Lumus raised 15 million the Israel why optical firm favored by the domestic

According to a TechCrunch report, Israel optical Lumus announced from the big investment and Crystal-Optech's $ 15 million series b financing. The company mainly produces the smart glasses of optical modules.

Waveguide Optics is one of the company's main technology components (Light-guide Optical Element waveguide), which means the images projected on to a special transparent screen technology, for use in smart glasses head. Currently Google AR smart glasses such as Glass optical modules are used in waveguide optics technology.

So why is it be welcomed by domestic capital?

"The highest level in the world"

First of all, this company is a world leader in technology, the domestic AR glasses OWL technology co-operation with Lumus, founder of Lei Feng Shi Xiaogang network said, the company should represent the world's highest level of waveguide optics technology.

Lumus has been in this industry for more than 10 years history, United States F-16 and A10 fighter pilot helmet-mounted optical modules are made of them.

Characteristics of the company's products is the lens is thin, small size, large field of view. Below is their latest product OE-32, 720p resolution, 40-degree field of view, transparency is greater than 78%, the thickness of only 1.6mm. In contrast, Google Glass display modules only 640x360 resolution, angle of view only about 15 degrees.

The future of AR glasses: just like regular glasses

Lumus introduced an official eyewear design reference

Though Lumus optical technology, but also very expensive, a pair of eyeglasses for $ 1500, which is why it stays in the commercial field.

But the company has been trying to enter the consumer market, and is in the process of expanding production has now increased from 200-300 per month to 1500 pieces per month, will be expanded in the future to thousands of pieces per month. Expansion of production scale is an important factor in cost reduction.

The company CEO Ben Weinberger on the TC said that this round has three objectives: to increase output expand the scale of research and development, increased commercial development.

Lumus hope into consumer market as early as 2018. Shi Xiaogang said optical modules to do smaller, thinner, smart glasses will be closer to normal glasses. But he thinks there is still too much, by 2018 will not necessarily be able to achieve the same as normal glasses.

Xiaolong Lumus IOU based intelligent technology are doing glasses, but have not decided whether mass production. Shi Xiaogang said because of high costs, and support communication is not very convenient. They expect the country to have an alternative plan.

Home also has similar Lumus products company, consonance LLL Beijing science and technology in April this year, for example, has released a 1.7mm thick optical module, with a field of view angle of 30 degrees, resolution 720P eyes, light transmittance more than 90%, but also suitable myopia lens. However, costs remain relatively high, although lower than Lumus is.

Why domestic capital into the Board?

Grand invest investment in Lumus is not difficult to understand, this VC is not an interview, but with the body of a small series of Lei feng has talked to investors, is very concerned about their AR/VR areas, and always aimed at smaller untapped excellence project. In the field they had voted in VR VR theme park of The Void, UploadVR VR vertical media and Game Studio s ó lfar.

Optical crystal transmission light engine-CVG29F02C, pictures from official website

Crystal-Optech's description of the event is "powerful alliances", it is easy to understand, the company is a leading provider of optical products company. Its products include the optical module for smart glasses.

In the view of Lei feng's network, optical crystal investment Lumus obviously focused on the company's technology, Lumus is wanted by each other to achieve mass production and lower costs, as well as channels for entering the Chinese market. Usually domestic advantage is in manufacturing and marketing. X-DORIA iWatch frame

To larger point of view, these companies are gambling outbreak of the AR market, although AR now fame is overshadowed by VR, but company optimistic about the AR field is still very much. Digi-Captial a forecast shows that by 2018 AR market will increase from 2015 16 times, to $ 3.6 billion.

Light wind Tang Rongxing to summarize the article well enough:

Ali investment Magic Leap, Tencent invested Meta, a Grand cast Lumus, red flag all over the world, AR is the future, the future is in the hands of our soil trenches.

Lei feng's network (search for "Lei feng's network", public interest) Edit Bai Rong contributed to this article.

