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!
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.
LM3LABS’ team wish you a great augmented year 2010 ! We would like to thank our customers and our partners for the past collaboration in 2009 and we are delighted to start this new decade with them.
The new coming decade will bring incredible new experiences, technologies, development in the realm of interactivity.
As a Greeting card we would like you to share a face tracking experience that we prepared for you.
With this “greeting card” we express our philosophy that technology can bring more joyful experiences to human beings, discovering cultural heritages from an other angle, that we all must protect those precious heritages and diversity.
The greeting application let users experience traditional Japanese Noh theater masks, also called no-men. The bamboo on each side are traditional Japanese offering for the new year. The plum flowers (ume) are also traditional good luck symbol. The background is made of traditional Japanese paterns, while the side paintings represent divinities.
EXPERIMENT BY YOURSELF !
Get your webcam ready and turn your browser to http://2010.lm3labs.com
(on PC: IE or Firefox, on Mac: Safari or Firefox).
Select your camera at the top of the screen, install the necessary DFusion plug-in when prompted and enjoy !!
Have a great year 2010 ! We wish you the best for you and your family !
We launch this week a new offer dedicated to business card augmentation. Business card augmentation means making more from business cards and turning them into multi-media promotion tools.
Visited client can immediately get access to showreels, corporate presentations, 3D presentations of new products.
When corporate logo are presented to customer’s webcam it triggers multimedia events. Virtually any logo can be used and interactive scenarios can be created.
LM3LABS interactive solutions are presented in February issue of Shanghai Expo 2010, the universal exposition which will happen next year in the city of pearls.
The magazine presents Catchyoo, Ubiq’window, Airstrike and augmented reality from partner Total Immersion.
LM3LABS is official partner of the Shanghai Expo 2010 for interactivity.
The article can be read HERE.
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.
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!).
