Mexico DF
- November 1, 2016
- Joe
- entrepreneurship, Events, us
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Last week I had the great opportunity to visit Mexico city (a.k.a, Mexico DF: Federal District). I had the chance to get to know this wonderful, vast, complex and majestic city. The visit was mainly to expand our business and market what Terra Icons does. I met amazing people, companies and future partners. I continue…
Native or Hybrid mobile app?
- September 13, 2016
- Joe
- knowledge
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Mobile In the mobile world, programming for an smartphone is divided in native or non-native (i.e. hybrid). But … what is it? Each OS manufacturer (i.e. Google’s Android & Apple’s iOS) develops their platform to be programmed in a certain way with a certain language using a defined set of instructions, known as APIs (application…
Pokemon Go changed forever user behaviour towards AR
- August 1, 2016
- Joe
- knowledge
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There’s has been a lot a talk about Pokemon Go. We are going to focus on how it benefits AR, because, well … we do AR. First things first We weren’t that far off (4 years ago) when we predicted Google was doing data mining with Ingress. If you want all the details, I suggest…
La Fête du lac des Nations in AR
- July 19, 2016
- Joe
- Events
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Mollejuo’s mission is to index the world in augmented reality (AR). Step by step we have been doing that for years. Our latest assignment has been to index the Festival du Lac des nations, which starts today in Sherbrooke Quebec. We have indexed it in AR within Terra Icons. On the app you can find…
MVP, frameworks, languages and programmers
- July 7, 2016
- Joe
- entrepreneurship
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So you got your idea, maybe you already have a website hosted or in the cloud. Now you need to execute on that idea. Assuming this idea involves a software project, how do you proceed? Well, I’m going to share an small part on what’s needed to know in order to execute better, or at…
Scavenger hunt in AR
- June 6, 2016
- Joe
- us, Web
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One of the natural uses for geolocated in augmented reality (AR) is doing an scavenger hunt activity of some sort. While obvious, we have thought about the idea for a long time. That, until Jessie connected us about doing something together. And so we did … Enter the games! Given her wide experience on travel…
Local Businesses presence in geo AR
- May 16, 2016
- Joe
- entrepreneurship, knowledge
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Since the day we started working on AR, one of the way we envisioned it’s potential was by business being present on the medium (geo AR). Geo AR it’s not the only use case of this technology, however we believe is the strongest one as it’s base on functionality rather than entertainment (nothing wrong with…
To ease Uber entry, make it electric only
- May 10, 2016
- Joe
- entrepreneurship, knowledge
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Many of us have seen or witness the worldwide battle between Uber and taxi drivers. Long history short, taxi drivers are defending their livelihood, while Uber represents the new way of working. The thing is, taxi services around the world are regulated by cities. So, in order to operate a taxi, the owner of it…
The stealth battle for 360 video VR domination
- May 3, 2016
- Joe
- knowledge
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Virtual Reality has always been about generating virtual environments for its user. 360 Cinema has been around for decades, however VR was all about generating graphics for it. When Facebook purchase of Oculus made commercial VR a probable success, it was natural to try to put 360 video on the future Oculus platform. On the…
To web host? or to Cloud? That is the question
- March 22, 2016
- Joe
- knowledge
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Frequently I stumble with customers that are torn, or don’t know whether to host their project on the cloud or with a web hosting. So with the objective of clarifying which path to follow, lets compare those two worlds. The following will try to help non technical people and developers alike, while they don’t…