Monterrey Tech
- November 15, 2016
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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 of this collaborations is, Tec Monterrey will be supplying us with the points of interest so they can be put into Terra…
Mexico DF
- November 1, 2016
- Joe
- entrepreneurship, Events, us
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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 expand our business and market what Terra Icons does. I met amazing people, companies and future partners. I continue…
Scavenger hunt in AR
- June 6, 2016
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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. That, until Jessie connected us about doing something together. And so we did … Enter the games! Given her wide experience on travel…
Android apps on Blackberry devices
- June 10, 2015
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- knowledge, us
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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 🙂 In short, the system react faster to interrupts, and that’s really good thing 🙂 However, as we all know, BB10 has not been able to…
Succesful crowdfunding!
- May 11, 2015
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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 believed in us, we really appreciated! The funds will be used to promote Terra Icons adoption, using several methods like…
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…
Telepresence robots
- February 23, 2015
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- knowledge, us
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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)…
New year, new website design!
- January 5, 2015
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- 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…
Content Update for Terra Icons
- September 2, 2014
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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) Seattle (Icons) Caracas (Icons & Metro), Bogota (TransMilenio) Panama (Metro) Brisbane (CityCycle) Zaragoza (Bizi). Added services to existing cities: Mexico…
The coming of Terra Icons 2.0
- May 7, 2014
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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 v 1.0, still depends on Layar, but that was going to be the last and only version…
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