Omni-Directional Treadmills

An omnidirectional treadmill (ODT) is a mechanical device, similar to a typical treadmill, that allows a person to perform locomotive motion in any direction, allowing for 360 degrees of movement. The ability to move in any direction is how these treadmills differ from their basic counterparts (that permit only unidirectional locomotion). Omnidirectional treadmills are employed in immersive virtual environment implementations to allow unencumbered movement within the virtual space.

This VR technology was made similarly as the regular treadmill and can point you in any direction. You are not limited to only a few movements. Picture this, you have played the Star Wars game a couple of time but wish to walk in the deck or imagine yourself walking around the street in GTA, with AXON Exo Suit, this is possible. Additional features like climbing the stair and playing sports are also likely.

 In addition, the harness may provide lifting force to simulate free-body flight. And the well-defined user space makes interaction with outside haptic devices feasible. Omnidirectional treadmills have the potential to also be used in film, such as in conjunction with a green screen. This type of application would allow limitless movement by the actors.

8K VR HEADSET

The 8K VR headset is just a starting point for DIY enthusiasts. With modular design in mind, we made Pimax 8K an extendable device that not only works with your current accessories, but also allows easy implementation of new technologies. e.g. hand motion, inside-out tracking, wireless, eye tracking, etc. They are currently collaborating with the big guys like Steam, Disney Land, Nvidia and Valve to make better gaming experience.

Pimax 8K is a cutting edge virtual reality device designed for VR futurists. Our goal is to create an intuitive VR without the shade of the headset, and sharp enough that you won't be disturbed by pixels. We doubled FOV to 200 degrees, with an increased resolution to 2*3840x2160. 

The Pimax VR which gives a user a dual 4k resolution display for each eye. This headset has 16 million pixels which are six times more than what other VR technology in its category. It equally supports eye tracking and full positioning tracking for a more realistic experience.  

Imaging radar

The enhanced transmit/receive and computer-processing technologies of modern radar systems also are giving rise to imaging radar systems or those that produce high-resolution pictures from returning signals.

Signal-processing experts at Mercury are working on a technology called circular synthetic aperture radar also known as circular SAR, or video SAR. “The processor-intense part of radar is image formation, which requires significant numbers crunching,” says Jon Lathrop, market segment director at Mercury.

A specialist in multiprocessing and other computer-intensive applications, Mercury is involved in synthetic aperture radar and ground-moving target indication, says Mercury’s Pool. Circular SAR involves flying a specialized radar system aboard an aircraft that files around an area of interest, and builds a 3D image based on successive layers of radar data. “Going to things that are more processor intensive, such as circular SAR, is where the research is going”.

Industry consolidation will continue in cybersecurity

Following the recent IBM and Red Hat deal that just took place and what it meant for open source, the trend of industry consolidation will continue in cybersecurity. Next year, smaller security players will be snapped up for a variety of reasons. For talent, for a company's underlying technology, to boost sagging top lines of legacy security or networking vendors trying to modernize themselves, etc.

 In addition, some traditional large public security vendors have stagnated due to their legacy on-premise box-oriented architectures and are ripe for private equity firms gobbling them up, being split up (especially those with consumer and enterprise businesses), or a combination of both. It especially affects businesses that depend on computerized technology to conduct their daily business.

 So, the investing in cyber security to protect your business and data from malicious cyber-criminals and hackers isn't just desirable. It's absolutely essential to maximize resistance against threats. Cyber security companies or IT security consulting firms manage IT security services such as firewalls, intrusion prevention, security threat analysis, proactive security vulnerability and penetration testing and incident preparation and response, which includes IT forensics.

Visual data and A.I. will dramatically expand the value of communications services

In 2019, visual data and artificial intelligence will provide a more valuable and personalized experience in communications. Imagine a meeting where each participant can see each other's LinkedIn and other social media information; where meeting notes and action items are automatically synthesized and distributed to stakeholders; where the next meeting is automatically scheduled based on in-meeting discussions and based on participants' calendars;

where digital signage is customized based on who walks by it or where the last few documents the participants worked on are automatically pulled up on the screen. Deals will close faster, the administrative work around meetings will shrink, compliance will have complete meeting records, and virtual meetings will become even more productive and valuable than in-person meetings.

With the audio conferencing industry shrinking and the video communications industry growing, and with the ability to store massive amounts of data in the cloud and the computing power to analyze it, we believe visual data and A.I. will disrupt the communications space in 2019."

Maps become Personal

A personal map is a mind map that emphasizes people's information, like home, education, work, hobbies, family, friends, values, goals. In 2019, maps will begin to become a layer on which we do everything from communicate to compile data. For most, maps are a feature of a smartphone.By creating a personal map of a colleague, you make an effort to better understand that person. 

People should get closer to the work of others in order to better understand what is going on. They can do this by moving their feet, moving their desk, or moving their microphone. Decreasing the distance between yourself and others helps increase communication and creativity. A great exercise for a better understanding of people is to capture what you know about them in personal maps.

A lot of the time we work next to each other but don’t really know each other. Learning a bit about someone’s life history and even private life can go a long way in creating empathy. Personal Maps branch off from the tradition of Mind Maps to tell your own story. Mind mapping is a simple but powerful technique that allows anyone who can hold a pen to visualize the relationships between concepts.

VR Gloves

Virtual Reality is shorted VR gloves. The VR Glows are wearable (some are completely wireless) that users can wear to enable finger and/or hand tracking and touch sensors within virtual reality. With this technology, it is possible for you to play the piano and do other things with your hand and fingers. Although the technology is still in its early stage, developers have made the type that recognizes motion. More features will be added to make the experience more realistic such as heat sensors to produce heat when the user touches hot objects.

Virtual reality is growing and as part of the technologies evolution, a variety of VR accessories have been developed. As part of the burgeoning expansion surrounding VR tech, there are, of course, a number of crowd funded success stories and failures, so be careful with your choices. Our selection of VR gloves is non-extensive, as so many other VR gloves are on the market or in production. As always we recommend doing your own, additional research but we thought these virtual reality gloves were some of the most promising available as VR accessories.

VR gloves are also part of the VR accessory ecosystem that aims to bring even more realism and senses (touch) to make VR more immersive. A number of products are now available or in production and in R&D stage (research and development). VR gloves can be split into three main categories: i) Haptic gloves, ii) Gamer gloves, iii) VR HMD and platform-specific VR gloves.