The Development Team of Arcona has already completed the prototyping phase and are a couple of steps away from releasing a stable version.

At this juncture, we have already got a detailed layout of the application and have a good understanding how the Viewer will function in real time, so that, we are getting ready for the official launch of the Arcona proprietary viewer.

✅ We have got the whole thing worked out – user experience, assembling of separate parts, relevance, and appropriateness of functionality and the set of features - before proceeding.

We have been working hard on the user interface prototyping enable a customer to perform early tests of intermediate version of the software in the real environment.

🗯 “We are focusing on the creation of a simple, convenient and intuitive interface for our user comfort”, says the project manager Anton Chernousov. “We strive for all the features of the application to function correctly together, while the architecture and UX meet the user expectations. Also, we aim at foreseeing the room for improvement with a minimum of effort”, he adds.

In the near term, we will come back to you with the first examples of the design part so you could shape the entire vision of the Viewer and the opportunities it will provide. Stay tuned!

It's great that the concept and GUI are designed and ready to be implemented. I'm still worried about the system requirements. And also, for example, what size of the phone display is necessary for comfortable work. will there be open/closed beta testing?

The Arcona developers team keeps on working on the proprietary AR Viewer’s advancement. In order to improve the usability of the application, our team is constantly testing and implementing new algorithms of 3D objects positioning on the screens of mobile devices.

“Tracking the movement patterns of the user device is very important for precise and stable positioning”, says Alexander Emelyanov, Ph.D., R&D Team lead of Arcona. “This tracking is based on analysis of numerous images from a built-in photo-video camera. In robotics, matching of several dots with highly contrasting characteristics is sufficient for that, but when it comes to the AR systems it’s much more complicated to determine the trajectories. In the hands of the user, the motions of the device are not that smooth and can hardly be compared to those of cameras the robots are equipped with. We strive to match the images very different from each other, this process requires to be based on more than some separate dots”.

The Arcona engineers have developed an alternative algorithm of matching the images based on the analysis of the relative position of the straight lines. Unlike dots lines have a broader set of features, enhancing the accuracy and effectiveness of camera trajectories determination.

Besides that, our algorithm ‘looks’ not only at the image brightness close to the line but also at its color. This increases the reliability of the images matching.

The new algorithm has successfully passed testing, we’ve had really good results. The stability and accuracy of tracking the trajectory of the user camera are much higher than similar indicators of standard algorithms. In addition, we were able to obtain more reliable matches from fewer matched lines. This saves system resources and increases performance, which means that the application will be able to work well on less powerful mobile devices.

Yupiii - looks so nice))  You know, in many online stores and applications/games, in the moment of any special events, for example, New Year, Halloween and so on. Changing the design of the site, it was cool to adopt for Arcona)

if this continues, I'm sure the price is now rising at 0.00045 eth is still weak,
it could return to ICO prices in the coming months

Of course, even taking into account the fact that now a very powerful drawdown, I am confident in the growth of the ARCONA token, the main thing is that the use of the token is correctly integrated into the AR viewer.

Well, Yes, initially there was a conversation that we can monetize business in augmented reality, and if, for example , I create content, I want to get a reward... This is logical)

missed this promo, i hope you guys have something for xmas as well. i would keep an eye on this thread for next promotion.

At the beginning of this autumn, the GIS-developers of Arcona started working on the proprietary sophisticated algorithm, allowing to create in a much faster way (than before) a continuous coverage made up of hexagonal equal parts all over the entire land mass. This special phase of GIS development was named the Acceleration of the hexagons generator.

It should be reminded that Arcona creates a specific augmented reality layer outlining the surface of the planet. It solves the issue of universal positioning of interactive objects at designated coordinates from anywhere in the world.

The GIS specialists of the Arcona team are in charge of the correct division of this digitized territory into equal plots that should constitute the ready-to-use digital assets. Therefore, there is a need to carefully analyze incredibly huge volume of data about the lands and assess their potential value for the business. This means, one of the goals of our developers was to bring the production and selection of hexagons to the industrial level, and they have already achieved that!

“First we planned to create the algorithm for automated land digitization and its further division into equal parts based on Python and then translate it into a faster programming language C++. It turned out that for now, this Python-based version of the code works just fine as is”, tells Svetlana Lomp, the GIS developer of Arcona. “Well, of course not from the very first iteration. We had to tackle some challenges like code redundancy and overall performance as we had realized we could achieve what we wanted faster. So, we taught the system not to just look for existing matches but create a connected network in such a way that we could quickly find the neighboring area if needed. It was an interesting solution that we came across while working, and as developers and investigators, we love to find such surprising solutions, beautiful in its comparable simplicity. Maybe later for further extension of the capacities of the algorithm, we will need to implement a C++ version, but for now, it is fully able to deal with the tasks before it. We have also improved the system of cutting inappropriate parcels of the land. We’ve bet on multiprocessing in order to make our machines work faster and more efficiently. Implementation of all these solutions was a fascinating experience, but there are even more exciting challenges ahead!”

Stay tuned for more upcoming technical news!