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Companies that are developing Human 2.0 into the Metaverse

Let’s start exploring the tools which we can use to develop Human 2.0 into the Metaverse.

Epic Games

Metahuman Creator

Some screen records of Metahuman App

MetaHuman : Human 2.0 into the Metaverse00:08

MetaHuman : Skin Details00:12

MetaHuman : Actions00:13

Screenshots from Metahuman App

Reallusion

A company that was always building for Human 2.0 into the Metaverse

Here is a sample image of how this design and development Pipeline works.

Reallusion Software set’s pipeline towards Production.

What’s really necessary to bring Human 2.0 into the Metaverse

Soul Machines

A startup that is bringing Digital Humans into life.

Our Verdict about Human 2.0 into the Metaverse

When you’re looking at a photo that just looks a little bit too perfect and pleasant to the eyes, is not always a real-world picture captured by a high configuration camera there’s a chance you are not looking at a photo at all. You could be looking at a hyper-realistic 3D experience on web, let get back to the days where games use to be just a few pixels reused everywhere to form a scene but now things changed drastically and with a light tracing manner. Take any game now it’s so realistic that you play that for 10 min you feel like your Captain price in Call of Duty.

So now let’s get back to our design part as we are daily looking into a 2d based design on the web its looks so boring and simple but what if I say we can bring them alive with just a few z-axis’s sizzling into it. Sounds simple right, then have a look at this. 

By Redis Agency

Now a simple story well explains, isn’t it?

There where the power of 3D comes in to make a simple site into an eye-soothing site. Now let’s take another example, say suppose you are a builder and you want to explain what work you have done. Instead of just writing it down with images attached what you can do is this.

 By Proximity

Now let’s talk a bit about the tech that helps a web developer to build it just like Thanos’s snap.

• WebGL: WebGL is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. WebGL is fully integrated with other web standards, allowing GPU-accelerated usage of physics and image processing and effects as part of the web page canvas

• Three js: Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL. The source code is hosted in a repository on GitHub

These are all bout old tech that HTML, CSS, and Js can do but what about the new tech like React, Angular, etc … a good question!!

For that, we have npm backed up packages like three.js, @react-three/Drei, and @react-three/fiber which provides component base 3D models and a lot more. 

And as a FreeFlow team, Let me share our experience using these packages.

This package is well maintained and easy to use. As a React developer who was not experienced with 3D models, it took only a week or so to understand how this is rendering, and now I am implementing this in our new venture’s site i.e Cre8.

By FreeFlow Tech

Cre8 going to be a platform where its investors and start-ups are going to sync up to bring their ideas to life with sync with FreeFlow. 

Tech used:

• Next Js: Next.js is an open-source development framework built on top of Node.js enabling React-based web applications functionalities such as server-side rendering and generating a static website.
• Three.js: As mentioned above, it works with WebGL to render the canvas.

Okay let me share, our steps to future

With that said let’s talk about a bit more advanced thing in this 3D universe which is the next step towards web experience, which is none other than VR (Virtual Reality), in the current phase of web dev we are lucky enough that we can present our thoughts with 3D Models and environment but there are sites which are working on Virtual Reality for better presentation and user experience.

We FreeFlow Tech are looking forward to presenting you our thoughts with the same reality. 

Cybersecurity issues are becoming a day-to-day struggle for businesses. Cyber Security Investments can bring change and make a difference in the business.

Recent trends, side effects of a global pandemic, and cybersecurity statistics reveal a huge increase in hacked and breached data from sources that are increasingly common in the workplace, like mobile and IoT devices. On top of this, COVID-19 has ramped up remote workforces, making inroads for cyber-attacks.

These recent events and the below cybersecurity statistics and figures considered, here are some industry trends and also predictions to watch for in 2021 and beyond.

• Remote workers will continue to be a target for cybercriminals.
• As a side effect of remote workforces, cloud breaches will increase.
• The cybersecurity skills gap will remain an issue.
• As a result of 5G increasing the bandwidth of connected devices, IoT devices will become more vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

68% of business leaders feel their cybersecurity risks are increasing.

A recent report by the Ponemon Institute indicated that 61% of small and medium-sized businesses in the US faced cyberattacks in the last few years. Even so, many small businesses tend to overlook the cybersecurity aspect of their operations

Now the question is should you worry even if you are not in the US or UK or any other western world where data sovereignty is the highest priority. The answer is absolute YES.

