Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality in aid of conservation
The technology is best known for gaming, marketing, and productivity applications, but it's also being used to protect wildlife, writes IoE's head of product, Jake Manion, in Scientific American.
Can tech bring people closer to wildlife?
Today, we are launching the preview app of our full game, Safari Central! Safari Central uses data from animal protection organisations to create Augmented Reality (AR) versions of real animals including elephants, jaguars, and lemurs, in a free app that players download to their phones.
Introducing Our Professor of Play: Ellis Bartholomeus
Ellis is a veteran Dutch game designer and Professor of Play at Eindhoven University. She creates games that enable people to have fun, change their behavior, or learn new skills.
Five Insights from our Game Test event in Frankfurt, Germany
We received the support of the Frankfurt Zoological Society and the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt to host a Gamers 4 Good event and play our second prototype with our testers in person on February 26, 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany. These are the five biggest insights that came out of the event.
TED Talk: Making Wildlife a Part of Daily Life
On February the 8th 2017, Gautam Shah, founder of Internet of Elephants spoke at TEDx Idea Search in Nairobi about his mission to get 30 million people addicted to wildlife.