The St. Petersburg company will deliver computer vision technology and an application for working with augmented reality on new Huawei models.
Chinese Huawei and St. Petersburg Piligrim XXI agreed on a roadmap for cooperation in the field of AR-technologies (augmented reality - augmented reality).
The development of the St. Petersburg company will help Huawei technology recognize real objects - buildings, streets, natural landscapes - and display them on the smartphone screen “with the additions” that are “contained” in the Arcona SDK platform - the main brainchild of Piligrim XXI. The augmented reality layer allows you to create virtual objects anywhere in the world - for navigation, historical reconstruction, educational programs, games and promotions.
It is not excluded that American sanctions forced the Chinese company to pay attention to the St. Petersburg development. In May, the US Department of Commerce announced the blacklisting of Huawei, as its activities "are contrary to US national security interests." This means that local companies will not be able to sell technology to her without a special export license. One of the first about the readiness to sever relations with Huawei said Google. This will deprive the Chinese IT giant of access to various services and applications that belong to the American corporation. Huawei has already announced its own HarmonyOS operating system, which its smartphones will be able to switch to in this case.
Piligrim XXI agrees that sanctions have prompted Huawei to actively seek new partners. “They will have their own operating system, they will have to do everything anew, so they are extremely interested [in cooperation],” said Tatyana Chernik.
At the same time, the St. Petersburg company claims to have surpassed an American competitor.
“Google’s solution works well indoors, our AR technology gives good results in open space. Huawei is just interested in the technology of placing interactive objects against the background of the city, so that there is accurate geo-positioning, linking to a specific location, ”Tatyana Chernik explained.
For example, in St. Petersburg, owners of Huawei smartphones will be able to see augmented reality on Palace Square, Peter and Paul Fortress and St. Isaac's Square. What these objects will be, the company does not say, but says that they will be more entertaining than advertising.
The smartphone model on which the solution from Piligrim XXI will appear, Huawei has not yet announced. At the time of release, the computer vision algorithm will be sewn in it, later the Arcona application will also appear. “But with the help of our technology, any applications for AR will work,” says Chernik.
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Piligrim XXI is a Russian IT company, a developer of solutions for augmented reality (AR). In 2014, the developer launched the world's first open-air AR park, and today a network of eight such parks with a total area of 1000 square meters. m works in six countries of Europe. Since 2017, the company has been engaged in research in the field of distributed geographic information systems, computer vision technology, 3D simulation, computer vision and artificial intelligence. 23.5% of the company belongs to the founders - Ilya Korguzalov, Tatyana Chernykh and Diana Sorina, 25% - to the Spanish investment fund Way2Wow, another 4.5% - to other investors.
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