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…
The challenging reality for Magic Leap
- December 12, 2016
- Joe
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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 today) ~1.4$ Billion. Many big investors are behind this company, including Alphabet. Presumably most of them have seen a private…
HoloLens vs Meta 2: Mano a mano!
- March 10, 2016
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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 can say HoloLens took many of the features of Meta 1 glasses and improved over them. Likewise, Meta…
Project Tango available for more countries, but is it worth it?
- August 7, 2015
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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 it can sense the world around the device (it did it way before HoloLens was announced), and with this information, it can…
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…
HoloLens vs Google Glass
- January 27, 2015
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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…
Google latests Acqui-hire: Quest Visual
- May 20, 2014
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Previously we have talked about Word Lens, one of the first truly practical apps using AR. In case you didn’t you about them, check this video out, this is what they did: Word Lends is made by Quest Visual, last week Google bought Quest Visual. The initial and logical conclusion is that Google is buying…
The inevitability of wearables
- May 12, 2014
- Joe
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The photo above is making rounds on social media. Think about the whole evolution that happened in just 10 years. Thanks to Moore’s law, now we can comfortably carry around an entire video library of DVDs within our phones. This trend is going to continue, at least in mid-term, as long as we humans continue to…
City Icons (our content) now available in Google Glass
- March 31, 2014
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It’s no secret that our content is based on using the Layar AR engine. Last week Layar took one step further into Google Glass, by releasing the Layar app for Google Glass. Certainly, Layar is not the first one to do this in the AR world, Metaio and Wikitude have already made their stuff available…
Making sense of the Google Glass “Ticket”
- October 31, 2013
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Two days ago a little part of the internet went wild because a woman named Cecilia Abadie had a ticket for wearing Google Glass while driving. That’s the short history of it, you can check it out below. The devil is on the details Well, the thing is that she was ticketed for two infractions:…
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