Author: Ajay Nayak

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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 areĀ not new to me. They happenĀ all the time !

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

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

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

This is an example of MicrosoftĀ® Kinect for retail.

There are also a few new announcements in this topic, from GoogleĀ® as well, one underĀ theĀ name Project Soli, which is a radar-based wearable to control anything. Based on the assumption that ourĀ 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 theĀ days when programming and hardware related knowledge were restricted to a few people.

In today’s world, we are surrounded by an amazingĀ 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:bitĀ .

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

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How DuckDuckGo is helping developers !

If you have never heard the name DuckDuckGo then, you might be thinking if this is a cartoon show or movie we are talking about. But in reality DuckDuckGo is a search engine.

duck-duck-go

In the search engine world, dominated by Google, DuckDuckGo is setting itself apart by going into an interesting niche: helping developers to write, review and fix code in open source repository every day.

When we are developing, we require access to code, examples, syntax help and answers to technical questions.

And can be annoying when we are looking for answers and still we are not clear what to do!

Next time, in a similar situation, you should give DuckDuckGo a shot.

To know more how to use DuckDuckGo for your webpage, you can have a look at this.