Hi everyone!
I'm Travis Roe, the founder of Assistive Reality (
https://aronline.io), a project dedicated to creating AI-focused Augmented and Mixed reality applications. We have a core set of Ethereum capabilities within our product stack. Our company is registered and operates in Australia. At the moment we're conducting an Ethereum ICO and have been doing some media releases and an interview with ICOTalk as well as two more media interviews planned for Sunday, in order to spread the word about our technology before our fundraising kicks off. (Which I should probably point out, the presale for which begins in 8 hours
https://aronline.io/arx-ico-pre-sale-information/, the reason I'm looking around at good quality places to post some information! Pls read the info before making any decisions of course.).
2 first points. One is our list of links, in case you don't have much time to read a post now!. Second is our quick note about ICOs. It's worth reading before about us.
First, indulge me in a quick marketing image:
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https://aronline.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/banner1-1038x638.pnghttps://aronline.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/banner3-1038x683.png1: Links
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Website:
https://aronline.ioWhitepaper:
https://github.com/assistivereality/ico/raw/master/whitepaper/Assistive%20Reality%20aronline.io%20Whitepaper%20and%20ICO%20v1.8.pdfGitHub:
https://github.com/AssistiveReality/ico/Twitter:
https://twitter.com/aronline_ioLinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/assistive-reality-b09448147We have slack (private) and are setting up a Telegram room for Presale and Participation now! (I will update this post in ~8 hours when is about to open with the Telegram address!)
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2: Our Presale & ICO: (and yes, in my opinion, JP and those big banks and corps are reacting and acting out of self-preservation right now, same as some governments even!) I want to get a few quick things out the way first before I talk about the tech, in light of the current 'state' of ICOs:
- We are real people, working on a high technology project, usually until 3-4am most nights. Some of our team until very recently still worked full time for major technology firms; for this and other reasons (market timing) we have not been seeking funding until our company concept received strong commercial validation. We recently signed an agreement with a QLD/AU construction firm to implement AR solutions with regard to building & construction projects, and they are releasing to the media soon (Effcon, part of the Mcfadyen Group). We're also in discussions with two government departments looking at AR for their workforce (one is related to law enforcement!). So things are coming to fruition and betas are due out Feb, and we really badly need to get this project funded appropriately, to create the company. We have looked at VC options but prefer ICO, not for the obvious reason (more control), but instead for the other main reason - community and social engagement. It's hard to replicate the brand and product loyalty owning a part of it all brings!
- We use multi-sig wallets mainly, and have cold-storage on trezors. we aren't insane. of course we use transactional wallets as well but for larger amounts we take it offline.
- All of the presale, ICO contracts are heavily reviewed. I mean that - over 290 runs of an ICO contract we (I) wrote for a recently gambling ICO were conducted for example. We've written two other Pre-sale ICOs with floating pricing, and been able to keep gas low, security very high etc.
- We posted our real information, LinkedIn profiles, social (reddit) accounts, and didn't make dummy-everything to hide behind.
- We're building a company we're genuinely excited about. Who wouldn't be - full time AR world-wide, and commercial/professional AR in many more workplaces than just industrial!
- The bottom line is that sometimes in ICOs there are genuine funding needs, from genuine companies, we're one of those. I hope that helps your decision to support our fundraising or not.
- finally, buy our apps, if you agree with our decisions above
its the only way to support companies doing the right thing, or trying to!
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ONTO the technology.
The fun part!!
We're writing code for multiple hardware devices at once. It forms the base platform we call
Spectrum. Spectrum's capabilities are beyond the standard encoded by the device in some cases (we oversample and then use transforms on the result and can pull off some neat things like this!). We aim to run our applications natively on Hololens (v2,v3,pro..), the lower cost MS SDK-licensed devices (there are already many in education), and of course, ARKit, ARCore and all the collection of smartphones in the world that that encompasses. There are opportunities for our applications, experiences and licensing in the hands of almost everyone in the modern developed world!
We are focused on two core apps at the moment:
1.
World 12.
