Panasonic distributes Catchyoo for many years now. They recently published a case study about their use of Catchyoo in association with their own video-projection products.
This case study focuses on a precise installation in Kyushu, the Southern island of Japan.

It is an excellent explanation about the value of the product to the final user and installation details.
The case study is on this page or can be downloaded as a PDF.

Please also check this Press Release in Japanese from Panasonic about the Hakata JR station installation. Hakata is the latest station of Japanese bullet train Shinkansen.

Pictures are copyright Panasonic Systems Solutions Japan.

We open a new site to present interactive solutions for Museums.

This site focuses on Computer Vision technologies: Gesture Tracking, Face Recognition, Passive and Active Interactivity, Augmented Reality,…

Touchless, computer vision-based technologies are well fit to museums as they are mass-proof, invisible and require no learning.

A reference site for curators of the 21st century !

http://museums.lm3labs.com

Over the last 7 years, LM3LABS has built a complete set of technologies and products all based on computer vision. They are software and electronics products as it is difficult to create high-quality CV products on software only.

We recently mapped those technologies for a better understanding of what product does what.

If all of them belong to the “gesture control” world, the best segmentation is made from 4 categories:

• Finger tracking: precise finger tracking, it can be single touch or multi-touch (this latest not always being a plus). Finger tracking also encompasses hand tracking which comes, for LM3LABS products, as a gestures.
• Body tracking: using one’s body as a pointing device. Body tracking can be associated to “passive” interactivity (users are engaged without their decision to be) or “active” interactivity like 3DFeel where “players” use their body to interact with content.
• Face tracking: using user face as a pointing device. It can be mono user or multiple users. Face tracking is a “passive” interactivity tool for engaging user in an interactive relationship with digital content.
• Image Tracking: Augmented Reality (AR) lets users use images (flyers, real products, t-shirts, faces,…) to interact with digital content. AR can be markerless or marker-based. Markerless technology has advantages but marker-based AR is easier for users to understand. (Please note here that Markerless AR is made in close collaboration with AR leader Total Immersion).

Most LM3LABS’ products are leader on their segment if not unique.

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:

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

LM3 LABS unveil patented Catchyoo Face Tracker, an innovative digital signage solution for shop window interactivity.

Catchyoo Face Tracker tracks faces of passing people for creating eye-catching interactivity with digital content. Faces become pointers which trigger events and follow people.

Catchyoo FT’s patented technology  is robust to urban environments like busy sidewalks, changing light conditions, night and day,…

Catchyoo Face Tracking is multi-user and leverage information like distance from screen, speed, direction, changing directions, number of watching people, groups, etc…

Catchyoo Face Tracker can be associated to most display technologies: projection of course but also LED, Plasma/LCD, etc…

The world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, welcomed guests, jury and contestants with Catchyoo Playground as a symbol of dynamism and innovation.

The programme celebrates “entrepreneurial success and recognizes the benefits that entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial spirit bring to the economy in terms of job creation and enhancing its competitiveness and profile“. We think we are, at our humble scale, in line with this…

On December 17th, Catchyoo started serving the promotion of the World Expo 2010 which will happen in Shanghai, China.

A first Catchyoo Graffiti was deployed in the 300-square-meter hall in Tokyo.

World Expo 2010 will gather most countries from May1st to October 31st, 2010. Shanghai expo’s theme is Better City, Better Life. The Chinese version of the event will be at the dimensions of the country, 10x larger than Japanese Aichi World Expo in 2005.