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AI real winner at Microsoft’s India talent hunt competition
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) A software that features a Virtual Reality (VR)-based immersive view inside a CT or MRI scan where a user can navigate the 3D scan of a human body was the best Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solution at a Microsoft talent hunt competition here on Friday.
AI and Machine Learning (ML) technologies dominated Microsoft’s “Imagine Cup” competition as nearly 60 per cent of the entries received this year were inspired by AI technologies.
“It is very interesting to see that AI has been one of the biggest plays in all the students’ entries. They are applying the technology in different ways in several use cases, helping us in industries like healthcare and education,” Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India, told IANS.
Palash Ranjan Bansal, a student from IIIT Delhi, was declared the grand winner of the India chapter.
Bansal created “RealVol” software that features a Virtual Reality (VR)-based immersive view inside a CT or MRI scan where a user can navigate the 3D scan of a human body.
“I have been working on ‘RealVol’ for more than one and half years. It started off as a research project to get medical rendering in VR,” Bansal told IANS.
“When I saw the market, I realised that people want this kind of stuff. I took it as a challenge to deploy the software in the health industry,” he said.
The first runners-up position went to “DrugSafe” app that was developed by the student of RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru. “DrugSafe” is targeted to mitigate counterfeit medicine growth in the market.
Second runners-up was “Practikality” app developed by Amity International School, Gurugram. It is a ML-based assistant to help the differently-abled communicate efficiently.
The students will represent India at the “Imagine Cup” finals in the US to compete for $100,000 prize money and a mentoring session with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
“The percentage of AI-based solutions this year is dramatic. It clearly shows how much AI is on the minds of the young innovators,” Maheshwari said.
In addition to AI, Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain and Machine Learning (ML) have been key technologies that students focused on for the competition.
Considered as “Olympics of Technology”, Imagine Cup is a global annual competition sponsored and hosted by Microsoft.
Over the past 10 years, more than 1.65 million students from more than 190 countries have participated in the “Imagine Cup”.
This year’s Imagine Cup also witnessed an increased participation from girl students. There was also a 29 per cent increase in accessibility-related projects.
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International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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