Absrtact: The second Samsung developer conference just ended in San Francisco, where the conference focused on the four major aspects of health applications, smart homes, virtual reality and wearable equipment. What new moves do Samsung have? 360-degree panorama 3D virtual reality camera Project B
The second Samsung developer Conference, which just ended in San Francisco, focuses on four major aspects of health applications, smart homes, virtual reality and wearable equipment. What new moves do Samsung have?
360-degree panorama 3D virtual reality camera Project Beyond
According to Recode, Project beyond 16 high-definition cameras installed at the edge of a spherical device, capable of taking panoramic 3D photos and stitching captured images together to provide live live video to Samsung's newest virtual reality glasses Gear VR.
At present, Samsung has not disclosed this Panorama 3D virtual reality camera's specific time to market. The good news, however, is that Samsung's Gear VR has been set for launch in early December.
Sword finger HealthKit, Samsung launches digital Tiyatien SDK
Samsung launched the digital Tiyatien Software Development Kit at the developer conference to monitor and collect human information and use it for health management. Samsung has optimized algorithms, devices and sensors, and has collaborated with Nike, Aetna, Stanford and the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center.
On this year's WWDC, HealthKit, integrated in iOS 8, is a bright spot, with Apple depicting a wonderful future medical scene: There will be thousands of third party health and healthcare software applications and medical devices collecting user health data in the future. Apple, meanwhile, is trying to integrate health data from different sources and present it in a unified format, while helping medical workers use the data to better monitor patients ' conditions and improve the quality of diagnosis and treatment decisions. Now this scene is going to really hit the ground. At present, many applications and hardware devices have been connected to HealthKit. In the coming weeks, Stanford University and Duke University will apply Apple HealthKit to clinical trials, Reuters sources said.
Sword finger HomeKit, samsung SmartThings push home automation platform
The health field is finished, natural to the intelligent hardware of another branch of smart home. This August, Samsung bought SmartThings 200 million dollars. At the conference, Samsung also showcased the SmartThings home automation platform. Users can monitor Samsung's smart home appliances by smartthings apps on their phones. At present, SmartThings has supported more than 1000 devices and has over 8,000 applications on its platform.
SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson A confident description of a Samsung smart home map, "Looking ahead, each Samsung equipment will be connected to the SmartThings platform, Samsung is striding towards the future."
This year's Apple WWDC 2014 conference, Apple released its own smart home platform HomeKit, the family can be lights, locks, cameras, socket switches and other networking equipment control. The combination of the scene pattern and Siri is very interesting, you can say "goodnight" to Siri before going to bed, then wait for the door to lock automatically and the lights will turn off automatically.
Sword refers to watch OS, Samsung push Gear S SDK
In fact, Samsung has previously launched the Gear S smart watch development package, allowing Third-party developers to create Tizen based applications.
At the meeting, Samsung vice President Ram Fish also showed the prototype of the second-generation Simband wearable device. In May this year, the developer, called the module business, Samsung released the health tracking wrist strap equipment Simband. The second generation of Simband devices looks a bit like Samsung's smart watch Gear S, built with embedded sensors, and can now be booked. Recently officially sold Gear S in South Korea on the day, only through the SK EADS and kt Two operators sold a breakthrough 10,000 units.
Sword finger ibeacon, Samsung launches proximity positioning technology
To achieve indoor positioning, we estimated that the first thought is ibeacon. Samsung also unveiled its Samsung proximity system at the just-concluded second Samsung developer Conference. Similar to the ibeacon, Samsung proximity also uses a BLE low-power bluetooth connection to push commodity information to consumers through the base station and to provide indoor positioning functions.
Unlike Apple's ibeacon, the proximity function of the Samsung device is supported at the system level, without the need to download a Third-party app that can receive base station information even if no adapter application is installed.
Samsung has now opened the Proximity Partnership program cooperation Project registration, interested in children's shoes can go to see.
Sword refers to handoff, Samsung launches flow
At the conference, Samsung also launched a flow feature that allows users to access programs and information across different devices, a bit like Apple's handoff feature, which can switch between devices such as the iphone and the ipad. Samsung's flow, as well as the delay option, can help users to debug the device to see the relevant message notification.
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Sword refers to Apple IBM Alliance, Samsung teamed up with SAP
In fact, outside the venue, Samsung also has big moves. Samsung and SAP, the company's software giant, have also announced cooperation, and the two sides will work together to move into mobile business services. The two-point collaboration will focus on several key areas: retail, oil and gas, finance, and healthcare. In the retail sector, SAP's software can be integrated into Samsung's wearable equipment and applications, helping shop assistants manage inventory and payment information. In the oil and gas sector, SAP's software and services will be integrated into the Galaxy Tablet PC. In the financial sector, the two sides will jointly develop mobile banking applications and equipment. In the medical field, the two will collaborate to launch an Android ecosystem that integrates the SAP database system "HANA".
This July, Apple and IBM launched a long-term, in-depth cooperation, the two sides will focus on the enterprise-level mobile market. The first ipad app to work together will be released next month.
Samsung also has a hard fight to compete with Apple. That's no wonder.
Just released in the third quarter earnings, really is worse than bad.
As of September 30, the third quarter results confirmed the pessimistic view: Revenue fell 19.7% Year-on-year, the chain down 9%, pure profit down 49%, the chain down 32.5%. This has been the four consecutive quarter of Samsung's revenue has been the chain decline.