Since back in 2014 when we got the Not-For-Sale developer model of Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition which only works with Samsung Note 4, we started to set our eyes on the development of immersive digital media experience of virtual reality. Along the way, we have researched on enterprise VR use cases, device platform, and… Read More
Author: Raymond Xie
IoT Workshop and Robots
AppsLab has been offering the IoT Workshop since Oracle OpenWorld 2016. And over past one year we have hosted the workshop in 20 cities around world as part of Oracle Code events, plus at Kscope 2017 conference. And if you still managed to miss all the events, Oracle OpenWorld 2017 might be your last chance… Read More
March 1, San Francisco, USA – August 30, Seoul, South Korea 183 days (exactly 6 months), 20 cities around the world thousands of speakers, OTN staff and local consultants hundreds of thousands of participants and coders That’s the Oracle Code 2017 tour, presenting current and upcoming technologies in packed sessions, providing Oracle cloud services lab… Read More
On a quiet Thursday morning, I went to our Gadget Lab at Oracle HQ and turned on the light. Inside the comfy egg shell chair sat an NAO robot, waiting for me. Welcome NAO, our latest team member! NAO is a little adorable humanoid robot created by SoftBank Robotics. It can talk, walk, and dance;… Read More
The Oracle Code (@oracledevs) event series is going to 20 cities around the world, showcasing many Oracle Cloud Service offerings. The event at each city will have keynote sessions from various speakers, demo stations showing many of Oracle’s Cloud services, a code lounge for developers to check out some “hardware” linked and controlled through Oracle backend, and other partner booths.… Read More
This past holiday break, I have mostly stayed in the garage – setting up a CNC machine and cutting all the things that I deemed cuttable by it. Owning a CNC machine has been on my list for a long time, it is just out of my price range for a high quality professional grade machine, or maybe… Read More
Oracle hosted the first-ever company co-sponsored Maker Faire event on November 17, 2016. When I heard of the event, I had something in my mind that I would encourage a group of middle-schoolers to make a game for the event. I have been teaching them occasionally on Arduino, NodeMCU and MQTT concept over some weekends,… Read More
I have been always intrigued by the fact that people get deeply attached to the characters in the game (e.g. Second Life), or virtual pets. And with sufficient advancement in technology, the virtual characters may eventually cross the boundary and get attached to real-life people (e.g. Sci-Fi movie such as “Her”). While that is still… Read More
In last post, we have setup development environment for coding and uploading scratches to NodeMCU, an IoT device. This post, we will upload and run two examples to demonstrate how IoT device sending data into Cloud and receiving commands from Cloud. You can find the source code and MQTT library requirement on github. 4. Architecture Diagram It… Read More
Attention: if you reach this page at Kscope 2017 – IoT Workshop, please follow this link for the updated session content: https://github.com/raymondxie/iotws/wiki AppsLab and OTN will jointly host IoT Workshop at Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne conference in 2016. We look forward to seeing you at the Workshop. Here is some details about the Workshop with… Read More
Oracle Volunteers and the Daily Minor Planet
“Supercharged Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Month” – as the very first edition of Daily Minor Planet brought us the news on August 4th, 2016. Daily Minor Planet is a digital newspaper on asteroids and planetary systems. It features an asteroid that might fly by Earth for the day, or one of particular significance to the… Read More
Maker Faire 2016
Another year, another amazing at the Maker Faire. I’ve attended my fair share of Maker Faires these years, so the pyrotechnic sculptures, 3D printing masterpieces, and handmade artisan marketplaces were of no particular surprise. But somehow, every time I come around to the San Mateo fairgrounds, the Faire can’t help but be so aggressively fresh, crazy,… Read More
Visit Our Gadget Lab Virtually over the Web
This is 2016, and seems this is the year for VR. Of course, we at the AppsLab can’t miss the beat! While Osvaldo (@vaini11a) started to look into Unity based VR capability and prototype, I wanted to take a look into the WebVR based approach. The prospect of delivering VR experience in a browser, and over… Read More
GDC 2016 – Part 2: The State of VR
VR is big and is going to be really big for the game industry, and you could feel it in the air at the GDC 2016. For the first time, GDC added two days of VR development-focused events and sessions, and most of VR sessions were packed – the lines to the VR sessions were long, even 30 minutes… Read More
GDC 2016 – Part 1: Event and Impression
Tawny (@iheartthannie) and I attended the 30th Edition of GDC – Game Developers Conference. As shown in the Tawny’s daily posts, there were lots of fun events, engaging demos, and interesting sessions, that we simply could not cover them all. With 10 to 30 sessions going on at any time slots, I wished to have… Read More
SafeDrop – Part 2: Function and Benefits
SafeDrop is a secure box for receiving a physical package delivery, without the need of recipient to be present. If you recall, it was my team’s project at the AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon earlier this month. SafeDrop is implemented with Intel Edison board at its core, coordinating various peripheral devices to produce a secure receiving product,… Read More
2016 AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon: SafeDrop
It has become tradition now for us, AppsLab, the OAUX emerging technologies team, that the first thing in a New Year is to fly to Las Vegas, not solely testing our luck on the casino floor (though some guys did get lucky), but also attending to the real business–participating in the AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon to build… Read More
A Smart Badge for a Smart Office
Editor’s note: Maybe you got a chance to check out our IoT Smart Office demo at the OAUX Exchange during OpenWorld. If not, don’t fret, we’ll describe its many cool bits here, beginning with this post from Raymond (@yuhuaxie) on his smart badge build. A Smart Office needs an equally smart badge. We showcased the Smart… Read More
Amazon Dash — It’s Dinner Time!
Yesterday I received an Amazon Dash for ordering IZZE juice. I think it is a great device, not that I would order tons of IZZE from Amazon, but at $5 it has wifi module + a micro controller + a LED light + a battery + nice enclosure, and it’s usually in deep sleep which… Read More
More Kscope15 Impressions
Kscope15 (#kscope15) was hosted at Diplomat resort along beautiful Hollywood Beach, and the Scavenger Hunt from OAUX AppsLab infused a hint of fun and excitement between the packed, busy, and serious sessions. The Scavenger Hunt was quite a comprehensive system for people to win points in various ways, and keep track of events, points and a leaderboard. And… Read More