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 !

We unveil 3 new web sites for latest products.

- AirStrike™: http://airstrike.lm3labs.com

The touchless (mid-air) finger tracking product was launched a few years ago and already has an impressive track record but it never get its own web site. We correct the mistake.

- 3DFeel®: http://www.3dfeel.net

3DFeel is full body tracking and will imply collaborative work with a partner generated library of materials.
The site will evolve to a forum centric site with collaborative work between partners (module, avatars, game logics,…).

- Moovaction®: http://www.moovaction.com

Moovaction is precise finger tracking for interaction on any kind of surface (wood, glass, etc…). It addresses the interior and shop design, interactive furniture design and all integrations where the technology must be stealth.

LM3LABS has one of the most comprehensive portfolio of interactivity technologies on the market, which can be summarized as finger, hands, gestures, body, face and image tracking.

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

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.

When touchless interactivity of ubiq’window meets augmented reality it makes next gen kiosk.

ubiq’window brings interactivity to the full width of the kiosk: take a brochure and it will trigger the right augmented reality application. Printed materials, stickers and shapes are invisible interactive zones triggering other contents. The plasma screen is fully interactive as covered by ubiq’window optical sensors.

Enjoy HD with this movie in full-screen.

We recommend to use the full-screen button to watch the below slides.

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.

A few weeks ago TV Asahi, one of the largest TV channel in Japan, featured Catchyoo and Ubiq’window in a program focused on the Future of Advertising.

LM3LABS’ Founder and Managing Director, Nicolas Loeillot, was interviewed last Sunday by Radio France International, the worldwide broadcast of the national radio. He had the opportunity to explain LM3LABS’ vision of a computer vision-based interactive world.

The interview is in French and can be listened to here:

The program can be found on RFI web site.

For many years LM3LABS grow a vision of interactive surfaces: show windows, floors, tables, or objects. This interactivity mixes digital worlds with real life, what some call augmented reality. It is sometimes very difficult to explain our (crystal clear) vision to customers, partners, investors, … even family.

It seems that the most famous IT analyst company, Gartner, decided to help us a bit with their 2008 famous Hype Cycle.

Gartner’s hype cycle analyzes emerging technologies and positions them on 2 axis: 1- How do they attract attention (Visibility or Hype), 2- At what maturity are they ?

In 2008, for the first time, our markets appear on Gartner’s Hype Cycle in the “Surface Computers” and “Augmented Reality”. Surface Computers are nothing else than interactive tables, floors, walls, glass… Our daily bread.

Those 2 technology segments are positioned at the best place: not too emerging, not yet in the Trough of Disillusionment, right before the Hype Peak which is a serious sales driver.

In 2008, LM3LABS is in a leading position on “Surface Computing” and cannot be more ready to ride this beautiful wave announced by Gartner. Still some beautiful years before our market become mainstream (… and low margin!).