As I opened the Messenger app today I saw a friendly face of a friend in a rectangle on top of all messages. I clicked on it and it was another Snapchat cloned feature. The same “story” feature we already know from Snapchat, Instagram, and most recently WhatsApp.
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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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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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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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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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Which Device will kill the Smartphone and the PC?
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The Ultimate Smartphone and PC Killer
Are you also disappointed by all recent product launches? The technical differences between $250 smartphones and $900 smartphones are only marginal. There are plenty of smartphones for less than $400 who have super fast octa-core processors, 6GB of RAM, fingerprint sensors, and high definition displays.
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Snap Inc. is an Augmented Reality Company
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Snapchat started as a social communication tool which focusses on visual communication. I still remember being one of the first 50.000 downloaders (Android) in 2012.
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Finding and reading scientific papers is a pain in the ass. I am not a researcher nor a fresh university graduate. I still love to read interesting scientific papers regularly. For me finding and accessing scientific papers was nearly impossible or unaffordable.
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Last year was a big year for virtual reality. In 2016 several headsets have been introduced and announced. Now you can order your own VR headset for less than $1000 online.
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Why we need to introduce Instant Apps 2.0
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During my life, I owned more than five smartphones. Let’s be accurate: Android phones. One LG, and several Samsung phones. The real reason why I switched from a non-smartphone to an Android phone was the fact that you were able to download apps.
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