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Unlocking XR’s Potential: How Umajin’s Platform Might Fuel the Rise of “Killer Apps”

Unlocking XR’s Potential: How Umajin’s Platform Might Fuel the Rise of “Killer Apps”

Extended Reality (XR), encompassing Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), holds immense promise to transform how we interact […]

The Resurgence of American Manufacturing: Building a High-Skill, Automated Future

The Resurgence of American Manufacturing: Building a High-Skill, Automated Future

After decades dominated by offshore manufacturing for the US market, a renewed focus on domestic manufacturing has taken hold. Headlines announce major […]

XR’s $250B Future: How to Overcome Scalability Hurdles

XR’s $250B Future: How to Overcome Scalability Hurdles

The extended reality (XR) market, encompassing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), is poised for explosive growth, yet scalability remains a critical bottleneck.

NVIDIA GTC 2025

NVIDIA GTC 2025

It was great to be back in San Jose this year. It’s certainly amazing how GTC has grown since the early shows […]

Mobile World Congress 2025

Mobile World Congress 2025

It was a really busy Mobile World Congress for us in 2025 presenting the Specular Metrology 3D Surface Inspection technology with our […]

Multicore World 2025

Multicore World 2025

Multicore World 2025 This is always an amazing conference and I can highly recommend it to anyone in high performance computing or […]

Xpanse 2024 Cyborgs!

Xpanse 2024 Cyborgs!

Here is a presentation on Human Augmentation I gave at the amazing Xpanse event in Abu Dhabi. See more about Xpanse here; […]

Can Content Launch Spatial Computing into the Mainstream?

Can Content Launch Spatial Computing into the Mainstream?

Meta has spent more than $45 billion on its Metaverse initiatives. Some estimates suggest that Apple has spent nearly half that much […]

BMW Innovation Challenge 24

BMW Innovation Challenge 24

It was great to have Umajin working with NTT and BMW to support students in the 2024 Innovation Challenge at the Innovation […]

Hannover Messe 24

Hannover Messe 24

Here is the latest specular metrology device setup to demonstrate motherboard inspection for higher quality and improved sustainability at the Hannover Messe. […]

NTT Upgrade 2024 – Let’s upgrade reality

NTT Upgrade 2024 – Let’s upgrade reality

NTT Upgrade showcased some impressive new photonics research this year including more forward progress on building optical Coherent Ising machines. Optical computing […]

MWC 2024

MWC 2024

Mobile World Congress 2024 – very exciting to be showcasing multiple EDGE technologies with our partner NTT. The first solution was precision […]

Multicore World 2024

Multicore World 2024

Great speakers again this year, I also brought some of the Umajin AI team along to Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand We […]

CES 2024

CES 2024

The Consumer Electronics Show 2024 It was great to be presenting with PwC and HPE a range of digital twin technologies. While […]

PUZZLEX 2023

PUZZLEX 2023

PUZZLEX 2023 Presentation

MWC Las Vegas 2023 – AI

MWC Las Vegas 2023 – AI

MWC 2023 in Las Vegas was a great chance to work with our partners like NTT to showcase new developments in AI […]

Open Architecture Machine Vision Solutions

Open Architecture Machine Vision Solutions

Early machine vision systems were in use in Japan in the 1960’s. It has since grown into a global market variously estimated […]

Bringing AI into Front Line Applications

Bringing AI into Front Line Applications

AI models are being developed and released at an increasing pace.  These are targeted at a wide range of use cases ranging […]

Mobile World Congress 2023

Mobile World Congress 2023

It was great to see people back in force after the challenges of COVID at the big industry shows like CES and […]

MULTICORE WORLD 2023

MULTICORE WORLD 2023

Nicolás Erdödy as always does an amazing job curating some incredible speakers. I was also luck enough to join the list of […]