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The children's toys that burst to life with your smartphone or tablet through the magic of augmented reality... thanks to Liverpool based startup SwapBotsAlthough we have written before about how augmented reality can be used for educational purposes, it is also undeniably a great medium for play. Taking advantage of this fact, SwapBots is a game played in augmented reality using physical, c...
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3co - Selling through AR technology is a whole lot easier thanks to this innovative startupWe’ve probably all shopped online and found that the multitude of images of the product we’re interested in manage to miss the one angle we’d like to see it from. Better still would be if we could see it from any angle, close up, and placed within the space we would place it were we to buy ...
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Efe Imoloame is the Founder of VA, a social commerce app, currently available in London where you and your friends can discover the deals near you and share them with each other. Efe shared his 5 emerging tech trends that will affect retail... In 2011 a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley called Marc Andreessen coined the term ‘Software is Eating the World’. The premis...
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AR anatomy learning, thanks to Curiscope and their Virtuali-Tee, an Augmented Reality T-Shirt that bring the science of anatomy to life. We wrote back in 2016 about how interactive, entertaining technology can be utilised to educate children (and adults) in a more engaging way than reading out of textbooks for an hour. Children are more familiar with technology than ever before, and wha...
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CleverBooks is aiming to set the standards in using Augmented Reality for education. With global ambitions, Cleverbooks is creating STEM-related curriculum-based AR solutions that can be used are as supplementary teaching and learning materials for primary education. Aiming to equip kids with necessary 21st century skills, we spoke to Founder Darya Yegorina at this year's Digital DNA to find...
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Ibrahim Farook, Founder of edtech startup Bright Idea Education and Bright Idea Enterprise, chatted to Startacus at Digital DNA 2018 about his passion for making a real difference for people with dyslexia, and his mission to empower the next generation, by digitalising education, using AR and VR. Ibrahim Farook, Founder of Bright Idea Education and Bright Idea Enterprise, is a proud Dys...
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Kodama - The innovative French startup that's making 3D creation easier than ever before with their 3D game system that offers everybody a new way to interact with screens. The world of 3D design is evolving. Simply sitting with a mouse or tablet and stylus, building 3D objects on a 2D plane is all well and good, but what if all you have to do to go from working on your charac...
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Aiming to replace standard paper catalogues, Magik Book, the first ever physical catalogue book that links to digital devices, was last week launched by the Portugal-based startup of the same name. As 'Magik Book' pages are turned, the smartphone or tablet responds with synchronized videos, animations, music, images, interactive models and more. Designed as a marketing tool for luxury produc...
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Snow Joke - Get the Christmas Tree you want delivered to your doorstep and use an AR app to see how it will look in your office or home first... Courtesy of DeliverTree - this is a real possibili-TREE (well in London at least). Their promise is to deliver Londoners amazing Christmas trees. Using their app to choose the tree you want, you can see what it looks like in your room before you buy...
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Virtual reality allows you to detach from your physical surroundings and interact with a digital environment. The technology creates specific software environments that allow people to become so immersed it replaces awareness of their actual surroundings.  The technology has been around for years now and while originally used in gaming, it's gaining ground in many other areas. Ironically, it...
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