Hersheypark Delivers Secure, Guest-friendly Entrance Experience with Evolv Technology’s Touchless Screening System
Using AI software and powerful sensors, Evolv Express™ can screen up to 3,600 people per hour – 10 times faster than legacy approaches such as metal detectors, hand wands and manual inspections. The system enables Hersheypark to facilitate social distancing at its security checkpoints while minimizing person-to-person interaction—requiring no stopping, no emptying of pockets or removing bags. Park guests simply walk through naturally, alleviating potential long lines at their entrances while greatly reducing contact between guests, employees and security staff. By using Evolv Express, organizations have been able to optimize the performance of their security teams while reducing screening expenses by as much as 70%.
With metal detectors, it typically takes the park four to five seconds per person for screening, regularly followed by hand searching of bags or other personal items. With Evolv Express, most guests now stroll through at their normal pace not even realizing the screening process is occurring and then begin their day of fun and relaxation.
Deployed worldwide, Evolv’s touchless security screening systems have been used to screen more than 50 million individuals in an expedient, respectful manner. In addition to Hersheypark, customers include Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, L.L. Bean, Wynn Las Vegas, Georgia Aquarium, Set Jet, Oakland International Airport, two South Carolina school districts, the Biltmore Estate and hundreds of others.
The company’s latest product, coupled with a thermal imaging package, spots concealed weapons and potential virus infection threats using advanced digital sensors and artificial intelligence that is incredibly accurate, discreet and delivers significantly more throughput than older technologies.
Israeli startup’s counter-drone augmented reality system to deploy with US forces
A new joint Israeli and U.S. program aims to develop an augmented reality based control for unmanned systems to engage in small drone-on-drone warfare.
The new pilot program — led by Israel’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development and the U.S. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office — is based around the Israeli company Xtend’s Skylord counter-UAV system.
The program has thus far produced a drone system with an immersive interface that protects troops from various aerial threats, according to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. A user can wear goggles to see through the lens of the drone, and using a hand-held controller, can then fly the drone to observe a threat and use the drone’s hard kill ability to knock down the UAV threat.
Landau noted that as some solutions are vulnerable to electronic warfare technology such as jamming, countering threats with “kinetic solutions” is needed. Xtend’s system enables the user to fly the drone into the incoming threat. This requires detection, either visually by the unit in the field or using guidance from a command-and-control system. The goal is to hand over to the machine as much of the job as possible — including piloting the drone while the human user makes decisions.
See the full story here: https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2020/09/08/israeli-startups-counter-drone-augmented-reality-system-to-deploy-with-us-forces/
How Augmented Reality and 3D Tech Is Changing the Food Game
PhilNote: the Penera campaign paid for itself, but the numbers are still insignificant.
See the full story here: https://arpost.co/2020/09/08/augmented-reality-3d-tech-food/
What the death of coffee shops tells us about Silicon Valley
But Silicon Valley’s coffee shops are more than just caffeine stops — they are venues for programming, pitching, dealmaking and brainstorming. That these conversations could be so easily overheard seemed strange to me when I first moved there, and it can be irritating for residents who don’t work in tech to be constantly surrounded by a nerdy hubbub. For me at least, over the years, it became a useful form of ambient awareness of the industry’s latest obsessions.
Silicon Valley thrust social media and video conferencing on an unsuspecting world and in the past six months we have never been more grateful. Yet the cradle of the internet has always thrived on physical networking. Nowhere has been able to match the Bay Area’s density of talent, capital and ambition. Now, the opportunities for serendipity — so vital for nourishing the community — seem to be diminishing, in no small part due to the rapid shift to remote working that the tech industry has embraced: Facebook, Twitter and others have all said they will allow people to work from anywhere after the pandemic recedes.
If tech staff do become more widely distributed, that would only reflect where most of the industry’s best ideas are coming from these days. Some of the most influential tech companies today are not based in the Valley: TikTok is Chinese, with its US base in Los Angeles. Shopify, the ecommerce platform that inspired several start-up ideas in the latest Y Combinator batch, is in Ottawa, Canada. The most important new internet markets — such as India, Indonesia and Nigeria — are far beyond the horizon of closeted US West Coasters.
See the full story here: https://www.ft.com/content/99d312ba-17f8-49cf-84e0-429d9aadb226
Yale Cabaret, CCAM explore new forms of storytelling
Members of the Yale community gathered on Saturday to discuss emerging technologies that could be applied to theater during a pandemic that limits close-contact performances.
