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Virtual Realty Is Seamlessly Rocking, Here Are Some Of The Google Cardboard Apps To Prove

k2B Admin — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:58:33 +0000

The world is moving towards a fast paced culture where everything is getting a new look with many advancements in the features. One such technology of the present and the future is Virtual Reality (VR). Many top companies like Google, Facebook, and Sony have realized the fact and started believing that Virtual Reality is going to play a significant role in the technology advancements i.e. the way we interact with the connected world.

So, what is the virtual reality?

In simple words, the Virtual reality is the reality that we humans experience near us. In technical terms, virtual reality (VR) relates to a three-dimensional, a systematic or a computer generated environment to which the humans can explore and interact to enjoy the fact of virtuality. It manipulates objects to give a real-time feel to the people. An individual may experience the virtual reality using the two out of five sense i.e. the sight and the sound. Virtual reality is majorly categorized into two,

For training and education, simulating the real environment
Developing a virtual environment for game or interactive story

The best among the VR devices is the VR glasses as they give a brand new feel for experiencing things. One of the cheapest and most entertaining virtual reality glasses is Google Cardboard as it offers DIY method to assemble it. Mobile applications are increasing day after day, and the demand for virtual reality apps are also growing simultaneously as they are giving a new experience to the way we see things. We have picked up the best among the best iOS and Android VR apps for the Google Cardboard.

iOS:

Incell VR:
Many would have dreamt of shrinking and getting into a human body to see the mechanics involved in the human system. The Incell VR app helps you do it but not in real-time but virtually. It is a simple game that is all about protecting the human at the cellular level in the virtual reality.
VRSE:
We can say, VRSE is a Google of virtual reality. It has three dimensional, fully-curated 360-degree videos offering full dynamic directional binaural sound. It is more like a Netflix with VR features.
Google Street View:
Everyone knows how is Google is redefining the maps and the street view. Almost, all places around the world are captured in 360-degree view for better visibility and understanding of the location. No surprise in having the Google Street View in the virtual reality space.
Roller Coaster VR:
The Roller Coaster VR is not just a typical roller coaster, but it takes your roller coaster experience to a new level by taking you through the tropical island.
Jaunt:
Jaunt for iOS is something similar to the VRSE, and we will say it as one of the strong competitors of the VRSE application. It offers bot app and smooth cinematic VR content to the users.

Android:

InMind:
InMind is a small game that offers fun-filled entertainment. As the name say, this game stimulated as it happens inside the brain. This game allows you to enter into the patient’s brain virtually to search for the neurons that cause mental problems.
Star Wars VR:
For the Star Wars fans out there, this app will be a treat for you as it is one of the best for the fans. It creates an experience for the users and puts them on a role of Resistance secret agent on Jakku.
Lanterns:
If you ever thought of being a person in the crowd of Lantern festival, but couldn’t make of because of much financial trouble, here is something for your to treat yourself. This app will help you experience the feel of the lantern festival.
YouTube:
Which video streaming site will be everyone’s favorite? Without any hesitation, everyone’s answer will be the YouTube. It started offering 360-degree videos which viewed in VR gives a very special experience of being in the place.
Titans of Space:
If you ever dreamt of being in the space, then this app will help you do so. But this will happen without leaving your room. This app has the complete 3D model of the space along with the distance between planets and the moon.

Company-bio: K2B Solutions, the top-notch web design company in India, have expertise in PHP, Android, iOS, eCommerce, WordPress and more technologies. We have a very good expert team of qualified professionals who provide customized web and mobile app services to our global clients.

IoT Is Getting Better With Google Home – An Amazon Echo Like Intelligent Speaker

k2B Admin — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 05:49:21 +0000

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the hot news that is revolving around the Information Technology (IT) and every other industry. It is revamping the space of how we use the day-to-day objects. Internet of Things (IoT) in nothing but a technology connecting every single thing to the web i.e. it connects the devices to a standard cloud from where the desired party can access. All the great tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook, Samsung, etc. are playing a vital role in improving the abilities of the IoT and making it the strongest technology.

Google, the search giant, is actively entering into the smart home world and without any further surprise, it launched its smart device for the home called as the Google Home. A couple of years back, Amazon surprisingly launched a device called as Echo that acts as an intelligent speaker with voice control features. Many techies expected Google to launch a smart home device after it acquired Nest, the smart home products development company. At the recent I/O, Google revealed Google Home, a smart device that transforms your home into a super home.

