Metaio and Junaio partner Concepteers GmbH has released yet another very cool project. This time, they worked with Toshiba Germany to place Toshiba products directly into the mobile user’s living room using augmented reality. Or office, or car, or basically anywhere you could use a phone!
The Toshiba Digital Living Room app works together with Toshiba’s Product Catalog to allow mobile users in the DACH region to visualize reduced-scale products like L4, M6, L7, M8 and M9 Televisons or the Qosmio X870, Satellite P870 and Satellite U920t notebooks.
Michael Mathieu, Managing Director of Concepteers, says: “We went with Metaio as the AR provider since it is widespread and offers an advanced AR feature set that allows us to develop the best possible AR experience for our customers.”
Concepteers is a valued partner of Metaio, and continues to deliver amazing augmented reality projects with our technology. Check them out on Facebook or visit their website to learn more about the company and the projects they release.
The app is available today for both Google Play and iOS devices. You can visit Toshiba’s website to learn more about the augmented reality app at http://toshiba.de/ar or just scan this convenient QR code with your device (hopefully using Junaio!) to be directed automatically to the experience.
Registration is open for the Augmented World Expo, June 4-5 (formerly ARE). Use code AWE3META to get a special discount, courtesy of Metaio [registration]
Meet Metaio at the Augmented Reality Summit, June 20th in London [event site]
Interested in speaking, sponsoring or attending InsideAR, the most exciting event in the augmented reality industry? Contact us! [event site]
pick of the week: Oblivion
You’ve probably already seen the trailer, but we’re just tickled to see yet another Tom Cruise movie that features egregious exposure of CGI Augmented Reality.
The best interactive augmented reality CMS gets brand new user interface and experience for print media
MUNICH & SAN FRANCISCO, 31 OCTOBER 2012: Metaio, the world leader in augmented reality (AR) software and solutions today released the latest version of its Metaio Creator, the only commercially available desktop drag-and-drop content authoring software optimized for all print media.
“Publishers and design professionals aren’t necessarily experts in Augmented Reality yet,” said Peter Meier, Metaio CTO. “The Creator makes it easy for them to not only launch an experience but also to scale their content – massively.”
The newest version of the Metaio Creator is the most powerful Augmented Reality content production system available. It’s the ideal tool for publishers and designers who want to bridge the digital and real worlds to add content to their print media- magazines, t-shirts, posters, logos, business cards, catalogs- nearly any image or object is just clicks away from being augmented. Publishers, Designers, Brands and Agencies don’t always have access to Augmented Reality developers. This tool allows them to easily integrate and manage augmented reality content in their mobile ecosystems. Over 300 million magazines and catalogs have already been delivered in 2012 powered by Metaio Augmented Reality technology. The Metaio Creator will enable a content explosion for augmented reality, the likes of which have not seen since the beginning days of the internet. Learn more and download the free version athttp://metaio.com/products/creator
The Metaio Creator deploys to the Cloud and major mobile platforms like Android and iOS. Publish to the Junaio Augmented Reality Browser or a native app using the powerful Metaio SDK. Powered by the Augmented Reality Experience Language (AREL), the Metaio Creator lets nearly anyone produce mobile AR interactions without any coding necessary. Watch the video to get started, or visit dev.metaio.com/creator/tutorials/the-basics/
Galileo, popular ProSeiben network show, did a feature on Metaio and Augmented Reality [video]
New Tutorial video for junaio for non-programmers [video]
Augmented Reality Interface for Spatial Anatomical Education [blog]
Diego and Dario in Augmented Reality at insideAR 2012 [blog]
upcoming events
insideAR, Oct 1-2 in Munich will feature speakers from Lego and Ikea, among numerous others – register today and don’t miss this exciting augmented reality event [newsletter]
In case you’re curious about the culture of the Oktoberfest, check out the full version of the infographic above [right here]
Trak Lord will be delivering the keynote presentation for the mobile developer M3 Conference, Oct 25-26, Columbus, OH [event site]
