Loom.ai 3D Avatar Platform Featured at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2019

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Loom.ai today announced it participated in the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2019, which is currently being held in Maui, HI. Featured in the Day 2 keynote presentation by Ziad Asghar, VP of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., the LoomieTalk™ application highlights Loom.ai's real-time SDKs running on the 5th generation Qualcomm AI Engine on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 865 Mobile Platform utilizing the Qualcomm® Snapdragon Neural Processing SDK to create expressive 3D avatars that mirror facial expressions and movement in video conferencing on mobile phones. Loom.ai leverages the advanced AI capabilities of the Snapdragon mobile platform to efficiently deploy the Loomie 3D avatars at scale on mobile hardware.

News Facts:
● The fidelity and efficiency of Loomie 3D Avatars is intensified by leveraging the Snapdragon mobile platform.

○ Using a single photograph, Loom.ai's technology creates a fully customizable 3D Loomie avatar that captures the user's likeness and movement.

○ Loomi.ai's platform combines deep learning with advanced CGI to capture subtle movements with microexpressions and apply them onto a user's Loomie.

○ With the latest 5th generation Qualcomm® AI Engine on the Snapdragon 865, Loom.ai now has the ability to take its 3D avatar experience to the next level of detail and realism on Snapdragon-powered devices.

○ The new Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Tensor Accelerator and updated Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Neural Processing SDK in the 5th generation Qualcomm® AI Engine provides performance and flexibility to optimize the fidelity of the real-time facial tracking and expression mapping on the Loomie 3D avatars.

● Loomie 3D Avatars bring personality into user experiences across digital channels -- from profiles to chat to video conferences to AR collaboration.

○ Loomies can be used by companies and enterprises to enhance collaboration, productivity and culture by letting its customers and employees use the 3D Loomie avatars to express themselves digitally and give them more opportunities for personalization in their communication.

○ The Loomie 3D avatar platform allows enterprises and developers to quickly create, personalize and deploy high-fidelity 3D Loomies across native and cloud applications.

○ Loom.ai's real-time SDKs allow Loomies to be integrated as an avatar video-layer into any video stream.

○ In addition to working with Qualcomm Technologies, Loom.ai platform solutions are being used by Samsung Galaxy's AR Emoji, Verizon Media and Seattle's Space Needle's Stratos VR experience.

● High-fidelity and real-time Loomies created by the Loom.ai platform are optimized by the Qualcomm AI Engine on the Snapdragon mobile platform.

○ Loom.ai applies Qualcomm Technologies' quantization techniques from the Snapdragon Neural Processing SDK to ensure a seamless consumer experience on devices powered by Snapdragon.

○ The compression and quantization techniques are critical for running AI-efficient processes on the Hexagon processor on the edge for a consistent, high-quality 3D avatar experience across mediums.

● Loom.ai is joining other high-tier partners and industry leading AI developers using Snapdragon's on-device AI Engine.

○ Loom.ai is being highlighted at the Snapdragon Tech Summit along with other high-profile companies.

○ Today at the Snapdragon Tech Summit, Loom.ai executives are available for interviews and demonstrations of the Loom.ai platform and the Loomie 3D avatars.

○ Live interviews and demonstrations of the Loom.ai 3D Avatar platform can be set up virtually during or after the summit by contacting Susan Lusty at susan@loomai.com/415-269-0226.

Quotes:

Mahesh Ramasubramanian, co-founder and CEO of Loom.ai: "The cutting-edge AI capabilities of the 5th generation Qualcomm® AI Engine inside the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 865 Mobile Platform and the Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK are uniquely positioned to empower novel applications like the real-time Loomie™ avatar conferencing that require high-performance deep learning inference on mobile hardware. LoomieTalk delivers a high-quality and interactive 3D avatar experience, reminiscent of our time in the Hollywood animation industry."

Ziad Asghar, Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.:
"It is great to be working with visionary companies like Loom.ai, who are redefining how people communicate digitally by personalizing their virtual experiences across digital mediums. Our Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ mobile platform helps enable a seamless Loomie experience. Seeing my Loomie running on a Snapdragon 865 powered device showed how effective Loomies can be ."

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About Loom.ai
Loom.ai offers an end-to-end real-time platform for creating, customizing and animating 3D avatars, called Loomies™, for enterprise applications. Based in San Francisco, Loom.ai's Academy Award-winning team blends visual effects with deep learning and computer vision to advance powerful virtual communication and self-expression. Loom.ai's instantly generated and recognizable 3D avatars can be used in current and future applications in video conferencing, live streaming, mobile messaging, AR/VR, entertainment, e-commerce, and more. For more information, visit http://www.loom.ai.

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