What is Google Home?

Google always dreamt of developing a device that offers multiple features to make everyday living comfortable. As a result of serious research, Google recently launched a device called as Google Home which is a voice-enabled smart wireless speaker offering multiple opportunities to perform tasks like listening music, scheduling alarms and more. Many sources revealed that Google Home is just the covered-up version of the Google’s Chromecast, a media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on the TV. The Google Home device has LED lights, a speaker, and microphones to offer multipurpose functions. Here are some of the unique features of this smart home device.

Seamlessly enjoy music throughout the entire house
Create schedules in no time with voice commands
Easily manage everyday tasks
Interact with Google for more information
Control your smart devices with your voice

Google Home – IoT is getting better with this smart home device:

Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the world and the Google’s part in revamping the smart home market is stunning in every aspect. Google Home is perfect in every part and here is the justification for the statement.

It adds a sweet touch of fragrance to the home setup:Google home looks like a fresh flower pod used for decorating the house, and it has a very pleasant finish that suits the house of any setup/style. This smart device is cylindrical and has an angled top placed with four LEDs portraying the colors of Google. It has a modern and modular case that comes with a changeable base that can spice up the decor. It is not portable, but it acts as a powerful speaker that can fill up the entire room with strong bass and clean highs.
It controls the house with a single account:Compatible with Chromecast is another advantage of having Google Home. Unfortunately, it doesn’t support multiple accounts (as of now) but it might shortly. Google Home can talk to the Chromecast device to play music, stream YouTube videos and lot more. Another major function of this smart device is that it can communicate with Google to get you the correct information. Google Home is not as good as Echo when it comes to multiple device support and Mario Queiroz, the VP of Product Management at Google admitted that Echo had a wide area of skills but explained, “then you start getting deeper, and it doesn’t work very well, then you’re sort of disappointed. And I think that happens with Alexa sometimes.”
It has everything to control the connected things nut with some restrictions:Initially, Google Home will be working with a small set of applications and home automation devices but in the mere future, Google has planned to expand the device’s compatibility. This smart device uses the Knowledge Graph, a super database that understands million of entities and the relation between them. Quieroz also said he isn’t worried about the setbacks the Google Home has with Amazon Echo and also added, “We’re competing for the feature for feature in most of the areas. And in the areas that matter to the consumer, we’re going to do a better job.”

Google Home, the smart home device will be commercially launched later this year, and it might get a price of few hundred dollars. The tech industry and the general crowd is waiting for this beautiful assistant.

Apple CarPlay – A next step in revolutionizing personal driving

k2B Admin — Wed, 18 May 2016 09:59:55 +0000

Transportation is important as the people navigate from one place to another every day. Another important gadget of today’s life is mobile phones as it is considered to be a personal assistance. Smartphones have made people change the way they look at everyday activities, and when it comes to using Smartphones while driving, it is a hard and dangerous task, and even the road rules are strict as it prohibits mobile phones usage while driving. So, what if we need to do something important with our mobile while driving? We have to stop our car on the roadside to use our mobile. As the technology is advancing, many people have a question, “Why the in-car technology is outdated and when will it get the advancement?” Apple Inc. has announced the answer to the most critical issue. And it is none other than the most awaited announcement about Apple CarPlay.

What is Apple CarPlay?

The smartphones have become intelligent to do almost everything, and the in-car technology is also getting smarter with Apple CarPlay. It is a smartphone casting technology that allows the user to integrate their iPhones with the car’s inbuilt head unit with display and is available only on selected compatible brands and models. Without taking the hand out of the steering wheel, CarPlay offers uninterrupted access to the iPhones with the in-dash screen allowing users to use functions like messaging, calls, music, navigation, etc. This infotainment technology helps in secure driving while using the iPhones.

Apple CarPlay – An in-car assistance in the form of your iPhone:

Apple has announced that there are over 100 models available with CarPlay, the infotainment system. Many accidentally mistake that CarPlay is an in-car system that runs on iOS but, it is a connectivity system that acts as an interface between the car’s in-dash system and the iPhone that runs on iOS 7.1 and more. CarPlay will sync your iPhone with the car system via a lightning cable, and it allows you to access you the iPhone via three modes.

