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...
View ArticleHoloLens 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...
View ArticleTo 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTo 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...
View ArticleLocal 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...
View ArticleScavenger 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....
View ArticleMVP, 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...
View ArticleLa 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...
View ArticlePokemon 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)...
View ArticleNative 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...
View ArticleMexico 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...
View ArticleMonterrey 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleRushing 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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleFormula-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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