metaio Is Fair

October 21, 2009

Just wanted to share the latest coverage from our technology fair this year. Of course it is not like ISMAR, but we had 180 guests from around 25 countries, 30 live-demos and a lot of interesting new ideas and projects coming up. Maybe see you netx year …

Augmented Kingdom

August 14, 2009

Once upon a time, there was this information kingdom, ruled by hype cycles and catchy videos. Speed was the currency, quantity was the drug and image was everything. It was the time of virtual birds, twittering the news and rumours in a 15 seconds of fame (and attention) pulse through the venes of the newswires. Some even called it a war when it came to a certain point where the world as it has been known was on it´s way to change. I mean, the way this world was seen. In these times even the most deliberate knights, the warhorses of this visual battle were forced to use the ultimate measure: a demo video !  (drum roll, rolling thunder, pathetic music). And this is the story I want to tell you today…

Hey, since the AR hype started way after we released this software tool, I wanted to share this classic application with you. As there are more and more augmented reality applications popping up, whith a functional approach (sometimes the execution is a little weak) this viewer should be named. Actually this movie is based on our good old interior design tool, where you can plan your living environment within a simple picture of your real apartment. But with a little effort we created the living movie …