Dx3 conference
The Dx3 conference took place last week in Toronto, Canada. We went there as attendants, to feel the pulse of the digital advertising industry. The conference exhibitions are -still- focused on Web...
View ArticleWe the people of AR
Mobile AR has been driven by three main parties: Wikitude, Layar & Metaio. As we shared some time ago, all three used proprietary AR format, for the simple fact that each one was trying to figure...
View ArticleCity Icons (our content) now available in Google Glass
It’s no secret that our content is based on using the Layar AR engine. Last week Layar took one step further into Google Glass, by releasing the Layar app for Google Glass. Certainly, Layar is not the...
View ArticleThe ironic adoption of mobile web design
Marc Andreeseenn (the founder of Netscape) said it best: The problem with new technology: new technology is not worth much until it’s worth a lot. The previous applies almost to any technology widely...
View Article13 movies an entrepreneur should watch
On this blog we write about stuff, any stuff that we see fit. On this opportunity I’ll share some movies which I think a worth seeing from an entrepreneurial point of view. Some of them are true...
View ArticleThe coming of Terra Icons 2.0
About year ago we made the decision to funnel our City Icons series into one app. The decision was not easy, because it meant changing our AR engine, which is based on Layar. The app became Terra Icons...
View ArticleThe inevitability of wearables
The photo above is making rounds on social media. Think about the whole evolution that happened in just 10 years. Thanks to Moore’s law, now we can comfortably carry around an entire video library of...
View ArticleGoogle latests Acqui-hire: Quest Visual
Previously we have talked about Word Lens, one of the first truly practical apps using AR. In case you didn’t you about them, check this video out, this is what they did: Word Lends is made by Quest...
View ArticlebliYAR, the newest player in the AR world
The internet is full of gossip and rumours. That being said, sometimes the source of those rumours are quite credible. In this case, this article is mentioning that Layar is being bought by blipAR. We...
View ArticleWhy Google+ hasn’t taken off?
As you may know, Google+ has not been the success most people expected. For sure, we don’t know what Google was expecting out of it, given their philosophy. However we know that the company has made a...
View ArticleHistory of the renewed Apple-IBM vows
Last week Apple-IBM break ended in a new reunion, promising to renew their vows on this new stage of their relationship. Yes, this relationship is not new, is an old love-hate adventure the two of...
View ArticleAmazon’s FireFly tech, AR coming of age
Last week the Amazon Fire phone started to sale, while reviews has not been kind to it, the phone does brings a host of new technologies that will influence user expectations and experience as a whole,...
View ArticleThe ghost of being too early
There’s a saying: Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it That’s a motto I try to follow, as such, history is something that I like and I always factor in an analysis. There’s also another...
View ArticleContent Update for Terra Icons
After our grandiose launching of Terra Icons v 2.0 :-), we think it would be nice to share an update on how the content progression is doing. Added cities (services): San Diego (Icons & Trolley)...
View ArticleBurger Hortons vs Uncle Sam
As you might have heard, Burger King just merged with our beloved (for people living in Canada at least) Tim Hortons. I’m not an accountant, nor a tax specialist, so take this as it is: A far away...
View ArticleThe implications of the new Apple SIM
Since the dawn of the iPhone, Apple has tried to shun away from operators, however reality says they’re a necessary gatekeeper to deal with. For the time being, it will continue to be this way as the...
View ArticleCalifornia dreaming
MarketLink As we have mentioned earlier, we were invited to the MarketLink event in San Diego to show our solution to several companies. MarketLink is a great program that puts to talk directly...
View ArticleMIGS 2014
This year we got the great opportunity to participate again as volunteers on the Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS). As always, great talks and knowledge being shared. Here, we’ll write about...
View ArticleChallenges 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...
View ArticleOculus 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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