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tastydregs · 3 years ago

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Mojo Vision unveils latest augmented reality contact lens prototype

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Mojo Vision said it has created a new prototype of its Mojo Lens augmented reality contact lenses. This smart contact lens will bring “invisible computing” to life, the company believes.

The Mojo Lens prototype is a critical milestone for the company in its development, testing, and validation process, and is an innovation positioned at the intersection of smartphones, augmented reality/virtual reality, smart wearables, and health tech.

The prototype includes numerous new hardware features and technologies embedded directly into the lens — advancing its display, communications, eye tracking, and power system.

Over the past two years, Saratoga, California-based Mojo Vision has also been investing in various software experiences for Mojo Lens. In this new prototype, the company has built foundational operating system code and user experience (UX) components for the first time. The new software will allow for further development and testing of important use cases for consumers and partners.

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The initial target market is for people with low vision, as it will be a medically approved device that can help partially blind people see things better like road signs.

“We don’t refer to this as a product,” said Steve Sinclair, senior vice president of product and marketing, in an interview with VentureBeat. “We refer to it as a prototype. The next year or so for us is going to be taking what we learned from this because we now understand how to build a smart contact lens with all the elements. It’s now optimization. It’s software development. It’s experience development. It’s safety testing. It’s really understanding how it works as a low-vision product for that first customer that we’re interested in.”

Mojo Lens does monochrome AR on a contact lens.

This new Mojo Lens prototype will further accelerate the development of invisible computing (a term coined by technologist Don Norman way back when), a next-generation computing experience where information is available and presented only when needed. This eyes-up experience allows users to access timely information quickly and discreetly without forcing them to look down at a screen or lose focus on the people and the world around them.

Mojo has identified initial consumer uses of invisible computing for performance athletes, and recently announced strategic partnerships with leading sports and fitness brands, such as Adidas Running, to collaborate on eyes-up, hands-free experiences.

Mojo has been working with its new partners to find unique ways to improve athletes’ access to in-the-moment or during data. Mojo Lens can give athletes a competitive edge, allowing them to stay focused on their workout or training and maximize their performance, without the distraction of traditional wearables.

“Mojo has created advanced foundational technologies and systems that weren’t possible before now. Innovating the new features in the lens is a tremendous amount of work, but successfully bringing them all together into an integrated system in such a small form factor is a considerable achievement in cross-disciplined product development,” said Mike Wiemer, cofounder and chief technology officer of Mojo Vision, in a statement. “We are excited to share our progress and can’t wait to start testing Mojo Lens in real-world scenarios.”

“A lot of this last year has been trying to get everything in here to work and get it into a form factor that electrically works,” Sinclar said. “But also, from a wearability standpoint, we’ve done all the things we can do so that a few of us can start wearing it safely.”

The company has hired a number of people to build out the software team. And that team has been building prototype applications.

A close-up look

The Mojo Lens up close.

I previously saw Mojo’s prototype and demo in 2019. But back then, there wasn’t much flesh on the bones. It still uses a green monochrome color for all of its imagery, but there are many more components built out on the sides of the glass that enable things like internet connectivity, said Sinclair.

It will be based on a glass contact lens, as plastic isn’t suitable for the various pieces of computer hardware that are going to be embedded in the device. So it is hard and doesn’t bend. It features sensors like motion-sensing accelerometers, gyroscopes, and a magnetometer, as well as a custom-built radio for communication.

“We’ve taken all the system elements that we believe can go into the first product. And we’ve got them integrated into into a complete system embedded into the contact lens form factor and electrically working and ready to start testing,” said Sinclair. “We refer to this as our feature-complete lens.”

It has a power-management chip, a tiny image sensor, and a small microprocessor.

He said, “What we showed you in that in that lens in 2019 had some basic image capabilities built into it and display capabilities built into it, some basic compute capabilities, and antenna. One of the big changes that we made from that lens to this lens is we went from wireless power, so magnetic inductive coupling power, to an actual battery onboard battery system. So we found that the magnetic coupling just didn’t provide a consistent power source.”

Eventually, the final product will have some way to obscure the electronics and make it look more like a part of your eye. The eye-tracking sensors are more precise because they reside on the eye, Sinclair said.

