JoseVigil
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CEO at RoamTouch http://roamtouch.com
GestureKit SDK http://gesturekit.com
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Comment · 12 years ago
They both tackle the same spot in time, the crossroad. Blow or getting funded / making revenue. You are right, but that is why I think they are bundeled.
Comment · 12 years ago
"fund raising is not equal to sucess" my best quote
Comment · 12 years ago
Around Paul and Ycombinator there are a certain amount of policies that apply to the creation of killer startups and they have been very successful on proving them, being good is one.
A good person inside -and outside acting on behalf- of a company is definitely in the checklist for creating a great startup, I can personally tell. Modern leaders do not fit into the vertical violent commander type and simply loose followers without assembling.
However real life is much more grotesque, dantean and mean than that and bad people sometimes win. In my country there are lots of them and usually respond to a much larger and corrupted ecosystem.
Comment · 12 years ago
For having the chance to keep on trying.
Comment · 12 years ago
You hit the nail on the head with a huge question, not sure if was on purpose or not but well done.
Your question is much more important than learning code even for a long time. That is a good start. Even super great developers never solve a real problem.
Solving a problem, demonstrating a business model and creating a successful start up are -to my eyes- more and less the same thing and takes years of extraordinary hard work, much more work than people at an office could even imagine.
My advice, watch all these videos are amazingly useful http://startupclass.samaltman.com and try to attach as much as possible to the advices.
Best of the luck! Great start.
Regards.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks for the info Billy.
I think there has to be more touch events available than Force Touch. Seems a fairly trivial interaction.
Given the features page I assume the API should support more events. Digital Touch "implies" touch down-move-up:
http://www.apple.com/watch/features/
* Section 6-left, a heart drawn on the watch with the name Jamie.
"You don’t even have to use words. The Digital Touch features on Apple Watch give you fun, spontaneous ways to connect with other Apple Watch wearers, wrist to wrist."
* Below, a flower drawn on the watch with the name Eliza.
"Sketch. Use your finger to draw something quickly. Your friend on the other end can watch your drawing animate, then respond with a custom creation for you."
Hopefully is already there or else we might have to wait and see the touch API public for WWDC. Eager to play with it, if anybody has more information please share. Thanks!
Comment · 12 years ago
Appreciate orand.
I wonder what fully app for watch means though. I am intrigued on the touch event support. There is something new called Force Touch.
Comment · 12 years ago
hey orand, thanks for the summary.
You mentioned #4 will be available later next year, probably starting with a beta released at WWDC.
Is Apple actually saying this? If so, can you please share the source? I mean from Apple not macrumors.
Comment · 12 years ago
We have developed RKT Launcher http://www.gesturekit.com/rkt-launcher/ with a similar concept. Its based on gestureKit SDK http://www.gesturekit.com/ a cross platform gesture recognition tool.
You can find it on the PLAY store here http://bit.ly/1okJIfc and you have the souce code here https://github.com/RoamTouch/app-rktlauncher-android
2015 is the year of the smartwatch technology and we are going to be there.
Comment · 12 years ago
Most Advanced Yet Acceptable. When I saw first glass I thought using a prostheses as a dream object was not such a good idea.
Glass jumped stations to reach the head, a point still in premature interaction with a long distance of motion travel of the hands to control it. The head is like in another planet to be reached compared to a watch even a cellphone.
Google went all-in directly to the head when the way to go was wrist, arm, shoulder, neck and then head. In any of the cases the glass experience provided Google with rich information about wearable and its adoption.
I am not sure if Brin will compromise his figure that much in the future with early developed technologies. Even should have been discouraging as leader, but was not his fault since he believed.
Glass was and is a great lesson for the industry.
Comment · 12 years ago
There is always a conspiracy theory on everything Google does. I think this has nothing to do with that.
Besides, everyone that has a startup and fresh ideas is always "afraid" of Google next step not stepping on top of its startup.
This generates paranoid among us, its natural given the size of Google.