You are watching a movie or you are in a bar and you don’t know the name of a song? Just ‘Shazam It!’. Shazam is very likely an app you already know. It is a very helpful app which listens for a few seconds to an unknown song and it will then give you the song name. I used it multiple times to find out the title of a song. In bars, cafés, clubs, in movies, youtube videos, and much more. Everywhere you hear a song you don’t know but want to know you use Shazam.
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Will Apple become the leader in AR?
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Just recently I wrote how Tim Cook, who is the CEO of Apple Inc., praised augmented reality technology. He said: “I think AR is that big, it’s huge.”
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In an interview, he publicly expressed his love to the new upcoming technology of AR. The question is whether he only loves the technology or if he also focusses on AR within Apple Inc. -
Yesterday I met with Abdul, my co-founder at Advimu. He showed me the progress of his current research and development in the area of augmented reality and brain-computer interface.
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From Phone to Reality
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How Augmented Reality will shift the Internet from Screens to Reality
The internet partly became our reality. It does not really matter where you go or where you look: restaurants, cafés,
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Don’t Ignore Them
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Today, while freelancing for Oculus Rift I met a disabled guy. He was an awesome, super smart, and happy guy. Oculus Rift is a little side job for me where I give for a few hours a week
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Augmented Reality? At least 2-5 Years To Go!
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In the last days, a few news have been published which make augmented reality technology
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Finding a Partner or Starting Solo?
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Today I came up with a strange comparison. Having a training partner in the gym and having a business partner in a company. I thought about it for a while and I came to the conclusion that in the end, it’s both the same.
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Why Banning Technology is Stupid
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Last Saturday I read the article “You’re Fired” which was published in the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. Steven Hill the author of the article is of the opinion that we should forbid certain technologies.
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3 Reasons against Commercial Blogging Platforms
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Why you should self-host your Blog
I love to blog and I do it daily. Blogging is a great way to write about things I am interested in and exciting things that happen to me. I published my first blog post on Medium on July 12th, 2015. And since some day in December, I am blogging daily here on my own blog mariusschober.com.
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Programmers will become the new Blue-Collar Workers
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Is programming a blue-collar job? A few days ago I discovered an article which was published on WIRED. The Author stated that “the next big blue-collar job is coding”. How is such a statement possible in a world where great developers are paid a yearly salary of $120,000 and more?
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