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Mobile World Congress 2010

dieGopen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:54:40 +0000

The 2010 Mobile World Congress will be held 15-18 February, in Barcelona Spain.

For four days, this beautiful Mediterranean city will become the place for mobile leaders to gather, collaborate, conduct business and experience VISION IN ACTION.

This year’s Mobile World Congress will include:

A world-class thought leadership conference featuring visionary keynotes and action-provoking panel discussions
An exhibition with more than 1,300 companies displaying the cutting-edge products and technology that will define the mobile future
An Awards ceremony and industry seminars that highlight the most innovative mobile solutions and initiatives from around the world
And most importantly, the planet’s best venue for mobile industry networking, finding business opportunities, and making deals

In 2009, Mobile World Congress hosted approximately 47,000 mobile professionals from 182 countries. More than 50% of these were C-Level executives, and 9,000 of them represented mobile network operators from around the world. In addition, more than 2,400 members of the press reported from the event, representing more than 1,500 media groups from 76 countries.

If your company wants to be a serious player in the mobile eco-system, you can’t afford to miss the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress. Join us in Barcelona and see VISION IN ACTION!

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Showcase Applications

The following companies/projects will demonstrate their software in the Mobile AR Showcase:

Would you like to participate?

If you are planning to come to the Mobile Augmented Reality Showcase
@ Mobile World Congress and you have a smartphone, then go to the
Apple AppStore, the Android Market and the Ovi Store and download the
applications from companies mentioned above.

On February 17, don’t forget to bring your business cards, your mobile
handset and your open mind! And maybe an umbrella if it begins to rain.

If you are a provider of an application or service and you would like to
demonstrate as part of the Mobile AR Showcase, there is no cost. We only
request that you help us to populate the Showcase directory of applications
by completing this form (same as button above).

ActionScript for Mobiles – for iPhone too!

dieGopen — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:58:53 +0000

One step beyond to have Augmented Reality on Mobiles.

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3! These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.

A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year.

How AS3 looks on: Palm, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android OS, Nokia Symbian OS, BlackBerry, TVs…

At MAX 2009, Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, demos Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices, smartphones and netbooks.

Nokia’s concept about an Augmented Reality life

dieGopen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:15:58 +0000

Mobile + AR Goggles + fashion accessories + Lifestyle

This concept allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in an Augmented Reality environment. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Through these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds.

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Nokia is getting serious about AR.

dieGopen — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:48:05 +0000

New apps are coming for Nokia users! (iPhone: you’d better wake up)

“Augmented reality”, a way of bringing digital content to life in the “real world” is a bit of a buzz tech at the moment, and Nokia is currently working on various versions of the tech.

Shown off at the Nokia World event in Germany, Nokia’s augmented reality, dubbed “mixed reality” by the phone maker, is currently in development by the Nokia Research department.

Demonstrations of the technology that Pocket-lint got hands-on with include the concept of making digital content embeddable in an everyday environment.

This application of the tech would “tag” locations to alert Nokia phone users to something of interest in their vicinity.

In the example shown an urban landscape offered hidden meaning via the “mixed reality” solution. A consumer arriving at a certain point (the example given was via bike) would receive an alert from their phone to let them know something might be of interest to them in the near location.

By panning their handset around the locale, the user will get further alerts – via haptic feedback, or an audible alert – when they are pointing their phone in the correct direction.

Feedback can be tailored to the particular point of interest. Again, in the example, a jazz cafe played a blast of music when the phone alighted on it.

By tilting the locating device (in the future a Nokia handset but in the Research demo, a wired, white remote) sharply upward more information is conveyed – in this case a brief recording revealing the gig for that evening.

In addition this solution, that would likely be aimed at commercial customers to advertise to Nokia users who might register preferences to get tailored alerts, Nokia is also working on a solution aimed at consumers to create themselves.

Similar to the likes of the Wimbledon augmented reality app we recently saw from IBM, this option would combine mixed reality with location-based tech.

The example a Nokia Research exec gave Pocket-lint was that one Nokia user could geotag one location and then create a virtual path to another location, all via the GPS capabilities of their handset.

A second user, when arriving at the first geotagged location would then get an alert to let them know they had arrived at the location, whip out their phone, hold it up to the landscape and see a virtual path mapped out across the real-time image displayed via their phone’s camera with a pop-up informing them of the end location.

As with other Nokia Research projects we’ve brought you news of, all this tech is ready and waiting to go, as soon as price comes down and demand goes up, you can expect to see these kind of solutions offered as features in a future Nokia device.

via: pocket lint