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Speech-To-Text and Expressive Text-To-Speech in Unity

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Digital Twin: why business needs an operations revolution

The traditional toolbox for manufacturing is about empty; there were few items designed for digital disruption and transforming operations. Considering Gartner estimates of 8.4 Billion connected ‘Things’ by 2017, traditional tools and processes won’t withstand (or understand) the volume and velocity of digital data from IoT devices. The time is right for a new set of tools such as Digital Twin.

Digital data challenges business models

Businesses will need to rethink its tools if operations, supply chains, and value propositions are to remain competitive in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The IBM Institute of Business Value report titled, “Thinking out of the toolbox” highlights the realization by executives that digital data holds the promise to eliminate guessing and start understanding operations. Specifically, the reports found that (54%) respondents prioritized digital for, ‘Product quality monitoring and predicting failures’ and (52%) ‘Manufacturing plant optimization.’   One of the tools to improve operations with digital data is the Digital Twin.

“Digital Twin is a virtual/digital representation of a physical entity or system. It involves connected “things” generating real-time data. That data is analyzed in the cloud, and combined with other data related to the thing / context around it. It is then presented to people in a variety of roles, so they can remotely understand its status, its history, its needs, and interact with it to do their jobs.”  —Chris O’Connor, IBM General Manager

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TV Glow Effect in Unreal Engine 4.19

Another great learning module from THINKReality’s multitalented Kris Schultz, aka The Unrealist

For more, subscribe to his YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuryuVpEcWiBoKZHgyoeYbw

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First-ever mini-meet (via Oculus Rooms & three people in oGo and one in a GearVR) of the IBM THINKReality guild, our internal agile network of XR developers, designers, data scientists and immersive innovators....

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A Real Life Haptic Glove (Ready Player One Technology Today) - Smarter Every Day 190

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Through a technology package that combines Microsoft's HoloLens, Esri's GIS, and Meemim's integration, the Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority is pioneering new efficiencies in field work.

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IBM Watson + Unity VR Emotional Avatar

Ryan Anderson’s work to leverage the IBM Watson SDK for Unity to bring cognitive analysis of voice tone. See more:

Watson Tone Analyzer

GitHub Project

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Mixspace Lexicon is a toolkit for advanced speech input in XR. Utilizing IBM Watson, Lexicon allows you to design highly advanced speech interfaces directly in the Unity editor. Speech input is timestamp aligned with other input (e.g. gaze and controller) allowing you to fire off commands in realtime while rapidly changing focus. Lexicon should work on most platforms with an internet connection and microphone access. This release is tested on Oculus Rift, HoloLens, iPhone X, and Pixel 2.

(Lexicon - Unity Asset Store)