End of June, EDB, Singapore’s Economic Development Bureau, presented at World Cities Summit 2010.

The 2,000 square feet booth was designed by former Red Dot Design Awards judge Chris Lee. Inside it embedded LM3LABS’ interactive technologies like AirStrike. The result is a state-of-the-art interactive experience.

CNET Asia’s Nicholas Aaron Kho covered the event with an article.

Nicholas’ movie:

Pictures from blogger Pat Law:

On July 23rd, LM3LABS hosted the Tokyo Interaction Center, aka TinC.

Pictures can be seen on http://bit.ly/bnJ0FG

Among guests, Tokuda-san a PhD candidate from University of Tokyo specialized in holographic 3D screens. He presented a small model of his research. We helped him to illustrate the application of his work to the “commercial” world and this the result.

A ring of very light mist mixed with fragrange is pulsed in a shop while a projector synchronize images with the ring size, dimension, speed, density in order to create a 3D effect to viewer under the “cloud”.

3D visualizations simply look like coming to the visitors. When the cloud reach the viewer it caries a fresh fragrange

Tokuda-san interview, in Japanese, can be seen on TinC’s YouTube Page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrkxmrHnVnQ

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

Marlboro deployed AirStrike in Eastern Europe for better attraction of their interactive campaign.

Interactive booth were deployed in shopping centers.

An other campaign with happy customer Philip Morris.

The campaign was managed by JustPromo.

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 !

The ultimate graal in the museum industry is to bring the depth and richness of the digital world together with exhibited objects, artifacts, master pieces…

AirStrike offers a solution for interaction with those real objects but also with distant screen.

The present example is both simple to deploy and highly effective.

An AirStrike is integrated into the exhibition stand. The front rear is a plasma display. Objects, here precious Japanese ceramics are inside a glass case, out of reach from visitors.

Visitors can interact in 2 different ways.

1- They can point at an object to get information about this precise object: artist, technique, dates, etc…

2- They can also directly point at the LCD screen and navigate into digital contents: chronology, media archives, etc…

Visitors do not need to touch the glass or any device. Gestures are natural and intuitive.

Similar AirStrike deployments have been made in museums around the word.

Of course, this configuration is not limited to museum but can also serve jewellery, showrooms, luxury boutiques,…  The design is free as technology remains invisible.

Please enjoy the movie in HD.

We illustrate a simple solution to deploy for events and exhibitions.

AirStrike sensor is seamlessly installed inside the booth itself and only a narrow cleft allows the “eye contact” between the stereo vision cameras and the pointing fingers.

This installation lets visitors interact with a distant screen by simply pointing in the air toward the screen.
Exhibitors can use larger, higher quality screens which will be more visible to crowds, and will remain unharmed from them.
Despite the “invisible technology”, the touchless interaction is highly attractive by itself.

AirStrike’s precision allows virtually any type of content from picture browsing to hyperlink clicks, from web sites to 3D object handling.

This configuration is so easy to deploy that it can also fit museums, digital signage or retail shops.

As many Europeans are heading South for well deserved vacations, it is a high risk period for the fragile Mediterranean forests.

L’Institut pour la Foret Mediterraneenne (Institute for the Mediteranean Forest), a regional education center based in Gardanne, close to Marseille, in France, recently equipped with AirStrike.

Visitors can navigate a map of Southern France and Corsica, select a district, discover local treasures like rare species of trees or animals. They can also watch impressive pictures of forest fire damages.

The education center is visited by thousands of kids every week. They instantly and naturally interact with the distant content, simply by pointing in the air. It illustrates how AirStrike is well fitted to public venues like museums, education centers etc…

If Gardanne is on your way to holidays, please pay a visit to Institut de la Foret Mediterraneenne. You will learn tons of things about the Mediterranean forest, its protection and forest fires prevention.