Profession----
World 1 is a consumer-focused always-on AR inteface designed for you to wear at home, in public, or when performing a sporting activity such as cycling or jogging. It will use real-time 3D object recognition to passively identify objects within your world view. If you turn toward after it enters your FOV, or if your focus rests on it sufficiently, World 1 will begin to interact with you. It features an AI assistant that you can personalise upon running the application that will interact with you in a human, natural-language way. The aim is to ensure the AI is psychologically acceptable to you as a human, as a friend or colleague, and will feed you information and assistance in a variety of way, visually and audibly. The AI (which we nickname Arai interally for obv reasons) will even allow you to ask questions and will endeavour to search the internet and provide you with a quick result. It's trained to only retrieve structured data it can understand properly to relay to you. For example you can verbally ask Arai to overlay a sporting match result in a transparent hover while you are working at your desk, and it will comply.
World 1 is working best at the moment on Hololens. We've put a fair bit of our early development spend into Hololens however we are months into our ARCore engine build and the ARKit build will be notably easier after this is complete.
Oh and did I mention? It's multi-user networked.
Across platforms.Expect Beta to native app stores in Q2 2018. It will be a revolution. We're publishing standards for the AR Zones and World zones (which of course include paid & sponsored content, paid for by ARX or ETH in your local wallet).
Your biometric IDs are strong-cryptographically hashed onto the public chain with actual data stored on our private Eth blockchain hosted out of Azure. It works really really well, giving low cost, high replication. The aim here is to give you the user experience of signing into your AR headset/augmentation device at home, and equally being able to sign in at a friends place, on their headset. The app and license are not bound to a device and your biometrics are both highly secured and replicated cheaply.
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Profession,Profession is similar to a multi-tool for your professional life. Whether you're an IT expert who wants multiple floating screens with transparency adjust, and wall-projections, surface web-browsing, and to do memo functions, or a carpenter who needs immediate accurate point to point measurements, or even an electronics tech who needs to be able to overlay circuit diagrams onto a board while working, Profession will give you what you want.
Profession was written under the concept that while AR glasses met with significant social pressure when introduced, that pressure is significantly removed in a workplace setting especially in some areas like Hospitals/healthcare, dentistry, electronics technician, IT workers, construction and building projects. The employer's policy can also dictate adoption due to the huge increases in productivity that become possible. The future really is here right now with workplace AR, and once you've experienced it you just can't go back.
Profession features a similar underlying architecture to World 1, since they both use our Spectrum AR engine. This is how they can both run on multiple platforms with minimal code changes - we are in fact abstracting the hardware slightly by using the common engine's provided APIs. being able to produce an application that can be retained through a hardware replacement and upgrade is a
critical point for enterprises and something that is currently not possible. We have strong support from our contacts within Microsoft and Google on this point. Apple are also being open to work with so I see absolutely no issues with this and nothing but huge benefits for corporate users.
The process is this: Open the app store. Install Profession, and select any 2 from the available 500+ job roles database. Once you have loaded the job role, the user interface in the field of view will be adjusted to be more appropriate to your selected profession. With your focused AI elements, you can interact with the real world in a way you've only ever seen in Scifi. This allows us to make a very specific plug in for 'Plumbing engineer' that has focused controls that give visual and audible guidance when performing tasks.
How do we process all this on the glasses and wearable units? Cloud CPU.
Or, more specifically, Microsoft's Azure and with access to a lot of compute. The actual link transfer usage (for network bandwidth) is not high, it is not communicating bus commands.
The glass device only sends a brief 3D positional and movement profile to our aronline.io service which then identifies the most probably situation and suggests a response the UI could follow including a probability of accuracy assessment. Some interfaces will not change if the probability is not high enough, i.e. some jobs require very high accuracy for certain functions; but not most.
There's more. But you're only human. I could go on for hours. For hours and hours. So instead of that i've done some focused Youtube interviews and produced the whitepaper with my technical design colleagues. But perhaps if you had AR glasses and one of our apps you could read faster, in a more focused way...it's the study of one of our researcher's topics...we have on-staff Phd-qualified human biology experts that will be working full-time on our product set. Fatigue management and assessment, efficiency improvement, distraction science (that's right, distraction is a science!).
