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Competition for young developers of AR-applications Epson Moverio BT-300



A few years ago (even at Habré ), we held a contest for Android developers for our Epson Moverio BT-200 Augmented Reality video glasses. According to the results of the competition, the winners were announced, awarded prizes and wrote a post about it. Applications of participants and winners, by the way, still flaunt on our Application Market Moverio Apps Market .


But in March of this year, third-generation augmented reality video glasses — the Epson Moverio BT-300 — went on sale.


In view of the fact that not every second has such glasses, we will tell about them in more detail, and then proceed smoothly to the competition itself, which we hold together with the Kvantorium children's technology parks.


Repetition - the mother of learning


First, we suggest reading the previous post about Epson BT-200 .


In short, we have the following:


Transparent displays are embedded in the glasses, on these displays all the necessary information is displayed, which “superimposes” on the surrounding space, complementing it. Hence the term - “augmented reality”. The home screen looks like the standard screen of any Android device. A variety of sensors help to work with augmented reality: GPS, compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, camera. The Epson BT-300 comes with a touch control panel that connects to the glasses with a wire.




Anticipating questions - why you need a remote on the wire in the wireless age, we recall (since the days of the previous model BT-200): the control panel is also a power supply unit that allows you to work up to 6 hours without recharging. Equipping the power supply with the glasses themselves is impractical: the glasses will become much harder, and having a powerful lithium battery right in front of your temple is not the most reasonable solution.


We’ll finish this brief educational program and return to our points, or rather to the third generation of Moverio points and what has changed in them since the days of Epson BT-200.


The new model has received a number of significant improvements. Moverio BT-300 became the lightest transparent binocular video glasses in the world (only 69 grams) , and most importantly - they got new displays!


Now they have LCD matrices based on Epson Si-OLED technology. I think, with the principle of the work of OLED, you are already familiar with us and guess how great it is for the contrast, because only those fragments of the image that are supplied with voltage and signal are highlighted. Accordingly, the highlighted background, which the 200th model had when displaying a completely black background, simply disappeared.



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For the rest of the characteristics points have also undergone a number of changes:




And now about the competition


Together with the Kvantorium technology parks, Epson announces an all-Russian competition for young developers of augmented reality applications.


What kind of "Kvantorium" such?


Surely, many of you remember footage from films about American schools, where children participate in science fairs and present their ideas and projects. In Russia, a similar format is provided by the Kvantorium children's technology parks. They are equipped with high-tech equipment and act as an additional education of children in the field of engineering sciences. They are preparing, so to speak, personnel reserve for high-tech and high-tech industries of the Russian economy!


But back to the competition. Only paired teams can participate: students of technical universities, as well as all students in the Kvantorium technology parks.


That is, if you are a university student and want to participate - you can write to the address below, colleagues from Kvantorium will acquaint you with young talents, and together with them you can start creating your promising, perhaps even commercially interesting project.


And although there are only three themes for applications, the field for fantasy is quite extensive:



At the end of the competition, winners in each category will receive valuable prizes from Epson: Epson Moverio BT-300 video glasses , Epson projectors and Epson Print Factory series printers .


We will show the best works to enterprises and business representatives. It is possible that some of them will be interested in the commercial implementation of your project.


Dates of the competition:



How to participate


Fill out the participant form.


On the Epson Moverio developer site you will find all the technical information, manuals, you can download the SDK, etc.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/373781/

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