Occipital Cracks SLAM with One Cheap Camera and an IMU

One of the larger challenges in consumer 3D tech these days is tracking the position of an AR/VR device in space. For a number of years, companies solved this problem by offering complex technological infrastructure—like cameras or sensors—that a user could place around the room to help determine their location. Lately, however, a few creative developers are finding low-cost ways to incorporate the tracking into the devices themselves.

Occipital is one of the most noteworthy among these developers. Though the company already sells a $399 system that incorporates an iPhone and their $349 sensor for tracking, the company has recently shown a tracking platform that uses a single camera to track the headset in space.

The monoSLAM solution uses a single, cheap wide-angle camera and a low-cost IMU, and works quite well according to TechCrunch.

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NFL Players Dontari Poe and Jalen Mills Invest in DailyPay

Pro Athletes Support FinTech Startup Empowering Employees to Improve Financial Health

NEW YORK, June 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- DailyPay, a financial solutions company that reduces employee turnover through instant access to wages, announced the addition of two high profile angel investors: Dontari Poe, defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons and two-time Pro Bowler, and Jalen Mills, cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles. The athletes, who are represented by Omar Sillah of Spectra Management Advisors, are passionate about investing in technology that empowers underserved Americans to take control of their financial well-being.

The players' backgrounds and current non-profit endeavors attracted them to DailyPay. Poe was raised in Memphis, Tennessee by a single mother. After being drafted in the first round into the NFL in 2012, he started the Poe Man's Dream Foundation to give underserved middle and high school students opportunities and resources to succeed. Part of the foundation involves introducing high school students to the tech industry, which led Poe to begin investing in socially-minded tech companies. Mills was raised by a single mom in the Dallas, Texas area. He was drafted by the Eagles in 2016 from Louisiana State University. DailyPay is Mills' first tech startup investment. 

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Occipital launches low-cost AR/VR tracking platform for all-in-one headsets

Some of the most annoying parts of today’s virtual reality hardware are all the wires and the sensors needed to accurately track the headset. With all-in-ones, all of that hardware has to find its way into the headset and track your location in a low-power way.

Today, Occipital is showing off a tracking platform optimized for all-in-one headsets that will allow users to traverse spaces without external sensors using low-cost integrated cameras and IMUs.

With this effort, the company is aiming to achieve SteamVR-level accuracy — currently the gold-standard in VR tracking — to inside-out system using the technologies its spent nearly the past decade working on.

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Cedars-Sinai signs 3-year deal with Noteworth for on-demand patient-generated health data

Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles has partnered with Noteworth, a startup from the second cohort of its accelerator, to give physicians in several hospital departments new tools to monitor the health of their patients at home. The deal is a three-year engagement.

Noteworth offers a novel platform for on-demand patient-generated health data. With the system, a physician can order PGHD for a patient from inside the electronic health record, and can select from a menu of vital signs such as blood pressure, blood glucose level and weight, as well as behavioral metrics like medication adherence, mood and activity. Once the provider selects the information he or she wants, Noteworth pulls together a collection of FDA-cleared connected device and delivers it to the patient’s door, along with onboarding support and use training. Data from those devices than shows up in the EHR. 

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WHEN INSTANT MEANS MORE THAN JUST CONVENIENCE

Over the last few years, technology has enabled the instant – or near instant – delivery of various consumer goods and services.  Download an app and in minutes you can have a taxi waiting outside your house, your favorite meal delivered, or your laundry washed.  A substantial amount of consumer facing technology has in fact been dedicated to providing an opportunity for consumers to pay a premium for instant convenience.

But there is a whole segment of the American population that does not have the same opportunity to experience those conveniences.  They are on the other side of technology – driving the taxis that are hailed, delivering the food that is ordered, washing the clothes that are sent out.  These people are worried about putting food on the table, not the speed with which it is delivered.

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