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Hey folks, today is a gigantic day for us at Zugara, and we just wanted to share the news with you. We’re currently privileged to be presenting the latest advancement to our Augmented Reality E-Commerce Software, “The Webcam Social Shopper”, at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs. The latest advancement? The technology is now markerless. Truly markerless. We’ve developed a way to get rid of the paper marker and allow an apparel ...
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From Kinect Hacks is another hack showing how old school NES game Mike Tyson’s Punchout can work with Kinect. Now imagine what this will do for previous game titles. Hopefully somebody doesn’t get Kinect working with MAME or I’ll never be seen or heard from again…
We recently launched our second and third Augmented Reality projects for Nestle and thought you might be interested in some of the details. This time we were tasked with concepting and developing two unique advergames for Juicy Juice. Like our first project (for Nesquik), Juicy Juice was interested in creating unique advergames that people can play within their webcams by utilizing their motion to play the game rather than traditional controllers (i.e. the mouse and/or ...
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If you’ve been in the tech industry for a while, then I’m sure you know the rich history of DEMO, “the launchpad for emerging technology”. Well, the whole Zugara team is proud to have been chosen to present, and launch, our newest e-commerce technology at this year’s Spring conference. It’s a huge opportunity for us, and we’d love to see you there: The JW Marriott, Palm Desert, CA (2/27 – 3/1).
If you can’t make ...
Continue Reading →Here are the stories that got the most activity on the Augmented Reality Facebook Group this week:
Here’s some videos of some lighthearted moments where people are getting familiar with the new Natural User Interface (NUI) on Kinect…Nobody said adoption of a radical new gestural interface would be easy 🙂
Though we usually blog about Augmented Reality, once in awhile an ad comes along that justifies (or keeps alive) the 60 second spot…at least on YouTube. 3 Million Views (and counting) in 1 day…
So, Juniper Research just issued a report that “predicts global revenues from (mobile) augmented reality applications and services will approach $1.5 billion by 2015.” And I wanted to see what you guys thought about that number… Does it sound accurate? Is it way off (in either direction)? What’s going to drive that revenue? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
For the record, my official answer is: WTF??? By 2015? How?
That is a gigantic number, ...
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The blog post below initially ran on AdAge last Friday, January 28th and you can view the actual post here. It’s no secret how we feel about the current crop of Mobile AR apps being overhyped to the point they’ll damage credibility for the entire AR industry, but read below and let us know your own thoughts on whether or not you agree…at least we’re content knowing Forrester Research ...
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