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Google glass 3

Google Glass 3 can be voice-controlled camera, video calling and to identify directions, as well as surf the Web, text message and e-mail. Google Glass brings the true meaning of first-person camera perspective, can provide more convenient photo modes, better connect people to the Internet, excellent voice recognition systems and sound transmission system, visibility of the navigation system. iWatch Case

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The insurance company while investment drops and Uber want to do

After the Saudi sovereign wealth Fund invested Uber35 billion, though he had access to Apple's $ 1 billion investment, drops to be outdone, announced today that China life strategic investment drops more than 600 million dollars. Ted Baker iPhone 6 Plus Case

It is reported that this investment included $ 300 million in equity investments and long-term bonds valued at 2 billion yuan investment. Outside the capital, drops and China life insurance will also be integrated financial services, market development, Enterprise, business model innovation, build security and diversity of mobile financial ecosystem. In addition, the two sides will focus on in the future "Internet + financial" comprehensive cooperation to explore investment opportunities in mobile travel and related fields inside and outside.

China life insurance is a large State-owned financial enterprise, comprehensive scope of business covers life insurance, property insurance, old-age insurance (annuity), asset management, alternative investment, overseas business, e-commerce and other fields. This investment in the Chinese subsidiary of China life insurance investment holdings led to complete.

At the Re/Code meeting, drops President Liu Qing said, drops of this round of financing more than $ 3.5 billion. In addition to Apple, China life insurance and drops more than a heavyweight shareholder. Statistics show that Alibaba, Ant-gold suit, Tencent, CIC has invested also drops.

The funny thing is that in 2015, Uber drops the biggest competitors have access to China life's investment. Of course, China life invest Uber global, China is not Uber.

In 2015, drops a reason for merge, is a close relationship between investors interested in contributing. According to public information, drops and Uber investments in global shareholders also overlap, startups in general do not want and competitors "shared" investors, due to the need to share strategies and financial data of the company to investors. This time the two companies have received investment from China life, following drops of merge for now belongs to the old wives ' tale, but future cooperation is possible.

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Red Note 3

Red Note 3 this new paragraph, rice stressed that this is their first full metal phone, of course it is also owned by millet's first to provide fingerprint identification phone. Red Note 3 gray, silver and gold three optional, millet official stressed that the use of new technology, so that its metal shell fit right in, and in order to guarantee great texture, designed to use the arc-shaped edge, 120th double blast of sand material.

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Lenovo released the world s first Project Tango AR cell phone

At the beginning of the Tech World Conference, Association and Google the world's first use of cooperation of Project Tango technique AR phone officially released product called Phab2 Pro.

This 6.4-inch Tablet phone has three cameras, including a fish-eye lens and an infrared sensor, which a lot of augmented reality applications, the product will be available in September in the United States, costs $ 499.

By Tango technology, this phone without the aid of external devices can achieve spatial positioning, similar to Microsoft's HoloLens.

It can function a lot, such as drawings, camera phones can make dinosaurs standing in front of you, but the picture can change based on your location, so you can close it around the other side even to watch. Paul Frank iPad Air 2 Case

Lenovo product when there are 25-30 support the Tango app, is expected to reach 100 by the end.

Phab2 Pro main parameters:

6.4-inch, 2560 x 1440 resolution IPS screen; Paul Frank iPad Air 2 Case

652 Gao Tongxiao Dragon SoC;

4GB RAM;

64GB ROM;

Supports up to 128GB the external memory card.

Besides this flagship Tango model, Lenovo also introduced two AR cell phone, are:

Phab2 Plus, MTK 8783 8-core processor, 3GB RAM, 32GB ROM, 1080p resolution screen as well as two 1300 pixels camera, priced at $ 299.

Phab2,MTK 8735 processor 3GB RAM,16GB ROM,720p screens, a 13 million-megapixel rear camera, priced at $ 199.

Both phones also have some light AR applications, but no Tango logo, as shown in the following figure.

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Lenovo K4 Note

Lenovo Group announced the K4 at the CES Conference Note smart phone, the phone will be landed at the end of this month India market. Need to be aware of is that K4 Note smartphones only Amazon India website sales, retail price RS 11999, about $ 180, with a piece of virtual reality glasses, use Lenovo's own virtual reality technology.

