Archive : 28 November 2015 год

Volvo and Microsoft have revealed how Microsoft HoloLens, the world’s first fully untethered holographic computer, might be used in future to redefine how customers first encounter and explore a car, as well as how cars might be bought and sold in future.

Björn Annwall, Volvos’ senior vice president of marketing, sales and service, said: “HoloLens offers the freedom to create a bespoke experience which customers can steer themselves. Imagine using mixed reality to choose the type of car you want – to explore the colours, rims, or get a better understanding of the features, services and options available,”

Scott Erickson, senior director, Microsoft HoloLens at Microsoft, added: “We are thrilled to be working with Volvo to reimagine what is possible in car design, discovery and purchasing.”

Areas of future collaboration between the two companies could include autonomous driving technologies. Volvo has announced a programme called Drive-Me in which 100 self-driving and connected cars will be given to real customers on the roads around Gothenburg by 2017, claimed to be the world’s largest autonomous driving experiment.

Other areas of cooperation are expected to include how information gathered by cars and their drivers can be used to enhance the driving experience and the possibility of using predictive analytics to improve safety.

“We are extremely happy to innovate with Microsoft in the field of future mobility,” said Klas Bendrik, senior vice president and chief information officer at Volvo. “Today’s technology will allow us to achieve not only a more sustainable and crash-free future but also new benefits for our customers and society.”

Author
Tom Austin-Morgan

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk

The Raspberry Pi Organisation has announced the availability of Raspberry Pi Zero, which will cost just $5. The device is also the smallest to be released, measuring 65 x 30 x 5mm.

The device, described as a fully fledged member of the Raspberry Pi family, features a Broadcom BCM2835 application processor, whose 1GHz ARM11 core is 40% faster than that of the original Raspberry Pi. It also has 512Mbyte of LPDDR2 SDRAM, a micro-SD card slot, a mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output and Micro-USB sockets for data and power. Other features include an unpopulated 40pin GPIO header with an identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B and an unpopulated composite video header.

According to Raspberry PI, while several tens of thousands of units have been produced and more are on the way, it expects demand to outstrip supply in the short term.

Author
Graham Pitcher

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk