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Retrofit cars is a market on the rise, with more and more collectors and car enthusiasts looking to renew the technology inside their classic cars and vintage models to increase comfort and satisfy today‘s legal and ecological requirements. While the retrofit market today is mostly focused on electrification only, Incari provides the possibility to easily integrate new technologies into older car models for a modern user experience. However, the partnership between Incari, the Strate School of Design Bangalore, and Design 1880 is not limited to cars. Any type of vehicle, for example boats, can be retrofitted with the latest HMI and drive technology with the expertise and technology of the three partners, without losing its flair.

Modern technology blending in with the style of the past

Incari has already gained experience in equipping vintage cars with state-of-the-art HMI interfaces. A legendary (D)eLorean has been updated with Incari technology in partnership with Wunderkind Invest. The specially developed electric drive components of the iconic e-Lorean are combined with a unique HMI developed by Incari.

In a joint effort with Design 1880, a Fiat 500 has been electrified. The classic Fiat 500 is equipped with a digital display and can be easily connected to the smartphone and a special app. It features a smartphone holder adapted to the latest technological standards such as induction charging and magnetic attachment. The smartphone can be installed easily and without cables with one hand while offering a style that makes you think it was developed in the same period as the car.

A circular digital screen replaces the analog speedometer, is connected to the smartphone, and continuously provides relevant information to accompany the driving experience. The screen makes it possible to check battery consumption, for example, and can also be customized. This takes the user experience to a new level while preserving the spirit of the iconic car.

Similar projects show: Incari reduces development times up to 70 percent

Incari offers a software platform with an intuitive visual user interface to design state-of-the-art human-machine interfaces. It enables users who lack programming skills to design complex interfaces in 3D, while at the same time generating a very clean programming code. Moreover, Incari provides a common software environment for developers and designers who are already in the prototyping phase. This brings flexibility and saves time.

The software also takes a 3D-first approach. This offers entirely new possibilities in user comfort – especially in conjunction with augmented reality (AR). The Incari method promises a reduction in development times in the HMI area of up to 70 percent, as comparative projects have shown, with simultaneously lower personnel requirements and a higher-quality end-user experience.

About Strate School of Design Bangalore

The Strate School of Design Bangalore is among the best design schools in the world. With more than 29 years of experience in European design excellence, Strate has set up an international team to train talents locally in Bangalore. It was born in 1993 with a simple motto “to make the world simple, fair, beautiful” and reiterates this with its fundamentally humanist approach to design.

About Design 1880

Design1880 offers retrofit and customization solutions for classic cars, with a focus on the user experience. What is retrofitting? Converting a combustion engine vehicle into an electric one!
More information about the eLorean is available at www.e-lorean.com.
Attached photos: Matthias Mederer/ramp.pictures

What’s new?

Asset Database

The new Assets Database allows the user to easily access internal resources and reuse them. With this, it is possible to keep track of which Assets are being used and where in the Project.

 

Camera Input for Video Objects

Incari now allows to directly control cameras and virtual cameras. New Nodes for controlling the playback have been introduced. Thus, this allows controlling from Incari a rear-view camera and the video that is being obtained from it.

 

Masking

Now it is possible to use Vectors (or any other Sprite Object) as masks for Sprite Objects.

 

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Customized and intuitive interfaces – but not only in cars.

The Berlin-based software company Incari is working on new Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) that tap the potential of digital technologies in the aviation and shipping industries, in a move that will set new standards in cockpits and on ships’ bridges. As with the cooperation with Piëch Automotive in the development of the digital cockpit in the Piëch GT electric sports car, the Incari method promises an efficient and cost-effective approach towards visionary HMI interfaces in other industries as well.

“Incari can be used wherever human-machine interfaces are needed,” says Osman Dumbuya, founder and CEO of Incari. “The days when the mouse was the only interface for computers are over. Touchscreens, gesture control, and voice control are a reality today. But augmented reality, remote touch, and computer-brain interfaces are just beginning. At Incari, we are providing the technology needed to unlock the potential of new technologies across many industries.”