Let me put it like this, do you try to stay healthy by default or worry only when you fall sick. Obviously, all of us love to stay healthy.  Similarly, all organizations should start practicing cybersecurity measures, and NOW is high time before it gets too late.

Below stated are two main reasons why cybersecurity investments are important for your company.

1. Hackers are not going to sit idle with the exponential or rather parabolic growth of technological advancements, the world has become more interconnected than ever before. And do you think it’s only the good side that’s gaining from this? The hackers are getting advanced as well. Since most modern business relies highly on technology there’s a need to incorporate cybersecurity to the corporate DNA.
2. It’s a Strategic Investment

Implementing Cyber Security is a costly affair [unless you Zeron], to say the least as it builds trust and trust is costly. However, it enables your long-term savings as breaches are even costlier. It’s similar to have a Mediclaim card with yearly investments. Let’s see some of the repercussions of a breach to your organization.

• Loss of Business Revenue.
• Disruptions in Operations.
• Intellectual Property Theft.
• Loss in Reputation.
• Legal Suits.

A simple calculation,

Case I

You are investing 500$ per month for 1 year in cybersecurity.
Total Investment – 500 x 12 = 6000 $
[90% assurance that you have got your back covered up]

Case II

You are investing 0$ per month for 1 year in cybersecurity.
Total investment – 0 x 12 = 0$

However, you are unaware that you are data is flowing out of your organization daily with a cumulative value of let’s say 500$ per month.
You in this case are actually making a loss of 6000 $ in revenue + another 60% of it for future business. A total of approx. 10,000$ which increases exponentially with time.
Here Case I is a strategic investment for future business as it builds trust whereas Case II is a loss from all sides.

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Remember When Elon said, “LIDARS ARE A CRUTCH”. Well, that sparked both debate and further research in the field of Computer Vision and led to the birth of a new branch called the Pseudo LiDAR concept.

Before proceeding further, We should first understand the difference between LiDAR and Pseudo LiDAR

LiDAR, or light detection and ranging, is a popular remote sensing method used for measuring the exact distance of an object on the earth’s surface. A LiDAR system measures the time it takes for emitted light to travel to the ground/obstruction and get back. It calculates the traveled distance by measuring that time. Then it converts the traveled distance into elevation. LiDAR system uses its key components to measure these parameters. The key components of a lidar system include a GPS that identifies the X, Y, Z location of the light energy and an Internal Measurement Unit (IMU) that provides the orientation of the plane.

Pseudo LiDAR uses Convolutional Neural Network to convert image-based depth maps to pseudo-LiDAR representation.

One of our Team members at HEVA named Ayushman Kumar, had been researching this field on Pseudo Lidar and converting Depth Maps into point cloud but didn’t find any sample implementation of the procedure or any code. So we worked it out from scratch and thus got what you see below now in the video.

We have a Normal RGB Image from which we did 3D image Reconstruction and Visualization using Intel Open3D and then did Self Supervised Learning.

The Process that we followed to design the Pseudo LiDAR

We found out the Depth Map of the image and created the point cloud using that. Finally, to color the point cloud, we used the intensity of the original RGB image. In simple words convert the whole image into a 3D World image and then treat each pixel from that 3D image as a point cloud data. We generated the heat map based on the blackness and whiteness, which helped in realizing the distances between everything in the image. Then replace each point cloud data back with the pixel and give its color back to it. (P.S. I know this is a lot but hey things like these are never simple).

We trained this model on AWS for about 72 hours. The above video that you see is the models’ performance in a PC running at 12 FPS on NVIDIA GTX 1650.

Application of this technology –
1. Self-driving Cars
2. Drone Technology
3. UAV Technology
4. Space Technology
5. Safety & Security in the real world.
6. Construction
7. Manufacturing
8. Literally any other application that uses LiDAR.

HEVA – HEVA is an idea working towards the future of Autonomous Mobility in every sector, pioneering innovative ways of generating and storing Clean Energy and applying Artificial Intelligence in every industry/business to make it more profitable and help serve their customers even better. We stand for House of Energy, Vehicles, and AI thus called HEVA. Right now the team consists of 6-8 students only.

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Mohamed Fazal MustafaCo-Founder - Collegeshala