The event, hosted by the Yale Cabaret and the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), featured three speakers who shared their visions for stage-storytelling in a digital age. They discussed proposals ranging from at-home prop design to LED costumes with motion sensors.
Yale School of Art professor Justin Berry explained how creators can use both virtual and augmented reality to create interactive stories.
Toni Dove, a New York-based interactive artist who CCAM director Dana Karwas introduced as “a pioneer,” also spoke at Saturday’s event. Dove’s work centers on “making human-operated machines that tell stories” and engages motion-sensing to create interactive user experiences.
Dove showed the attendees several of her projects, including the “Dress That Eats Souls.” The LED dress, which the New York Times dubbed “a towering robot of sorts,” responds to users’ movements, captures their image and displays it. It also speaks to and instructs the user. Pieces like the dress, she explained, are not only art but historical artifacts.
See the full story here: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/09/07/yale-cabaret-ccam-explore-new-forms-of-storytelling/
‘Memories of a New Future’ opens at YoloArts Barn Gallery
"El Bote 04," Oil on canvas by Mel Smothers. (COURTESY)
In a new exhibition exploring the meaning of art during a pandemic, YoloArts will debut “Memories of a New Future,” a multi-media exhibition featuring the artwork of Yolo County and regional artists, makers, and thinkers.
The Barn Gallery’s exhibition includes sculpture, paintings, drawings, photography, prints, mixed media installations and digital media.
“Memories of a New Future” includes the artwork of these artists:
- Lynn Beldner, Multi-media, installation-based artist
- Steve Briscoe, Sculptor
- Melissa Chandon, UCD Professor of Design, painter
- Chris Daubert, Artist, writer, curator
- Glenda Drew, UCD Professor of Design, filmmaker, media artist
- Jesse Drew, UCD Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, filmmaker, media artist
- Mel Smothers, Contemporary artist
See the full story here: https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2020/09/06/memories-of-a-new-future-opens-at-yoloarts-barn-gallery/
BEN GOERTZEL AI MASTERMIND, FOUNDER SINGULARITYNET – WHAT KIND OF MIND CAN WE ENGINEER?
Listen to the podcast here: https://irishtechnews.ie/ben-goertzel-ai-mastermind-founder-singularitynet/
Ben Goertzel Interview focus questions:
1. An introduction from Ben – background, overview, education…
2. The way you look at AI, AGI, open AI?
3. Career highlights?
4. Your companies and focus
5. What is your main focus as a doer?
6. Can you show an example of of open AI
7. You have a focus on open AI and Artificial General Intelligence? Can you elaborate on this?
8. You are a thinker, philosopher and as we look at evolution how do you see Singularity, special when it comes to the 2 visions of humanity the light side and the dark side?
9. What are Ben’s goals and focus as a thinker and a doer?
10. With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
11. As a science fiction reader, writer and enthusiastic what is your vision of the Future you would like to create?
FELIX & PAUL, ALLIANCE OF GLOBAL TELCOS SIGN DEAL FOR IMMERSIVE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SERIES
Felix & Paul Studios, which specializes in virtual reality (VR) films, has signed a co-financing and distribution deal with an alliance of global telecom companies for the upcoming season of a show that chronicles the lives of astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).
Among the participating telecom companies, which are part of a newly formed group, the Global XR Content Telco Alliance, are LG Uplus, Bell Canada, KDDI, China Telecom, as well as Qualcomm Technologies. The deal with Felix & Paul is the first for the alliance.
In addition to the financing, the amount of which has not been disclosed, several of the telcos have also agreed to distribute the series, called Space Explorers, to their subscribers. Space Explorers is created in an immersive, mobile 360-degree format and follows astronauts as they adapt to life on the ISS.
A.I. and the threat of totalitarianism
Simon McCarthy-Jones, Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology at Trinity College Dublin, reveals why the ‘technological elite’ require ‘checks and balances’ in the use and development of artificial intelligence.
He told Express.co.uk: “AI is the ultimate source of knowledge, making it the ultimate source of power.
“The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, says that whoever leads the world in AI will rule it. He is right.
“The only remаining question is whether, in а decаde’s time, it will be the US, the EU, or Chinа who leаds in this аreа.”
See the full SHORT article here: https://entertainmentoverdose.co.uk/news/ai-expert-system-threat-of-helping-totalitarians-unmatched-power-241154.html