Cory Janssen has a long history in the commercial technology world, but is perhaps best known for co-founding Investopedia, a financial education website which was sold to Forbes Media in 2007. He then started a private investment company called Galt Capital in 2008 and Janalta Interactive in 2011, which publishes a number of “pedia” sites, some of which I’m sure you’ve seen, such as Techopedia.com, Zideate.com, Testopedia.com, Divestopedia.com, and ForexDictionary.com.
Janssen also worked at a confidential think-tank for Microsoft for five-years, where he supposedly impressed Bill Gates with his conceptual prototypes for processors, artificial muscles and robotics. He’s been looking at the technology surrounding augmented reality, mixed reality and virtual reality for some time now, and programming a real-time conversion software that supposedly converts 2D media to 3D stereo without any latency or any other visual discomfort associated with AR, VR and MR.
The software, called ViewVerge, will be shown to the public for the first time at Augmented World Expo, which is going on from May 31-June 2m at booth #640, and the information I’ve received about it, taken with the usual grain of salt, looks intriguing. But there’s so much happening in the “reality” space right now that it’s tough to keep abreast of every new development.
But check out these videos here on Janssen’s page and see for yourself.
Just to name a few recent developments: HTC Vive released a new “deluxe” audio headset, Palmer Luckey left Oculus and recently said that there wouldn’t be any competitors to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift until 2018, and recently at display week Samsung, which makes the display for both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive (as well as Samsung Gear), showed off a new screen with 2024 x 2,200-pixel resolution, which makes it nearly twice as clear as the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive.
Clearly, Janssen is looking to make a splash and score some licensing deals at AWE 2017. Here’s what he’s claiming ViewVerge’s patented 3D conversion technology is capable of:
It can transform any captured input from any VR, AR, PC and mobile device; transform the input, whether it’s 2D, native 3D, post production 3D or 360 videos; and make it crystal clear stereo 3D without messing up your eyes. Supposedly, ViewVerge can also be embedded in any system, or provided as an app. It renders textures, processes faster than real-time (how is this even possible?) and retains depth of field and full parallax capability.
If Janssen has really achieved a breakthrough in real-time image processing, it’s possible that a plethora of VR and AR applications could use the software to improve the overall quality of real-time processing, maybe leading to a better software system for managing and constructing as-built 3D models.