Metaio will be presenting at the upcoming Connected Enterprise event in Dana Point, California Nov 9-11 [event site]
Our CFO Andreas Wiedmann will be presenting at TOC Frankfurt on “Innovations in Sales and Marketing”, October 9 (“TOCPartner20TSpeaker” for 20% off registration [event site]
The largest Augmented Reality Event in Canada, OARN is a can’t miss for the industry- Oct 5-6, Toronto (get $25 off admission with discount code METAIOSAVE25) [event site]
there are things that are happening
Google’s Project: Glass made a surprising appearance on the runway during New York’s Fashion Week, with Diane Von Furstenberg, of all people [article]
UK company’s augmented reality glasses could be better than Google’s [article]
There’s a new iPhone 5 and it’s selling like hotcakes [article]
Interesting research paper featuring (unnamed) junaio [paper]
The iPhone App Review, “Taste the future with junaio Augmented Reality Browser” [article]
This week is your last chance to vote for metaio for this year’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival – WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! [vote]
New speakers, workshops, demos and details all revealed in the latest insideAR briefing [newsletter]
there are things that are happening
Apple wins + $1 Billion in damages in Samsung lawsuit settlement- this will undoubtedly change everything, again [article]
Google Patents Smart, Minority Report-esque Glove Design [article]
Pick of the week – Happy 80th Birthday to our partner, LEGO
Ever wondered about where that name and iconic brick originate? LEGO has put together this great short about the beginnings of one of the most popular toys in the entire world, if not the universe. Go celebrate the occasion and stop by a LEGO store to try out the Augmented Reality Digital Box in every store in the world.
Congratulations to mediagrand on winning a Custom metaio Mobile SDK [blog]
Did you win a trip to gamescom? Learn more about the project from Augmented Minds [blog]
Business Development Manager Brendan Scully waxes poetic in his interview with ARNews.tv [video]
There’s still time to “Take Part” in the 2012 Samsung Take Part: 2012 Augmented Reality Android games [download]
IKEA Augmented Reality Catalog is a step in the right direction [article]
*Certified Developer Digital Delta Design released a new promo video that features junaio at Weddings [videos]
Hey, you! Yes- you. Don’t forget to update to the latest version of junaio! [article]
insideAR 2012- the best augmented reality conference around, conveniently scheduled to coincide with Oktoberfest. Check out pictures from last year… [photos]
Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers [article]
EyeRing, voice-activated augmented reality tool for the blind- wait what? [video]
Disney researches add virtual touch to the real [video]
pick of the week eternity – “Sight”
If you haven’t already seen this, you probably think Augmented Reality will always be fluffy marketing gimmicks. I’m truly sorry to have to forever shatter your rosy view of the universe.
We recently conducted a lovely survey of some of our users and developers in the hopes that we would get their thoughts and feedback on the metaio Mobile SDK, one of the best platforms out there for developing robust, vision-based augmented reality applications for Android and iOS.
We promised that one lucky winner, chosen at random, would receive a free Custom Branded Option (~$6k value) Mobile SDK and we’re happy to announce that the winner is Paul Lewis of mediagrand!
Paul was ecstatic about his good news:
Winning a copy of the metaio Mobile SDK custom branding option (CBO) is fantastic news and I’m really excited about it.
Having a copy of the CBO version means we’ll be able to significantly reduce the cost of development, which is great news for our clients. It will also help us to establish our position in the growing augmented reality industry which is a great boost.
Looking ahead, we have clients wanting to create their own AR apps that reflect what they’ve seen in other apps on the market. Being able to reduce our costs will hopefully provide the impetus for those ideas to finally move into production which is great for business, and for the growth of augmented reality as a whole.
Great to hear, Paul. Hopefully this lucky win leads to a slew of cool, upcoming projects!
Both iOS and Android users can download the amazing IKEA Catalogue app for free(!) to discover all 43 pieces of augmented and activated content when the publication finally hits mail and IKEA stores around the world.
Check out all the great press around this innovative product catalog:
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