Tech Hour

In 2021 Jared was working as Sr. Technology Advisor to the global HoloLens sales org. Several people in that org indicated that they would like to more deeply understand the technology they were selling and how it improved industries. So, Jared hosted weekly “Tech Hour” meetings for over a year, teaching Mixed Reality and related technologies.

Several of the topics were internal-only and are not represented below. Though the recordings listed can’t be posted online, copies can be furnished upon request.

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	Spatial Tracking and Mapping (48:59) Introduction to 3DoF and 6DoF tracking. We start with Accelerometers and work our way into SLAM.
	Large Scale Mapping (56:04) A continuation of the last talk, this one focuses on the challenges of large-scale tracking and as why it’s difficult to align BIM models to actual buildings.
	MR Services and IoT (57:01) A dive into IoT Hub, Azure Digital Twins and the Unity reference sample which became the MS Learn module.
	Neural Networks and Hand Tracking (56:48) How Neural Networks actually work, and how HoloLens uses them to do hand tracking.
	Colocation  (53:34) How Colocation allows users to share the same physical space in Mesh App for HoloLens and other applications.
	Scene Understanding and Object Anchors (50:34) How Scene Understanding helps us create applications that can reason about the shape and composition of the environment.
	How Tesla Perceives our World (50:09) The amazing work Tesla is doing in AI and computer vision and how it might change the way we write code.