Incari Studio enables up to a 70 percent reduction in development time

Incari breaks with the traditional methods of HMI development. Designers and developers no longer work sequentially on new technologies. Instead, they work in parallel and together in a common software environment from the very beginning. Thanks to this approach, subsequent adjustments, which are often time-consuming and cost-intensive due to non-implementability that is only discovered later in the process, are completely eliminated.

Incari’s software also takes a 3D-first approach. This offers entirely new possibilities in user comfort – especially in conjunction with augmented reality (AR). The Incari method promises a reduction in development times in the HMI area of up to 70 percent with simultaneously lower personnel requirements and a higher-quality end-user experience.

Development of complex 3D interfaces possible without programming knowledge

Incari Studio is a software platform with an intuitive visual user interface. It enables users who lack programming skills to design complex interfaces in 3D, while at the same time generating a very clean programming code. Moreover, Incari provides a common software environment for developers and designers who are already in the prototyping phase. This brings flexibility and saves time

“Using traditional development methods, changing the design of just a single element often takes up to 14 days and involves five-figure sums. With Incari, it can be done in minutes,” Dumbuya said.

While the ease of use of cars is changing rapidly, other industries are lagging behind in the digital transformation. Incari reduces the complexity of HMI development and enables the use of state-of-the-art technologies. Thanks to these, the control of aircraft and ships also becomes easier and safer. Other application areas include the virtual representation of three-dimensional construction plans on construction sites or in medicine, for example, with the remote control of a surgical robotic arm.

“In the future, screens and displays won’t be the only user interfaces; projected, on-the-fly, customized widgets will become a reality at Incari in the next few months – rather than in 2054 as depicted in the movie Minority Report,” Dumbuya says.

Incari has research and development collaborations with the Institute for Open Communication Systems and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, as well as the Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations.

The development process breaks with the established methods of the traditional car manufacturers, with designers and developers not working sequentially on a new vehicle, instead of collaborating from the outset in a shared software environment. Subsequent, often time-consuming and cost-intensive modifications resulting from the discovery of non-feasibility are completely avoided. Incari’s software also takes a 3D-first approach, offering entirely new possibilities in user comfort – especially in combination with augmented reality (AR). The Incari method promises a reduction in HMI development times of up to 70 percent, with lower personnel requirements and higher quality.

The Piëch GT aims to exploit all of this potential:

“The user experience is a key factor in the success of our vehicle. From a business perspective, however, I would also like to emphasize the revolutionary character of our efficient and high-performance development concept. The partnership with Incari has enabled us to accomplish what the vast majority of manufacturers – especially the very large and established ones – have failed to achieve until now: smart, a software-based collaboration between designers and engineers at a very early stage,” says Toni Piëch, co-founder and CEO of Piëch Automotive.

Fewer personnel, faster and more flexible HMI development process

“The Piëch GT digital cockpit is impressive in every respect; it marks a new benchmark in the industry. But we are equally proud of the process. The extremely fast, lean, and efficient development of the entire HMI system has confirmed all the advantages of our software solution,” says Osman Dumbuya, founder and CEO of Incari.

“Incari Studio is revolutionizing the HMI development process in the automotive industry.”

For the HMI development of the Piëch GT, Berlin-based tech company Incari relied on its in-house solution Incari Studio. Incari Studio is a software platform with an intuitive visual user interface. It makes it possible to design complex interfaces in 3-D without programming knowledge. Incari also offers a common software environment for developers and designers as early as the prototyping phase. This creates flexibility and saves time.

“Using the conventional development methods, changing the design of just one element often takes up to 14 days and involves a five-figure sum. With Incari Studio, changes can be made in a matter of minutes,” says Dumbuya.
“Without the use of Incari Studio, a development like the HMI for the Piëch GT would have tied up about ten experts from a wide variety of fields for over twelve months. With our software, the Piëch GT project was completed by three creatives in just six months.”

