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Developer who can earn $336K in less than 10 min !

The recent video of an Android developer is going viral for creating a TSA app in under 10 minutes.According to him he would charge $10 for the amount of work which he put in the app.But the entire project costed $1.4M .The app only displays random arrows on clicking the screen that’s all.

According to report the actual cost of application if we remove the cost of training user and hardware is $336K which just points randomly to left and right .

After looking at the original video the arrows which are used in the app do have transition effect and nice shadow property.But that still does not signifies the cost !

 

 

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The world of “Virtual Reality”

Have you seen those youtube videos where people keep on falling down after putting this head gear(Oculus Rift) on ! It surely gives us laugh but it creates an interest to experience the same thing.

 

 

 

After seeing many such videos and pranks there has been a lot of curiosity and interest which has risen in for virtual realty.But it is not a overnight success for virtual reality, the technology and concept can be first traced back to 1935.

This picture in which you can see experience of Virtual Reality, is from the story “Pygmalion’s Spectacles” and is recognized as one of the first works of science fiction that entertain virtual reality.After that there were many occurrences of virtual reality which you might have experienced in movies as well.

 

Virtual reality 1935

If you are familiar with “The last lecture” from Randy Pausch the awesome Virtual Reality professor who gave his last lecture to students of Carnegie Mellon then you might have seen the amazing virtual reality sessions they were used to have and the kind of advancement they already went through in early 2000’s.The excitement and passion of students and professors showed that everyone knew that they were onto something.

Randy Pausch Last lecture

From what we are seeing in industry now, the mainstream software companies and giants are coming into the picture after they saw that the idea seems profitable and have enough attention of people.It is high time to put it into commercial use, the time of creating POC(proof of concept ) is over it is time to deliver something meaningful and beneficial.

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Have you heard about Zero UI ?

Being in tech world for a while, discussions related to new technologies and innovation are not new to me. They happen all the time !

And as a guy who likes to play in bleeding edge technologies, I always want to show my audience the next cool big thing.

As the name suggests, Zero UI is about removing the UI, that is acting as a barrier between the user and the device, in order to provide a more seamless interaction with the technology.

Have a look at this video, you will get a better idea.

This is an example of Microsoft® Kinect for retail.

There are also a few new announcements in this topic, from Google® as well, one under the name Project Soli, which is a radar-based wearable to control anything. Based on the assumption that our hand is the ultimate device for input, Project Soli is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. The sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale and built into small devices and everyday objects.

 

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BBC micro:bit will help UK kids to learn programming

Gone are the days when programming and hardware related knowledge were restricted to a few people.

In today’s world, we are surrounded by an amazing system of hardware and software devices that make our life easier.

This idea has led UK schools to encourage kids to learn programming with the help of micro:bit .

This small device which looks like a toy, will be given for free to kids in school.