White paper release: “Development of location based services”

Rikard Windh (@mrwindh) from Combain is the editor of a white paper that was released yesterday at Elbes. The aim is to be a “kick start in your LBS project” and is a work thru of which technologies are available for positioning, which devices you can develop for and possible databases of information to add [...]

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Where are you?

Is that a question you use today?
One interesting thing today at European Local Based Entertainment Summit was Rikard Windhs (@mrwindh) comment that social positioning isn’t new in any way. When he said that I really couldn’t understand it – for me social positioning is something that came together with the mobile devices.  But after a [...]

Non visual augmented reality

The description of augmented reality has for me, until today, been “visual objects projected on the reality”. But, as Charlotte Magnusson pointed out in her speech, “we can use other senses than just vision”. Of course the reality can be enhanced in other ways than visually. For example, if you’re visiting an archaeological site you [...]

Kicking it off with Elbes

The hype around places as a social objects is growing and this time it seems to have a real and durable value. Today the Nordic Game conference is kicking off with Elbes, European Location Based Entertainment Summit.
Location based services are popping up every day and the use of the Foursquare and Gowalla is exploding. For [...]

Introducing Nordic Game by Media Evolution

On this site Media Evolutioners together with Petter Palander (@achaido), Helena Collin (@collinskan) and Cecilie Stranger-Thorsen (@cilistranger) will be blogging about what’s happening at the Nordic Game conference. The idea is to put the discussion into a broader media industry context. What’s happening right now in the game industry have implications and provide opportunities far [...]