FashionVerse AI mobile app from Hilfiger Ventures is out now
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
FashionVerse is now available for download via iOS and Android devices and to Netflix’s 247 million members through the Netflix mobile app.
FashionVerse originated as a creative idea from Hilfiger himself, who wanted to scale fashion through an immersive, community-based game that capitalizes on the most current technology. The game features Brandible’s p...
Generative AI predictions for 2024 from WinWire
Monday, December 18, 2023 by Richard Harris
As much as it's in the news, AI is by no means a new development. It has been more than three decades since Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess champion. It has been over a decade since Watson outperformed several Jeopardy champions.
That was all AI. It's not a sudden arrival. It has evolved and gone through several iterations. AI-powered recomme...
How to join the metaverse
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 by Richard Harris
When Facebook renamed itself, Meta, last fall, it inadvertently shined a spotlight on the metaverse. Everyone, including established clothing brands, celebrities, and pro sports teams wanted (and still very much does) a piece of this new universe. The question is how. How can businesses create sustainable strategies for their existence in this new realm that will last b...
Chill Cowboy Country Club NFT collection lands
Friday, May 13, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Bold visionaries and entrepreneurs Brian and Brittney Kelley have announced anticipated details about their limited NFT collection, Chill Cowboy Country Club (CCCC), exclusively with Forbes. Uniquely blending futuristic metaverse innovation with one-of-a-kind IRL (in real life) experiences to create an NFT that is truly groundbreaking, the mint date is slated for June w...
NFT partnership to create fashion pieces
Friday, May 6, 2022 by Richard Harris
Ready has announced a new partnership with SmileyWorld, the lifestyle brand from Smiley that revolutionized Smileys in technology, and EPIK Prime Team, a licensing agency putting brands into video games. The brands will collaborate together to create virtual fashion pieces for Ready Games' app ICON Avatar Fashion Universe. This will be Ready and Epik's...
Mobile game developers are capturing female audiences
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Browsing social networks can be addictive and can cause feelings of inadequacy and isolation, even depression, say mental health professionals. However, when it comes to mobile gaming, the situation is not so dire. On the contrary, used in moderation, it could help people boost positive well-being, according to various sources.
Traditionally considered a domain for m...
Photogrammetry set-up in a bid to deliver detailed replicas of people
Thursday, September 10, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Overly has launched a portable photogrammetry set-up in a bid to deliver detailed new age replicas of people, animals, clothing, and 3D objects for heritage conservation, archaeology, museums, educators, artists, marketers and game devs.
Headquartered in Latvia, Overly's team is equipped to deliver photogrammetry services across Europe. Its portable 3D capture ri...
Delivering personalized experiences without being creepy like Amazon
Thursday, May 23, 2019 by Richard Harris
Amazon has seeped its way into every inch of our lives, and it’s increasingly difficult to ignore Bezos’s touch as Amazon presence rapidly monopolizes books (Kindle, Audible and Goodreads), groceries (Whole Foods), clothes (Zappos), movies (IMDB), news (Washington Post), gadgets (Ring and Alexa), space travel (Blue Origin), medicine (PillPack) and more.
B...
4 predictions for hyperconverged infrastructures in 2019
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 by Richard Harris
Enterprise Storage in 2019 will no doubt continue to evolve as the demand for storage space continues to grow. Almost everyone agrees that hybrid cloud is going to improve, we will see more automated and intelligent storage, and containerization and server-less solutions will abound.
But as reported by Forbes, we humans produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day...
AR on the web too!
Wednesday, July 25, 2018 by Erik Murphy-Chutorian
Augmented Reality belongs online. To date, AR has primarily been confined to the app store, but there’s a growing group of visionary developers and companies that have figured out that by “AR-ifying” their products for the web, they win in a larger number of more satisfied and enthusiastic users and customers.
At the moment, we’re seeing an ex...
