After bidding farewell to Bezos, Nick and Tyler returned to the venue.
The crowd gathered in front of their booth had dispersed by now, but the duo's return attracted quite a bit of attention.
Inside the booth, Zack and Terry were staring blankly at their computers, but they immediately came forward to greet them upon seeing the two return.
"How did the talk go?" Zack asked hurriedly.
Nick shook his head, then glanced around and asked, "Everything okay here?"
Terry spoke up, "No major issues. It was just a bit chaotic at first; someone tried to steal something, but we caught them.
Also, our computers were hit by several waves of mysterious attacks later on, but they were all blocked by the firewall you installed."
"As expected. I really overestimated these people."
Nick sneered, then said to the group, "We still need to be careful over the next few days. These people won't give up easily.
Also, don't go off alone. Watch your personal safety."
"Boss, isn't that a bit of an exaggeration? It's broad daylight," Terry said in shock.
"Better safe than sorry. You can't go wrong with being careful."
Nick gave his instructions, then turned to Tyler. "I'll leave dealing with these people to you. Just follow what we discussed before.
I've got some new ideas that I need to finish before the next demonstration. Today's demo was just for publicity and hype; the next one is what's truly important. Many industry big shots will likely show up then—that's our real stage to make a name for ourselves."
"Don't worry, just focus on your work. Leave things here to me," Tyler nodded.
For a team to function properly, the division of labor must be clear. Tyler's role was originally to handle operational support and external business, so this task naturally fell to him.
Tyler was clearly aware of this. His main task now was to manage external contacts so that Nick and the other two could concentrate on their own work.
After handing over all these messy affairs to Tyler, the other three breathed a sigh of relief. They were all tech guys with mediocre social skills; dealing with so many people was quite stressful for them.
Of course, their work was by no means easy, as Nick had come up with more new ideas.
This demonstration had already showcased the general capabilities of their technology. While not perfect, it was close. How to present something different and more in-depth during the next crucial demonstration was what Nick needed to figure out.
So, what should he present to amaze those upcoming industry experts?
Scale up the drone fleet? Nick shook his head. They used a hundred drones for this demo, and even if they used their entire fleet, it would only be 250 drones. That couldn't compare to the light shows on the market that used thousands of drones.
Further enrich the demo content and show more complex 3D configurations?
While a decent idea, there were only so many drones. How complex could it get? Build a city?
A whole city might be too much, but iconic landmarks within a city could work. Nick's eyes lit up.
However, that didn't satisfy him; it was too common and not stunning enough.
Wait, what's that? Nick's peripheral vision caught a booth in the venue.
A few young people, about their age, were enthusiastically demonstrating something to the visiting crowd.
One visitor walked up to a large screen, which then displayed a fuzzy cartoon bear character. When the visitor waved, the cartoon bear on the screen waved back, as if mimicking the visitor's movements.
As the visitor performed various actions, the cartoon bear followed suit, looking incredibly adorable and drawing frequent bursts of cheerful laughter from the crowd.
"I've got it!" Nick's eyes lit up with excitement. They had been thinking about how to present this technology to the audience in the most intuitive way, but they hadn't found a perfect solution yet.
The real-time control of the swarm array's movements that Nick had demonstrated earlier was dismissed by many as just a pre-programmed sequence being executed.
What if they used this real-time motion capture technology? A person's real-time movements could be transmitted to the system via a terminal and then represented by the drones in real-time.
This way, the interactivity and the intuitiveness of the demonstration would be much more impactful.
Wasting no time, Nick led Terry to the booth. The young people doing the demonstration were momentarily surprised to see him but then nodded in greeting.
The hottest thing in Hall C during this exhibition was Nick's drone Swarm Array Flight Control Technology demo, so most people in the venue recognized the developers.
After seeing off the visitors, two young men walked over. One of them, around twenty-five or twenty-six, reached out his hand and said, "Welcome, welcome. I've heard a lot about you."
"Haha, you flatter me. I'm Nick. I saw that your technology demo was very effective, so I came over to take a look and learn a thing or two," Nick said as he shook his hand.
The young man shook his head. "Heh, I wouldn't go that far. My name is Sun, and this is Robby. We're both graduate students from Miami University of Technology. The two of us led the development of this technology."
"But if we're talking about the most attractive project in our hall, it's definitely your drones. I saw your demo yesterday; it was incredibly shocking."
"Not at all, yours is quite good too," Nick replied politely. He then looked at the equipment on their booth. "I've seen similar technology before, but those usually capture 2D images. Your technology seems to be able to bind human movements to a virtual character."
"Exactly, this is the new technology we've developed. We call it AI 3D Motion Capture Technology. It uses 3D cameras to capture human movements and then processes them."
"By binding the calculated human motion data to a virtual cartoon character, the character on the screen can mimic human movements in real-time," explained the tall, thin Robby, who wore glasses and had a face full of acne.
Nick nodded. "This is somewhat like the motion capture technology used in film and animation production, but the difference is quite clear.
That technology uses multiple surrounding cameras to capture reflective 'Markers' placed on the performer's joints. It calculates the corresponding positions of the joints in space to obtain a complete set of movement trajectories.
Your technology, however, uses 3D cameras to capture the image of a person's movement and process it. It then intelligently binds a digital skeletal model to the isolated movement image to track and capture it. By binding this to the digital skeletal model of a virtual character, it mimics real-life movement trajectories."