About Piëch

Piëch Automotive was founded in Zurich in 2016 by Toni Piëch and Rea Stark Rajcic. A permanent core team of specialists, all of whom bring several years of experience from a wide range of industry sectors and who have worked for well-known automotive manufacturers around the world, designed the company’s modular vehicle platform together with a further 200 or so external collaborators. The platform can be used as the basis for developing various body and powertrain variants. The first of these is due to be launched on the market in mid-2024.

 

What’s new?

All-new Incari Hub

Experience the updated Incari Hub as a central access point to all Incari Products. With Incari Hub you can install the latest versions of Incari software and download community projects to get started with Incari.

 

Serial Communication

Incari is now able to communicate via serial interfaces. All data which is sent over the serial bus can directly be received and processed by Incari. No middleware is needed. The serial communication can be used for GPS mice, IR controllers, proximity sensors, temperature sensors, etc…

Performance Improvements

Incari’s rendering engine performance is further improved, while the user can also experience improved loading performance on Incari Player by binarizing the Project to export.

New Nodes

New Nodes have been introduced allowing the user to:

• perform additional String manipulations, such as string comparison, string replacement by using regular expressions, and more.
• set, get the URL, and reload Web Sprite Objects.
• edit the entries and press buttons on the On-Screen Keyboard.

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Incari cooperates with Strate School of Design, Bangalore – India

Strate is the first design school worldwide to offer the exclusive opportunity to teach Incari Studio, part of the Incari HMI Development platform. Starting as early as next semester, students of the renowned design school will be taught Incari Studio in the Transportation/Automotive Design course at the Bangalore location.

“The partnership with Strate School is a milestone – knowledge and proficiency in Incari Studio will be a USP for every design student in the future. We are very happy that we could collaborate with such a renowned school for our first cooperation in the higher education sector. Many more will follow soon,” says Osman Dumbuya, CEO and founder of Incari: “By closely interacting with the university, we ensure that the application is perfectly tailored to the needs of future users.”

The Strate School of Design is among the best design schools in the world and aims to make the world simpler, more just and more beautiful. “In a booming Indian economy seen as an El Dorado, global companies are in need of instant-ready, responsible designers who are able to deal with customers’ needs, upcoming technologies, and sustainability. With more than 29 years of experience in European design excellence, Strate has set up an international team to train Indian talents locally in Bangalore,” says Thomas DAL, Dean of the Strate School of Design in Bangalore. “We empower our graduates to meet the needs of global companies for new technologies and sustainability – not only in the growing Indian market, but worldwide.”

Knowledge in Incari Studio as USP: The partnership with Incari will give students at the Strate School of Design in Bangalore an important additional qualification in the future that will differentiate them from graduates of other design schools: they will be able to design complex human-machine interfaces very quickly with the help of Incari Studio. They are supported in this by the software’s intuitive visual user interface, on which developers and designers work together from prototyping onwards. Both dynamic processes and 3D models can be rendered in real time with Incari Studio and visualized on a wide range of target devices. In this way, applications with a spatial orientation, such as augmented reality with a three-dimensional reference, can be realized in the first place and do not remain limited to two-dimensional displays. With a combination of technology bricks such as tracking, gesture, haptic or 3D displays you can achieve an unprecedented experience.

Strate, Bangalore offers a Bachelor and a Master of Design program with specializations in Product, Transportation, Interaction design, space design and Brand Identity & Visual Communications.

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PRESS RELEASE

Incari is developing a European operating system

Berlin start-up wants to create an alternative to Windows, iOS and Android — Incari is part of “Scale-Up Europe”, an initiative by the French President Macron

Paris/Berlin (18 June 2021). Attack on the American tech giants: the Berlin-based company Incari is working on the first European operating system. The global IT landscape has been dominated by Microsoft’s and Apple’s systems for decades. European values such as data protection, data security, and property rights are not always given sufficient consideration. Incari is an entirely new development and works particularly quickly, in an energy-efficient manner, and can be operated visually and intuitively. French President Emmanuel Macron received the CEO and founder of Incari, Osman Dumbuya, at the Élysée Palace.

