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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 dissapear on August 8th and no more posting will be made on it.

Welcome to a new Era !

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Embedding the Digital World into Real Life: a different interaction

 

At LM3LABS we do not believe much in cramming the real life into the small PC window. Recreating an all virtualized world.

We believe more in growing the digital world into the real life. This requires new types of display, like real size holography technologies, but also, and more importantly, different interaction methods. No more mice, trackpads,  only free-air interactivity can accomodate this vision.

Call your virtual assistant in a gesture. She is here, right in front of you like a real person, alive.

AirStrike lets users use their finger in the air to interact with holograms.

Holograms can be used as receptionists, presenters, augmented reality objects, virtual meeting and one day visualizing your Facebook friends right in the middle of your living room, real size !

LM3LABS collaborated again with Le Louvre and DNP for their 4th exhibition in Tokyo.

This exhibition is about "The city of Susa and its ceramics in the first centuries of Islam" and is open since April 5th.

LM3LABS' interactive technology is used to engage visitors in a new type of discovery.

The details of the interactivity installation are presented here.

The exhibition is open until September 27th, 2008.

When Touch = Death, touchless is the only way

Touching IT devices sometimes means danger in the industry, medical and energy environment.

In dangerous environments like chemical industries, hospitals,  chirurgical facilities, bio-industries, high-voltage environments, screens, mice, keyboards, touch panels are often poor options.

Ubiq'window and its touchless interactivity let operators interact with digital informations without any contact.

Interaction can be completed with devices outside the hazardous zone (i.e. thru glass), or within the zone but without contact with the device itself.

This interaction can be made with infected/polluted gloves or tools in total security.

Japanese Yazaki Chemical Industries deployed Ubiq'window in their factories so that workers can access digital information without contact.

Ubiq'window AirStrike deployed at National Archives of Malaysia

National Archives of Malaysia deploy  ubiq'window AirStrike, the free air version of ubiq'window at Abdul Rahman Memorial Centre (the founder of today's Malaysia).

ubiq'window is the only high-precision technology in the world to provide a 100% free air, touchless interactivity.

Ubiq'window lets integrators create interactive zones associated to real-life, non-digital objects.
At National Archives of Malaysia, 3 "real-world" books are associated to 3  different contents.  Then visitors can turn pages of the projected screen, naturally, at distance, by pointing in the air.

This interactivity requires no training for people who instinctively know how to use the installation.

This installation is the perfect illustration of computer vision-based interactivity applied to  museums. The project was conducted by Alternative Advertisement.

A semi-transparent character was added to the actual installation picture to illustrate the way visitors  interact with the installation.

Interactivity in the Education Business

Management Development Institute of Singapore, a business school in Singapore attracts students with Ubiq'window interactive presentation at Career Fair 2008.

MDIS is a customer of Mosaic Solutions.

Ubiq'window and Real Estate Agencies

A very typical ubiq'window integration for a real estate agency in Belgium by ubiq'window partner Digidyn.

People can easily browse property listings from the street, thru the glass.

There is no necessary equipment on the glass. Stickers are made interactive by creating invisible interactive zone which triggers content on the application.

The show window arrangement can be adapted in minutes by simply pointing at the 4 corners of the stickers.

This kind of installation is vandal-proof and requires no maintenance. Installation is made easy by the use of a monitor inside the shop. It requires no video-projector and screen.

Ubiq'window offers a large range of applications associating digital contents to real life situations.

 

New Zealand Telecom roll out Ubiq'window Nationwide

LM3LABS' partner in New Zealand, Jelly Design NZ, rolled out the Nationwide trial of Ubiq'window last month for Telecom NZ the largest Telco in NZ.

Jelly's Wheatley says:

"The installation went very smoothly. All units are up and running, the system is now proving its worth in this highly competitive market. We are developing new dynamic interfaces to add value throughout 08 and Telecom NZ are very happy with the results and looking to include this technology further in their retail space"

"We (Jelly) provide the tools and support for agencies ( in this case Saatchi and Saatchi Auckland) to maintain control of the brand whilst partnering with them to develop new media spaces within retail. Jelly Design specializes in bringing Retail to life, we believe the future of retail lies in enriching customer experience and that we have only just touched on the possibility's Ubiq Windows offers."

Built and designed to sit alongside the existing cabinetry the Ubiq 200 was used to create an interactive area that extended outside the tv, each of the shelves acts as a trigger to provide further information and sub menus on products and services.

The walls themselves are interactive and triggered by printed "buttons" that updated regularly both on the screen and the surface of the walls.

A matrix of interactive zones was developed to provide a template that enables Saatchi and Saatchi to create and distribute new media direct from their offices in Auckland to each of the regional sites.

Jelly Design has been invited to partner with Saatchis in taking the concept further and developing a new interactive language, a visually driven syntax to draw on the learnings from the initial work.

The installation went incredibly well, there have been no call backs and we have a happy client looking to build on this first important step toward dynamic instore media.

Future projects include international airlines, major automotive brands as well as further interest from the Telco sector.

For a first client in New Zealand we could not have hoped for more, and Jelly Design and LM3LABS are proud to have Telecom NZ first to market in NZ with ubiq'window.

Holographic touchless Sony-Ericsson Campaign

Some images of a ubiq'window-based holographic campaign for Sony-Ericsson.

Transparency associated to touchless technology provides a unique experience to visitors and let brands create unique and differentiating user interfaces.