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Crazy stacking the A8 or powered by PowerVR GX6650

Over the years, many people think that Apple "not parameter", not the pursuit of the hardware configuration, and Apple has been on a SoC performance breakthroughs. In the recently released iPhone 6/iPhone used on the 6 Plus the new A8 processor, although it continues to be dual-core architecture, but has greatly improved performance than the previous generation, the apples are piled up to the A8 "material"? solar motion light

 

CPU

We know that Apple first introduced the 64-bit architecture on the A7, new processor brings horror of a single core performance, although the frequency is 1.3GHz, but performance is to compare Android phones 2.0GHz processor. The A8, Apple announced a 25% increase in the CPU.

And before the release of the Twitter user @ Swiss remember iPhone 6 "Twitter Conference" has been released on the iPhone 6 configuration information and run shots, iPhone 6 internal code iPhone7,2,CPU frequency 1.38GHz, memory is still 1G.

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Judging from run, iPhone iPhone 5S-6 upgrade is also more in line with Apple's official propaganda, using 32-bit Android Galaxy 4.4.4 system Note 4 still has a lot of advantages. Judging from this score, almost certainly A8 continues to be dual-core architecture, using Cyclone schema version could be improved. Judging from the frequency, iPhone 6 only better than iPhone 5S increased the frequency of 100MHz,8% Ascension brings 25% performance increases, the new framework brings more RF performance.

 

GPU

Apple every generation of GPU for the new SoC will lead to very substantial performance improvements, Apple claims to have GPU performance 50% (generally is a 1 time in the past). Generation of A7 is to go on Imagination PowerVR G6430 graphics performance is the first echelon in the past year.

Noted in Apple's developer documentation, A8 support ASTC technology, this is PowerVR Series6XT feature, but according to enhance performance, Apple is likely to PowerVR GX6650 (of course it is also possible to use high-frequency version of the PowerVR GX6450) into the A8, which is pretty crazy.

GX6650 is the most powerful GPU active Imagination, which belongs to the PowerVR Series6XT series, with a total of 192 core FP32 ALUs (in accordance with domestic manufacturers propaganda, which can be seen as the "192 nuclear" GPU). Such specifications already and now mobile GPU GeForce Tegra K1, 300MHz, Tegra K1 and GX6650 can be 115.2GFLOPS FP32 floating point computing power, quite powerful. Actually we're second in the model number is 6, it means it has 6 USC, in fact, should be viewed as a "six-core", in the same way, A7 G6430 should see results on a quad-core, MT6595 G6200 should be on as a duo.

 

In addition, the PowerVR Series6XT one more core than PowerVR Series6 both FP16 ALU element, a core 2 FP32 ALU,4 in-FP16 ALU

 

PowerVR Series6 is 2 FP32 ALU,2 FP16 ALU

 

After the A8 was determined using the PowerVR Series6XT, controversial is that it uses GX6450 or GX6650.

Although the A8 used advanced process of 20nm, but the core area has reached 89mm^2, while still using the dual-core of the A8 in the area to accommodate the next GX6650 is also possible. Of course, GX6650 is not fuel-efficient lights, Apple may want to consider power consumption problem on the A8 into a high-frequency GX6450. Graphics performance on the A8, we announced on September 19, the real test for everyone.

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Apple TV (third generation)

By opening the home sharing feature, Apple TV can play iTunes on your computer the contents of the repository, and Apple TV with computers connected to the same LAN, and sets the same Apple ID. Family sharing features delivering media content through a router, so when when bulk video playback such as 1080P will need a short buffer can, buffer time depends on the router

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New type electric dehydration has more cell phones than rice works to save the

　　Technology website Techinsider today published an article that, when phone falls into the water, our instinctive reaction is to put it in rice, theory is that rice can absorb the moisture in the phone to "Save" it. But the process will take at least 3 days, and can't guarantee success. From the United States, a company called TekDry has developed a new dewatering technology, as long as the water will be the phone in a special vacuum chamber, it will automatically water inside out, which is very convenient, as long as you pay $ 70.

　　Of course, if your phone is bubble for too long, even if it still will not power on after dehydration, they won't take your money. Rather than buy a new phone, this is definitely worth much more!