Job automation: Impacts, risks, and the future
Friday, April 27, 2018 by Richard Harris
Automation has been affecting our everyday lives for a long time now. From washing machines cleaning our clothes for us to water coming out of the facet because of a well, we love convenience, and automation makes it all happen.I think every generation has stood on the cliff of change because of automation. When technology is involved, making it working "automatically" ...
AR mobile ads for games launched by ironSource
Monday, November 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
ironSource has recently launched AR ads for their advertising network. As the first network offering AR ads, ironSource is developing a format that showcases the same experience of the game in an ad environment. The AR ads use 3D assets from the original game, and can run on both iOS and Android in-app traffic, within rewarded, video, and display placements. The ads are...
VR human body reconstruction developed by Fraunhofer HHI
Thursday, September 7, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Scientists at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI have developed a method by which the realistic image of a person can be transmitted into a virtual world. The 3D Human Body Reconstruction technology captures real persons with multiple cameras at the same time and creates naturally moving dynamic 3D models. At this year’s trade fair IFA in Berlin (Hall 26a, Booth 21...
Why Texas Humor selected the Shopgate mobile commerce platform
Thursday, July 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Shopgate has announced Texas Humor, a clothing brand that emphasizes Texas pride, selected their mobile commerce platform solution to develop an enhanced mobile shopping application for its customer base. The mobile app allows Texas Humor to further connect with customers through advanced features including push notifications, abandoned cart reminders and exclusive mobi...
Samsung tops Apple for Black Friday shopping deal hunters
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
A new national study reveals this year's most coveted brands, products, and deals for the 2016 Black Friday shopping holiday. The recent survey of 1,000 American consumers by Pollfish shows that Americans most prefer deals on TV entertainment systems from Samsung that are sold by Amazon, and that Samsung overall seems to be sought out more than Apple by shoppers th...
Oculus Connect 3 announcements recap
Monday, October 10, 2016 by Richard Harris
A quick recap of the news Oculus announced during this morning’s keynote at Oculus Connect 3. - Touch Launch: You can pre-order Touch starting October 10 for $199 and it ships December 6. All pre-orders come bundled with VR Sports Challenge and The Unspoken. Touch comes with an additional sensor and a connector for Rock Band VR. Oculus has also created a room-scale opti...
The advantages and disadvantages of chatbots
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
Chatbot developers each have their own set of tools that they use to independently develop their products, which has lead to changes across the industry. The key, however, has been chat apps opening their APIs to allow developers build conversational tools. APIs are constantly improving, adding more and more capabilities. For example, Facebook Messenger’s last upda...
App Idea Awards Announce Finalists
Thursday, April 21, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The App Idea Award is a contest that lets app entrepreneurs compete for the chance to get their app created for free. The awards have released the names of the six finalists who will compete for $70,000 in app design and development costs. The winner will be announced on at the May 3 in New York, where the six finalists will pitch judges from leading venture capita...
The Golden Era for Open APIs is Upon Us
Thursday, March 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with Dave Matter, Chief Product Officer for Marqeta, to discuss how the company’s new payment platform leverages open APIs as well as to learn his thoughts on what’s driving the increased adoption of open APIs. Dave is a product and engineering professional whose specialty is designing, architecting and productizing large-scale financial technology p...
Flash Memory Summit 2015 to Focus on Wearable Development
Saturday, July 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
The upcoming Flash Memory Summit 2015 will be held on August 11 - 13 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and will feature sessions and activities focusing on the personal and professional application of wearable technology and the requirement for fast, accurate, reliable and private storage.The open sessions will explore implementation in smartwatches, necklaces, eyewe...
DevOps Is Hot, Real Hot!
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 by Pete Waterhouse
“It’s hot. Damn hot! Real hot!” - Classic stuff from the 1987 movie – Good Morning Vietnam.When looking at DevOps we could say the same, couldn’t we? The trend is certainly hot, and just like the weather outlook in the tropics, we can expect a similar pattern to ensue for some time. Sure, there’ll be vigorous debate around various approaches and tools, but in the end mo...
