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Fascinating video from Kinect Hacks showing what Microsoft’s been working on with Natural User Interfaces (NUI). How soon this will be a reality is unknown, but it’s definitely making the future look that much cooler…
This is an op-ed written by Matthew Szymczyk, CEO of Zugara, that was originally published in AdAge on February 28, 2011. The entire article can be found here. You can also read the full article below:
Augmented reality — that’s just one of the latest marketing catchphrases, right?
The traditional definition of augmented reality, or AR, refers to the overlay of digital information on a live video feed. If you’ve watched an NFL game on TV ...
Continue Reading →UPDATE 1: Zugara is proud to announce that we were awarded The DEMOgod Award at DEMO Spring 2011.
UPDATE 2: We were interviewed by InLab Ventures directly after our presentation, video of that interview has been added below.
For those of you that missed the live stream of our launch at DEMO (on 2/28/11), below is the video of our presentation. Don’t worry, we had to keep it under six minutes, so it’s short.
As you’ll see, we’re working to ...
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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…