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Insights, faceplants and pamphlets
360Stories: The making of
At Äventyret, we’ve been playing with virtual reality since the first Oculus Rift prototype became available back in 2013. We recently had a chance to build an immersive panorama viewer for Samsung’s virtual reality headset, the Samsung Gear VR.
The killer app for the Apple Watch is Chinese
Chinese speakers have a ready-made system for packing as much mutually understandable information as possible into a 42mm square. The killer app for the Apple Watch is the Chinese language. The rest of us are forced to draw fish and hope nothing gets lost in translation.
Äventyret speaks at Knowledge of Design Week in Hong Kong
Last week I was at the Hong Kong Design Centre’s Knowledge of Design Week and invited to talk about how the hospitality industry needs to adapt to attract the millennial generation, and how big data can help with that challenge.
Sweden should not be exempt from surveillance scrutiny
At Stockholm Internet Forum, Sweden’s collaboration with the US NSA on surveillance risks undermining its reputation as a defender of Internet Freedom.
Three reasons why virtual reality won’t be Facebook’s next social platform
The question is: Which technology is best suited for social — AR or VR? After all, no matter how great VR gets, its unlikely you’ll ever be walking down the street with your VR goggles on any time soon. Unless, of course, they find a way to fuse the best of both worlds — AR and VR.
Searching for MH370 — using open web resources
Over the weekend, authorities released new data on the possible last known location of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. I put that data into Google Earth, as that is the best search tool for crowdsourced efforts. But this morning at Äventyret, we decided to also put all potential landing sites in range of that flight in Google Earth.
