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# 2021.03.15 Microscape

Attending: Jason, John, John (JP) Francis, Kyle (?), Erin, J-m

* OSS or Commercial
* Intro
- Kyle: degree in math. PhD in chemistry. interdiscip. (theater)
- S/W: can we view MRI/ultrasound in virtual reality. Built engine
- can stream data over the web, to cell phones. On Amazon. Other microservices.
- share data, view on different devices, embedded, mac, PC, etc.
- John:
- worked as VR dev in industry for 1.5 years
- joined Scott and other groups. ML PhD.
- viz & access go hand in hand.
- nice application to be used as front-end web portal?
* Discussion
- Kyle: first contract with Kids
- feature like zoom call, collaborative viewing
- can record video of what you see.
- 3d tools.
- on the fly in native format
- (links to FPBioimage, and sciview)
- 3D?
- Erin: lots of requests, incl. annotating
- Can you overly analytics?
- Only surfaces. No processing like Imaris.
- Just presentation
- Simultaneous annotation
- Adding dropping pins, etc.
- Game developers! ;)
- John: Glencoe clients?
- Erin: Microscopy data. Academia, Pharma.
- Images acquired planar, stepping through issue.
- Some are used to working in that way.
- Triple-A game engine (AAA?)
- Cowriting grants / sent Glencoe clients away
- ED: cf. Imaris
- analytics (segment.) can be larger than image
- JRS: more on commercial? looking to drive development.
- OMERO: DMS. Plane rendering system.
- Data loading
- John: PNG stacks are fine. Can build a prototype. Money down the line.
- J-m: how are you loading from S3?
- Josh: https://blog.openmicroscopy.org/file-formats/community/2020/11/04/zarr-data/
- May meeting