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!).

We have the pleasure to welcome Crystal Lee (Yi Lee Sujnng) as LM3′s new Business Development Manager for Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Based in Tokyo, Crystal will contribute to LM3′s growth on those markets thanks to localized support in Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

Her first mission at LM3 was to supervise a shooting for TVAsahi, a major TV channel in Japan. The program about “The Future of Advertising” will be broadcast on TVAsahi on August 31st at 8pm JST and will show Catchyoo and Ubiq’window in action as next generation tools for advertisers. The shooting happened at Catchyoo Media Channel spots in Tokyo.

Crystal, a Korean citizen, holds an MBA from Toyama National University, Japan, and brings her past experience in electronic products business development acquired in Taiwan.

Crystal, you have the mike:

“안녕하세요, 한국, 중국, 일본 , 대만 시장을 담당하게 되었습니다. Catchyoo,Ubiq’window 와 같은  유닉하고 재미있는 제품을  한국에 소개하게 되어 기쁩니다.

你好，我是負責韓國,日本,中國,台灣市場的crystal lee.很高興有機會與您分享與Catchyoo,Ubiq’window一樣獨創、有趣的產品”

As we celebrate the 2 years of our Catchyoo blog, as we take new promising directions at LM3LABS, we hire new people, we prepare new amazing products, it was time to re-align our blogging strategy too.

The new blog is designed to reflect the innovation spirit carried by LM3LABS for the last 5 years. The LM3LABS blog is more product neutral, covering all products while leaving room to the future products and corporate and business news.

Simpler, wider, it leaves space to video in hi-quality and to better graphics.

Visitors have direct access to the products, solutions or corporate sites with visible buttons. They can also easily contact LM3LABS thru a form which integrates into LM3LABS business flow.

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Also please change your bookmarks as the Catchyoo blog will disappear on August 8th and no more posting will be made on it.

Welcome to a new Era !