South by Southwest 2013 – Vote for Augmented Reality!

August 14, 2012

Way more important than real voting. 

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It’s that time of year again when voting begins for all of the panels everyone has submitted to South by Southwest Interactive. Even if you’re not planning on attending South by Southwest Interactive, you can still support metaio by making your voice heard in the community voting!

Take a quick minute to create a PanelPicker account (if you don’t have one) and then link straight to these two great panels that feature metaio projects and use-cases:

 

 

How A Virtual Pop-Star Sold Her First Car featuring Lisa Murphy of metaio! 

In order to engage with a younger, tech-savvier audience, Toyota launched an integrated marketing campaign for the 2012 Toyota Corolla that featured emerging technology like 2-D print activation and vision-based mobile augmented reality to leverage its existing yet scarcely-downloaded mobile app, the Toyota Shopping Tool. It also features an entirely digital open-source anime pop-star sensation named Hatsune Miku.

Toyota saw huge successes as a result: Corolla leads jumped 30% the week of the lauch; Toyota Shopping Tool mobile app downloads increased 600%; website traffice for the first week increased 167% and continued at an all time high for the next seven weeks.

In this proposal, learn how the interactive director of a multicultural agency and the project lead for an augmented reality company worked together to make this campaign a huge success for Toyota, culminating in a Multicultural Excellence Award.

 

 

Hot Housewives Getting Augmented At Home featuring a project developed with the metaio Mobile SDK

The lady of the house is often the one picking the décor and design at home. If she can see a ductless system in her house virtually, thanks to augmented reality, sales rise — and have they ever. Using custom mobile apps integrated with emerging technology, such as augmented reality and a custom app store, Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating is revolutionizing the way its sales channel members do business. Tools in hand, Mitsubishi Electric is projecting an increase of $30 million in revenue next year, while simultaneously decreasing future costs for printing and distributing product catalogs by millions of dollars.

Mitsubishi Electric’s products can save homeowners 30-percent on their energy bill, but most just want to know, “What is it going to look like in my house?” Augmented reality is Mitsubishi Electric’s most visual tool in its custom app store that will deploy 11 new enterprise apps for a variety of specific needs in its sales channel.

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Voting starts today and continues to the end of the month, so tell your friends!

Share on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, Digg, Myspace, Friendster, IRC….basically whatever you want.

While you’re at it, vote for anything else you think is cool!

Outside voting counts for 30% of the selection process, so help us get to SXSW so we can bring these great panels to life!


Weekest Links for August

August 14, 2012

And everything after. 

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“No, ~you’re~ too much!!” *

 

metaio | junaio recap

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]

…and don’t forget to register! [article]

you should vote for us [South by Southwest] 

Please Please Please vote for our South by Southwest panels (just take a moment to create an account)

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/6487

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/5488

 

there are things that are happening 

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.


3 Weeks of Weekest Links

March 19, 2012

The week shall inherit the internet. 

This is probably the coolest thing I have ever seen.

 

Mobile World Congress 2012 Recap

A Letter From CEO & Co-Founder Dr. Thomas Alt [blog]

metaio Introduces Augmented City Platform at Mobile World Congress [press release]

Texas Instruments Continues AR research for OMAP Platform at MWC [press release]

Arsalan and Trak talk to ARMdevices.net about next-gen AR software [video]

The 2012 Augmented City with 3-D Object Tracking [video]

Augmented Reality for an entire city (German) [article]

metaio at Mobile World Congress 2012: Unleashes Augmented City Platform [article]

metaio Unveils Augmented City Platform at MWC in Barcelona [article]

We had a party in Barcelona- TechCrunch came to it [article]

 

Game Developer Conference 2012 Recap

ARM provides developers with Optimization Platform for Mobile Gaming [press release]

Trak talks to ARM about the Augmented City and ARM Mali processors [video]

 

South By Southwest Interactive Recap

3M Curates Innovation Conversation during SXSW Interactive with AR App [press release]

3M develops augmented reality post-it note app [article]

3M to introduce Augmented Reality Post-It app [article]

App Lets You Pin Virtual Post-It Notes to a Real Wall [article]

 

Other cool stuff

Sappi Releases ‘The Standard Vol. 5, Special Effects’, which metaio augmented [press release]

Lisa Murphy & Kit Hinrichs of Studio Hinrichs talk about augmented print [video]

Junaio content partner Valpak launched an iPad native app [article]

Great post from Helen Papagiannis – add your voice to the conversation [blog]

Register for the Augmented Reality Event (ARE) May 8-9 in Santa Clara, CA [website]

(Here’s a discount code courtesy of metaio: METAIO375)

 

Non AR Pick(s) of the Last Three Weeks

Honestly, not a damn clue. But luckily I have people that send me stuff!

