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A Story of COde

A Story of COde. And other non-strange augmented living topics. Who am I. Mark William Rowe II Family man My bark is worse than my bite. Microsoft centric community l eader and activist Gadgeteer - Tinkerer Speaker Student Religious – raised this way.

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A Story of COde

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  1. A Story of COde And other non-strange augmented living topics.

  2. Who am I • Mark William Rowe II • Family man • My bark is worse than my bite. • Microsoft centric community leader and activist • Gadgeteer - Tinkerer • Speaker • Student • Religious – raised this way. • Leading edge augmented reality software developer • CS, Electronic Engineering and IT backgrounds.

  3. Augmented living • Communications through advanced UI interfaces for the disabled.

  4. How did this all start • Mother was a software developer and religious. • Playing text based adventure games in 81. • Started a 300 Baud BBS in 88 • Military at 17 – Electronics • MIT’s (Pranav) – 6th Sense • ALOC – Single cell • Microsoft – Kinect, OCR, Speech. (Next Gen UI)

  5. Passion • I love to talk… • What if I couldn’t? What if I was stuck inside my head and couldn’t ever express how I felt or what I thought. I feel like every day we are not ready for market is another day trapped for others. • Can’t everyone afford a large medical device? • Financial needs may limit resources to full body devices. • Temporarily disabled may not have the funding for a full machine. • What is the fix? • We expect to have the laptop, Kinect or Leap unit and software for under $900with the software only being a minor part of that. • Work with vendors for reduced cost hardware and free limited licenses of AL to those who qualify due to hardship.

  6. Passion • Why this target Market. • Originally I was trying to make a sixth sense type device that would compete with google glasses. I removed and added based on technology changes and realized that the market I was targeting would take care of itself. • Single Cell

  7. Purpose • What problem was I trying to solve? (Breaking bad) Tio couldn’t communicate without someone there. • What if his communicator wanted to lie? • Why do we need a college educated person’s time just to let someone communicate? • How do they call for help? Or tell someone they are in pain? • Even more important to some…how could have Augmented Living altered the plot of Breaking Bad?

  8. Objectives • Either vocally or through flicks of the body or eyes allow the disabled to: • Call for help. • Talk, write, email, call, text, network socially • Facebook, Twitter • Skype, SMS • Outlook, Live Mail, Office 365, GMail • Entertain themselves with controls and automation. • Video - TV remote, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime • Audio - Pandora • Popular Media Players - Windows Media Player and limited iTunes • Browse the web through Internet Explorer and Bing! • Pause and restart the app or computer if needed.

  9. How can I translate passion into code? • Brainstorming, looking at all the new hardware and software to see how these could translate into answers to existing problems. • Needed ease of code development. • Needed OCR – Want to read papers and street signs (possibly for blind) • Needed Speech input. • Needed Many physical inputs – not every disability disables in the same way. I needed to be able to use any device that could drive commands to the desktop. • Needed Many outputs – which ways did people want to receive information, visually, audial, a remote location or a mixture of all.

  10. How did using MS products get me there. • Ease of Use • .NET is extremely easy to use. • Tied in well with com. • Created Model layer usable with WPF and Windows 8/8.1 and phone applications. • OCR with SharePoint DLL • Translates to text, easy to share commands with other things like voice. • Speech Engine – (Soon Cortana) • Extremely easy to use and chain commands together. Really fun to learn. • Certainty%, OnRecognize events. • Inputs/Outputs • Plug and play with windows 7/8/8.1 • Kinect

  11. The application

  12. Future • Migrate to Windows 8 and then to mobile platforms. • Start robotics interfacing to allow for easier transportation. Enabling interaction from the disabled to the physical world through new technologies. • Build bots to mine the solar system. So in 10,000 years we will have material to build a ship to get us off the planet that isn’t owned by China or Google. • Can be slow and cheap (no hurry as long as it’s done.) • Adopt as many kids as I can. Something about being a dad I really enjoy.

  13. The other reason why • My grandfather had MS and would never have been able to afford a device to help him communicate, use computer etc. • Vincent died from Multiple Sclerosis the doctors at VA seem to Think. Family and Vincent believed that it came from being hit in the back with a hand grenade, During WWII.

  14. Releasing SOOn 2014 • Meetings with three large software vendors to discuss possible packaging. • May release in house. Mark Rowe • Mark@ALineOfCode.net • http://www.ALineOfCode.net • http://www.AugmentedDeveloper.com Special thanks to: Duane Knight, Jeff Stokes, Daniel Turnell, and Telerik!

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