New AWS Amazon Machine Learning Platform Takes on IBM’s Watson
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
AWS has introduced Amazon Machine Learning, a new service that helps developers to embed machine learning intelligence into their apps. Developers can build and fine-tune predictive models using large amounts of data, and then use Amazon Machine Learning to make predictions - in batch mode or in real-time - at scale. Amazon Machine Learning provides visualization t...
New Wearable Payment Solutions SDK To Be Released By Wirecard AG
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Wirecard AG has announced that it will be releasing a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for wearable payment solutions at the end of February. This will include a dedicated developer portal that will provide access to a range of programming interfaces (APIs), tools and simulators, to simplify the integration of payment functions into various different applications and ...
New to App Marketing Here is What You Need to Know
Monday, July 7, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
We’re all familiar with the recent rash of reality shows where someone is dropped into the wilderness with nothing but the clothes on their back (and a camera crew of course) and that person has to survive through their wits, skills and survival knowledge. They have a good chance of making it because – duh, the camera crew is there - but the point of the show is to watc...
Yvolver to Offer In App Game Loyalty Program
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Early this month Yvolver announced its foray into the mobile marketing and monetization game offering in-app incentive and loyalty programs.The new company features veterans from GameStop, Apple and other video game, digital retail, data science and loyalty industries. Currently in beta form, the full Yvolver service will be announced at a later date.The company is prom...
How To Use Twitter For Mobile App Marketing
Monday, March 10, 2014 by Artyom Dogtiev
By March, 2013, with 200 million users tweeting 58 million
tweets on average daily, Twitter is certainly its’ own universe. As “the”
social media website that encompasses countless topics and interests, certainly
Twitter can be considered a viable market for lots of products and services.
Daily you can find people happily tweeting about the iPhone 5S they ...
Top Mobile Predictions for 2015 and Beyond
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
If you had a crystal ball and looked at 2015 and 2016 to see what will be the driving factors for mobile what would you see? Garnter analyst Nick Jones provides his top 10 predictions in a recent report.And what where they? Drumroll please:1) Multiplatform/Multiarchitecture AD Tools2) HTML53) Advanced Mobile UX Design4) High-Precision Location Sensing5) Wearab...
Wearable Tech’s Hottest Names Converge for SXSW Panel
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
AUSTIN, Texas— Rocksauce Studios—an Austin, Texas-based mobile design and app development studio responsible for SmallCall, TickTalk, Brewski Me, and Tripini — will be presenting SXSW’s most blush-inducing panel to the 2014 Interactive Festival. Tech Off Your Clothes: Naked Truths of Wearables, will be an exciting looking into the tech industry’s most burgeoning sc...
Aspiring App Developers Get Real World Training at Mobile Makers Academy
Monday, December 16, 2013 by Ron Beaman
Headquartered in Chicago, USA, the Mobile Makers Academy attracts individuals who are interested in careers as mobile developers. The full-time, eight-week iOS bootcamp simulates a real work environment with independent and team-based hands on coding as opposed to a traditional learning environment that emphasizes lectures.
The academy provides small class s...
Project Anarchy By Havok Releases Free 3D Game Engine
Monday, July 8, 2013 by Richard Harris
Havok, who is owned by Intel and is behind the gaming engine for Assassin's Creed and Halo 4, has gone live with its free Project Anarchy 3D game engine for iOS, Android and Tizen. Project Anarchy is a end to end game engine and toolset for mobile. It integrates Havok's Vision Engine providing a C++ API and a suite of tools ranging from a WYSIWYG editor to lighting...
Awesome Demo of Cloth (fabric) using HTML5
Monday, March 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
The flexibly of HTML5 and the power of browser physics meet in this neat little demo on fabric which demonstrats how far along real-time simulations have come.See the full demo hereCSS Code:* { margin: 0; background:#333;}p { position:absolute; top:16px; width:auto; left:620px; color: #777; font-family:sans-serif; font-siz...