Vermeer Interactive Display from Microsoft

 

 

Finally- LEGO Transformer Game Boy Tetris in no particular order [article]

 

 


Get Out The Vote For South By Southwest Interactive AR Panels

August 25, 2011

South by Southwest Interactive 2012 might seem far off, but the voting deadline for panels is quickly approaching. I am happy to say that metaio is participating in four different potential panels, and we’d really like to see them get a great response from our followers. We’ve got some very cool topics in the works, so we’d really appreciate your support! You can vote for as many panels as you like, so please be generous. Make sure to create an account, it only takes a few minutes- just click on the titles of the panels below to go straight to the voting page!

The New Role of Advertising in AR Game Development
Brendan Scully, Business Development Manager

Augmented Reality promises the future, but who is actually building new things with it? How are they making any money? As new projects demand six-figure budgets, can privacy rights, humanistic design and fun coexist with user metrics, brand messaging and a lust for “k-factor”? We’ll take a look at what’s been built, why it did and how we might design better games for players and clients alike moving forward.

Negotiating The Hype Curve: How UX Can Sell AR
Roman Hasenbeck, US Director Sales & Marketing

Every new project is defined by the business practices that enable them. So why do so many Augmented Reality experiences fall short of the expectations of both the buyer and end user? With dissatisfied clients and rumors of low ROI, perhaps it’s time to reevaluate how we sell AR. Roman Hasenbeck, Director of Sales and Business Development at metaio Inc., the nation’s leading AR Tech firm, explains the process of selling AR the right way. He shows us why the Hype Curve is just a crutch for lazy producers, and how the most crucial yet often-ignored components to ensuring a great project and closing a sale is taking the time to learn the tech, design a thoughtful experience and communicate it effectively to the client.

Augmented Reality = ARPA’s Original Vision of Web
Lisa Murphy, Sr. Sales & Marketing Manager

Using a variety of original source material, Chris Grayson will give an overview of the global network, as envisioned by thinkers at ARPA before the creation of the ARPAnet. Examples include J.C.R. Licklider’s “Man-Computer Symbiosis,” 1960; Douglas Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect,” 1962; and Ivan Sutherland’s “The Ultimate Display,” 1965. Some focus will also be given to the people and personalities involved. Lisa Murphy will provide the technical explanation for many milestones in the evolution of the internet, making the case that the human interface to the network has historically been limited by the available technology, and with Augmented Reality, we are now entering an era that truly begins to deliver on the original vision.

And lastly, Yours Truly:

Real Time Hyperlocal Brokerage Communities
Trak Lord, PR & Social Marketing Manager

Our life styles are increasingly evolving into hybrid experiences that blend the physical with the cyberspatial and the virtual. Moreover, these interactions are creating new forms of communities for fun and commerce, where consumers and businesses increasingly use hyperlocal incentives to leverage our immediate surroundings. In this panel, we’ll explore how games, collaborative consumption, Augmented Reality, consumer to consumer brokerages, experience augmentation, visual discovery and local commerce are providing the glue for diverse hyper-local experiences and communities.

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Outside voting counts for 30% of the selection process! Help us get to SXSW so we can bring these great panels to life.


Augmented Diversity

March 4, 2011

Aloha. I am not participating in Carnival, nor have I been on vacation or partying the UEFA (European Football Association) 5-years ranking to hard, where Germany finally succeded over Italy, yeah! No, we are completely revamping our website and several other channels and while this was and is keeping me pretty busy I was also working on some of  the cases, which I want to share with you in a plain list this time. Please take my apologies, but I bet some of you appreciate more info and less talking anyway…

Have a nice weekend!


metaio @ SXSW 2010

February 19, 2010

Some more reasons to attend this year´s SXSW: metaio will present a whole new version of junaio at this inspiring event. Furthermore the Unifeye Mobile SDK is among the finalists of the “Accelerator” competition by Microsoft® BizSpark and SXSW. You can find us at the PORTER NOVELLI booth, from March 12th until March 16th.

This is our session at the Interactive Panels, “Late break”: Augmented Reality Check. One, two, …

By the way, is this band schedule real or virtual?


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