If you don’t know what video mapping is, or haven’t experienced it live at events such as the Mapping Festival in Geneva or the Fête des lumières in Lyon, then I hope this post will help you to discover this art form through some impressive video examples.

Video mapping, sometimes called projection mapping, is a technique that artists use to project light, sound, and videos on everyday objects, forms, or even large monuments. A creation of a video projection on a 3D surface, the technique challenges the belief that a screen must be flat and rectangular.

Here is a demonstration of video mapping by Envision. A very successful play on perspectives and dimensions, this video shows an abstract luminous animation :

Read the rest of this entry »

blue-infinity designs website and adapts logo

February 2011 saw the launch of Clinique La Prairie’s new website, just in time for their 80th birthday celebrations.

Situated in Montreux, on the shores of Lac Leman, Clinique La Prairie is a world renowned medical clinic known for regeneration and cosmetic surgery. The Clinique offers a wide range of medical and paramedical services, and is the recipient of numerous awards relating to its outstanding spa treatments.

With a desire to update their website, La Prairie chose blue-infinity as their new web agency due to its track record in designing and implementing complete web solutions for a number of high-profile luxury brands. In addition to blue-infinity’s award winning experience in web design, our advanced content management system also proved to be a major attraction for the client.

Read the rest of this entry »

blue-infinity is now an integration partner of Sinequa, further expanding the range of Enterprise search solutions that we can offer our clients, which already include Microsoft Search Server Express, Microsoft SharePoint Server, FAST Search Server as well as Autonomy and Attivio.

blue-infinity’s new partnership with Sinequa will enable us to continue to provide the most effective and cost efficient Enterprise Search solutions, tailor-made to our clients’ needs.

Sinequa’s all-in-one solution is built around a customizable search engine that incorporates linguistic and semantic analyses and can take a user’s business context into account, enabling organisations to tame complexity and handle large volumes of heterogeneous data.

More than 250 companies, some of them amongst the largest international corporations and the biggest consumers of information and data, already use solutions from Sinequa, such as Crédit Agricole, Siemens, Bouygues Construction, SFR, EADS, Mercer and the French Ministry of Defense, just to name a few.

Juan Manuel Garrote, Partner at blue-infinity, states that ‘We are really excited about this new partnership, and are sure that this will continue to strengthen our position as Switzerland’s number one provider of Enterprise Search solutions.’

For more information about Sinequa’s solution, please visit http://www.sinequa.com/

For the fourth consecutive year, blue-infinity had the pleasure of speaking at Microsoft TechDays 2011, the largest Microsoft event in Switzerland, which took place in Geneva on April 5th and 6^th.

The event, with almost 40 sessions, was attended by 440 people and presented the latest technological breakthroughs such as Windows Azure, Silverlight 5, HTML 5, Windows Phone 7, Office 365, SQL Server ‘Denali’ and System Center 2012 amongst others.

With blue-infinity as a Microsoft Gold Partner, we presented 2 sessions: Active Directory Federation Services Version 2, and Extending Search with SharePoint Server 2010.

Read the rest of this entry »

Having recently announced our new Social Media monitoring and engagement services, which were showcased alongside our new Social Media Lab at this year’s LIFT conference, blue-infinity were asked to contribute to the ‘Social Intelligence’ file for the ICT Journal, a Swiss information technology business magazine.

The file, published in April, consisted of three key sections: the sectored approach to social networks, the utility of a control centre for social networks and an interview with the CEO of HyperWeek, Raphaël Brinner.

View the full article (in French)

Whilst currently working on their next major release, Adobe Flash Player 11 (which will include the next generation of “Molehill” GPU-accelerated 3D APIs), Adobe Labs has made the first Release Candidate of the new version of Flash Player available for Windows, Mac and Linux (and mobile devices in the near future).
The main goal of the previous version (10.2) was video improvement and hardware acceleration, so it seems logical that Adobe has focused on audio - and by extension, video-conferencing  - in this latest version, concentrating on areas in which HTML5 cannot fulfil.

This update features enhanced user privacy protection and several Audio and Control Panel improvements:

• Control Panel: in previous versions the panel was a remote SWF hosted by macromedia.com. Now, it is native, and can be accessed directly from the system preferences or the control panel.
• Privacy Control: thanks to better integration with browsers, users will easily be able to clear the local flash storage. (Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 8+ and future versions of Safari and Chrome)
• Microphone Enhanced Options: to provide a better online experience (in-game voice chat, conferencing, telephony etc.), Adobe has added several new functions to the Microphone API – noise suppression, automatic gain control and voice activity detection.
• Video Analytics: 10.3 makes the implementation of Adobe SiteCatalyst easier. Providing media measurement for Flash, it allows companies to obtain real-time, aggregated reporting of how their video content is distributed, what the audience reach is, and how much video is played; with two lines of code.

You can download Flash Player 10.3 RC from Adobe Labs website if you feel like testing it before the official release.