LM3LABS and French Augmented Reality leader Total Immersion decided to go together after the Japanese and South East Asian markets.

Integrated solutions will let customers get LM3LABS’ touchless technologies like AirStrike or Ubiq’window, with Total Immersion’s augmented reality software.

The joint strategy targets Events, Interactive kiosks and online-offline publishing.

Recently Sony-BMG used AirStrike for the launch of the new album, 魔杰座, “Capricorn”, of famous Hong Kong star Jay Chou. Sony-BMG Hong Kong’s boss also used AirStrike in association to Google Earth to present album sales in Asia.

AirStrike easily brings precise interactivity to LED walls, whatever their size and distance from the user. For instance events can be deployed using LED walls installed on building with users at the ground level.

Music from Jay Chou.

CNN recently covered AirStrike and the next wave of human-machine interfaces based on touchless technologies.

LM3LABS is a definitive leader in this domain with its stereo vision capabilities applied to museum, showrooms, events and soon on your beloved laptop.

Read the article here.

After all those years on the market we have the feeling that our market has never been so agitated.

Small players appear everyday, large companies announce in media products that will never be launched before 5 years (if launched).

All this is good sign because it means the market is super dynamic, investors and large companies consider it is a piece of the future, and at the end, all this agitation frees us from “educating” the market, what we have done in the last 5 years, patiently.

Now, one must keep minds clear about who is who, who comes from where and who has done what.

Many companies discover us with technologies like AirStrike and for them we are an other hit maker on Youtube.

So, we thought it was time to put on a single page the list of the customers we have served in the last 5 years. They are happy customers who trust us for supplying Wow!, Robust, Manageable, Cost-effective interactive solutions.

Those customers also trust us because they see the future with LM3LABS, our hard work and the great people we have kept in our eco-systems (for information, the rogue partners are gone to competition).

This list is actually pretty impressive in both quantity and quality.

So, just compare… and think long term: who will be here is 5 years from now, who will be gone with the winter wind. references.lm3labs.com

AirStrike was on air on last June 8 on Nitele (the nickname for Nihon Telebi, the Japanese TV, one of the 2 main national channels in Japan).

Guest stars could experience the free air interactivity of AirStrike.  Despite what you might thing this is a prime time science program. Yes I know, Japan is an other planet…

For those who missed this great piece of TV and those who are abroad, here is a recall.

This is an other example of AirStrike made in collaboration with Barco Japan.

The idea is to demo free-air interactivity to museum, public venues, virtual reality user (i.e. car makers, real estate developers) and event organizers.

AirStrike lets users instantly interact with the projected content.

Barco supplied a marvelous 18.000 Lumens projector.

On this second movie we used paintings from artist Momoko Sudo (www.momokosudo.com) to show how discovering art can be simple and pleasant.

AirStrike will be presented on Nihon TV (Nitele) on June 7, 8pm JST
as part of the program "The Most Useful School in the World".

This primetime program is aimed at explaining new technologies to Japanese with guest stars as students.
This is one of the best and most popular program in Japan.
The stars were presented AirStrike and they could play with the interactive system.

As
this world is small we were there with interactivity specialist Alvaro
Cassinelli from Tokyo University. He presented an interesting obstacle
detection helmet.
On the picture below we see here LM3’s Yumiko playing with the tool. We had plently of time
talking about user interaction, laser, products, collaboration…

Just to provide some ideas about the ambiance we post some pictures
which will not tell too much about the content… You will have to wait.

AirStrike and its precise free-air interactivity is particularly well adapted to applications like
: 3D visualization, holograms (like in this example), interactivity with huge screens, or "can’t touch" screens (water falls, smoke, mist, pulsed air…).

Bridging e-commerce to real life retail is LM3LABS’ mission for a few years now.

The two worlds have difficulties to talk each other.
On one side, tons of great digital content on servers, on the other side, shops where decisions are made, where products are purchased (whatever the e-commerce gurus may tell and write you still buy in shops).

Touchless interactivity can bridge the 2 worlds to enhance the customer experience while shopping.

In the above example the user point in the air at the apparel and receive:
- contextual information (promotion movie),
- complementary information (available colors),
- price information and enter into a payment cycle thanks to touchless payment technology Felica (in Japan only today).

Such integration lets customer complete the purchase cycle at any time
of the day and take purchase decisions on the point of sales.

Of course, it comes with all the back office tools for advanced marketing:
- usage statistics
- scheduling of content
- broadcasting of content
- mobile site integration for continued experience on mobile phone while away from the shop.

This "augmented" shopping experience can be applied to any kind of product: apparels, cars, IT, luxury goods…
Free-air interaction technology is the only solution for successful integrations between holographic images and real objects as users must have some distance from both to make the association in their eyes and mind. This is where AirStrike brings a unique value.

This is not future technology, despite it will take time to reach the shop at your block’s corner. It is available now for real life deployments to next-gen customers. Those will probably focus on differentiation and uniqueness as criteria for their decision, before they mature the ir understanding of what is "augmented shopping experience" for them and their customers.

At LM3LABS we do not believe much in cramming the real life into the small PC window. Recreating an all virtualized world.

We believe more in growing the digital world into the real life. This requires new types of display, like real size holography technologies, but also, and more importantly, different interaction methods. No more mice, trackpads,  only free-air interactivity can accomodate this vision.

Call your virtual assistant in a gesture. She is here, right in front of you like a real person, alive.

AirStrike lets users use their finger in the air to interact with holograms.

Holograms can be used as receptionists, presenters, augmented reality objects, virtual meeting and one day visualizing your Facebook friends right in the middle of your living room, real size !