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alexis riols
@alexisriols · Product Designer @Deezer 👀 🖍 📱 🖥 ⌚️
Presentation of Soli by Google
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Vijay Raghavan
@vijay · CEO, Bluemint Labs (bixi)
@alexisriols Checkout bixi - http://bixi.io. We are bringing the gesture experience already to the end consumers. Shipping before Christmas'2016.
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Jonathan AMS
@mrp1ng · Flamite - developper, design
@alexisriols too old for the site "of the best new products" no?
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Sandro Jazzar
@sandrojazzar · Co-Founder, Shababeek
@alexisriols This video is so Apple, it almost has Johnny Ive in it...
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Maximilian Alexander
@mbalex99 · amazement
Technology in search of a problem
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Alfonso C. Betancort
@abetancort · CDO, Sensamatics
@sandrojazzar @alexisriols if it had Johnny I've in it, it would be shipping, wouldn't it?
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Alfonso C. Betancort
@abetancort · CDO, Sensamatics
@vijay @alexisriols I don't get why everyone is into crowfuding nowadays. It's supposed that entrepreneurs bear the risk to bring a product to market and are not supposed (allowed by market forces) to spread that risk over to their prospective clients by making then fund the venture in advance for a hat and a "discount".
With the existing scheme the crowfunders are getting a really raw deal: they bare most, if not all the financial risk of the venture with not title ( —not even interest bearing debt) other than an not binding promise to "deliver at some date in the future a changing product" and if thing go wrong they don't see a cent or product and when things go very well they do not get any of the upside (ask the crowfunders of Oculus)...
Crowfunders wake up, you are actually seeding capital. And you are being taken for a ride, be wiser and ask for shares not hats and t-shirts. Ok, keep an option to exchange part of the shares for the product at a minimum price or market value if its higher.
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Vijay Raghavan
@vijay · CEO, Bluemint Labs (bixi)
@abetancort @alexisriols Well, at least with Bixi we are making sure that we start the production phases (already started now) and then do the campaign so that on-time delivery is guaranteed.
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Alfonso C. Betancort
@abetancort · CDO, Sensamatics
@vijay @alexisriols My comment it was not about your company, but a more general appreciation of the intrinsic flaws of crowdfunding as we know it nowadays. I wish you the best.
By the way using a crowfunding campaign as a mean to sell/market a deliverable is a marketing strategy, not a funding strategy, aimed at rising awareness, perception of scarcity, exclusivity, discounted prices, early access but that is not the main goal of most of the crowdfunding.
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Vijay Raghavan
@vijay · CEO, Bluemint Labs (bixi)
@abetancort @alexisriols yes, fully agree.. it shouldn't be used as a funding source.. but mainly for awareness and proof-of-traction
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Jessica Coane
@jessica_coane · Founder, PEX+
@mbalex99 Remember, the customer doesn't know what it wants - you need to show it to them ;)
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Michael M
@wpbakery
@mrp1ng My first reaction was - wow! They launched it?!??!
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Cosmin Băluţă
@cosminbaluta · Marketing, Interbrands
@vijay Vijay, cool product, but what got me excited is the device you show at "Focus only at the road" - the one showing the directions. Is that a real product? Thanks.
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Vijay Raghavan
@vijay · CEO, Bluemint Labs (bixi)
@cosminbaluta glad you liked bixi.. The heads up glass is from HUDWAY that when paired with Bixi turn your car into a connected car.
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Mehmet Köse
@mehmetkose · founder, fupio
@mbalex99 there is lots of problem about that. eq. VR controllers
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Yassine Landa
@yassinelanda · Data Scientist & Founder @99drawings.com
The smart phones as we know them will disappear! We will start interacting with the virtual world with non intrusive displays in our glasses (or VR devices) and motion gesture! Just imagine sitting on a train and being able to browse your contact list and make a call. Write a quick tweet. Play your favourite game... All that with your hands inside your pockets. Can't wait!
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Brijesh Tripathi
@brijesht
this is tooooooo futuristic, I'm quite amazed. Hope to see it go mainstream in a few years.
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Mubashar Ali
@mubashar_ali · Financial Analyst & Graphic Designer
@brijesht The Video shows, it's quite mature. I hope, it will launch next year..
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Aurooba Ahmed
@aurooba · Co-Founder, Wanderoak
@brijesht Agreed! This makes me think of every sci-fi movie I love. Interacting with tech in this way is practically a given in any futuristic movie we've all grown up watching.
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Brijesh Tripathi
@brijesht
@mubashar_ali i guess it will take a while to go mainstream - but with google, you never know. here's to hoping that happens asap
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Brijesh Tripathi
@brijesht
@aurooba yay, wonder once it is mainstream, what stuff would movies show!
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alexis riols
@alexisriols · Product Designer @Deezer 👀 🖍 📱 🖥 ⌚️
Soli is a new sensing technology that uses miniature radar to detect touchless gesture interactions.
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Andrea Hill
@afhill · Founder, Frameplay Consulting LLC
Didn't even get through the concept video to get really interested in the possibilities here. Between this and Project Tango, Google is on the edge of establishing how we interact with virtual and physical artifacts
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Eon
@eonpilot · iOS dev @ github.com/eonist
Radars feels less intrusive than cameras.
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Jonathan Z. White
@jonathanzwhite · Designer and full-stack developer
I remember seeing this video last year. Tons of potential here. The most recent article and updates I could find on Soli were on Verge and ReadWrite
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/2...
http://readwrite.com/2016/05/30/...
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Jsn
@johnson0603 · Software Engineer
this is so awesome that it sounds like google's April Fools pranks
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Leo Bassam
@loaibassam · Founder, CEO at Plutio.com
Looks really promising!
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Sergio Claudio
@sergioclaudio · Creative + Strategy + Innovation
I love seeing these next level innovations that emerge from older technology
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Pallav Agarwal
@pallav_agarwal · Passionate for technology and startups
An advanced leapmotion... Except far from release
https://www.leapmotion.com
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Maxim Ananov
@pointum · Distraction Dimmer • HazeOver.com
Would go perfectly with Google Glass…
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Matthew Erley
@matthew_erley
Perhaps a collaboration opportunity with the Reality Editor team?! As featured here on PH: https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
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Danielle Frances Chapdelaine
@danfranchap · Content, Community & Design @EatWithAVA
I agree with the sentiment of the video's closing statement - excited to see what people do with this!
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Katherine Pei
@katherine_pei · CEO, Latticespace
very cool!
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rohit
@rohitd21 · Internet Marketing SEO, indiahuts.com
motion tracking of the human hand sounds cool, I like the Project
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David Carpe
@passingnotes · Thinker & Layabout
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Jonathan P L Spooner
@jonspooner · Retail Strategist, Control Group
Alpha Developer Kits were recently released for Project Soli: Google's radar and hand-based gesture interface. https://atap.google.com/soli/dev...
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Matthieu Baldy
@matthieubaldy · Founder & CEO @ThePixelWizards
The presentation might be 1 year old, the promise is still amazing!
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Jakub Linowski
@jlinowski · Linowski Interaction Design
This is so amazing ... until 5 seconds into using this cherished invisible UI, you scratch your ass or ear by accident and the super-duper-smart-gestures-solve-everything-UI takes you back a step away from a checkout page and you give up. :)
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