End of June, EDB, Singapore’s Economic Development Bureau, presented at World Cities Summit 2010.

The 2,000 square feet booth was designed by former Red Dot Design Awards judge Chris Lee. Inside it embedded LM3LABS’ interactive technologies like AirStrike. The result is a state-of-the-art interactive experience.

CNET Asia’s Nicholas Aaron Kho covered the event with an article.

Nicholas’ movie:

Pictures from blogger Pat Law:

On July 23rd, LM3LABS hosted the Tokyo Interaction Center, aka TinC.

Pictures can be seen on http://bit.ly/bnJ0FG

Among guests, Tokuda-san a PhD candidate from University of Tokyo specialized in holographic 3D screens. He presented a small model of his research. We helped him to illustrate the application of his work to the “commercial” world and this the result.

A ring of very light mist mixed with fragrange is pulsed in a shop while a projector synchronize images with the ring size, dimension, speed, density in order to create a 3D effect to viewer under the “cloud”.

3D visualizations simply look like coming to the visitors. When the cloud reach the viewer it caries a fresh fragrange

Tokuda-san interview, in Japanese, can be seen on TinC’s YouTube Page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrkxmrHnVnQ

LM3LABS unveil a new interactive solution based on Balloons from partner MGlobalJapan.

Relying on Catchyoo Reloaded proven technology, the interactive balloon solution allows close to 360 interaction with content.

The solution is available for rent or sales in Japan and Asia.

A future version is in preparation based on soon-to-be-launched 3DFeel product.

Here are more explanations:

in action:

As LM3LABS expand in new interactivity domains with new products and solutions, we grow our team and open 2 new positions.

We are looking for an Augmented Reality software engineer (JOB REQ: http://bit.ly/bMhMhz) and a Computer Vision software engineer (JOB REQ: http://bit.ly/a9KVMM).

Both positions are based in the heart of never-sleeping Tokyo.

LM3LABS and partners are thrilled to introduce the Tokyo Interactive Center (TinC), Tokyo’s first community dedicated to interaction and user experience (UX).

We hear more and more about “interactivity”, “touch” or “experience” from many different areas, from researchers at universities, large and small technology companies, advertising agencies, creators and artists and of course end-users, thanks in no small part to the success of the iPhone and other “multi-touch” appliances.

But all these different audiences never got the chance to meet and exchange their views on interactivity. Until now. The TinC is the first place where all interested parties can meet and work together.

For LM3LABS and other founding partners, interactivity is not (only) futuristic touch-screens as in the movie Minority Report. Interactivity is already available today in many form factors and there is much more than just “touch” to provide a unique user experience. The goal of the TinC is to showcase what is possible today, and to imagine the future applications of interactivity. TinC’s founding partners are looking forward to a productive discussion between architects, artists, researchers, universities, technologists and more.

In the coming weeks, we will give more details on what we have in store for the Center. There is a lot coming in 2010, so watch this space!

http://tokyointeract.org

We are igniting a series of updates and new software releases, starting today with the ubiq’window 2.6 Pack (Development Kit and Reader).

The new version comes with a fresher look and new features:

- new gestures
- Windows 7 compliance
- a calibration mode which significantly reduces installation time
- usage statistics
- improved robustness

…and tons of little improvements.

The 2.6 Pack comes free to existing ubiq’window owners and is shipping now with new equipments.

The pack comes in English, Japanese and French.

With 1000’s of units shipped around the world, ubiq’window remains the leading (…and unique) proximity touchless technology for precise interactivity, 100% based on computer vision.

In the next weeks, LM3LABS will release new software for partners and ubiq’window application developers, stay tuned…

LM3LABS’ team is delighted to annonce the launch a new Catchyoo FX called “The Koi Pond” (鯉の池 in Japanese).

The Koi Pond FX Pack lets user create multiple combinations of Japanese style interactive environments using ‘Koi’ (carp in Japanese), ‘Kingyo’ (gold fish) as well as seasonable particles like ‘Sakura’ petals, ‘Momiji’ leaves, gorgeous kimono silk and other typical Japanese elements.

Each element of the pack is carefully studied to match the scene to create strong impact and magnificient result.

In Japanese symbolism the koi represents perseverance in adversity and strength of purpose. The strongest koi swims upstream until it reaches the final waterfall, where it vaults into the mists and becomes a water dragon.

A few years after serving Black Eyes Peas, Catchyoo Reloaded is featured by Japanese band Remioromen’s clip, a band who ranks #2 in 2010 Japanese charts (their album was #1 in 2009).

movie is copyright remioromen

Marlboro deployed AirStrike in Eastern Europe for better attraction of their interactive campaign.

Interactive booth were deployed in shopping centers.

An other campaign with happy customer Philip Morris.

The campaign was managed by JustPromo.

LM3LABS is proud to announce today the creation of LM3LABS Corporation (LM3LABS株式会社) incorporated in Japan and which will own 100% of French LM3LABS S.a.r.l., LM3 LLC Japan and LM3 LLC USA.