Friday 7 May 2010

The Ouidoo

The augmented reality market is predicted to explode over the next two years and this is because the modern smartphone has become a barely capable device. The user experience from the current tranche of AR-smartphones is lacklustre because of poor quality sensors and the
exciting applications can't run because of the low performance processors which are overspecified general processors. Organic progress will see a capable AR device in 2012 however the capability to design an AR-capable phone is possible today.

The Ouidoo Gaian from QderoPateo seems to be the best attempt at bringing the technology together and making it market ready ahead of its time while other manufacturers are watching to see what happens. The vision is admirable and it's clearly driven by the passion of the team
at QderoPateo. The Ouidoo range and the Divinitus platform at its heart have been custom-designed to be Articulated Naturality-capable. The platform was desperately needed
and without it the mobile processor would have evolved at a snail's pace.

The Divinitus has two general purpose processing cores for handling the standard smartphone functions and 26 signal processing cores for handling AR and Articulated Naturality Web applications. It's the Scene cores that make the Ouidoo the first AN-capable phone because
these provide the power for the overlay of 3D images and what make it the world's first 8 gigaflop mobile processor.

The Ouidoo is a Scene device which is a significant leap ahead of it's competitors. Google Goggles and Nokia's Point-and-find applications attempt to give smartphones a basic ability to sense their environment and understand what they're being pointed at. The Ouidoo takes this one
step further and uses the latest technology to really sense the environment. This is an ambitious attempt to make significant leap forward in pervasive mobile computing and create a new device. The results will be interesting and it is likely the second offering in the
Ouidoo range will see this capability better realised.

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