Magic Leap Augmented Reality Headset Project

We’re currently working on a project using the amazing Magic Leap Augmented Reality headset. Whilst this may look like a Virtual Reality headset it’s very different indeed. With VR you’re in the environment created by the developers but with an AR headset you can see the world around you but interact with our virtual 3D creations.

The headset maps your room like The Matrix, so it can learn and interact with your environment. From here we can bring to life anything that we can dream of. Whether it be robots climbing out of portal and into your room; We can give you a lightsabre to fight the evil empire; bring Robin Hood and his Merry Men to life; we can make it rain in your living room; Or put a dinosaur in your office. The possibilities are endless.

Here at Gooii we believe that Mixed Reality headsets have the potential to revolutionise Augmented and Virtual Reality, by truly combining the two concepts and technologies. The skills and software we’re using to develop Magic Leap apps are also totally transferable. Therefore, we can easily adapt our creations to Microsoft Hololens, Nreal or the rumoured upcoming Apple AR Glasses and Google Glass AR.

A Universe of Possibilities 

The technology is also perfect for film and TV promotion or education. Museum installations can be brought to life. The XR hardware is also perfect for training, engineering and medical purposes. Bring a movie to life, learn how to repair a space station, or conduct open heart surgery. Communication is also another untapped area, we can bring someone from the other side of the world into the room with you.

Headsets such as the Magic Leap or Hololens need to be seen to be believed. So, if you’d like a demo please contact us and we’ll be happy to show you our impressive new tech.

Gooii Ltd. 5G Connected Forest AR and VR Apps Partner

Nottinghamshire County Council leads a major consortium, which includes testing new AR and VR apps developed by Gooii Ltd. at the home of Robin Hood.

Gooii will be developing a range of Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality apps, where we will bring Robin Hood to life via incredible interactive apps using the power of 5G.

Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport said:

“Connecting the ancient Sherwood Forest with next-generation 5G technology will help bring its story & legendary characters to life through virtual reality, with huge knock-on benefits for Nottinghamshire’s visit economy.”

Welcoming the Government funding, Nottinghamshire County Council leader, Councillor Kay Cutts MBE said:

“Nottinghamshire is once again at the forefront of latest technology, bringing together some of the best academic minds,  3D creators & experts in 5G. This will be the world’s first testing, of 5G, in a forest. It will bring the stories associated with Robin Hood & our ancient woodland to life in a new way.”

The consortium is led by Nottinghamshire County Council & includes Gooii Ltd, Nottingham Trent University, Birmingham City University, Netmore IOT Solutions, ISPB, Harworth Group, Centre Parcs UK, Stagecoach East Midlands & Parkwood Outdoors.

Working with our amazing consortium partners, Nottinghamshire is once again at the forefront of the latest technology, bringing together some of the best academic minds, VR/AR creators & experts in 5G.

NETGO! Nottingham Tram Mobile Ticket App

Buy tram tickets in Nottingham cheaper, quicker & easier with the free NETGO! Mobile Ticket App.

Developed for Tramlink Nottingham, NETGO! is the free mobile ticketing app. The app, for Nottingham’s tram network, provides an easy way to purchase tickets. Additionally, the app keeps users informed with service updates. Usability and speed are also at the heart of NETGO. From download to purchase, tickets can be bought for multiple passengers in a matter of seconds.

Core app features include:

1. Buy Tickets: Purchase a range of tickets including single, day, week and group
2. Fast ticket payment via card, Apple Pay and Google Pay
3. Secure tickets locked to a device to prevent sharing
4. Purchase multiple tickets in one single transaction
5. Tickets activate on purchase
6. Update tickets prices remotely, which are reflected immediately in the app
7. In-built ticket security features to aid revenue protection
8. Anonymous and registered user purchase options
9. My Tickets wallet, enabling users to see all active tickets in one convenient place
10. Service Status updates, both in app and via push notifications.

Our ticket app solution also includes Payment Service Provider integration, detailed analytics, off-peak and holiday ticket rules and admin tools to aid customer service requests.

If you would like to talk to Gooii about a mobile ticket app for your business, be it for transport, events, theatre or cinema then please get in touch.

Available now for iOS and Android, download the NETGO! mobile ticket app.

My Learn to Swim – Swim England Augmented Reality App

Celebrate learning to swim with the ‘My Learn to Swim’ AR app. Swim England are England’s national governing body for swimming, helping people learn to swim and compete in swimming, synchro, water polo and diving. The free Swim England Augmented Reality app allows children and parents to get more out of children learning to swim. Children gain extra rewards and unlock new features as they develop their swimming skills and water confidence.

