via mashable.com
The New York City subway might be the last place you’d expect to check out a library book, but that could soon change if some students from Miami Ad School have their way.
Showing posts with label Virtual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virtual. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Total 3D Solutions is Putting 'Real' in Virtual Reality
via www.gadgetell.com">technologytell.com
Michigan-based Total 3D Solutions are trying to bring their cinemizer OLED multimedia video glasses to the business of real estate. The company is showcasing their brand of immersive video glasses at the Real Estate Connect conference in New York City, offering realtors the ability to bring home buyers immersive video tours of their properties from the comfort of their own offices.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Snapping Photos in Virtual Worlds
When I reached Rivendell, I could not resist taking a picture with two of my heroes: Gandalf and Elrond. Like a happy tourist I stood between them and clicked away. And these images are as important to me as real pictures. But obviously, there is something virtual going on here.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Learning Real Life Lessons in the Virtual World
via mashable.com
Last week someone called my ten year-old daughter a bitch, to her face, sort of. She wasn’t in the halls at school or in the playground; she was in the hottest destination around, where fake ID wasn’t necessary and her bright pink hair was all the rage. She was on WeeWorld.com, one of many virtual worlds where kids create avatars and engage in social activity with “friends.”
This is not the first time my daughter has come up against nasty behavior online. At ten years old both of my daughters have been actively participating in virtual worlds meant for kids for the past 4 years. They started on Webkinz and Club Penguin, then progressed to Moshi Monsters, Bearvilleand Fantage. They tend to bop between worlds, forgetting one for a while and then returning months later to rediscover the old and familiar while taking in the new. They have different friend lists –- some populated with real life friends –- and take their possessions and self-built environments very seriously. They have spent hours over the years decorating their virtual spaces, trading goods, earning and changing outfits, and caring for pets. These are not games for them, but in many ways an extension of their identities. And it’s just as fluid and evolving as their real world childhood identities.
Friday, November 9, 2012
zSpace - Virtual Holographic Display Tool for Designers
via enpundit.com
zSpace sets out to unleash the full potential of human creativity by offering a revolutionary, interactive 3D environment for computing, creating, communication and entertainment. With zSpace, objects appear in open space, with full colour and high resolution. They appear realistically solid and can be directly manipulated as if they were real physical objects simply by using a stylus.
zSpace offers a true 3D user experience by “blending the physical world with a sensory-rich virtual world that people can naturally and intuitively manipulate and navigate.” This technology will significantly advance the way we solve problems, learn, teach, communicate, and create in our world.
Friday, July 13, 2012
The Future Of Customer Experience – 3 Examples Of Virtual Assistants, Biometrics And Siri-Style Services
via techcrunch.com
The future of customer service is less about the people than it is the sound of a person or the virtual image of an individual.
Humans are just so inefficient. But they can be improved, too, through interfaces that provide them more automated capabilities.
Salefsorce.com is on the edge of this trend. It continues to acquire companies that automates an agent’s tasks to become more efficient and customers to experience a less odious way of getting their issues answered. This week it acquired GoInstant, which makes it easier for anyone in a customer experience role to share a Web page. It requires no plug-in. It’s simply a URL that connects the agent and the customer .
Saturday, June 23, 2012
HTC Making Siri Clone
Take a look at this image from HTC's Facebook page previewing a "top secret" project that seems very Siri-like.
BGR saw this photo first.
It looks nearly identical to Samsung's S-Voice voice-powered assistant, which is in turn a ripoff of Apple's Siri on the iPhone.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Virtual Assistants: The Wave of the Future
Here’s the situation: You are a successful freelancer who has a hard time turning down work. And you’re busy.
Too busy, in fact, to do much of anything but work. Because you work by yourself, you are not only bogged down with the projects you owe your clients, you are buried under phone messages, emails, bills that need to be paid, invoices that need to go out, and don’t even mention updating your blog and website. Facebook, Twitter, and Google+? Please. You don’t have the time.
Does this sound familiar? It doesn’t have to be this way, you know.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Google Art Project White House Tour
The Google Art Project allows you to take virtual tours of prominent museums around the world in the same way that you can navigate a city or town with Google Street View.
Now, a slew of locations have been added to the project, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico, and even the White House.
Monday, March 26, 2012
The Future Of The Virtual Personal Assistant
Since its launch in the iPhone 4S, Siri has become a phenomenon, and for good reason. Siri is a revolutionary consumer software product based on breakthroughs in speech and artificial intelligence technology.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Researchers turn your smartphone into a virtual projector
via engadget.com
Pico projectors are an easy way to increase the screen real estate of your mobile phone, but what if you'd rather not carry one around in your pocket or bulk up your phone's slim profile with a slip on solution? Well, a team of intrepid researchers may have come up with an elegant solution to your problem that can work with any smartphone and external display: virtual projection.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
How to Use Virtual Assistants to Grow Your Business
via readwriteweb.com
Time is a commodity that when spent, is gone forever. In today's multi-task, multi-function smorgasbord, the flattening of the Internet has opened a window to savvy entrepreneurs looking to utilize and control the time they do have. We aren't talking about magic, but a new breed of workers called virtual assistants.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Nintendo Is Planning In-Game Virtual Item Sales For 3DS
via techcrunch.com
It seems factors like the smartphone gaming revolution, the rise of social games, and shrinking video game sales do have an impact on Nintendo’s business strategy after all. Various Japanese media, i.e. the country’s biggest business daily The Nikkei, are reporting today that Nintendo is planning to offer in-game virtual item sales for 3DS titles.
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