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3 Solutions To Save Your Live Event During Covid-19
Event organisers, agencies and location owners all over the world are therefore looking for alternatives, and fortunately our increasingly connected offers ready-made technologies for them. Digital experiences can replace physical experiences (and other face-to-face marketing initiatives) both effectively and safely in these uncertain times. The unique affordances of AR and VR in all their forms present viable and engaging solutions for experiential marketers.
Here's What Team INDE Has Been Up To in 2019
2019 is coming to its end, so we've asked our colleagues at INDE to take a stroll down on memory lane and vote for their favourite AR experiences of the year. While it's nearly impossible to include all of our projects, we’ve tried our best to summarise what we've been up to in 2019.
4 Times When Augmented Reality Played a Role in Wildlife Conservation
Digitally “resurrecting” certain animal species or keeping extinct ones in digital form for future generations has always been near and dear to our hearts at INDE. We firmly believe that immersive technologies such as Augmented Reality can raise awareness of critically endangered species by providing them with a layer of interactivity, which generates recollection.
5 Brilliant Augmented Reality Mobile Apps
Mobile continues to be a fascinating space for the deployment of AR. For many years expectation has sadly outweighed technical capability, but things are changing fast. Despite the inevitable gimmicks, the face apps, the inward-looking marketing campaigns, Augmented Reality provides real power in the right hands. Since 2011, we've done hundreds of AR projects worldwide – Here's our top 5 favourite Mobile AR developments.
7 Killer Use Cases of Augmented Reality
Since 2011 we have developed location-based and mobile Augmented Reality products and experiences in over 40 countries, for the world’s leading entertainment and education brands. Below are some of the greatest examples of how they utilised AR to revolutionise the way they engage, educate and entertain their audiences.
Augmented Reality App Allows Children to Build Healthy Cities at the DoSeum
The Doseum: CityLab, a mobile AR application developed by INDE, is a game intended for children to discover the possibilities of creating healthy and balanced cities, as part of their interactive adventures at the DoSeum, San Antonio's Museum for Kids. The app uses Augmented Reality to create a unique 3D tabletop game that sparks kids' imagination and creativity in a fun and engaging way.
An AR App Dedicated to the Memory of Sudan, the Last Male Northern White Rhino
The world is still in mourning after the death of Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhino, on March 19, 2018. 45-year-old Sudan did an incredible work as a rhino conservation ambassador, highlighting the plight of rhino species around the world. His death leaves just two of his kind remaining on Earth – his daughter Najin and granddaughter Fatu.
The basics of Augmented Reality – Interview with an AR expert
What is Augmented Reality? What's the difference between Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality? How do you ensure the digital additions spatially register with the real world, in real-time? How does mobile AR work? What type of professionals are needed to create an AR app? Learn more about the basics of INDE from Norbert Kovacs, INDE's CTO.
The Last Three Northern White Rhinos Brought to Life in Augmented Reality
As an Augmented Reality company, INDE creates products and experiences that inspire, entertain, inform and educate — next-generation platforms that change the way people interact with digital content. Since 2011 we have launched large-screen and mobile AR systems in over 40 countries, for the world’s leading entertainment and education brands.
5 Clever Mobile App Uses of Augmented Reality
Gameplay on the mobile phone has probably seen the biggest amount of growth out of all gaming platforms. From Snake on the Nokia in 1998 to Angry Birds flying across smartphone touchscreens in 2009, we’ve seen huge changes. Now, to keep mobile gaming fresh and to help field of the vast amount of inner - and outer - industry competition, the future seems to be gameplay that jumps out of the phone.
One 3D character, 5 ways to play and learn in Augmented Reality – Meet UCF
Since 2016 we have been quietly following our Unified Content Framework (UCF) Strategy. This allows us to build one 3D model and then deploy it across all of our product range. One 3D model can live within BroadcastAR (augmented reality for big screens), MobileAR (iOS/Android), HeroMirror (augmented reality vending machine, yep!), LiveAvatar (live control of 3D characters).
As an Augmented Reality company, we know ARKit will be huge – here's why
The real impact of Apple's ARKit remains to be seen, but as you can tell by the number of new Augmented Reality demos and samples out there, it has already grabbed the attention of many. As ever, the quantity does not always equal quality but in this case, it’s a huge step forward that developers all around the world are giving it a try, and sharing results.
AT&T SHAPE, here we come with ARKit, HoloLens, Computer Vision & more
We are happy and excited to be part of this year’s edition of SHAPE, a Tech and Entertainment Expo sponsored by AT&T, exploring the convergence of technology and entertainment (Los Angeles, July 14-15).
We Saw the Future of Augmented Reality in a Field in 2011 and it Blew Our Minds
Technology. The empower of people, the future of all and most importantly the creator of hilarious entrepreneur folklore since the establishment of the computer. The stories that often accompany tech advances are usually too fantastical to take seriously.
21st century thinking (and beyond) in Education
INDE has a very challenging dual role – and arguably responsibility – in its marketplace, which it has in common with many who operate using “emerging” technology. It acts not only as a revenue-generating commercial operator, which of course it has to in order to stay alive, but also as an evangelist. Ensuring that we have time and capacity to act as effective evangelists is a constant battle with the practicalities of running a business.
Use cases for AR & VR: some thoughts on the experience
AR and VR are here to stay it seems, as big companies are investing a lot of money into a market that’s projected to be worth more than $30 billion by 2018 and $120(!) billion by 2020. That’s a pretty big market to get a piece of, and it’s no wonder a lot of companies are scrambling to prepare for the big boom that’s supposed to be coming this year.
T-Rex Revealed: The story from a different perspective
When we were tasked to create an “invisible” exhibition themed around recent scientific findings on dinosaurs and T-Rexes in particular, we were excited to work on an educational application that teaches kids about these fascinating creatures in a visual way. We were prepared to work on a large scale but fundamentally simple Augmented Reality application that uses target images to position the content and track the space to keep the content in place.
5 killer Augmented Reality features for Museums and Education
Museums, visitor centres, zoos, aquariums and education boards are now looking at augmented reality as a tool to educate and entertain the younger, app-wielding generation Y and beyond. To help those considering it all, we give you a short and sweet feature and benefit list for the next internal meeting when your colleague says they don’t “believe in technology”.
5 essentials to consider when creating mobile Augmented Reality applications
In one hit Apple entered the market for augmented reality working on existing mobile devices and it’s got a lot of people talking about the potential prior to wearable revolution. Smart phones are everywhere, in everyone’s pocket, and capable of generating rich AR experiences given the right set up. What is not to like?