Macron emphasises in the manifest of the “Scale-Up Europe” initiative which he instigated: “Scale-Up Europe is a call to join forces around startups: to reinforce Europe’s sovereignty, develop the prosperity of our economies and societies, and achieve the objectives of social cohesion and climate transition that are at the heart of the European project.”

“Incari and President Macron share the idea of a strong Europe. A Europe which stands for change, for democracy, and for freedom”, says Dumbuya. “Incari will change the software landscape in Europe — both in terms of development and application. European programs, applications, and apps will have a different look and feel, as well as represent their own values.”

Incari CEO Osman Dumbuya is actively supporting the “Scale-Up Europe” initiative and has also contributed to developing recommendations for the deep tech sector. Incari’s most recent growth financing is backed by partners and investors who have come together as part of “Scale-Up Europe”.

Looking forward, we are convinced Europe can reach the next level, and have set an ambition for the continent to become home to 10 technology companies each valued at more than €100bn by 2030.

There is enormous interest in a European operating system — and not just in the Élysée Palace. A current, representative survey revealed that more than two thirds of the respondents were open to the idea of a European operating system. They would prefer to use it provided it had at least the same functionality and existing data security.

Incari is improving companies’ competitiveness

“Many ideas fail on the path to implementation because the costs, for software and licences, for example, are too high. On the one hand, this reduces willingness to innovate, while on the other hand, existing, often outdated applications linger on”, says Dumbuya.

With its software, Incari is shortening the path from idea to finished product massively. This saves on costs and speeds up the development process. By simplifying the implementation of complex requirements, Incari is ensuring innovation and entirely new applications for customers.

Existing operating systems are largely based on structures and technologies which are decades old. In contrast, Incari has been developed for the latest 3D methods. It has been designed from the ground up for visual and intuitive 3D interaction; conventional operating systems need to retrofit these functions, meaning they are significantly less powerful. Incari offers numerous functions and framework conditions which are sorely needed by medium-sized companies and start-ups to allow them to start development quickly while keeping up-front costs as low as possible.

European values are defended

Operating systems developed outside the European legal area have little to no interest in European laws. Laws on data protection, privacy, or companies’ IP are often implemented with a considerable delay or only in retrospect. Violations of the law remain without consequences, while the owners of the data lose out. Incari strives for an operating system that is committed to Europe’s values. It safeguards data security, data authenticity, and property rights.

On a technical level, pan-European projects such as the use of GALILEO data for digitising public authorities (cadastres and land registries) can benefit greatly from the 3D technology on which Incari is based. In addition to public administration, medium-sized companies, start-ups and corporations also count among the potential customers. There are also use cases in healthcare, as well as in architecture and the infotainment sector.

The European operating system being pursued shouldn’t just be used in Europe, rather its qualitative advantages and sensible handling of personal data should impress people around the world and offer an alternative.

For the establishment of its European operating system, Incari anticipates a capital requirement of several hundred million euros over the next few years. Just recently, having been led by the entrepreneur and investor Lukasz Gadowski (Team Europe), a series A round of financing was completed with a volume of 15 million euros; cooperation with other strong partners is in the pipeline.

The veteran founding team has already been able to establish a standard solution in the industry using the Vred visualisation software. Incari emerged in May 2021 from its predecessor company “CGI-Studio”, which had up to that point primarily been active in the HMI sector for the automotive industry.

 

Further information:

https://www.incari.com

https://scaleupeurope.tech

 

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What’s new?

Vector tools.

With Incari 2021.1 comes a range of new vector-based Objects, to create customizable graphics for your projects. One of the powerful implications of these new Objects is that it is now possible to control their Attributes using the Logic Editor, affording many more possibilities for data-driven graphics and user interaction.

