{"id":17987,"date":"2013-03-15T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=17987"},"modified":"2013-03-15T03:26:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T08:26:30","slug":"sxsw-international-companies-to-keep-an-eye-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/sxsw-international-companies-to-keep-an-eye-on\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW: International Companies To Keep An Eye, Ear, And Brain On"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scattered in the landscape of the SXSW trade show, companies from around the world planted their flags to claim different digital plots of land as their own. Some of these companies were more successful than others and we’ll likely see them show up again as either helping to revolutionize the way we think about X or as simply a cool novelty item quickly making the social network rounds. Techcitement had the opportunity to play with some of these tech toys and talk to a few of the people responsible for making them. Here we present a list of some non-U.S. companies and their innovations you might find yourself talking about in the (maybe not too distant) future.<\/p>\n

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Lucion Media<\/a> bills itself as a multimedia installation company, specializing in that most tossed around phrase right now of\u00a0augmented reality. On the trade show floor, Lucion showed off a cool piece of software that allowed people to point their phones at pieces of paper marked with large circles, embedded with code to create different augmented reality experiences. The augmented reality-launching paper shown would bring up an animated jet fighter taking off or a hanger whose bay doors would open to reveal two jets ready to fly. Watching the jets fly off through the use of a phone and through the real surroundings, they seemed to go on forever until receding out of site, much like a real jet would. Unfortunately, the company didn’t have a video or image ready to share at the time of this product as it’s still so new. Instead, enjoy this video of Merton<\/a>, the interactive improvisational pianist of YouTube fame, playing in front of public installations the company created from December 2010 to February 2011 in Montreal called Sph\u00e8res polaires, which generated sound and images in response to peoples movements.<\/p>\n