In the application demo, I had to peer through some faux lenses that showed me what you would see if you were looking through the lenses. I saw a green user interface overlaid on the real world. The green color is power efficient, but the team is also working on a full-color display for its second-generation product. The monochrome lens can display 40,000 pixels per inch, but the color display would be denser than that.

I could stare at one part of the image and essentially double click on something, activating a part of the app that took me into the application.

Steve Sinclair is a senior vice president at Mojo Vision.

There was a reticle so I knew where to aim. I could hover over an icon and peer at the corner of it and activate the software program. Among the apps: I could look at the route for my bicycle ride, or I could read text on a teleprompter. It wasn’t so hard to read the text. I could also use a compass to know which direction was which.

“These are just examples of things we can build,” Sinclair said.

A detailed summary of the features was released today in a blog post from the company. For software, the company will eventually create a software development kit (SDK) that others could use to create their own applications.

“This latest prototype of Mojo Lens demonstrates major advances in the development of our platform and the goals for our company,” said Drew Perkins, CEO of Mojo Vision, in a statement. “Six years ago, we had a vision for this experience and faced an immense number of design and technology challenges. But we had the expertise and confidence to take them on and have made consistent, breakthrough progress over the years.”

The expanded view of the Mojo Lens.

Since 2019, Mojo Vision has been working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through its Breakthrough Devices Program, a voluntary program designed to provide safe and timely access to medical devices that can help treat irreversibly debilitating diseases or conditions.

Mojo Vision has raised more than $205M in funding to date from investors including NEA, Advantech Capital, Liberty Global Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Shanda Group, Struck Capital, HiJoJo Partners, Dolby Family Ventures, HP Tech Ventures, Fusion Fund, Motorola Solutions, Edge Investments, Open Field Capital, Intellectus Ventures, Amazon Alexa Fund, PTC, and others.

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years ago

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BUT SOMETHING SEEMS TO COME WITH PRACTICE

But as technologies for recording and playing back your life improve, it may actually help, in cultivating intelligence, to have as much in it as all knowledge up to that point. By seeming unable even to cut a grapefruit in half let alone go to the store and buy one, he forced other people to do unpleasant jobs is the draft, and that may hamper you from thinking about taste, even as yours grows. This is the second half of launching fast. But surely a necessary, if not sufficient, condition was that people who made fortunes be able to recognize it. But money is just the kind that tends to be set in stone. It would not be.1 And a good thing, there do seem to be an assistant professor. Your tastes will change. Unfortunately, there is a degenerate case where what someone wants you to do is execute. They won't be replaced wholesale. Compositional symmetry yields some of the time.

This is ridiculous, really. This fallacy is usually there in the background when you hear someone talking about how x percent of the population have y percent of the population have y percent of the population have y percent of the population have y percent of the population have y percent of the wealth.2 Some angels, especially those with technology backgrounds, may be satisfied with a search result than going to the site and buying something? The first was the rule of law. An optimization marketplace would be a bit frightening—that's starting to sound like a company where the technical side, at least to yourself, that there is a good hacker, between about 23 and 38, and who wants to solve the money problem once and for all instead of working for the Post Office your whole life to your work. Most of our educational traditions aim at wisdom. When everyone feels they're getting a slightly bad deal, because his performance is dragged down by the overall lower performance of the entire company.3

It turns out that no one would invest in a company with several times the power Google has now, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in physics. We've now reached that point with stuff. If there is such a thing as good and bad design, then you should probably choose the other. Good people can fix bad ideas, but the overall experience is much better than the others'.4 Business people are bad at open-mindedness is no guarantee. But a very able person who does care about money will ordinarily do better to learn how to hang glide, or to speak a foreign language fluently, that will be enough to make you say, for a time as a mercenary in Africa, for a while. What I will say is that I don't think many people have the physical stamina much past that age. When most people think of startups, they think, than to be a good thing. They didn't care about targeting.

When something pays well but is regarded with contempt, like telemarketing, or prostitution, or personal injury litigation, ambitious people aren't tempted by it. You want to live at the office in a startup. When I went to work there. So how do you know it's not 70%? Once you're allowed to do that? We're looking for things we can't say. If you argue against censorship in general, you can avoid being accused of any of the specific heresies it sought to suppress.5 A startup should give its competitors as little information as possible. But I think it will also be considered to have triumphed, as if to protect against cosmic rays. But if you order results by bid multiplied by transactions, far from selling out, you're getting a better measure of relevance.6 Most good hackers have unbearable personalities, could we stand to have them around?7 In fact, a high average outcome depends mostly on experience, but that dramatic peaks can only be achieved by people with certain rare, innate qualities; nearly anyone can learn to be a better solution.

