Innowise Group Created AR App for HoloLens

Interest in Virtual and Augmented reality is growing tremendously.

Microsoft has just announced Windows 10 Creators Update focusing on creating and playing in 3D, and partnered with hardware manufacturers on production of more affordable AR/VR headsets running the Windows Holographic platform.

Being among the first explorers of the revolutionary technology, Innowise Group has created a number of augmented and virtual reality applications.

Innowise Group AR/VR Team was set up at the beginning of 2016, and now includes Unity/Unreal Engine developers, web designers, 3D modellers and animators.

The AR application which we’ve completed this month demonstrates the possibilities of Microsoft HoloLens smartglasses as a competitive product in the AR/VR device market.

Auto Dealer Promotional AR App

The idea behind the project was to demonstrate a car moving on a highway.

Solution

The team took a model of car, which features both exterior textures applied and the car interior textures, so that the interior can be seen as the doors open.

The Unity-based application creates the experience of watching a car moving on a highway – the model of a car is placed on a piece of a highway, which is around triple its length. The car wheels are moving and the highway moves continuously.

Interaction with the Model

The whole scene can be moved and rotated around. The car model itself is interactive – the doors, the hood and the trunk may be opened by a tap gesture with a textbox popping out, when a relevant part opens. Tap on the headlight is a switch between day and night. 

The application functionality is being further extended at the moment.

Technologies & Tools

Unity 3D, Visual Studio 2015, C#

Basic movement along the higway

Scene moved to another location, rotated, hood opened

Night driving mode on

If you'd like to create an AR/VR app for your business, please contact us at contact@innowise-group.com

http://innowise-group.com/

Why Is It Important to Hire Testers for Your Projects

When we have an ambitions idea to start a new project, the first intention that comes to our mind is – “The project must have its site!” So, you develop the concept, spend days and weeks preparing content for the site and, finally, you decide to get the project started.

Everybody is concerned about how to hire a good developer to make a site. Still, many customers forget about testers. Yes! It is absolutely important, and is the integral part of development. QA specialists are obligatory and essential part of the process.

Specialists say – “You need 1 tester for every 2 programmers. Each programmer should work closely with a single tester, throwing private builds as often as necessary. “

And this is indispensable fact! QA specialists, in fact, have veto power over releasing any software that doesn't meet muster. Just take several minutes to read why it is important to hire a tester for your project.

Here are the most common excuses I've heard for not hiring testers:

Lazy programmers introduce bugs.

I head customers say – «If we hire testers, the developers will write buggy codes.”  Nonsense! If you really think that way, either you have never written a code, or you completely unaware what writing code is. Bugs, by definition, appear because programmers did not notice the bug in their own code. Many times, it just takes a second set of eyes to see a bug. Developers are also people, you know.

My software is on the web. I can fix bugs myself immediately.

Yep, really, it is funny!  Agree, it's true, web distribution lets you distribute bug fixes faster than the old days of packaged software. Still, do not underestimate the cost of fixing a bug, even on a web site, after the project has already frozen. Moreover, remember that it is easy to implement even more bugs when you fix.

However, a worse problem is that if you look around at the process you have in place for rolling out new versions, you will realize that it may be quite an expensive proposition to roll out fixes on the web.

My customers will test the software for me.

No, No, No! If you do not believe me, try to follow the plan:

• when developers are about halfway done, release the software on the web without any testing;
• when developers assume they are done, release the software on the web without any testing;
• repeat 5 or 6 times;
• call one of those versions the "final version";
• release .01, .02, .03 versions every time an embarrassing bug is mentioned on c|net.
• see, what is going to happen. If you aim at losing your reputation – do it! The worst thing about this form of testing is the remarkably bad impression you will make of your company and your project.

Besides, the whole point of letting "your customers" do the testing is that they find the bugs, and you fix them. Unfortunately, no any company on earth, has the manpower to sift through bug reports from 1,000,000 customers and decide what's really important. Out of all those reports, I would bet that almost all of them will be about the same set of 5 or 10 really obvious bugs.

I can't afford testers!

Sorry, but this sounds hilarious! It is cheaper to hire a tester than to hire a developer to do debugging after the project is done. A lot cheaper. You lose time and money.

Cut costs in hiring testers is an outrageous false economy. Think five times before you take the decision to hire the developers for the project without QA specialists.

Good luck and no bugs!

CATALOG.TM: Unique Informational, Adversiting and Online Shopping Portal of Turkmenistan

CATALOG.TM is the informational, adversiting and online shopping site. It's the unique web-site in Turkmenistan which combines the service of on-line shopping and informational portal.

CATALOG.TM serves as a gateway to wide range of information and knowledge for citizens of Turkmenistan and bordering counties. It's the unique portal for customers, enterpreneurship and general public of Turkmenistan as well.

Now the site CATALOG.TM is available in English language and Turkmen.

There are 7 main sections on the site:
Goods catalogue
Organizations catalogue
News
Map of Ashgabat
Music
Private ads
Brands

Goods catalogue

We have created a website for selling and delivering electronics, household appliances, clothes, and automobiles in Turkmenistan.

The main functionality includes:
• Two user groups: Sellers and Buyers.
• Goods are arranged by categories.
• Efficient search options (search by products, manufacturers of the products, and stores).
• Buyers can select and compare goods.
• Sellers can create pages for their stores and add goods.

Organizations catalogue

There is a catalogue with lists of organizations by categories (drugstores, hospitals, shopping centers and markets, schools, hotels, service centers, restaurants and cafes, etc.).

News

The site also has the news section which provides readers with latest and trending technology news, as well as news about Turkmenistan.

Map of the cities of Turkmenistan 

Our specialists have creates the unique map of Ashgabat and other cities, and we are constantly in the process of adding information and creating the most detailed and accurate map of Turkmenistan.

Music

The site gives users possibility to listen music on-line and download the latest dancing mixes of world famous composers and DJ's.

Private ads

There is functionality for creating announcements, adding private ads.

Brands

Here the users may choose the manufactures they are interested in and  look through the goods, offered in goods catalogue.

Advertising section offers users to place their banners with ads in the upper part of the site and in the middle of it (main page). On the main page of the site the users may look through the latest added goods with the best offered price.

Search and navigation

CATALOG.TM supports users in an efficiet search for content, allows users to search for information and find goods, organizations, available through the portal.

Visit CATALOG.TM - the best informational, adversiting and online shopping site of Turkmenistan!