go to the machine that exists only on the computer: So relationships should be easier to detect. In Schwäbisch Hall, the association Packaging Valley now opened a VR-Center

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If customers can virtually go to their project, can show a lot better, what should be in the workshops at the end of the contract – this approach follows at least the “Packing Valley”. In Schwäbisch Hall, the club now opened a virtual reality center that enables exactly this. “A three-dimensional picture is worth a thousand words”, emphasizes Bernd Hansen, head of the Hansen Group and Chairman of the Packaging Valley.

In Solpark the member companies can now at a high technical level as their CAD data from the can transform design into a three-dimensional image and go with the help of 3D glasses and the big wall screen in its original size to the machine. This is done for a holistic approach “in cooperation with the construction, with IT, with technicians”.

For around 2,000 euros per day, the VR-Center can be rented by companies that are not members of Packaging Valley are. “Technology and personnel included,” says Kurt Engel, CEO of the association. While it is still too early to make definite forecasts, but the preliminary project period of three years should be extended. Engel is optimistic that the VR-Center can carry through customer projects themselves. “Even now, I am quite sure that we will have the necessary capacity in half a year about” says Engel.

VR applications are to be doing anything new. Sabine Gauger, responsible for marketing at Schwäbisch Hall packaging machinery manufacturer Optima: “We have started in 2011 with marketing use, that is, concretely, we have shown virtually equipment at trade fairs, which we did not have at the show on the spot.” Optima wants to implement the technology in the future also in the design and the processes “easy to quickly come forward to make things clearer to perform service training and involve the customer with”. Thus, for example accessibility studies are very easily realized. These are currently still housed the customer closer to wooden models. Further applications for VR technology are, for example, the ergonomic situation of the operator or its field of view

For Melchior Gentner, Regional Director South West at Heitec, the current state of the art, however, is only the beginning:. Important is the matching of the design and especially the control data for the machine in the virtual space. “A machine is driven by different drives. It is precisely this software will be used in the future to bring the machine and virtual working.” To date, work movements in virtual space nor animations that are pre-established and react to any changes in the 3D world. Heitec wants mid-2016 worked out a solution for the implementation of

Despite everything the company to move into the region, take advantage of the Virtual Reality, at the forefront of innovation: “Even the VR technology is nothing of. customer expects. Still excited and surprised the customers. This competitive advantage like we use, we want to be a technology leader, “says Sabine Gauger.

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