Category Archives: Augmented reality

Mobile Photo Connect : 10 Questions to a Founder : Lightricks

Adobe, AR, Augmented reality, computational imaging, content, imaging, Instagram, interview, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, PhotoTech, tablet, VR October 11, 2017 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

Outside of Instagram, the biggest success in the world of photo apps is certainly Facetune. With millions of paid downloads, it was the number one paid app in over 120 countries. The creation of 5 Israeli friends, it certainly benefited from Instagram’s success and especially its insatiable appetite for selfies. But unlike Instagram, Lightricks, the company behind Facetune, is a real software development company. It currently has 6 different photo/video editing apps in the app store, all very successful. We spoke with co-founder Itai Tsiddon…

The iPhone X deep-dive – Why this phone will disrupt the mobile imaging ecosystem

AR, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, computational imaging, computer vision, Content Recognition, depth imaging, Facial recognition, imaging, Interface, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, news, photo sharing, PhotoTech, Social Media, technology, visual recognition, VR September 15, 2017 Floris van Eck 1 Comment

Key takeaways: Apple has launched the iPhone X as a showcase for the direction in which the mobile and imaging industries could be heading; The iPhone X’s high price will limit its audience, but its features will trickle down in the coming years. At the same time, the developer ecosystem gets a head start on building new apps for consumers to create enticing content, which is often the bottleneck for the adoption of new technologies; The 3D revolution is now in full-swing; many of the…

By 2022, there will be 45 Billion Cameras

analytic, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, big data, computational imaging, computer vision, Content Recognition, depth imaging, Emotion analysis, Facial recognition, imaging, mobile, photo organizing, PhotoTech, study, technology, visual recognition August 18, 2017 Paul Melcher 1 Comment

It might have all started when Snapchat rebranded itself “A camera company”. Or even long before, in 2002, when Nokia decided to put a camera on their cell phones. Whenever it happened, it is still really only the beginning… “It” is the moment the camera became forever separated from its original format, a lens on a movable box, and its original intent, recording personal memories. The shift was triggered when film became digital and thus transforming images into data files. Not only could images be easily and…

Going Deep – the race for depth imaging smartphones is on

3D, Augmented reality, computational imaging, content, depth imaging, imaging, interview, light field, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, study, technology August 16, 2017 Hans Hartman Leave a comment

Our smartphones will soon be depth imaging devices, featuring cameras that measure depth information for each part of the image. Lenovo already came out with the Google Tango-based Phab 2 phone last year and with the upcoming release of the iPhone 8 we’ll finally find out why Apple paid $350M to acquire the Israeli company PrimeSense back in 2013 (PrimeSense originally provided the technology behind the Microsoft Kinect game accessory). The market for depth imaging and sensing devices is booming, according to the recently released Smartphone Depth Sensing report from Woodside Capital Partners and Yole Développement. With a CAGR of 37.7%…

WWDC takeaways: lots of great news for photo app developers, but one major puzzler

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, computational imaging, content, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, news, photo merchandise, photo organizing, photo sharing, tablet, visual recognition June 9, 2017 Hans Hartman 1 Comment

The photo app developers I spoke with are overwhelmingly excited about a range of WWDC announcements, even though one of these dumbfounded several developers. We’ll get into that one later; let’s start with the four most exciting announcements. ARKit: making mixed reality easier to create and more realistic to view Apple’s OS 11 developer ARKit enables developers to build mixed reality apps that interpret the imagery from the user’s iPhone camera by identifying surfaces, tracking motion, estimating scale as well as ambient lighting, and by providing fast and…

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2017 LDV Vision Summit : A world of foresight

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, computational imaging, computer vision, Content Recognition, Facebook, google, imaging, investment, LDV Summit, PhotoTech, Pinterest, technology, video, visual recognition, VR May 30, 2017 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

When electricity was finally mastered at the turn of the XX century, it triggered a whole new range of new products and industries while improving existing ones. From light bulbs to fans, fridges, air conditioning, factory tools little that we interact with today is not affected by electricity. Today, computer vision is having the same effect. Now that it has reached a certain level of maturity, both in performance and availability, computer vision is opening a huge array of new opportunities and new businesses in…

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Google: what’s wrong with a lack of jaw-dropping announcements?

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, computer vision, content, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, google, Interface, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, photo merchandise, photo sharing May 23, 2017 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

In short: Nothing. With an emphasis on incremental improvements to Google’s photo organizing, sharing and search solutions, Google’s maturing solutions are now becoming so easy, efficient, and helpful that many consumers will feel they can’t live without them. Perhaps equally important, Google is opening up more and more of its supporting AI technologies to developers – for companies who can’t afford to hire an army of AI PhDs. The Google I/O announcements important to mobile imaging vendors To put the photo-related announcements in perspective, note…

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LDV Vision Summit 17 – 10 Questions for an Investor: KBS Ventures

advertising, analytic, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, big data, Brands, Funding, interview, investment, LDV Summit, marketing, PhotoTech, Pinterest, Snapchat, Social Media, VR April 27, 2017 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

There’s a definitive symbiosis between visual tech and digital marketing: Not only is vision the primary sense used when making a buying decision, it is also the most efficient in tracking and deciphering a consumer’s path to the critical buy impulse. While brands might not have yet adopted the rapid pace of evolution offered by the countless new start-ups in the field, advertising agencies and their investment arms have long known that it’s a battlefield with huge potential outcome. We spoke with Jessica Peltz-Zatulove – Partner…

Move over Snap: Facebook is the camera company to beat

Adobe, Augmented reality, computer vision, content, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, Snapchat, Social Media, visual recognition, wearable April 25, 2017 Hans Hartman Leave a comment

It’s the platform, stupid Just as the world finally figured out why Snap relabeled itself as a camera company, last week Facebook proclaimed it’s not just a camera company, it’s a camera company built on the world’s ambitious augmented reality platform. Let’s add some perspectives to their F8 announcements: Recently, Facebook has put its camera front and center in its various properties (not just Instagram, but also Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp). For instance, in Messenger, this changed the traditional texting workflow, which normally starts with…

LDV Vision Summit : 10 Questions for a Research Scientist @ Google

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, computer vision, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, interview, LDV Summit, photo organizing, research, visual recognition April 20, 2017 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

From automatically organizing personal photos, monitoring crops, medical diagnostic, driving cars, security monitoring, computer vision is always everywhere. Not surprising since we, as human beings, use vision as our primary tool to understand the world around us. For a search engine like Google, it does make perfect sense to be one of the leaders in research. Ahead of her keynote address at the upcoming 2017 LDV Vision Summit, we spoke with Google Research Scientist Tali Dekel to learn more: A little bit about you. what is…