They can then take photos with Harry the hermit crab and play with Sophia the seahorse in the ‘Photo booth’ having unlocked these characters.

Bring the fun of swimming lessons home and celebrate children collecting more Swim England Learn to Swim Awards by unlocking more characters and stickers as they progress through the Swim England Learn to Swim Programme.

The Swim England ‘My Learn to Swim’ AR app key features include:

• Unlock over 60 rewards, as children collect more Swim England Awards and certificates
• Take photos and videos in AR, with unlocked characters and accessories to share with friends and family
• Understand what children learn during their swimming lessons as they progress through the Swim England’s Learn to Swim Programme
• Collect and store your child’s swimming achievements in the My Awards section
• Discover more about the Swim England Learn to Swim Programme, provided by the recognised National Governing Body
• Create multiple child accounts for your parent profile.

All app design, coding and 3D modelling were completed entirely in-house at Gooii, based on Swim England’s characters and branding.

The app is available for both phone and tablet devices on both iOS (iPhone and iPad) and on Android. Start celebrating your child learning to swim with Swim England’s My Learn to Swim app.

Download the ‘My Learn to Swim’ app now.

Freeths – Right to Work App

inCheck was developed for international law firm Freeths. As part of their recruitment process, the ‘inCheck’ Right to Work app enables companies to perform a Right to Work check on prospective employees. Developed by Lawyers and following Home Office guidelines, employers can use a mobile device to ensure they’re compliant in their Right to Work checks.

Connecting to a 3rd party API developed by Freeths, the inCheck app boasts a simple step-by-step process to ensure employers are compliant. Key features include:

1. A simple visual interface, enabling fast completion of Right to Work checks
2. Smart Checks: That adapt and change questions based on the employee’s answers
3. Customisable to your client’s branding
4. Auto-update of content to remain compliant with changes in the law
5. Offline mode and background saving of in-progress checks
6. Background submission of completed checks
7. Connection to a 3rd party API developed by Freeths
8. Touch ID/Fingerprint and Face ID/Facial Recognition login.

If you would like to talk to Gooii about an app for your business please get in touch.

inCheck is available on iOS and Android to Freeths’ clients.

Fake or Fortune features JISC archive solution

Amazing to see JISC Archives Hub featured in a recent episode of Fake or Fortune. The Archives Hub provides descriptions of thousands of the UK’s archive collections. Representing over 300 institutions across the country, is an effective way to discover unique primary sources.

It includes sophisticated searching and filtering options, images and links to digital content. Collections are themed and a map show locations too. Furthermore it covers a whole range of repositories. From small specialist archives and museum archives. From university to national archives records. You can discover materials relating to a broad range of subjects. From science and medicine through to literature and the arts and there are daily updates to content.

Fiona Bruce explains how the archive has delivered invaluable information to establish the authenticity of a painting. If you wish to see how the Archive is being used you can see this segment from 25 minutes in. We would advise watching the entire show as it is a superb piece if investigative work.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bg6f43/fake-or-fortune-series-7-1-nicholson

If you also wish to work with our talented user interface designers, web & app coders, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual/Augmented reality teams then please get in touch here.

Microsoft join Gooii working with the NHS and AI

Microsoft and Gooii Nottingham have been working on health and education initiatives for years. The company is now bringing its efforts together into forming a new Microsoft Healthcare team. They are creating cloud-based patient profiles, pushing doctors to the cloud and eventually AI (Artificial Intelligence) for analysing data.

The software maker has hired two industry veterans to help out: Jim Weinstein and Joshua Mandel. Weinstein is the former CEO of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health system and joins Microsoft as the VP of Microsoft Healthcare. His primary role is to work with healthcare organisations to move systems to the cloud. Mandel joins as Microsoft Healthcare chief architect  after 2 years at Google Life Sciences. Mandel will be working closely with the open standards community to create an open cloud architecture for all healthcare providers.

Microsoft’s new Healthcare team appears to be a more formalised approach to the company’s Healthcare NExT (New Experiences and Technologies). NExT fostered health industry partnerships and brought together Microsoft’s research, AI, and cloud teams to focus on healthcare.

