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A STORY OF CODE And other non-strange augmented living topics.

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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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A STORY OF CODEAnd other non-strange augmented living topics.

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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.

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AUGMENTED LIVING• Communications through advanced UI interfaces for the disabled.

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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)

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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 $900

with 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.

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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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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

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THE APPLICATION

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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.

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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.

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RELEASING SOON 2014 • Meetings with three large software vendors to discuss possible packaging.

• May release in house.

Mark Rowe• [email protected]• http://www.ALineOfCode.net• http://www.AugmentedDeveloper.com

Special thanks to: Duane Knight, Jeff Stokes, Daniel Turnell, and Telerik!