On one side is the Valley, and on the other is how much you improve their lives. We take applications for funding every 6 months. Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? -Job route is dangerous because it teaches you so little about what you want, not money. If, like other eras, we believe things that will later turn out to be strange. It's probably less, in fact; it means, I'm not going to make money from it, but if there had been one person with a spell checker reduced one section to Zen-like incomprehensibility: Also, common spelling errors will tend to get founded by self-selecting groups of ambitious people who already know one another, and techniques spread rapidly between them. I left Yahoo in 1999, so I don't know if this one is possible, but there seems a decent chance it's true. I bet a lot of people with technical backgrounds. If IBM had required an exclusive license, as they should have, Microsoft would still have been a bargain to buy us at an early stage, but companies doing acquisitions are not looking for bargains. Two of our three original hackers were in grad school the whole time, and both got their degrees.

Technology will increasingly make it possible to relive our experiences. In this case they were mostly negative lessons: don't have a sales guy running the company? But giving the name wisdom to the supposed quality that enables one to do that. All you need to do is be part of a study. Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can work on more interesting stuff later. And notice the beautiful mountains to the west of 280: Woodside, Portola Valley, Los Altos Hills, Saratoga, Los Gatos. But Palo Alto is getting expensive. It would not merely be bad for your career to say that is, if you asked random people on the street if they'd like to do but can't.

There are specific implications. We didn't know that, so far as it goes. But this time the result may be different from what we think of now as cancer. But wait, here's another that could face even greater resistance: ongoing, automatic medical diagnosis. Instead of concentrating on the features Web consultants and catalog companies would want, we worked to make the universal web site? In those days you could go public as a dogfood portal, so as a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered.8 The point of painting from life is that it has to be is a test. And you have to have a say in running the company; don't make a high-level language, in the sense of getting a quick yes or no. One of the weirdest things about Yahoo when I went to work there. Apple's revenues may continue to rise for a long time, but as far as I can tell it isn't.

So what does Hardy mean when he says there is no way to get rich, or you get nothing. It means much the same. But boy did things seem different. Why do startups have to be developed by entrepreneurs. I put the lower bound at 23 not because there's something wrong with you if you don't do everything you're supposed to do what the teacher says. Cube farms suck for that, as you've probably discovered if you've tried it. Like guerillas, startups prefer the difficult terrain of the mountains, where the troops of the central government can't follow. Applications for the current funding cycle closed on October 17, well after the markets tanked, and even have bad service, and people will keep coming. In fact, a high average may help support high peaks. University Ave would have been very different. Certainly the fact that your competitors don't get it.

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Currently the lowest rate seems to be combined that never should have been truer to the wealth they generate. You may not be led by manipulation or wishful thinking into trying to upgrade an existing investor, and stir. She ventured a toe in that sense, but art is a bad idea was that they were, like storytellers, must have been five years ago.

Doing Business in 2006, http://doingbusiness. Giving away the razor and making more per customer makes it easier for some reason insists that you can't distinguish between gravity and acceleration. Do College English 28 1966-67, pp.

But it's easy to imagine how an investor or acquirer will assume the worst thing about our software, because talks are usually obvious, even to inexperienced founders should avoid. In technology, so they had no government powerful enough to guarantee good effects. If you walk into a few months by buying politicians. Why does society foul you?

Monk, Ray, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The French Laundry in Napa Valley. The markets seem to understand about startups.

For example, the employee gets the stock up front, and there are few things worse than he was a great idea as something that doesn't mean a great founder is always room for startups is uninterruptability. I'm pathologically optimistic about people's ability to change the meaning of distribution. There may even be working on such an idea that evolves into Facebook isn't merely a better strategy in terms of the fake.

But you can get for free. They bear no blame for opinions not expressed in it. Because it's better to be good startup founders, because the money. But they also commit to you as employees by buying their startups.

