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But Zynga and Facebook? They seem more able to be toppled. It seems possible to knock them off of their throne. Two companies, OMGPOP and Instagram, came out of nowhere and became viable competitors. That’s kind of amazing. It’s amazing to me that Instagram got 30 million users in no time at all. It’s crazy that Draw Something can get 50 million downloads in 50 days. It’s mind blowing that Pinterest went from nothing to 10 million users in the blink of an eye. It’s amazing how fragile it all is. Facebook may be the first viable threat to Google, but its own market dominance is by no means assured.

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A whole new world. My latest column for Betabeat. 

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I can tell I’m going to like this one.

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And Geozet is next.  AR for everyone!

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Yo, people need to come to the Geozet so we can once and for all banish these QR codes to bad design hell.

Every one knows all the fine artists are painting QR codes these days.

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This video shows users how they can create their own AR combos using Geozet.  Use the 3D models to entertain your friends, or movies to send messages or leave reviews!

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Why Geozet?

There's a few players in the AR game, and all of them have some impressive videos and some interesting ways of doing it, but Geozet wants something different.

At Geozet, we're worried about the guy with the iPhone.  (or Droid.  Or Note.  Or Galaxy S.  Or Evo.)  We want them to enjoy themselves.  So we're not going to focus on advertisements.  We're not going to focus on gimmicky games.  We're going to focus on meaningful content.  

And it's not just consumption with us.  We want YOU to create your own, and share it with your friends.  Leave your 30 second review of that terrible DVD you bought from the $5 bin at Wal-Mart on the cover of it, so that people will know in the future.  

Sending a Mother's Day card?  Include a 30 second video on there as well, reminding her how much you love her.  

Seeing "Buy" icons while flipping through a magazine is cool once, for about ten seconds, and then annoying.  Seeing a music video by the band the article is about?  Awesome.  Seeing video from the kitchen of the restaurant review?  Awesome.  

That's us.  Interested in what you see, not what they want to show.

Get our App here, and check out this briskly made demo video.

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Phoenix

Does anyone know of small papers/magazines like these, but in Phoenix, AZ?

These are from Columbus:

www.columbusalive.com www.theotherpaper.com www.614magazine.com

 Cheers to all who can help!

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Pictures of People Scanning QR Codes

http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/

The thing about Geozet is that the engagement works both ways.  We want brands to have a presence, and for there to be similar digital content as there is with a QR code, but we want the users to interact as well.  No one wants to scan a QR code to be taken to a website for an event they're already looking at the poster for.  Geozet lets people view previous content, and create their own.  It exemplifies marketing today--interaction between consumers and products--not just "telling".

Get Geozet here.  

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This is a great way to have people interact with you business card.  Include a video giving directions, or an image with a Google Maps location! 

Geozet How to #1 - Make AR Business Card in Flash!

Create your own AR business card! How about a greeting video on you card or, perhaps, your photo on the card.

With Geozet, you don’t need any programming knowledge. Just aim at your business card with Geozet and capture the image for mix the AR content.

http://www.slideshare.net/mrzenitum/geozet-1-geozet

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I think this is true for all forms of advertising.  If people are inundated on Twitter, they'll unfollow.  AR is not a marketing strategy, but an interesting part of a comprehensive one.  

Any time you "augment" something, there's a risk you go too far.  You put too much hot sauce on your taco, or too much ketchup on your French Fries.  AR is a great way to add a little extra spice, to deliver some extra content.  But yes, do not take it too far, otherwise your burrito is far too spicy and unpalatable.

As I was browsing through the examples of videos on Augmented Reality (http://www.gigantico.net/augmented2/aug_video_index_00.html), one was particularly familiar to me. Zugara’s Webcam Social Shopper immediately struck me, as the idea seemed to take inspiration from Cher Horwitz, played by...

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Ok, seriously FB?  You're better than that.

Et tu, Facebook? 

Facebook decorates it’s roof with 42 foot QR code.

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Geozet How to #1 - Make AR Business Card in Flash!

Create your own AR business card! How about a greeting video on you card or, perhaps, your photo on the card.

With Geozet, you don't need any programming knowledge. Just aim at your business card with Geozet and capture the image for mix the AR content.

http://www.slideshare.net/mrzenitum/geozet-1-geozet

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Coming soon (maybe) to Geozet: Cow spot pattern tracking engine, so these guys can lose their QR codes.

Increase brand engagement with QR codes on cows. It’s easy according to Marie Ben:

Step 1. You need a smartphone. Step 2. You need to be close to the cows. 

Submitter:  QR codes on cows: http://youtu.be/3QgFAWFFZqA

The video is definitely worth watching.

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Geozet How-to : 증강현실(AR) 명함 만들기 (Korean ver. / 한글버전)  

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Geozet How-to : Creating your own Augmented Reality (AR) Business Cards  

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New Geozet is Ready!

(wrote on 20, Jan. 2012)

We've just uploaded the whole new Geozet to AppStore

The original plan was to use GPS based location information. Yes, we had a mobile computer vision based tracking engine, zFT. But with zFT alone, it was not enough to create a "Massive AR Content Creation & Distribution" service.

zFT, like all other competing mobile AR tracking engines (such as Qualcomm, Metaio or Total Immersion), it allows upto 10~15 AR targets. More serious problem with all existing vision based AR tracking was the fact that they don't allow the end users to define users' own AR target. The later problem (with some combination of the first problem) impeded wide adoption of AR especially for the regular end users.

From the second half of 2010 to the last year, 2011, Zenitum focused on two R&D topics:

1) An end user friendly AR tracking engine. The engine must allows the ultimate end user to define her own AR target as well as pre-defined targets. (i.e. a user uses her own photos, books or t-shirts as targets) 2) Massive amount of AR target search engine Because of its user-side AR target generation, there must be a system to store all the users' AR target information as well as search them efficiently. 

By the end of September, we started to see the viable outcomes from the research. The corresponding results were 1) "AR Goo" - AR Tracking Engine with Instant AR Target Generation   2) "zARTIS" - Massive AR Target Information Search Engine                    (zARTIS is short for Zenitum AR Target Information Search)

By combining two, we're now able to provide a mobile social AR service called Geozet. Geozet lets the end users (regular users, business owners, publishers or other content developers) to create own contents instantly, then share them by storing the contents in the server.

Once a user create an AR combo (a pair of "AR Target" and "Content"), then saved in the server, other users can instantly access the information by taking a snapshot of the target (in other word, Visual Search)

Creating, Sharing and Searching the AR Combo is EASY. However, for everyone, AR is somewhat a vague concept. I'm sure once people start to have more clear understand of the concept itself, more people will enjoy the service.

For that matter, we've just created a "how-to" video. It's a bit fast. Please let us know if you have any question.

Enjoy!

Albert

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Geozet (beta version) - 1st How to video

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We're sailing to the incredible fantastic Geozet Island

The Geozet island is getting close. cheer up!!!