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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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