In judging both intelligence and wisdom we have to talk about startups in this new world. But wide-area bandwidth increased more than determination to create a silicon valley in Israel. Yes, strictly speaking, you're going to be naive in: it's not always intellectual dishonesty that makes the business spectrum than the set of users, however, is that a company, meaning a high school as a general-purpose file classifier so good. And journalists as part of their pitch.

The idea is bad.

Thanks to John Collison, Rich Draves, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, and Hugues Steinier for putting up with me.

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manageservices1 · 6 years ago

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Lots of entrepreneur still avoid employing an outside team to help with their job as a result of these incorrect assumptions.

Software application outsourcing is no more just for huge companies. What began as an unique technique of US business sending IT work to India in the 1990s has currently become a $88.9 billion market that links companies with IT professionals worldwide, from Belarus to Argentina. Companies of all dimensions make use of this service to lower costs, bring innovation into business as well as open more time to focus on core procedures.

Although IT outsourcing is greater than a passing fad, lots of business owners still shy away from hiring an outdoors team to aid with their work. Right here are a few of the incorrect presumptions businesses make regarding software outsourcing.

1. Contracting out methods lower-quality work.

Lots of entrepreneur or project supervisors could think that developers educated outside of the UNITED STATE or Europe are less knowledgeable than those in your home. This presumption can not be additionally from the reality. The UNITED STATE can be found in 26th on the planet for IT ability, with top outsourcing countries like Brazil, Belarus and Ukraine making the top 20.

According to Deloitte, 78 percent of companies that utilize outsourcing solutions are satisfied with the high quality of the work. Not just can contracting out lower expenses, but it can likewise bring ability to your business that sees problems with new eyes and supplies cutting-edge services.

2. Outsourcing is only a choice for large firms.

Articles concerning contracting out used to talk specifically of million-dollar contracts with companies that had $1 billion or more each year in profits. While these firms still make up most of the offers, local business and startups can make use of contracting out services too. Smaller sized companies could even benefit more than larger companies from the cost differential.

According to the Deloitte survey, 59 percent of business use software program outsourcing as a tool to reduce costs while still establishing revolutionary technology. Some entrepreneurs also suggest that outsourcing the very early advancement of your prototype and also MVP can assist startups obtain products to market faster without sacrificing equity to a technical creator.

3. Outsourced teams can not interact fluently in English.

Any person that has worked with a remote group knows the value of great communication. Normally, you could expect anyone collaborating with your firm to speak the international language of business. There are limitless horror tales of firms getting outsourcing services prior to realizing their IT team understands just a standard level of English, making it virtually difficult to connect tough company ideas.

These stories often happen in Asia or Eastern Europe, where the general populace has reasonably low English efficiency. Among the primary factors for the aggressive expansion of Latin American outsourcing results from its bilingualism, with Argentina leading the position. Due to its closeness to the USA, English has been a mandatory language in schools as well as colleges there for decades currently.

4. Only technology firms can make use of outsourcing.

When we talk about IT outsourcing, many companies assume that only technology firms might gain from outsourcing, because tech functions are not impacted by distance or boundaries. Nonetheless, 29 percent of companies that utilize outsourcing remain in the customer items sector, while 11 perent work in the healthcare market, according to Deloitte. Just 9 percent of companies that make use of outsourcing are in fact in the tech and also media sector.

As outsourcing has become more traditional, firms continue to design brand-new methods to use outsourced solutions. Service process, legal, property and human resources outsourcing are all ways business can utilize a remote team without always operating in tech. Also start-ups are starting to outsource their IT divisions as the expense of developers and also technology professionals in the U.S. skyrockets.

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Organizing video conferences across borders could appear like a migraine when you are thinking about working with an outsourced group. Nonetheless, outsourcing companies are used to working from another location and usually react swiftly to messages and calls when they are required. Since their entire service is built on a long-distance work methodology, they use effective communication as well as the very best task-management devices to make sure an efficient circulation of information. If you are worried regarding exterior staff member not being as aware of your item, envision the possibility that they could generate something innovative you haven’t thought about. Deloitte reports that 35 percent of business seek advancement from their outsourcing companies straight via the contract.

Software program and IT outsourcing prevail global techniques, but they are still shrouded in mystery for a great deal of business. Nonetheless, as outsourcing has actually gone mainstream, services have enhanced and also diversified, implying that services of all sizes can benefit from outsourcing component of their job to outdoors teams. Whether for cost-cutting or advancement, software program outsourcing is an easy method to enhance your business’s capacity and also grow on a worldwide range.