Microsoft joining Gooii with AI Research

Microsoft is trying to find ways to move healthcare data to the cloud securely. The challenge is that doesn’t break strict compliance requirements for confidentiality. The new Microsoft Healthcare team will be part of Microsoft’s broader AI and Research division. “At Microsoft, we’re confident that many aspects of the IT foundations for healthcare will move from on-premise doctors’ offices and clinics to live in the cloud,” explains Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Healthcare. “We are taking concrete steps with an initial ‘blueprint’ intended to standardize the process for the compliant, privacy-preserving movement of a patient’s personal health information to the cloud and the automated tracking of its exposure to machine learning and data science.”

Lee admits the company has its “work cut out”. Gooii can confirm this his certainly won’t be an easy task for Microsoft. There’s an ongoing race to bring more technology to healthcare and, in particular, artificial intelligence. IBM, Baidu Google, and Alibaba are all working on similar healthcare initiatives. Some analysts predict that AI use in healthcare will grow over the next decade. Potentially this could generate huge savings for the any healthcare economy. Microsoft is clearly part of the broader race to introduce cloud technology, IoT devices, and AI into healthcare. Microsoft now plans to share more about Microsoft Healthcare later this year.

If you also wish to work with our talented web, app, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual/Augmented reality teams then please get in touch here.

With 3.5m iWatch shipped in the last quarter alone, now is the best time to discuss your project with Gooii.

This increase continues the trend of 30 percent year on year, according to a Canalys report. Last year the second quarter was Apple’s worst of the year. Therefore the numbers this year suggest the Apple Watch Series 3 is considerably more popular than its predecessor. With features such as not having to be paired with your phone, its not surprising its popularity is increasing.

Still, rivals like Fitbit and Garmin also made a strong showing in Q2 and widened their market share. Features like advanced heart rate metrics and smart coaching helped those rivals set their devices apart from the Apple Watch. So although Apple shipped out more watches, its overall market share dipped to 34 percent compared to 43 in Q1.

In Asia, the Apple Watch Series 3 was the most popular model, accounting for 60 percent of 250,000 units sold. Canalys senior analyst Jason Low said that Apple’s progress mainly came from its decision to partner with network operators in Asia and Australia. “Operators in these markets are willing to resell connected devices other than smartphones that can help them generate extra revenue from data services,” he explained.

Gooii are award-winning app, website, virtual reality andUI/UX designers. We ensure that your project is delivered to a high quality and engages and inspires users. If you wish to work with our talented teams like clients such as the BBC and NHS, please get in touch here.

Google is officially adding the Chrome browser to its Daydream VR virtual reality platform.

People using the phone-based Daydream VR View headset or the standalone Lenovo Mirage Solo can now access Chrome from their home screens. The VR version of Chrome mostly has the same feature set as its desktop counterpart. However, there’s an added “cinema mode” that optimises web video for VR viewing. Just as importantly Chrome supports the WebVR standard. Now users can access web-based VR experiences on their Daydream headsets.

Daydream users have had access to VR Chrome for a while through test versions of the browser and app. But this announcement positions this version of Chrome as a stable, full-fledged browsing app, not an experiment or a conduit for WebVR.

Daydream’s integration with existing Google products has been a selling point for the company, although Google VR apps have spread to lots of headsets; it released a YouTube app for the Samsung Gear VR just last week. There aren’t necessarily people clamouring to shift all their web browsing to virtual reality. But a full-featured web browser is useful for doing things like looking up tutorials for a VR app — especially in a self-contained headset like the Mirage Solo where you can’t just switch back to normal mobile browsing.

If you wish to work with the talented Virtual & Augmented Reality, web or app team at Gooii Nottingham then please get in touch here.

Jisc Archives Hub UI (User Interface) Enhancements

Jisc deliver UK universities and colleges with shared digital infrastructure and services. Gooii have worked in partnership with Jisc in the educational sector for many years. Our working relationship has been predominately User Interface design for two of their services, Historical Texts and Archives Hub.

A number of UI enhancements for Historical Texts have been delivered recently including a new public/private access. Previously the entire site had been openly accessible but these restrictions now needed adding. Now certain types of content have been marked as only accessible by those users who have logged in securely. Further enhancements have also been added to the user interface to make these and other options easier to filter. The challenge is not to make the interface cluttered, busy or confusing. Considering the amount of legacy data that needs flagging as public/private this has been a gigantic effort by all involved. Scripted logic can help assign categories to data with vast volumes of technical data, sometimes human intervention is needed.

If you also wish to work with our talented user interface designers, web & app coders, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual/Augmented reality teams then please get in touch here.