For its bicentenary celebration, Perrier-Jouet, the famous French champagne brand, tapped LM3LABS for two interactive and touchless books similar to what was done for Dior in Singapore.

The books used AirStrike to track hands and gestures in mid-air and let users turn pages or click on elements on pages.

The books presented Perrier-Jouet history since 1811, the Emile Galle period and its 2011 legacy with so talented artist Daniel Ashram.

Holography is a visual trick which lets viewer think they are in front of a 3D object in front of them.
Questioning the reality of holograms is questioning the reality of life “a la” matrix. A philosophical debate.

Different holographic solutions where presented and explained at a Tokyo Interaction Center event.

Whatever technology is used to create holographic images, non interactive images or animations are extremely boring and rarely engaging.

Interacting with light is a tricky issue as there is nothing to touch and placing devices like a mouse or a trackpad “killes” the effect.

Finally the best is to interact is tracking finger pointing at the hologram.

AirStrike is the perfect tool for achieving this goal.

Here is a simulation showing the association between a “dreamoc” holographic system (but there are other manufacturers, and we would be happy to collaborate with them) and AirStrike. A real object is on display. Holographic contents appear around the object and propose menu to the viewer who “clicks” it. The content can be stereoscopique adding more to the 3D effect.

Applications are numerous in retail and museums.

Here is an example designed for a luxury watch maker. The visitor points at a real watch on display in the glass case. Holographic contents appears around the selected watch.

Holography can be larger scale.

In the below example, a system similar to “Vizoo” is used to create the holographic effect which separates the viewer from the artifact.

AirStrike lets the visitor get augmented information according to where he points toward the artifact’s details.

In the continuation of the 3DFeel avatar series, LM3LABS had the opportunity to present the “Samurai avatar”, a realtime 3D masterpiece, at Futur-en-Seine in Paris.

LM3LABS was invited as part of the Cool Japan initiative. Our focus was to associate technologies to Japanese traditions.

In action at Futur-en-Seine:

Some details of the work:

3DFeel is starting its collection of avatars with the Hikari Avatar which can be integrated into 3D scenes like games, edutainment, etc…

Panasonic started a European roadshow series to promote their 3D sensor in association with LM3LABS’ 3DFeel full body tracking middleware.

The second application delivered to Panasonic is a Flight Race game where users use hands, gestures and body to pilote their plane into scoring rings.

The game targets digital signage professionals as it dynamically embed in-game advertising.

It is 100% built for Panasonic sensor and can be customized to various sponsors.

LM3LABS unveils a 3D browser using 3DFeel body tracking in preparation to London 2012 Olympic Games.

The browser architecture devides the content browsing experience into a central rotation menu and related contents on a 4 peripheral spheres.

3DFeel identifies users (multiple), and tracks their hands (both) and associated gestures in space.

The browser also introduces the notion of “psychological space” (perceived space is not the real space) in order to compensate human mistakes.

The browser aims at serving the Digital Signage market as it allows browsing of:

- web pages

- images

- movies

- 3D objects

- RSS feeds

The 3D environment brings significant value as it matches a natural understanding of the world by human beings.

More information about 3DFeel on 3DFeel.net

A movie from a recent installation of AirStrike in Le Bourget aiport.

Le Bourget is a military and executive airport North of Paris. AirStrike is installed in luxury lounge of a private airlines company.

The installation was completed by AD-Lux from Estonia.

More information about AirStrike capabilities can be found on AirStrike web site.

3DFeel jumps on stage.

What would be karaoke with guest dancing on stage, as avatars ?

3DFeel was first to demo real-time body tracking associated to real-size holograms, on stage.

People body in the assistance are accurately tracked to animate their own holographic avatar. An other worldwide first…

We decided to keep you posted on evolutions and progress about 3Dfeel.
It goes fast and well thank you.

Here is a sample of body mapping to an avatar (low polygon because the red head tron girl is for test only).

LM3LABS started taking custom projects for brand adverstising and education centers.

Here is a nice example of Ubiq’window installation deployed by Hong Kong-based TVS for a watch shop in Macao.

Ubiq’window allows touchless, invisible yet precise interaction with any content on large surface.

As touchless technology and gesture control are finally getting from limelight they deserve, it is good to remind that Ubiq’window is deployed in thousands of sites offering the best precision interactivity on the market.