　　TekDry the company's electronic machine in 30 minutes to drain all the water in your cell phone, as long as your cell phone in water for no more than 48 hours, they have a success rate of 80% to save it, is still very high! FENDI iPhone 6+

　　Latest iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s plus has recently been confirmed to have certain waterproof function, but someone did an experiment, put a new iPhone at the swimming-pool, and iPhone 6s on the screen into the water a few minutes, quickly hung up. So even if you bought a new iPhone, best be careful. Now of course fell into the water, do not panic, get off DryTek water, may soon be better.

　　DryTek electronic dryer can save not only cell phones, and other electronic devices such as tablet computers, laptop, iPad, digital camera, and so on can be used.

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Pebble Time Android user text chat

　　According to foreign media reports, Pebble Pebble recently Time smart watches and related application systems have been updated, such as whether Android or iOS platform the platform, Pebble Time will have more accurate tracking of health. But aside from that, Android users, Pebble Time also added the ability to send information directly through the watch.

　　Before the update, Android users can only reply by Pebble Time text messages, instead of directly to a contact, if you want to create a text message dialogue can only be sent via mobile phone. After the upgrade, Pebble was released in Time to Send a Text application, Android after entering the application the user can select a contact, and then through the voice dictation to input text, or sent directly to edit message in advance, but regardless of how the user all the way through without phone. It is regrettable that, iOS platform does not currently support this feature.

　　Of course, if you want to use the ability to send text messages directly, and Android users need to Pebble Time applications are upgraded to the latest systems and equipment. Send Text applications, the contacts will be arranged in alphabetical order by default, of course you can also choose to collect contact, fast and easy selection. Flawless cases Flawless cases

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Google Microsoft email account a large number of stolen a full service sales

　　Morning message on May 5 Beijing time, Hold Security Network security company founder and chief information security officer, yalikesi·huoerdeng (Alex Holden), told Reuters, in Russia on the black market, there are millions of stolen e-mail messages and website user name and password are privately traded.

　　Holden said he found 272.3 million stolen accounts is Russia selling on the black market, including Russia's most popular e-mail service Mail.ru account for most users, there is also a small portion of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft e-mail user accounts. Since the United States big banks and retailers in the Internet hacker attacks two years ago since the incident came to light, which is the largest one of the user accounts and passwords stolen.

　　Prior to this, Holden had helped found the world's largest data theft incident which affected Adobe Systems, JP Morgan Chase and the target of tens of millions of users, and subsequently suffered a cyber crimes of harassment. OtterBox N4

　　Hold Security can reveal the latest incidents of data theft, because the company found a young Russia hacker in an online forum boasts a large collection of stolen user credentials and prepared to sale these information. Finally, the hacker posted 1.17 billion record.

　　Holden said after removing duplicate information, he found that the leaked information included nearly 57 million Mail.ru account, compared to Mail.ru said it at the end of last year, the number of monthly active users for 64 million people so far. In addition, the leaked information also includes tens of millions of from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo that three of the world's largest email service provider account, there are hundreds of thousands of from Germany and China, email service provider's account. OtterBox Note 4

　　It is difficult to understand that, who Russia hackers sell a full set of information asking price is only 50 Russia rubles (about US $ 1), Hold Security researchers agreed to support his remarks in hacking Forum and decided to give up this data set, Holden said. He said, Hold Security company policy is to refuse to pay for stolen data.

　　This scale of stolen data can be used to further illegal access to user information, or be used in phishing attacks, causing the financial information on the entire Internet to be stolen or loss of reputation risk exponentially. Hackers know that users are willing to use a common password, rather than change your password frequently and makes it more complicated. Because of this, hackers can steal the password from the account in an attempt to break the other accounts of the same user.

　　A Microsoft spokesman expressed, users online credential theft is an unfortunate fact. The spokesman said: "Microsoft has taken security measures to detect accounts being stolen, and asks the user to provide additional information to verify identity, so as to help it regain sole right to login. "Yahoo and Google have yet to comment.

　　Holden said the stolen account number of Yahoo's e-mail service to 40 million, at 272 million in a separate ID theft accounted for 15% Microsoft services stolen account number was 33 million, accounted for stolen account numbers of 12%;Gmail services for close to 24 million, accounted for 9%.

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