Voice – CarPlay enables vehicles will have a dedicated button on the car’s steering wheel using which voice command will be activated using the Siri.
Touch – Cars with the touch screen will allow the touch function. It is more like using your iPhone via the big touch screen.
Knobs and Controls – CarPlay enabled cars with traditional buttons allow you to sync and use your iPhone.

Google’s Android Auto Vs Apple’s CarPlay:

The rivalry between the Google and the Apple has never ended since the introduction of both the systems. Now, the new vision of these tech giants has moved towards the future smart cars residing on Internet of Things (IoT). It is time to know the difference between the two interfaces.

Home Screen:

CarPlay – Same as its home screen on the iDevices like iPhone and iPad, the home screen interface of CarPlay has the square icons and are large enough to touch while on the go, and it has no lists, folders or sub-menus to reduce hassle.
Android Auto – Android Auto has a set of five icons on the bottom of the screen. A double tap on any of the icons will display a list of the card with related applications. This feature adds an advantage of switching between apps without launching the home screen.

Messaging:

CarPlay – It supports Apple’s native messaging system and it can read out messages and can send messages through voice commands.
Android Auto – The Google’s technology supports third-party messaging apps like Skype, WhatsApp, Kik and more.

Navigation:

CarPlay – Apple’s infotainment system uses Apple Maps for easy and precise navigation as many iPhone users prefer to use the branded Apple maps.
Android Auto – It uses the most widely used navigation system, the Google Maps for clean and clear navigation.

Music:

CarPlay – This time the Apple has been on a different side supporting other functional apps like Rdio, Stitcher, Overcast and more while supporting its very own parent app, iTunes.
Android Auto – Like every other service, Android Auto supports Google Play Music and also many other third party services like Spotify, Radioplayer and more.

It is tough to choose the winner among these two as they are likely similar and has almost every feature each other has. But, Apple’s CarPlay has an advantage of having simple designs which are sure to help the users with easy navigation.

Compatible cars and Smart iDevices:

Apple CarPlay is compatible with iPhone 5 and above that at least runs on iOS 7.1 and above. For the people who are aspiring to buy a new car, here is a list of car brands that supports CarPlay and those cars are mostly manufactured in 2016.

Acura
Audi
Buick
Cadillac
Chevrolet
Ferrari
Ford
GMC
Honda
Hyundai
Mitsubishi
Porsche
Volkswagen
Volvo

Click here to get the list of all models that support Apple CarPlay.

Company-bio: K2B Solutions, the top-notch web design company in India, have expertise in PHP, Android, iOS, eCommerce, WordPress and more technologies. We have a very good expert team of qualified professionals who provide customized web and mobile app services to our global clients.

Got stuck? Here is an important tip to streamline your AWS IoT process

k2B Admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 06:50:41 +0000

Internet of Things (IoT) is going way beyond encouraging many new possibilities to handle things in the future. It is still in the early stages of being implemented for a longer run and getting the spotlight of many enterprises to handle larger data. As a recent act, Amazon Web Services got into the IoT business to help people use web services to host large data.

What is AWS IoT all about?

Amazon Web Services Internet of Things (AWS IoT) is a managed cloud platform used to interact with Internet connected devices and cloud applications. It helps in communication and also, can handle millions of requests and trillions of messages between the servers and devices.

To know more about AWS IoT, kindly read our previous article on “Interesting things you need to know about AWS IoT.”

AWS IoT allows integration of other Amazon services like Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Machine Learning, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB. It supports WebSockets, HTTP, and Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), a unique protocol to tolerate intermittent connections and reduce bandwidth requirements.

How is AWS IoT going to handle a large amount of data?

The answer lies in the word called PaaS database architecture. PaaS? Platform as a Service database architecture. The shortcut to streamline your AWS IoT to handle a large amount of data lies in running PaaS database applications on top of AWS.

So, why PaaS database?

As said earlier, AWS IoT supports other Amazon services like Lambda, Kinesis and RedShift. The following is what the services can do.

Lambda – It is used automatically to manage system resources and also to deploy code in response to the event triggered.
Kinesis – It offers real-time processing of incoming data from more than one providers and sometimes even from one provider. Mainly used for IoT analytics.
RedShift – It is mostly a data warehouse to meet the IoT requirements.

The AWS IoT can use all these services, but there is no one service to handle all the requirements or implementation. Because of this, the enterprises cannot follow the traditional single vendor architecture. Now they are in a situation to think of handling the data efficiently with an architecture that suits the most. Also, they should streamline the process to handle large data with PaaS. One way to do so is to concentrate more on the necessary data that is important for system changes and stores them. The less important data or sometimes useless are only given the last priority.

