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Pixel 4 - AI On Edge and On Demand!

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Google's Pixel 4 Google has augmented its presence in the market for smartphones, with its latest launches of Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. The new variants come loaded with the latest technologies and features that may be the game-changers for Google in the already crowded market of smartphones. Most of these features are powered by the Artificial Intelligence , something Google seems to have taken a lead over all the other players. The main theme of this years Google launches seems to be the processing of machine learning algorithms on the devices or device based machine learning , whereby all the heavy lifting, that is the backbone of the artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms (namely the heavy ended calculations that are being performed in the calculations for neural networks and conventional means), are now instead of a remote server or cloud are being processed on the device itself. The feature may not look a lot at first but when we add the possibility of reduci...

How Oculus uses AI for Hand Tracking

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Oculus has been working on the concept of hand tracking from quite some time now. The idea was sometimes dismissed as impractical by some and difficult by others. Therefore it was quite surprising for many when Oculus announced that they have created the hand tracking software and that it will be rolled out through the Oculus Quest next year. The tech is the brainchild of Facebook Reality Labs [1] and Oculus [2] , who worked together to develop the state of the art, one of the only completely articulated hand tracking [3] system for Virtual Reality [4] that doesn’t use any kind of assistance from the expensive hardware or sensors. Conventionally the technology has had always relied on the Depth Sensors Specialized Gloves Cables etc. Points Detection with monochromatic Cameras How it is Better than Everything that came Before The new tech has many exciting things for a consumer of VR technologies. The new Oculus headset will be free of any cable attachments and will be the first ...