July 30, 2019

Exploring digital twins part 4: AR/VR Digital Twinning with SignalR and Mixiply

This is the final post in a series of by Rose McColl and Lillian Ho, about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.

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July 15, 2019

Exploring digital twins Part 3: Raspberry Pi and Azure IoT Hub connection using Python

This is part three in a series of blog posts about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform. Extending from part one, this post will demonstrate sending telemetry from a Raspberry Pi IoT device to Azure’s IoT Hub, using Python.

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July 8, 2019

Exploring digital twins part 2: IoT Hub, Azure Functions and SignalR

This is the second in a series of tech blog posts by Rose McColl and Lillian Ho, about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.

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Theta

July 2, 2019

ShadowTech Day 2019: Encouraging females into tech roles

We were involved with ShadowTech again this year, and this time around we had four very talented secondary school girls visiting us at Theta.

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July 1, 2019

Exploring digital twins part 1: Azure DevKit and IoT Hub

This is the first in a series of tech blog posts about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.

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Theta

May 31, 2019

MiniDevs launch AR/VR platform Mixiply

For the past two years, we’ve been working with a group of students at Newlands Intermediate School, the MiniDevs, to design and develop a platform for making and sharing AR/VR games and apps, called Mixiply.

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May 17, 2019

Food Product Recall: saving time, costs and reputation

I recently attended the Food Safety and Compliance Conference in Auckland. When speaking with other delegates, it was clear that focusing attention on managing food traceability and recall processes was of great importance. Many of those in attendance were keen to find out more about the tools and systems available to manage these processes too. In this blog I’ll be laying out recall in NZ and reducing time, costs and protecting your reputation during a recall scenario. Written by Yuko Saito from Theta's ERP and Business Solutions team.

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May 3, 2019

Sharing the magic of AR/VR app Mixiply at NZ Games Festival

Last month we hosted a Mixiply workshop for kids at Capital E in Wellington, part of the NZ Games Festival 2019.

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April 17, 2019

Automating expense reporting with robotic process automation

Nobody likes entering expenses into their company’s business management system, so we decided to tackle the frustration head on. How could we make expense reporting faster? Better? Funner? (ok maybe that’s not a word but you know what we mean!). Could robotic process automation help?

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April 5, 2019

Race report: Absolute Wilderness Adventure Race 2019

Theta’s adventure racing team - Alan Moore, Jason Free and Bruce Anderson - competed this year in the Absolute Wilderness Adventure Race in Twizel as a focus for our fundraising efforts for Cure Kids. We’ve previously competed in the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race, and wanted to continue our racing and fundraising efforts. Team captain Alan Moore reports back on the challenging day.

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