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Augmented reality is the user interface of the future. Metaio’s technology enables real-world interaction with digital content, and is leading the way in outstanding implementations of Augmented Reality. From LEGO’s in-store Digital Box that visualizes toys on product packaging to the new IKEA Catalog App, full of rich 3-D content viewed right through a smartphone.

Each year Metaio unveils the latest advances in the exciting field of Augmented Reality (AR). Business and technology professionals come from all over the world to see the newest industrial installations, the latest mobile app developments, wearable computing prototypes, and futuristic projects straight from the R&D labs of metaio and its international network of partners.

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”  – Arthur C. Clarke

More info here: http://www.metaio.com/insideAR/ and in the complete article

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Save the date! Great Wall Club is organizing the Global Mobile Internet Conference Silicon Valley (GMIC SV) this October 19-20.

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The Global Mobile Internet Conference is Asia’s most influential mobile internet conference. For the first time ever, the conference is coming to Silicon Valley.

The event is themed “Connecting Global Innovators” and will gather leaders from some of the world’s most prominent emerging epicenters of mobile innovation to discuss the shifts, challenges and opportunities in growing markets. Check the agenda for more details.

Join Ubergizmo, the Great Wall Club, and 5,000 entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and developers from Silicon Valley and around the world this October in San Jose, CA.

GMIC – SV also features two global competitions!

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Most of us experience the Los Angeles Convention Center during one of its most chaotic weeks of the year, when tens of thousands of gaming industry manufacturers, video game designers and consumers descend upon downtown LA for the annual E3 expo, booth-babe radar tweaked to 11. There’s a hint of graphics prowess amid the halls this week, too, albeit on a vastly smaller scale, and with a heavy heap of civility. SIGGRAPH is a trade event through and through, with attendees demonstrating their latest tech, taking in a handful of seminars or hunting for networking opportunities, in search of employment and partnerships. It’s often also a venue for product launches, which is what’s brought us out, along with the usual bounty of kooky creations that serve to entertain and lighten the mood. As always, we’ll be bringing you a little bit of everything over the next few days, letting you sample the best of SIGGRAPH from the comfort of your own device — head over to our SIGGRAPH 2012 tag to follow along.

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We’re live from SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Every year, the world’s hacker population descends upon Las Vegas to trade notes, sit in on informational talks and compete in friendly contests — all in the name of Defcon. But this time out, it’s the conference’s ever-evolving smart badges that’ve caught our eye, owing mostly to what lurks beneath. Designed by Ryan Clarke — the mastermind behind the gathering’s Mystery Box challenge — these hackable IDs, issued according to status (Press, Human, Goons, vendors, etc), come embedded with an LED, a multi-core processor, IR transmitter and accompanying hieroglyphic graphic. But that’s not all that makes these high-tech tags so special. Turns out, each one contains a game, buried within its open source software, that’s encoded with several cryptographic, linguistic and mathematical layers.

Shying away from hardware-focused hacks of the past, Clarke built this year’s scavenger hunt-like game to be more inclusive of attendee skills, as it’ll force conference-goers interested in cracking its code to break down social barriers and collaborate with other highly-specialized nerds. What’s the end game, you ask? Well, according to Clarke, the puzzle is a continuation of last year’s secret agent story (played out by a real-life actor) involving “a [mysterious] society of computer elites.” It’s not the sort of payoff we’d be after — something greener and covered with a certain Ben Franklin’s face would suffice — but it sounds intriguing enough. Click on the source below to read more about the makings of this geek sport. And may the pastiest neckbeard win!

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Defcon 20 badges meld hieroglyphs, circuitry and cryptography for hacker scavenger hunt originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple is taking a different, more cautious tack when it comes to security these days. That doesn’t make it any less surprising that the company is planning to give a presentation at the Black Hat conference: the company will have someone on stage for the first time and won’t just socialize in the corridors. When he takes to the podium on July 26th, platform security manager Dallas De Atley will go into detail regarding iOS’ security measures in front of an audience used to finding a way around them. The company hasn’t said whether that involves current or future technology; we suspect that Apple may be eager to show what iOS 6 brings to the table, however. If it all goes down like Black Hat general manager Trey Ford says it will, Apple may both open up a bit on security and set more of the agenda this week — instead of letting conference goers set it themselves.

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Apple to present at Black Hat conference for first time, talk about iOS’ padlocks originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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