Today we have one (which I will not name 
) holiday, and for tomorrow, we have another one.
Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, has decreed a new holiday for our country: Programmer’s Day. Appropriately enough, it will be celebrated on the 256th day of the year: September 13th (September 12th for a leap year).
So great weekend really!
And do you have programmer’s day?
The blog is driven by wishes to tell more about us and be more responsive. Sometimes it is really hard.
Still the desire to be in more contact with visitors presents. We are relatively small team, so I believe that telling about us will be enlightening.
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Tomorrow FireFox 3.5 is out. This is an important news due to the fact that it is the most popular browser to support new HTML video tag. There are also Chrome, Opera and Safari but still new FireFox is really important.
We still have to wait to see if theora ( and theora 1.1 encoder which is due to be out in late october ) could compete with h264 as a most used format for online video. But at least there will be a tough fight. And with some sites like thevideobay.org directly promoting theora ( as well as wikipedia ) who knows maybe it wins.
So interesting times start for online video tomorrow. Be prepared and check new FireFox.
We, from our side, will keep a close look at what happens on the market and will provide more support for theora if it gets a good ground on the Net.
if you are looking to make some programming job – just keep in mind, that talented developers who have many years of experience in development of video and game software ( including development of tools, browser plugins ), which could consult you on variety of issues ( from dynamics of vehicles and planes to development of complete game or simulator ), look to help you.
So in case you have some programming task and nobody could solve it for you – just through it into us and you get a result.
How streaming could change online shopping?
Any online shop owner knows that customers would like to see objects in 3D, still any Web3d applications were too slow for average PC, and they could not provide rich experience.
But here is a catch. Now the content could be rendered and sent to flashplayer. Of cause, there would be a slight delay ( usually 1-2 sec for h264 video ) in response to user actions, still user would be able to observe all the details of sold items. With new raytracing engines from nvidia and intel which about to appear soon, user will be immersed in photo-realistic scenes.
Also, without any need to have Skype or any such tools users would be able to ask questions online and get videofeedback from sales representatives just visiting a page. All what a customer would need – is to have a microphone.
Finally I would note, that all the describe capabilities could be provided by our team.
At Slashdot an article is discussed on how cameras are used in Istambul to detect and track criminals on streets.
Four Russian engineers involved are mentioned.
We are glad to announce that we will place lessons on how to develop games and work with video.
Here is a first lesson ( pdf ), where you will find what we would use as a development instrument and how the basic game looks like and also about our next step.
We will continue developing lessons in future , so check back.
The comments are welcome here.
Just to keep you aware where Hmelyoff labs products could be used take a look at this study.
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