Customize your dashboard at the touch of a button in the all-new 2013 Dodge Dart, a collaboration between Chrysler and Vectorform.  Experience the most technologically advanced car in its class, the 2013 Dodge Dart which features the award-winning 8.4 inch Uconnect Touch Media Center. Users are able to personalize their experience with the 7 inch reconfigurable TFT, allowing them to select from an analog or digital speedometer, turn-by-turn navigation and personalized information, all with simple controls on the steering wheel.

Engadget was fortunate enough to enjoy the Dodge Dart Re-Birth experience; you can read about their findings here.

 At Vectorform our hard work is fueled by our creativite, fun, and energetic work environment. Utilizing a vast array of unique individuals and their diverse skill sets, Vectorform produces emerging technology solutions for a variety of companies. Our strength lies in challenging and focusing our collective talent to adapt to our clients’ ever-changing needs.

In order to meet the distinct needs of each client, Vectorform seeks qualified individuals capable of thinking outside the box. Employees take part in group meetings, impromptu brainstorming sessions, and are encouraged to tinker with any new tech to achieve the creative solutions we’re known for. Candidates should also possess strong problem solving skills, and the ability to work well in an open team discussions.

To keep those creative juices flowing, Vectorform employees participate in numerous activities; Ultimate Frisbee, Kinect parties, in-office gaming challenges, Magic: The Gathering tourneys, and various board games keep the team invigorated and energetic. New games and technology are also looked at on a regular basis to see how new features and mechanics are being used, and more importantly, how they can be adapted or improved upon.

Vectorform offers employees a generous list of perks including:
•   Competitive wages
•   Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
•   Paid vacations and holidays
•   Social working environment
•   Game days and tournaments

For more information about the positions available at Vectorform, visit careers.vectorform.com. We may have openings not listed on our careers site, please contact our Human Resources Manager, Brian Deleon (bdeleon@vectorform.com), for our most current openings.

 

 

 

Last week, Vectorform’s Jon Pielak and Ed Wrenbeck sat down to talk about the impact of Apple’s newest release, and how it will change the way we interact with technology.  Ed, being the former lead iPhone developer of Siri was able to open our eyes to the future of voice recognition software.

His insight and knowledge of Siri has earned Jon’s recent blog post quite a bit of attention. By noon Friday the number of unique views spiked up to 70,000; needless to say we were geeked (pun intended). Be sure to check it out, and feel free to contribute to the discussion taking place in the comments section.

A special thanks goes out to John Gruber (@gruber), a Mac enthusiast, who writes a blog called Daring Fireball . Thanks again for spreading the word John, you rock!

This past week Joe Engalan, Woody Floyd, and Frances Calandra of Vectorform attended the 2011 BUILD conference in Anaheim, California. Accompanied with a plethora of swag, those in attendance received a Samsung prototype PC running the Windows 8 Developer Preview.

The BUILD conference highlighted many of the upcoming features of Windows 8 and showed developers the future of their software.  Microsoft re-designed their flagship operating system to be optimized for the tablet form factor, giving it a complete Metro UI overhaul. For more insight and the team’s first impression of Windows 8, check out Kevin Foreman’s post on Vectorform labs.

Videos and keynotes from the conference can be viewed here.

NYT R&D wanted to create an experience on the Microsoft surface that would complement their living room of the future. Their vision was a reading experience on the digital coffee table that would replace the physical newspaper in a family’s morning routine. Using The New York Times Reader API, originally designed for Windows, Mac and Linux, our application  gives readers a NUI based experience to scroll through their favorite topics: i.e., sports, weather, politics etc. Each topic is represented by a “card” featuring an image related to each subject. On choosing the topic, the user can then select a story of interest and browse through the content using natural user interface multi-touch controls.

It’s not exactly “the last kitchen table you will ever need”, but reading the morning news just got a heck of a lot easier.

Watch the video below for a quick demo.

G4′s Attack of the Show! ambushed our friends and neighbors at the Microsoft campus, capturing a whirlwind of video highlights and a cameo  of Vectorform’s Galactic Alliance HD. The four-player tower defense game made a big splash at CES this year, where it could be experienced on the new Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface. Check out the demo from Director of Research Steven Bathiche, at 3:43.

Also showing up for Jessica Chobot’s campus tour was Skinput, a wickedly-clever project from Microsoft Research that turns the body into an input surface; Kinect Fun Labs, a new addition to the Kinect Hub; and our buddy Steve Clayton, a Microsoft storyteller who has covered our work with Kayak and Virtual Colonoscopy.

Maybe we should invite the gang over to see our latest? We do get the most surprising visitors…

The Vectorform team was all smiles and downloads when Microsoft released the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta yesterday. Our friend Steve Clayton over at Microsoft was quoted on PC Magazine saying “The community that has blossomed since the launch of Kinect for Xbox 360 in November shows the breadth of invention and depth of imagination possible when people have access to ground-breaking technology…Already, researchers, academics and enthusiasts are thinking through what’s next in natural and intuitive technology.”

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Having a managed interface to the Kinect sensor is a boon for our rapid prototyping abilities. The speech SDK is really going to open up multi-modal capabilities. And there is a whole lot more we will be exploring and sharing. Check out Will Hinchman’s Kinect Application Best Practices, and make sure to bookmark our -newly released Vectorform Labs blog, where we will share our Kinect for Windows experience.