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The secret is out!! This is how to fold your burrito perfectly every time!!
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Renowned sci-fi author Alastair Reynolds once wrote a short story for us painting a dystopian picture of a future where AR glasses track our gazes.
So you know we're thinking carefully about how our own gaze tracking tech might be used.
Worth a listen: youtube.com/watch?v=U-UrIKoJ…
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Getting @bracketbot pilot ready: Cactus sends a job to inspect a section of some shelf and it navigates there autonomously to scan it.
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The first thing we built for retail was an AR task manager and navigation assistant for the staff.
Today it has grown into a fullblown AI copilot that helps run the store, and even orchestrate autonomous robots. @CactusXR is the most advanced product offering on the market for retailers.
We can measure what part of the shelf gets customer attention without any additional hardware. Just your normal CCTV cameras and a digital twin made with the phone in your pocket.
@CactusXR will absolutely revolutionize how well stores can do their merchandising.
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Imagine the questions asked at this incubation session. 😂
Jokes aside, many thanks to @CryptoHayes for coming, and investing in the industry together. 🙏🔥
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Receiving an interesting ratio of death threats and VC outreach over this now, so should probably clarify:
We at @Auki do not actually track any person. In this visualization we show how manage to derive the data we actually track: what part of the shelf receives attention.
It's like tracking how many cars cross a bridge without tracking which car it was or who was driving.
The reason we do this is to allow the stores to better optimize their shelf space. Space is first or second biggest cost for every retailer, so optimizing the use of space is what allows them to reduce prices for the consumer - something they're all under intense pressure to do.
We do not store any data at all about the shopper, and have no plans to.
Auki's tech will not be used to profile you, but it will make your groceries cheaper and your store visits faster.
We have always been champions of privacy, and that's not going to change.
Peace.
We can measure what part of the shelf gets customer attention without any additional hardware. Just your normal CCTV cameras and a digital twin made with the phone in your pocket.
@CactusXR will absolutely revolutionize how well stores can do their merchandising.
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Something is clearly shifting around @Auki right now.
More and more people are paying attention, especially after Nils, the co-founder of Auki, had a post go viral.
Even @MarioNawfal shared Auki's video here, though what he's warning about is the opposite of how Auki actually works, with privacy front and center.
Slowly, then all at once. Once you see it, you can't unsee it 😎
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"Everything we do in public will be analysed" sounds like the setup for surveillance.
Here, it isn't. base:0xf9569cfb8fd265e91aa478d86ae8c78b8af55df4
@Auki built this using cameras stores already had installed.
Only one thing got added: a digital twin of the store, built once with a phone
That gives the system a sense of where things are in physical space.
With that in place, the system tracks how much attention a shelf gets
Aggregated across everyone who walks past into a single number per square inch.
Individual shoppers were never part of what gets collected, only the aggregate.
A thousand people can pass the same shelf.
What the store learns is that it got busy around noon.
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We can measure what part of the shelf gets customer attention without any additional hardware. Just your normal CCTV cameras and a digital twin made with the phone in your pocket.
@CactusXR will absolutely revolutionize how well stores can do their merchandising.
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What if you could build a tool that lets retailers see what products shoppers spend the most time looking at, and then correlate that to sales data?
Wouldn't it revolutionize how they optimize their stores?
Billion dollar apps are waiting for you to build them. 👇
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Have we mentioned lately our hacker house full of robots and other hardware is open to builders? Come to HK.
Some cool wip at @Auki's lab in HK: Combining Han Ruihua (@HKUniversity)'s IR-SIM with @Meta's Habitat, allowing a simulated robot to navigate an environment previously reconstructed from video from another device.
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I think this gives the wrong impression of how the technology actually works, especially when it comes to privacy.
@MarioNawfal , you should get @broodsugar on for an interview. Would be a great opportunity for him to explain what @Auki is actually building and how the tech works.
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Welcome to the future of retail, where AI tracks what catches your attention
Soon, everything we do in public will be analysed and optimised for more sales
Writer: Ian
