"Field workers don't care about your stupid app...but if they are remotely interested, everything about it better be as reliable as a hammer."
Read MoreWatch out virtual baddies! Makina Sentry robot standing guard outside Shapetrace office. Thx to Madd Sketch Aaron Ong for the Makina Sentry AR GPS testing Shapetrace
Read MoreIf you've been reading the augmented reality news, there are new startups building the AR Cloud every month since Ori Inbar at Super Ventures coined the term. And these are the ones who are funded, so there must be at least 10 times more (us being one of them). Then, Google announced that they are also working on the AR Cloud, which probably just put an expiry date on a bunch of them. The core of the ARCloud gold rush is about SLAM (Simultaneous Location and Mapping) again and getting into this a sexy, but dangerous path.
Read MoreI used to have fights with my cofounder Dr. Julien about the quality of our technology. We'd set an extremely difficult goal, and his R&D team would meet it, but upon internal user testing, I'd fly into an unfair rage as to why it wasn't good enough for commercialization.
"It WORKS.... We did everything you told us to do", Dr. Julien would argue.
"It works, but it doesn't WORK WELL. How am I supposed to sell this? Have you considered the user experience? The user would never accept this", I'd holler back.
"What does WORK WELL, mean? Give me the specs! By the way, what we gave you is the state of the art in computer vision. What you're asking for has never been done."
Read MoreA VentureBeat article came out a few weeks back, which described augmented reality (AR) as only a feature. The article states that "(AR offers) developers and companies an opportunity to engage users of their existing apps with new AR features. But it might be better to approach this tech as “AR as a feature” — not as the end-all, be-all of the app."
We couldn't agree more.
Link here.
Read MoreThe Ultimate Field Test: The AR Shake.
"You can imagine our horror when we watched him do that."
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