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Tuesday
Jan192010

Mirascapeā„¢ is coming soon...

What is the Mirascape™? When is it going to be released? What does it do? How do you get involved?

Many of you have been wondering what exactly we have been working on at Neogence Enterprises and when we are going to launch something. We are planning on a full global launch in October, but we are going to release an open beta around June or July. Even more fun, we are going to release a very early alpha version in a few months. We have an aggressive plan for regular updates and iterations from alpha to full launch, and we want to involve the community. Grow with us.

Head on over to twitter and follow @mirascape if you want to be on the list for early access and some early adopter specials. We aren’t planning on advertising this early alpha access beyond my blog here and a little bit of twitter. I’ll be interested in seeing how many people follow @mirascape (I am fascinated by social networks and the organics of viral word of mouth). We will start doing some announcements and updates on that twitter account once things are ready to open up access. Don’t expect frequent updates though, we are neck deep in development right now, and that has priority.

So, what is the Mirascape™?

Mira: Look! (Spanish), Wonderful or Astonishing (Latin), World (Russian), and Prosperous (Hindi).

The Mirascape™ is the world’s first global augmented reality network, platform, and community. Mirascape™ is about connecting people, places, and things in a way never done before. It is about the convergence of social, local, mobile, and virtual. It is about empowering you, the user, to create and interact with media and the world around you in new ways. It is about engagement and experience.

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Monday
Oct262009

Future Vision 2012: Augmented Reality Predictions

Within three years (in time for ISMAR 2012), which is either a very short period of time or an eternity, depending on your point of view, I predict the following:

* 1 Million wearable displays, with transparent lenses, reasonable field of view, integrated accelerometers, and possibly a high-bandwidth short distance wireless connection, sold on the commercial market.

* Market generating more than $1B in revenues

* Vuzix currently the best positioned to deliver technology and products to the commercial market.

* Vuzix, Microvision, and Lumus Optical the current leaders in wearable display technology

* Companies like Sony, Apple, and others will have branded versions of their own. Probably with licensed display tech, or the fruit (ha! apples) of their own R&D.

* There will be at least

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Wednesday
Mar112009

Out of the box: Neogence relaunched

We are beginning to emerge from the box we have been hiding in. I updated the website for Neogence Enterprises last night. It is still a work in progress (I’m sure you will find a few placer graphics or incomplete text), but the bulk is there and working fine. We will be adding to it over the next several weeks, as well as polishing up some other websites that are related (like NIVARS or Mirascape).

The original plan was for us to stay “under the radar” for as long as possible, at least until we had a mind-blowing demo together. Also, we do not want to give any potential competitors too much information about what we are doing this early in the game. Because of the rapid rate of Augmented Reality gaining exposure on the blogosphere and in the public (companies like GE, Toyota, Lego and many others are beginning to embrace AR in marketing), I realized that we need to start getting our name out there. Now is the time to be establishing some brand recognition and cultivate enough exposure to start building a community.

2009 is just the beginning…