1 minute about Augmented Reality

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 4 May 2011 | No Comments

La réalité augmentée sur portable par Echangeur-BA

Mobile World Congress 2011

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 9 February 2011 | No Comments

As you may be know, 8Motions will be present at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Spain) on 14-17February 2011. If you want to meet us, we will be in the French Pavilion (Hall 2 – Stand 2E47-06). See you there !

8motions joined the Topos association

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 17 May 2010 | 1 Comment

8motions joined the Topos association. This association was created in consultation with companies and laboratories of Aquitaine concerned by the European project Galileo. Its objective is to facilitate the scientific, industrial and economic fallout from this project on the region.

http://www.topos-aquitaine.org/

Mobile World Congress

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 12 February 2010 | No Comments

As you may be know, 8Motions will be present at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Spain) on 15-18February 2010. If you want to meet us or take a look at our last Augmented Reality product, we will be in the French Pavilion (Stand 2E59-75/Hall 2/MWC10). See you there !

Augmented Reality at everyone’s fingertips thanks to 8motions !

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 10 February 2010 | No Comments

Augmented reality is a booming field especially for mobiles. An essential interface for future geo-located information applications, it allows users to interact with their environment via their mobiles, as if they were using a pair of reality-enhancing glasses. Many applications have been hoping to integrate this type of functionality but have faced substantial technological barriers.

We allow developers overcoming these barriers with a ready-to-use component that can be integrated into any type of iPhone or Android application. It lets you show an augmented reality display of geo-located content from different sources, saved in different formats, online or offline.

AR view	List	Map
Many data format supported	You don’t know where is the north…	Your mobile does ! (Self-rotating map)

You can see this new interface at the Mobile Word Congress 2010 at Barcelona (15-18 February). We will show it on the French pavilion showroom (2E59/Hall 2) the Tuesday February 16th at 3:20pm.

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A new partnership between 8motions and Mappy

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 7 February 2010 | No Comments

8motions and Mappy will partner up to facilitate the creation of geolocation systems designed for mobile phones. Together the technical expertise of the two companies will bring the most up-to-date mapping solutions to users (only professionals). Mappy cartography will be directly integrated into our “mobile map toolkit”.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for any further information. read more…

OpenCellID reach major milestone

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 9 April 2009 | No Comments

A little bit more thant one year after the launch, OpenCellID now reached more than 300 000 cells discovered an near 40 millions of measures!

A good time to celebrate it and to announce it to the world through a nice PR, that is enclosed here. The PDF version is vailable too.

For immediate release
OpenCellID, the biggest open source database of CellID announces a major milestone.

Bordeaux, France
7 April 2009

8Motions, the company behind the OpenCellID effort announced today that the OpenCellID database reached last month a major milestone with 300 000 (three hundred thousand discovered) cells in April. CellID is an alternative technology to GPS for mass market phones and provides location information to users based on GSM cell towers. OpenCellId.org ( http://www.opencellid.org ) offers APIs and tools to use this database in mobile applications.

This database is created using a crowdsourced approach, thanks to support of hundreds of
enthusiast developers and companies supporting the project. One of these companies is Birkett Entreprise finalist of 2008 Navteq developer challenge with his “phone locator” product . Alex Birkett declares: “OpenCellID is a fantastic resource for people wishing to make location aware applications using open, non-proprietary technology. Birkett Enterprise is delighted to have been able to contribute data to the project.” Other developers have created clients for Blackberry, J2ME, Windows Mobile, Symbian and OpenMoko devices demonstrating the industry interest for this approach.

Aurelien REGNAULT,co- founder of 8Motions declares: “OpenCellID is the first viable alternative to
commercial CellID approach and enable smaller companies to provide compelling mass market LBS enabled application. We initially created it for our internal needs, but we are amazed by the success of this effort”

About 8Motions:

8Motions provides service and technologies for mobile mapping applications, including the “Mobile Map Toolkit”, an easy to use component to embed maps into a mobile application available in J2ME and soon iPhone.
8Motions is located in Bordeaux, France and has been created in 2006 and has been nominated as one of the finalist of the Navteq LBS Challenge in 2007.

Contact: infos@8motions.com

Corporate WebSite : http://corp.8motions.com

About Birkett Enterprise:

Birkett Enterprise Ltd was established in 2007 to provide high quality mobile software. The directors are Alex and John Birkett. Alex has been developing software using Symbian OS, Series 60 and UIQ. since 2001. He has worked for Opera Software, Sendo, Bullant Software (now UI Ative) and IBM.

Birkett Enterprise is developing phonelocator, a software application and web service to locate GPS enabled Series 60 handsets.

Contact: http://www.birkett-entreprise.com

Article on MobiForge about OpenCellID

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 24 September 2008 | No Comments

I’ve written an article for the excellent mobiforge.com site, which is visible here:

Adding location to a non GPS phone: introducing OpenCellID

8Motions: another wins!

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 7 July 2008 | 3 Comments

8Motions was a winner of the latest french contest for innovative companies! Once again, this is a proof of the interest of 8Motions project, both on technology part but also on business part! So thanks to the jury for selecting us…..

Interview for Telematicsupdate about OpenCellID

Posted in: Blog/News by admin on 27 June 2008 | No Comments

Following conference Telematicsupdate conference about LBS, I’ve been interviewed by Thomas about OpenCellid and impact on the industry. Result is here: Towards free location on all devices.