Forrester’s 2008 Customer Experience Rankings
The #1 winner is: Barnes & Noble! This is great information if you were ever curious about leading brands in their respective industries. Check it out!
Adobe Experimenting With Semantic Autogeneration of 3D Worlds
This might remind you of Microsoft’s Photosynth, but the concept is slightly different. Adobe blends images that are compositional, and semantically (tagged) related and stitches them into an endless canvas. The photos that are stitched together therefore don’t need to be of the same object in the way Photosynth was implemented. However, Photosynth does allow you to create 3D objects and pivot around it in space.
Infinite Images takes any collection of tagged images, not necessarily from the same location at all, and stitches them together in 3D by analyzing their composition and the semantics of their tags (“sky” is above “ground,” for example).
MINI Augmented Reality Ads
MINI Cooper has just released a new advertisement that uses AR technology. People can see a full 3D models of a MINI on their computer screen using a web cam and IE. (ActiveX required)
Slideshare Plugin for PowerPoint
Love Slideshare? Love PowerPoint? Now you can do it automagically without having to change windows. Sharing presentations has never been easier.
SlideShare Ribbon Demo from slideshare on Vimeo.
Pen-based Input Concept
We are no strangers to touch based interactions, or pen-based either, so it’s great to see Johnny Lee and others continue pushing the development of the perfectly useful input method.
Wikitude via [Reaction]
a new application that runs on Google Android – lets you view the world through Wikipedia-tinted glasses. Simply point your mobile device’s camera at your surroundings and Wikitude will display an augmented reality version of it on the screen – a version complete with information about the buildings and other landmarks you can see, sourced directly from Wikipedia!