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Challenges of SmARtCities
As always, there’s buzz about something. Among many topics, one that touches our domain is SmartCities. Long history short, SmartCities is based around the concept of everything and everybody in a...
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Oculus Rift is awesomely sick!
Each time a new technology is introduced, concerns are raised on the effect on us as human beings. When the locomotive railroads were new, many people had doubts of the effects on the human body to...
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New year, new website design!
As the new year begins, we attacked one of the issues we have been mounting on us for quite some time now: Our website design was becoming dated. The site design made sense in the time were the City...
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HoloLens vs Google Glass
As you may know, Microsoft revealed their latest technology product: HoloLens, which -understandably- made a lot of noise on the media. Lets start by the one similarity they (Glass & HoloLens)...
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Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro
We think HoloLens is going to push even more for AR. As such, we as pioneers in this area, are following closely the developments of HoloLens. One of the requirements to follow and develop for this...
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One night event with Steve Wozniak
The board of trade of Metropolitan Montreal has a series on events called International leaders, on which they interview influential people from all around the world. Last night they interviewed one...
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Telepresence robots
Recently we had the opportunity to experience and try tele presence robots. With a lot of people working from home, these devices make a very appealing use case. In our situation, we were thousands of...
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Why Google Glass v1.0 failed?
Many of us followers and participants of the AR environment followed closely the developments of Google Glass, as it was one of the bastions for expanding AR reach. So, it came as little surprise to us...
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Testing the waters of crowdfunding
We’ve always been curios about the whole crowdfunding phenomenon. We’ve thought of some ideas to launch, but nothing concrete, until now. We stumble upon this new fellow start-up called Launchleader....
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Mobile indoor positioning options
Some time ago we talked about the challenges for indoor location services. At that time Qualcomm proposal seemed interesting. Time has passed and now this offer is a little more mature and -at least-...
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Succesful crowdfunding!
A few weeks ago we started our small but focused crowdfunding campaign. It has successfully finished with a pleasant 110% of the objective amount collected. We would like to thank all of the people who...
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Why HoloLens is a game changer for augmented reality?
Keyword: triggers. Just until recently, computing devices (PCs, tables, smartphones, etc.) needed a physical object or information on where to overlay the augmented reality experience. HoloLens...
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Effects of Apple buying Metaio
Well it’s official, Apple bought Metaio. So what could happen? In order to understand better the whole thing is important to know what Metaio (and other SDKs) does. AR SDKs To enable augmented reality...
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Android apps on Blackberry devices
Blackberry 10 (BB10) is based on the the QNX OS. QNX is a real time OS that’s very good, for the none geeks, real time means that’s really good " class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"...
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Apple Music and the ghost of being too early
We previously talked about the phenomenon we baptized the Ghost of being too early, or as it is known in the entrepreneur world: Timing. History is plenty of failed products that were introduce too...
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Project Tango available for more countries, but is it worth it?
Project Tango is one of the many experiments Google Alphabet has. In short, is a tablet with extra sensors that enables it to have enhanced functionality no other tablet (or computer) has. Specifically...
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The business case for VR
VR as a concept is decades old, started to make inroads on the PCs on the 90s, never to popularized as envisioned. Then, on this decade (2010s) a crazy guy decided to make a VR headset, which in turn...
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AR in political campaigns
In the developed world, political campaigns are a challenge. People used to democracy, take it for granted, thus many show apathy for engaging in the political debate. As a consequence politicians have...
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Taking digital advertising to newer mediums
Alpilles Productions Technology, like life, evolves. When TiVo was a brand new device, broadcasters immediately worried that the device made easier for people to ignore -even more- advertisement, which...
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The AR challenges of a limiting field of view
When Microsoft first showed the world HoloLens, it wowed the world with all the things it could do (display). As time passed, Microsoft has wisely kept expectations real and it has said that the device...
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The superiority of PlayStation VR
Like several times before, we were volunteers for this year Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS). A great event! this event allows us to keep up to date with the latest trends within the game...
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Big data & geolocated AR
As you may or not know, our geo AR platform (Terra Icons) is based on displaying point of interest (POI) in cities by way of using augmented reality. Terra Icons currently covers 70 cities around the...
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AR vs. VR? or not?
Which is which? VR it’s on the mainstream, and maybe because it shares one initial (R) with AR, it tends to be confused with, as if both do the same or similar things. The only similarity between the...
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HoloLens vs Meta 2: Mano a mano!
Meta just released their Meta 2 glasses. In case you’re not aware of Meta, they’re one of the pioneers of AR glasses, pushing the concept before HoloLens, back in the day of Google Glass. In fact, you...
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To web host? or to Cloud? That is the question
Frequently I stumble with customers that are torn, or don’t know weather to host their project on the cloud or with a web hosting. So with the objective of clarifying which path to follow, lets...
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The stealth battle for 360 video VR domination
Source: VR Scout Virtual Reality has always been about generating virtual environments for its user. 360 Cinema has been around for decades, however VR was all about generating graphics for it. When...