The initial line-up of vector Objects is: Arc, Ellipse, Label, Line, Pie, and Rectangle.

 

Compiled Logic.

In previous versions of Incari, logic created in the Logic Editor generated code and interpreted that code at runtime. In the new version, however, that is no longer the case. Incari 2021.1 now comes with an integrated compiler. The logic gets converted into C++ code and then compiled into machine code before the user runs the project. What this means in practical terms is that there is a dramatic increase in the speed at which logic is executed, with some benchmarks showing a 120x speed increase when compared with the previous version.

 

Skyrocket performance.

The way in which Incari serializes data has been greatly improved in the new version, providing a 40% speed increase when saving and loading, and creating and editing assets.

Berlin (10 June 2021). New approach to developing human-machine interfaces (HMI): the Berlin-based company Incari offers a convenient user interface for designing complex interfaces with no knowledge of programming. Having seen success in the automotive sector, the application is now being rolled out to other industries. A new round of financing provides a fresh boost; the expansion is to be driven forward with additional € 15 million funds from investors.

“Incari can be used wherever an interface between a human and a machine is needed”, says Osman Dumbuya, CEO and founder of Incari. “We offer an uncomplicated platform which allows developers and designers to work together starting right at the prototyping phase. Our system currently sees particular use in the automotive industry. There is, however, great demand in a variety of other industries such as health, construction, and aerospace.”

The European entrepreneur and investor Lukasz Gadowski (Team Europe) is currently leading the Series A round of financing: “Incari’s approach is fascinating. I’m amazed by what the team has already achieved in the automotive sector. These experiences can be carried over to a wealth of other applications. Together, we’re now looking to create a large, independent company which is active at the global level.”

Together with investors led by Lukasz Gadowski, the founders will take the company to the next level of growth after being supported in the early stages by angel investor Armin Pohl’s Wunderkind Invest. The founding team is being supported by Pius Equity and business angel Gunnar Gräf.

The way in which humans and machines interact is fundamentally changing

Society’s digitalisation in both private and commercial life is changing the way we understand technology. Specialisation of products and use of new concepts for interaction is prompting a paradigm shift. In particular, innovations in human-machine interaction, such as augmented reality, remote touch, computer-brain interfaces, are driving the process of change – after all, navigating inside an AR environment or vehicle can’t be mapped with a mouse.

At the same time, the complexity of the individual systems is increasing. The HMI concepts of the future will not be limited to displays and will require a three-dimensional reference, as is the case when virtually representing three-dimensional construction plans on a construction site or controlling a surgical robot arm remotely.

The Incari HMI development platform is tackling these challenges head-on. It facilitates a development process which is optimised to meet the needs of new HMI concepts and products. Incari’s “3D-first approach” does away with the restrictions or previous tools which are geared towards simple two-dimensional representation. Dynamic processes and 3D models can be rendered in real-time and visualised on a variety of output devices. This is what allows applications with a spatial reference, such as augmented reality, to be realised in the first place.

Strong cooperation partners

The Incari platform’s ongoing development is being carried out in joint research and development cooperation with the Fraunhofer Society’s Institute for Open Communication Systems and Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organisation as well as the Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations.

Incari is also involved in the field of neurotechnology and digital medicine, in the future integration of neural interfaces as well as bio-trackers, sensors and exoskeletons to name but a few – an example of how Incari can be used in HMI systems of all types in both consumer and industrial goods.

The veteran founding team has already been able to establish a standard solution in the industry using the Vred visualisation software. Incari emerged in May 2021 from its predecessor company “CGI-Studio”, which had up to that point primarily been active in the HMI sector for the automotive industry.

Advisors for equity financing, VC:

• Graef & Company (Berlin/Paris) – Prof. Gunnar Gräf
• Pius Equity (Berlin) – Georges S. Mario
• Noerr (New York) – Dr. Sascha Leske, LL.M.
• Gobbers & Denk (Frankfurt a.M.) – Dr. Klaus Denk