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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) holds immense promise to transform how we interact with the digital world, yet widespread daily adoption remains a significant […]

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 […]