Leap for which Motion gesture controllers to launch virtual reality helmet base

Today, Leap for which Motion came out with the base PC peripherals, users can connect Oculus Rift on the base, or other virtual reality helmets, for virtual reality applications track your hand movements. Synchronized with this base launched Leap Motion the software development kit (SDK), to support the use of virtual reality helmets to track hand movement from the perspective of. iPhone Moschino

The company hopes that developers will Leap Motion into virtual reality experiences, instead of using external devices such as keyboards, mice, or controllers, entered. Leap Motion co-founder David Holz wrote in his blog that "If virtual reality and real reality, then we believe that fast, accurate and stable hand tracking is necessary. "

The base price of us $ 20, but it requires a Leap of Motion Controller (for $ 80) works. If supporting Oculus Rift to use, full system price is not cheap, that is, the function is not in order to prepare for the general public. At present, developers and sophisticated virtual reality game developers should be LeapMotion the main audience, so for at least the next few months. Moschino iPhone 6 plus cover

Leap provides a Motion demo, which shows their controllers and Oculus Rift Dev Kit 2 effects of collaboration, I saw first-hand information, also learned the company's software is how to see the user in a virtual environment the finger bones inside. In May this year, the author points out that Leap software has achieved instant Motion tracking, if you move your fingers and watch ourselves when things occur, will barely notice any delay.

When Motion camera Leap when you move from the desktop to the Oculus above the Rift, you need to make some changes in the software, so that we can track hand movement with a new perspective, but will not cause any delay to the speed and accuracy of impact.

In addition to software and base equipment, Leap Motion also showed a demo of a prototype sensor, they named this sensor "Dragonfly (Dragonfly)". The front part of the sensor can be bound in the Oculus Rift device, and explore more wide angle than the human eye. Leap Motion hope virtual reality helmet manufacturers can integrate the sensor into the hardware device, was entered by hand as a standard input mechanism of virtual reality.

Leaving Rio to save money data package

With the Rio Olympic Games move toward an end, players packed the return, the IOC has prepared a secret for the next Olympic Games data package to save money. Hermes iPhone 6 Plus cover

The International Olympic Committee has a "Olympic Games knowledge management project" (Olympic Games Knowledge Management Program), is committed to collecting past data and a survey report of the Olympic Games, to provide future Olympic Games host city "save recipe".

Games have a high rate of budget overruns of "traditional", the organizers often need to invest huge sums of money, and within a short time difficult to digest the cost and debt.

1976 Canada Montreal Olympics budget overruns of up to 720%, which makes it fully took 30 years to pay off the debt. In view of this, the International Olympic Committee was launched in the mid-90 "Olympic Games knowledge management project", designed to allow early new host city to host city learning "laziness", through the process of knowledge transfer and to reduce the economic costs. The project was first applied to the preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

The data package added a new content: Teleport immersion interactive video platform, which is a Switzerland startup, only set up a few months ago.

A case study of operation on a mobile phone or tablet, the user can touch-screen operation, Teleport platform drag and drop any images in a video, and add any text you want on the picture, tags and other information, so you can turn images into a Web page.

Teleport using a team to develop a "random access video coding" (Random Access Video Encoding,RAVE) algorithm, this algorithm in the Meteor building platform written in Java.

"The Olympic Games knowledge management projects," Director Christopher Payne said: "Teleport became the platform allows content visually, accordingly, to transcend the language barrier. "

But the project's information is not open to the public, but only for internal use, which means that only after the host cities such as Tokyo, Korea pyeongchang and Beijing can get this valuable money-saving package. 

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Adidas in 2017 in the United States founded the robot factory

Last year, adidas announce the 2016 years part of the shoe factories to them back to Germany, ready to start the droid factory in its stronghold of Speedfactory. In addition, it also prepared to 2017 in the United States built a new Speedfactory. Today, the world famous sports brand Giants and we shared more details of this project--it built an independent Speedfactory of Atlanta. By the end of next year, adidas is interested in the 74,000-square-foot space in making 50000 pairs of running shoes. iWatch bumpframe

Of course, with the manufacturing record of 301 million pairs of shoes last year, compared to just drop in. But this is another beginning. Speedfactory is designed to use an automated production line to achieve the rapid production of footwear. Most importantly, Speedfactory adidas reduces dependence on Asian production base, and some of them already because of the problem of illegal workers was imposed regulation. According to reports, adidas said it is full of endless opportunities for United States localization projects.

Adidas says, Speedfactory 160 jobs to Atlanta area, even though they did not disclose specific details of the types and. Worth noting is that adidas, take care of his robot is no easy task.

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Facebook launched a new service allowing small and medium business free

As one of the world's largest social networking site, Facebook, now, eyes are turning to emerging markets to find more users and advertising revenue growth.

Facebook said on Wednesday local time, will allow emerging market SMEs home page of free advertising, selling their products.

In the past year, Facebook has introduced a policy that allows some businesses through paid advertising in Facebook applications to sell their products. New service you can make free use of small and medium enterprises advertise home position, more user-friendly business home page to view products.

"If a company from their home page to see the value of this service, then their chances of becoming our advertisers will increase. "Facebook Home Product Marketing Director, Benji Shomair said.

Data shows that Facebook currently has about 3 million active advertisers, and about more than 60 million companies around the world use this service for free to open the home page, hoping to contact Facebook 1.7 billion global monthly active users. VR Shinecon glasses

Facebook also said that by strengthening business dependence on Facebook, hoping to have more emerging-market companies eventually became the company's paying advertisers. This is Facebook's first step in expanding e-commerce business in emerging markets. VR Shinecon virtual reality glasses