We start our first series of interactive furniture with a set of interactive tables based on flat multitouch iTable 32.

The series comes in 3 flavors:
- dark oak
- natural birch
- white corian

…and 2 sizes:
- 40cm high for living rooms
- 70cm high for other purposes like showrooms, museums, or boutiques.

iTable 32 can track up to 40 simultaneous fingers, is equipped with i7 mini-PC running Windows 7 Professional in your language.
The stunning heatless screen has a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels so that you can watch your HD movies in 1080p, play your favorite games at their best.

The multitouch surface is water and scratch resistant and it can serve as a normal table if necessary.
Of course, the design can be adapted to specific requirements and tastes.

Content-wise, iTable 32 series can accommodate most of Windows-based applications but also come with specific widgets like Catchyoo’s Koi Pond, games and home automation.

Pre-order are opened.
Please enquiry to LM3LABS for prices, detailed specs, or better, come and visit us in Tokyo.

LM3LABS is also hiring distribution partners (exclusive furniture distributors with strong market share in their market).

LM3LABS delivered to Tokyo-based Sophia University, a multi-touch application for learning languages on interactive tables and other multitouch devices.

The application relies on the “reading by color” methodology developed by Dr Caleb Gattegno and used at Sophia University “on paper” for many years.

Dr Gattegno’s is an approach to teaching reading, spelling and writing using the association of syllables to colors.

LM3LABS’ application lets 1 teacher and 3 students collaboratively work on texts:

• - understand the spelling and read the sentence by the color
• - identify the nature and function of words in the sentence
• - split the sentence according to the rhythms and pronounced syllables
• - recreate the sentences from shuffled sentences

The application can accommodate multiple teachers and languages, it also records mistakes by student so that they can individually work on their weaknesses on the soon-to-come iPad version.

As for the design, LM3LABS wanted to make it as simple as possible so that it does not disturb the learning experience. The focus is on words, colors and images.

The application is open source so that developers can adapt it to other multitouch devices (touch panels, Android devices, etc…).

Dior started their second roadshow using AirStrike interactive book in Singapore.

Visitors can turn pages of the virtual book by simple hand gesture over the book.

The first series starts with Dior Addict and will be followed by the Miss Dior campaign.

NTT West, provider of fiber infrastructure, inaugurated their Kyushu “Hikari” showroom equipped with 4 ubiq’window.

Tracking fingers and gestures, ubiq’window sensors let visitors browse the service offering with natural gestures and without contact with the projected glass.

12 iMac 27″ installed with an AR application has been deployed to 12 shops of French kid apparel brand BonPoint throughout Japan.

Kids can discover contemporary artist Jean-Michel Othoniel’s work in those shops.

A deployment in collaboration with La Boite.

LM3LABS initiated a collaboration with Jean-Michel Othoniel, one of France’s most prominent contemporary artist.

The first collaboration started with Augmented Reality at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
An “AR room” lets people, mostly kids, discover 12 major works from the artist which would be difficult to bring in the location.
Kids can discover, handle, turn and examine each work in details.
This room is complemented by a side workshop for kids where they can draw and color models they have discovered with AR.

The exhibition which is curated by Tokyo-based La Boite and sponsored by French apparel brand Bonpoint will last until March 11th, 2012 and will be followed by the same exhibition in Macao and New York. Bonpoint’s shops will be equipped with the Mac version of the AR application (the museum version runs on Linux).

The 3-month exhibition was inaugurated on January 6th by Imperial Princess Takamado and France’s ambassador, Mr Christian Masset.

If you are in Tokyo, you can get more information about the exhibition on Tokyo Art Beat web site.

If you can read Japanese, please check this blog selection:

http://bit.ly/xXbjXb

http://www.fashionsnap.com/news/2012-01-03/jeanmichel-bonpoint/

http://www.art-it.asia/u/HaraMuseum/nxa75MDdtPX3oSHGkRlw/

http://chibahidetoshi.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post.html

http://yaplog.jp/shigemi-mukuno/archive/157

LM3LABS’ team wishes you a Happy New Year !

At LM3LABS we strongly believe that 2012 will be the year of the interactive 3D, so as a greeting card we would like to explore our imagination world with you. Will you find our greetings messages in this world? (a hint, “move away from town! Take distance and watch back”)

In 2012, we wish we all will live FULLSCREEN ! So please, play this greeting card fullscreen too. RIGHT-CLICK, and “Go Fullscreen”.

Navigate in this imagination world with your mouse and keyboard arrow keys. You can use mouse + keys together.

Of course, you might have to download the Unity plug-in, no worry it is safe and we think it will be a great investment for 2012. Click on LM3LABS logo to install it.

Happy exploration, Happy 2012 !

For its bicentenary celebration, Perrier-Jouet, the famous French champagne brand, tapped LM3LABS for two interactive and touchless books similar to what was done for Dior in Singapore.

The books used AirStrike to track hands and gestures in mid-air and let users turn pages or click on elements on pages.

The books presented Perrier-Jouet history since 1811, the Emile Galle period and its 2011 legacy with so talented artist Daniel Ashram.

LM3LABS’ team is excited to unveil LM3LABS Private Limited in Singapore.

Business-friendly and innovation-hungry Singapore, like surrounding countries, have been a key market to LM3LABS since 2006. The City-State is a central cross-road in Asia and Middle-East.

LM3LABS Singapore has three core missions:

1- LM3LABS Pte Ltd will support the growing demand in interactive products in Singapore but also in fast growing countries namely India, Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia and China.
2- This expansion will also contribute to LM3LABS visionary R&D programme for 2012 in liaise with the French office.
3- LM3LABS Pte Ltd’s third mission is to better support local partners with expertise in interaction design, technology integration and product installation.

A fully-furnished showroom will open early 2012.

Belinda Ng has been appointed as Business Development Manager and will manage the growth of the regional market.
She brings in unique experience of LM3LABS’ products and experienced business acumen.
Please get in touch with her !

Shiok Lah !