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Immersive Insights: IBM’s AR Data Visualization Tool at SXSW – Medium

The IBM is making space at SXSW from March 10–14 showcased dozens of projects in AI, robotics, VR, AR, and other emerging technology fields. My team and I had the fortunate opportunity to demo our AR project, Immersive Insights.

Immersive Insights aims to be a tool that provides data scientists with insights to large-scale data through a spatial visualization experience. While the demo is still in an early stage, we have real-time data streaming to the headset and displayed in 3D, fully manipulable and scalable. It is also our way to begin exploring, creating and refining the next generation of enterprise applications for data analysis.

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Some very old books at Museo Correr, Venice

See That Billboard? It May See You, Too

Clear Channel Outdoor Americas is partnering with companies to track the behavior of customers who pass its tens of thousands of billboards.

“For Clear Channel Outdoor, the goal is to give advertisers tools to buy and measure the effectiveness of outdoor ads that are similar to those they use for digital and mobile ads. It tested the suite of data and analytics, which it calls Radar, with the shoe company Toms and said it found a rise in brand awareness and purchases. ”

Panasonic Lumix CM1

Today, we present to you another addition to the hybrid crowd: recently announced during the Photokina show in Germany, Lumix DMC-CM1 by Panasonic is an Android smartphone and a connected camera packed inside one versatile and futuristic-looking device that should soon find its way to mass production lines.

MIT finds actual wisdom in the wisdom of crowds

You just need to find the people that know they are right and expect others to be wrong.

“Put simply, it's worth looking at those folks who answer against what they believe everyone else will say, since they may be smarter than everyone else.”

Questions to keep your brand relevant

My two fave questions from this morning’s session Congratulations! Your Brand is About to Become Obsolete were:

What are you doing that’s new and interesting?

Why are you in business? (This is about your purpose, not your product)

Answering these will help you to develop new ways of interacting with your audiences. 

I answered 11 of 12 questions correctly!  What’s your score? 

What does “URL” stand for? What was the first widely popular graphical Web browser? Which university was the first on Facebook?

Test your knowledge of technology and the web by taking our short 12-question quiz. When you finish, you will be able to compare your “Web IQ” with the average online American based on the results of our nationally representative survey of 1,066 adult internet users. 

Click here to take the Web IQ quiz

You Can Have Millions Of Subscribers On YouTube—And Still Be Flat Broke

The disconnect between internet fame and financial security is hard to comprehend for both creators and fans.

Internet Fame may not be all it’s cracked up to be...