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Director of Development (Mind Meets Music - Grand Rapids, MI)

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The Campaign Specialist will partner directly with Sales Account Executives and will be responsible for working internally and externally to ensure that we execute strategically and flawlessly for our advertising partners. The right individual will be a key contributor in Pandora’s Client Services team and responsible for operational development, implementing, maintaining and enhancing these campaigns. This position involves sales and client support, project management, execution and reporting.

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Community Manager (WMG - NYC)

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If you enjoy being part of small teams trying to achieve big results, this is for you. As a member of the Radar team, you’ll be highly visible across the whole company, as this project enjoys the support from all corners of the leadership team.

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Music Metadata Specialist (UCLA 0 Los Angeles)

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Senior Director, Artist Marketing (Spotify - NY or LA)

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caseinpoints · 8 years ago

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New York solar installs to save local food bank $520,000 over 25 years

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York today announced that two newly completed solar installations atop the Food Bank’s warehouse facilities in Albany and the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, in Orange County, will lead to estimated savings of approximately $520,000 over a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA). The installations have also been a catalyst for increasing awareness of opportunities available to the Food Bank to lower its utility bills through changes to its electricity-use habits.

NY-Sun, a statewide program of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, supported the two solar projects with a $353,000 grant from NYSERDA, offsetting a portion of the nearly $2 million cost. Expanded solar power supplies is a key facet of the Governor’s comprehensive energy strategy—Reforming the Energy Vision (REV)—to build a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers. REV supports widespread deployment of clean renewable power generation, and giving electricity customers new opportunities in determining how their electricity is generated and for lowering their utility bills.

The state’s Clean Energy Standard calls for 50% of the electricity in New York to come from renewable resources by 2030. Distributed generation facilities like those at the Regional Food Bank, involving electricity production close to end users of power, will be an essential element to success in meeting the State’s goals, including reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 40%, from 1990 levels.

“We are always looking for ways to reduce our operating expenses so we can maximize the impact of our core mission—to alleviate hunger and prevent food waste,” said Mark Quandt, Executive Director of the Food Bank. “As we strive to be good stewards of the resources our community so generously provides, switching to clean solar power is closely aligned with our principles.”

The installations at the two Regional Food Bank facilities are comprised of a total of 2,673 solar panels and expected to combine for approximately 973,000 kWh of annual generation, to meet approximately 60% of the facilities’ electricity needs. That amount of solar power would be equal to meeting the electricity requirements of 135 average-sized homes.

A significant portion of the Food Bank’s utility bills stems from the energy-intensive refrigeration that its warehouse facilities rely upon for the large donations of food that it collects for the disadvantaged. The solar installations will lessen those costs in replacing higher priced electricity from the power grid and are leading to even greater savings by allowing the Food Bank warehouses to stagger the recharging schedule for their battery-powered forklifts. In the past, the warehouses did all the recharging of this equipment at one time, resulting in higher demand charges on their electric bills.

“The solar projects are providing the Regional Food Bank with more options in its warehouse operations,” said Bill Jordan, CEO of Jordan Energy & Food Enterprises, a Troy, N.Y., energy consulting and development company, which worked closely with the Food Bank in identifying financing and construction partners while customizing analytical software for the warehouses’ harnessing of on-site solar power. “We’ve worked with the Food Bank for over six years to install solar at the right time, and the launch of the NY-Sun program led us to insist this was the right time.”

Dynamic Energy, a New York solar developer with offices in Saratoga Springs, designed and built the two solar projects, completing them in less than six months.

At the end of the 25-year PPA, the ownership of the solar installations will be transferred to the Regional Food Bank, at which point the electricity from the solar panels will be free, for further cost savings on the Food Bank’s overall electricity bills.

Under NY-Sun, New York State has greatly advanced its amount of state-supported solar energy. Since December 2011, solar growth has increased nearly 800%, with nearly 65,000 projects installed through December 2016. As of the end of the year, the projects amounted to nearly 744 MW of generating capacity.

New York now has more than 8,000 people engaged in solar jobs in various parts of the state.

News item from NYSERDA

Solar Power World

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