What is the difficulty?

Writing applications to handle multi-tenants and support real-world models is a tiring task and difficult to deploy. Internet of Things (IoT) is a collection of the endpoints in the interested communities. For example, if a house in a locality uses different connected devices from the same manufacturer, the data are collected and transferred to the PaaS database in the AWS cloud. What if there are many houses in that locality doing the same to the same PaaS database? How can it differentiate data from different houses? This is where the enterprises need to think about how to implement applications to keep each user data separate.

Now, what to do to win the IoT race?

A simple formula to win the IoT race is to focus more on scale-in rather than that of scale-out. IoT web and mobile applications are mostly the lightweight agents and are primarily related to driving data from the cloud database. A part of the intelligence of the smart, lightweight agent should use outside the cloud and mostly near to the device. This pattern is called as the scale-in architecture where the traditional scale-out architecture is not of much use.

Know about choosing an online Agency to your Business

k2B Admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:44:14 +0000

So, as a business owner, you have made the decision that your business entails an online agency to take care of all the online marketing processes. Then, this is an intelligent decision because it allows you to concentrate only on your business, while the online agency will look after to get your online customers to your business.

Generally, an online agency assists you to make sure your advertising budget has been spent effectively. Despite helping you to create advertisements for your business, an online agency also assists you to do market research, plan your advertisement campaign and finally post your advertisement in appropriate social media networks.

However, selecting the most competent online agency is a tricky job. The advantage is that there are so many options available to choose the agency, but still many of the online agencies are not doing what they really say. Generally, companies more likely jump into the contracts of online agencies by simply believing their promises without properly assessing their options.

When choosing a creative online agency, first you should always consider about what they generally offer. The following guidelines help you to select an appropriate online agency for your business:

Investigate about the online agency whether they can understand your business and provide you solutions that assist your business growth.
Always look for the online agency that expertise in digital marketing.
Check whether the online agency has experienced marketing professionals.
Ensure that they follow a realistic approach for marketing campaigns.
Ask for the list of current clients that the online agency has.
Make sure that they are tech savvy online agencies.
Check the authenticity and efficiency of the online agency.
Analyze their recent output, the ways they progress and how current market trends are influencing their functions.
Find out what Internet marketing services that the online agency offers.
Ask them whether they offer SEO and web page design.
Analyze whether they provide blogging, media monitoring and social media services.
Find out what websites, blogs and social media accounts they update every day.
Scrutinize how often they update their social media accounts as well as their clients’ websites.
Check what kind of references that the company has.
Check what exactly they do to enhance their previous clients’ online marketing.
Find out the business sector that the online agency candidate worked previously.
Check out the online agency’s average client size.
Look at the successful track record of the online agency.
Make sure that you check the previous client websites.
Analyze what technology they use and whether it fits your business.
Make sure that the online agency provides best customer service.
Check out the costs that the online service provider offers you.
Check out whether you need to pay any extra money for support.
Analyze whether there is any limit for the number of requests for support from the online agency.
Check out whether they charge any hidden costs for providing their services.
Explore the life expectancy of the web solutions that the online agency offers.
Check whether the online agency will rebuild your website when you require.
Check out whether it is possible for you to add functionalities to your website later.
Confirm that the online agency has a development roadmap that gives you great benefits.
Check whether the online agency provides both digital marketing and web design services.
Confirm whether the online agency offers services like web design and development, web strategy and planning, online advertising, copy writing, social media marketing, email marketing and mobile web solutions.
Apart from SEO, ensure that the online agency provides search engine marketing too.
Review the portfolio of the online agency and familiarize yourself with it.
Try to meet the key people, who are present within the online agency, to know whether the agency has good work ethics and values that you expect.
Check whether the online agency is up-to-date with the current trends.
Ensure that whether the company can able to provide habitual performance indications as well as the detailed reporting on their daily activities.
Ask about the online agency’s standard terms and conditions before you sign up in their contract.
Ensure that the online agency is having all their communication channels open by using proper and efficient communication tools such as blogging, chats, emailing, etc.

Hope, the aforementioned guidelines will definitely help you to move on the right track when choosing an online agency. You can use them to get a clear idea about what is really required in an online agency.