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To ease Uber entry, make it electric only
Source @jrisco Many of us have seen or witness the worldwide battle between Uber and taxi drivers. Long history short, taxi drivers are defending their livelihood, while Uber represents the new way of...
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Local Businesses presence in geo AR
Bluepoints in AR Since the day we started working on AR, one of the way we envisioned it’s potential was by business being present on the medium (geo AR). Geo AR it’s not the only use case of this...
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Scavenger hunt in AR
Photo via Roberta’s One of the natural uses for geolocated in augmented reality (AR) is doing an scavenger hunt activity of some sort. While obvious, we have thought about the idea for a long time....
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MVP, frameworks, languages and programmers
So you got your idea, maybe you already have a website hosted or in the cloud. Now you need to execute on that idea. Assuming this idea involves a software project, how do you proceed? Well, I’m going...
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La Fête du lac des Nations in AR
Mollejuo’s mission is to index the world in augmented reality (AR). Step by step we have been doing that for years. Our latest assignment has been to index the Festival du Lac des nations, which starts...
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Pokemon Go changed forever user behaviour towards AR
Source: Niantic, Inc. There’s has been a lot a talk about Pokemon Go. We are going to focus on how it benefits AR, because, well … we do AR. First things first We weren’t that far off (4 years ago)...
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Native or Hybrid mobile app?
Source: Audiovisual.ie In the mobile world, programming for an smartphone is divided in native or non-native (i.e. hybrid). But … what is it? Each OS manufacturer (i.e. Google’s Android & Apple’s...
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Mexico DF
Last week I had the great opportunity to visit Mexico city (a.k.a, Mexico DF: Federal District). I had the chance to get to know this wonderful, vast, complex and majestic city. The visit was mainly to...
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Monterrey Tech
Monterrey Tech (Tecnológico de Monterrey) is one of the world’s most prestigious universities. As part of our recent trip to Mexico, we engaged with them on how we can mutually collaborate. The result...
View ArticleThe challenging reality for Magic Leap
In case you’re not aware of, Magic Leap is one of the hottest startup lately. Their pitch? An AR company with a technology that’s going to revolutionize the field As such, they’ve raised (up until...
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The curios case of tech’s business model pendulum
In the beginning In the 70s Bill Gates and Paul Allen were programmers. Different from a formal employment, both of them only made software to whoever needed. As such, they needed compensation -at...
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The true location cloud computing
The cloud concept is meant to be ethereal, floating, that we don’t need to worry about it. It has worked! However, cloud computing is very real, which means it has a real physical presence and cost....
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Two unintended consequences of the autonomous car project
Google has an excellent PR machine. Among the several moonshots projects they endeavour was one into making cars self drive. At the beginning it was an experiment, however the PR machine...
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Rushing to AR
Two weeks ago Facebook rushed to publish two new AR features: Frame Studio & Camera effects. As always, any expansion on AR is a good thing. That said, Mr. Zuckerberg himself said -during the...
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Apple officialized AR, now what?
Last month Apple finally came out of the closet and showed ARKit (officialized), their vision/version of how AR should be. From the get go, Apple’s ARKit is -technologically- nothing new. ARKit comes...
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Formula-e AR Webapp
This weekend is the last race of the Formula e season, which will happen here in Montreal. To celebrate the occasion we developed a nifty little web app on which people can locate in augmented reality...
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ARKit or ARCore? None or both!
To compare between similar products is a natural and healthy thing to do. Except when is not We have done our share by comparing AR SDKs before, guilty as charged! However, this time things are...
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Amazon’s AR/VR vision
It all started with the acquisition of Twitch for the cheap change of close to 1$ billion. Twitch is this platform on which people go to see other people play video games. If that sounds weird to you,...
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How to verify iTunes App Store descriptions in different languages
During our latest release of Terra Icons, we wanted to see how the app description is being displayed in different languages. I’m not talking about the language within the app, I’m talking about the...
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How AI & AR play together
Lately AI (Artificial Intelligence) is everywhere, is the latest trend and is in vogue. That said, while AI appears to be a fad, it is not, as with AR, this tech is here to stay. When Android first...
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Business was the one which pushed Kotlin to the forefront, not code supremacy
Technical people: any person dedicated to any subject, with an specific and in deep knowledge of that subject. Human beings tend to see the world as they are, and technical people rationalizes their...
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At last, Magic Leap came out of the closet … sort of …
Engineering is about sacrifice: You gain something, and you lose some So … at last Magic Leap presented to the world their prototype. Background Magic Leap it’s a startup that has raised up until...
View ArticleXamarin or Cordova, why?
It has become a tradition on this blog to compare things, so let’s keep traditions and compare Xamarin and Cordova. I’m not going to compare them technically, because they’re different. However, they...
View ArticleAt last! A decent antivirus for Mac
Macs suffer from less virus/malware attacks than Windows, not because they’re better, but because they’re fewer. This fact allowed Mac users to live without antivirus software, so far so good....
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