Sizing We're four people right now. We've got our photos and linkedin profiles in the whitepaper and we are contactable through other media. That isn't an invitation (haha) but please feel entirely free to reach out. We aim to expand our company to 8 people within 6 months of completing the ICO, and 14 people within 18 months. That is aggressive but we want to free the core technology team to work even more on the tech (no distractions..) and to put in place a media and admin team to support our sales/marketing strategy while it is executed. We are aiming high...as high as possible.
What do I get?? As an ARX Presale or ICO token holderFirstly, there is only one ARX token and will only ever be one ARX token, and its address is: 0x4Ee1d7720a04072142B2efC9d2C7d5d77Ad63939
There is only 318M in supply and there will never be any more created.
https://etherscan.io/address/0xb0d926c1bc3d78064f3e1075d5bd9a24f35ae6c5#readContractThe ARX token pricing in the presale, is as follows:
each 'day' starts at around 8PM GMT e.g. first is 29Sep 8PM GMT -> 30Sep 8PM GMT
29-30 Sep - 8000 ARX = 1 ETH
30-02 Oct - 7250 ARX = 1 ETH
02-04 Oct - 6750 ARX = 1 ETH
04-06 Oct - 6250 ARX = 1 ETH
Secondly, what you get is this:1. You can use them to purchase in-app items, instead of reaching for that credit card...
2. You can use them to purchase the software itself!
3. You can use our redemption smart contract to obtain Early Access to the software, without even losing your tokens (the contract just verifies you own some)
4. You can offer your personal ARX tokens as part of the 'corporate pool', which is where ARX tokens required for corporate licenses are applied-from. giving you a unique way to liquidate tokens without an exchange, all via smart contract!
5. You can use the ARX tokens to create AR zones inside World 1; for multi-user interaction, allowing paid content to be shared by others, using your ARX tokens!
6. We will think of more, I'm sure. You could of course sell them, but that'd be a waste...
Dates/times Check here also
https://aronline.io/arx-ico-pre-sale-information/Please note! these times are estimates but should be close. Eth block times varied a bit lately.
Starts on Block:
4323376Ends on Block:
4349776Start: 29 Sep ~8PM - End: 06 Oct ~8PM GMT
29 Sep 8PM GMT: 1 ETH = 8,000
ARX30 Sep 8PM GMT: 1 ETH = 7,250
ARX02 Sep 8PM GMT: 1 ETH = 6,750
ARX04 Sep 8PM GMT: 1 ETH = 6,250
ARXthe ICO itself will begin at the same time on 10 October but I'll put a separate post up showing the presale results!
In sum, I wanted to get the word out about the company, the presale/ICO, and ultimately try to help the great staff and products we've put together to become very successful. The experience of using AR in your every day life, seeing the AI bot notice you return to the fridge at the same time each day, and gently prompting you as that time approaches next time ("Need a drink?"), is stunning. The way you can wire the events from the API to external sources opens up truly amazing possibilities. When you use this tech in a professional setting, it is a massive game changer both for the wearer and the corporation. This really makes it feel like the future is here now.
We don't have the marketing budget or spend of (some quite questionable!) other ICOs but we integrate tightly with Ethereum as default currency, as storage, as a crypto for our bioprints, and as a matchmaker for online social modes. We strongly support the crypto community and have used coders on ETH development forums for Eth integration pieces.
I hope the technology and our founding team as well as our down to earth non-spin approach get through to some truly visionary people out there, and we can get together in this way to do something truly amazing.
People are worried about AI taking over jobs and rendering humans obsolete. It's not so - and doesn't have to be. Augmenting the human condition with technology - such as is the case with AI-assisted Augmented Reality experiences - is a highly effective way to keep humans competitive in situations where AI might otherwise have a natural inherent advantage; and yet still allow the (possibly quantum) functioning of the human brain to operate the process and provide decision-making where relevant.
Join us in helping to create the future, with this amazing community of crypto supporters and enthusiasts, and the creativity coming in from the AR/MR 3D design world... lets can make this company part of a huge future.
Thanks for reading!
Sounds pretty exciting! I reckon inserting some images for illustration would help people understand it better
