Mobile indoor positioning options
- April 22, 2015
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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- available as a finished product. Still, there’s no standard way to provide indoor location, as it is the case with GPS….
Testing the waters of crowdfunding
- April 6, 2015
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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. We thought it was cool, so we created our respective, concrete and straightforward crowdfunding campaign. Nothing fancy, just the basics. So, please visit the project’s…
Why Google Glass v1.0 failed?
- March 16, 2015
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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 when we heard that this current version of Google Glass was being killed. Google gave it the spin of…
Telepresence robots
- February 23, 2015
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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 KMs away from the office on which we were having our interaction, so it was either the robot, videoconference (Skype)…
One night event with Steve Wozniak
- February 17, 2015
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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 of the founders of Apple Computer, Steve Wozniak. The event was celebrated on Place Des Arts, Montreal, with an attendance of 3000 people, mostly…
Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro
- February 9, 2015
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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 product is to have Windows 10, as it’s based on it. Well here it is! Installation There’s not much…
HoloLens vs Google Glass
- January 27, 2015
- Joe
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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) have: They’re both -at their core- augmented reality products. Neither company calls them that way, nevertheless, they’re. They both overlay information on top of…
New year, new website design!
- January 5, 2015
- Joe
- us, Web
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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 Icons app were our main product. As, out focus shifted towards Terra Icons, naturally the design…
Oculus Rift is awesomely sick!
- December 8, 2014
- Joe
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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 travel at those “fast” speeds (60 KM/h?) the new technology offered. Eventually we learned that no such thing happened….
Challenges of SmARtCities
- November 17, 2014
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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 city communicating. So, the challenge here is getting this communication take place. But what precisely is being communicated? The idea is that buildings can…