11th September 2018
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…
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YouTube now supports Samsung’s Gear VR and lets you watch videos with strangers YouTube is expanding its virtual reality app to support Samsung’s Gear VR devices. It’s also adding a new feature that lets users watch a virtual reality video together and chat. If you own a Gear VR device, you can now download the…
Read More28th August 2018
After being let down by another design agency, Gooii steps in to help The Golf Connect Unfortunately this situation isn’t uncommon. Promises made by a design company that cannot be delivered when it comes to the technical requirements of a project. Gooii are different because we have both design agency experience but also technical innovation…
Read More21st August 2018
Artificial Intelligence firm Bloomsbury AI acquired by Facebook According to a post from the official Facebook Academics page, the company says Bloomsbury’s “expertise will strengthen Facebook’s efforts in natural language processing research, and help us further understand natural language and its applications.” In other words, as Facebook continues to hand more platform moderation duties over to…
Read More14th August 2018
Women’s Suffrage: history and citizenship resources for schools Gooii Nottingham are delighted to be partnering with the Historical Association to deliver another innovative project. It focuses on the suffragette movement, initially looking at women at the hustings through the 17th and 18th centuries. It continues to include the growth of the suffrage movement during the 19th…
Read More7th August 2018
AR now helps you identify correct part for your DIY project Amazon quietly updated the camera search on its iOS app with a new Part Finder. It lets you search for specific nuts and bolts that you might need more of, but need help identifying it. If Amazon’s Augmented Reality tech can figure out what…
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Gooii, Knowledge Integration & Sketchfab start an amazing project Sketchfab has been gathering momentum with its amazing abilities to display interactive 3D models. Initially frustrated to see so many 3D creators spending hours on making great 3D models but sharing only flat screenshots, Sketchfab was born. Their community quickly grew containing users such as designers,…
Read More24th July 2018
Oculus Go is about to go wireless to improve user experience Despite many efforts, Virtual Reality has never really managed to hit the big leagues. Every year the interest grows and the number of options too. However it needs something to drag it over the line to the everyday mainstream. While it’s arguable that both the…
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Less Bezel Needs Better UI (User Interface) & UX (User eXperience) Manufacturers like Apple and Samsung have been reacting to customer demand to have devices that are more screen, less bezel and slimmer. Consequently, we have some amazing current screen to size ratios, especially with phones. The iPhone X is 82.9% screen and the stunning Vivo Nex…
Read More3rd July 2018
Virtual Reality memory generation Facebook ended its conference recently with an amazing conceptual demonstrating of Virtual Reality and Artifical Intelligence being used to relive our memories. Using computing vision, photogrammetry and machine-learning algorithms. The experimental technique takes your old photographs from the site and converts them from 2D to 3D “spaces”. Facebook’s head of social…
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