Why AR devices lag behind VR ones?
- September 19, 2019
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First, the basics: AR enhances your surroundings, while VR detaches you from it. While they may seem similar, the end experience is completely different. Today’s VR is a reality (pun intended) due to the mass adoption of smart phones. Bluntly put, VR devices screens are phone screens put in front of your eyes. Advances in…
At last! A decent antivirus for Mac
- March 25, 2019
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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. Granted, macOS has had some sort of protection mechanism for years now, it’s called System Integrity Protection, it does some of the functions that antivirus…
Xamarin or Cordova, why?
- November 1, 2018
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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 both are meant to build mobile apps, so they both deliver the same end result, just different internally. So why bother with one…
At last, Magic Leap came out of the closet … sort of …
- July 24, 2018
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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 today: 2.3 billion USD. That’s two thousand and three hundred MILLIONS dollars, let that sink. Since its inception (around two years…
Business pushed Kotlin to the forefront, not code supremacy
- May 17, 2018
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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 world around their knowledge. For any decision in life, whether it impacts us directly or not, we’ll try to rationalize it according…
How AI & AR play together
- March 13, 2018
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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 came out, Google pioneered the use of AI in mobile devices with the app Google Goggles, way…
How to verify iTunes App Store descriptions in different languages
- February 5, 2018
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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 language (English, French, Italian, etc.) displayed to describe the app on the iTunes App store. We found this very helpful post…
Amazon’s AR/VR vision
- January 10, 2018
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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, just translate it in today’s term: sports channel. Because in sports, players play games. Might not seem…
ARKit or ARCore? None or both!
- October 30, 2017
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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 different for the simple fact that both ARKit & ARCore are specific tech for each company, respectively Apple and…
Formula-e AR Webapp
- July 27, 2017
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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 the venues inside the main venue. We are still scratching our heads on why this race wasn’t done on…