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11/22/2021

After announcing them back in October, Google launched its augmented reality stickers on the Pixel and Pixel 2. The stickers are 3D creatures that appear inside of photos and videos taken in Google’s camera app using new AR tech to appear like they’re really in the scene.

Google is launching the feature with two branded sticker sets: Stranger Things and Star Wars. You are able to pull up cartoon versions of the Stranger Things kids and the Demogorgon, as well as a handful of Star Wars characters and creatures, including stormtroopers, R2-D2, BB-8, and porgs.

11/22/2021

The Weather Channel has recorded segments using a Reality virtual studio from Zero Density. By adding the solution to their technology pipeline, television networks will make use of an array of advanced immersive virtual studio and augmented reality production tools to visualise their weather, live.

11/22/2021

A Disney Research team has developed technology that projects coloring book characters in 3D while you're still working on coloring them. The process was detailed in a new paper called "Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings," and it was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality on September 29th.

The live texturing technology allows users to watch as their characters stand and wobble on the page and take on color as they're being colored in. The elephant's pants are turning blue on the tablet screen just as they're being filled on the page itself.

11/22/2021

In the US military, they use a headset that is called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). It combines a computer, an array of sensors, and a wide lens with internal display to produce, share, and enhance information for the person wearing it. The Army has refined what it wants from IVAS since at least 2018.

11/22/2021

Another AR product is the L'Oréal Makeup App. With this you select one of the products you would like to try on virtually.
Click Live Try On and see your new look live or upload a selfie. Then you can flick through the shades to find the product that best suits you.

11/22/2021

The most popular is Pokémon Go. It is a 2016 augmented reality mobile game developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo. It is a part of the Pokémon franchise.

11/22/2021

This week we are going to be talking abpout augmented reality (AR), It is an enhanced version of the real physical world that is achieved through the use of digital visual elements, sound, or other sensory stimuli delivered via technology. It is a growing trend among companies involved in mobile computing and business applications in particular.

11/01/2021

Trackingtime is the best app fpr project management features.

TrackingTime is a collaborative, cloud-based and free time tracking app that empowers companies to effectively manage the most valuable and scarcest of all resources – time! It organizes tasks, tracks your time and measures your productivity on the web, iPhone, and now on Mac.

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11/01/2021

Hive is a productivity app that keeps you on top of your actions and projects.

It is a great application for team resourcing, document and video proofing, task management, and workflow management.

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11/01/2021

Slack is a messaging app for business that connects people to the information they need. By bringing people together to work as one unified team, Slack transforms the way organizations communicate.

Slack is a proprietary business communication platform developed by American software company Slack Technologies and owned by Salesforce from 2021. Slack offers many IRC-style features, including persistent chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging.

Check it out!

Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email.

11/01/2021

Roam Research is an “note-taking application for networked thought” specifically designed to help you connect your thoughts and group them together in related bits of information, without having to copy and paste links. A little like you would with your own brain.

As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database.
Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul. Download now!

As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

11/01/2021

With over 600k users, StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.

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StayFocusd increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting websites.