Wp_41962.pdf. Ingress : impressions et images du jeu de réalité augmentée de Google. Lancé la semaine dernière, Ingress, le fameux jeu gratuit de Niantic Labs (Google) exploitant la réalité augmentée semble connaître un franc succès. Actuellement en bêta fermée (sur invitation) et disponible uniquement sur Android pour l'instant, le jeu compte néanmoins de nombreux joueurs, dont l'un de nos lecteurs. Voici les premiers détails qu'il nous livre après plusieurs jours de tests. Merci Vincent B. de Saint-Malo.
Contrôlez les portails Pour rappel, Ingress met en scène tous les joueurs dans notre propre monde, via la réalité augmentée. La carte ci-dessus permet de consulter les portails présents dans le monde et d'avoir des informations sur le propriétaire de chaque portail, et notamment comment celui-ci est constitué, nous précise Vincent. On peut ainsi hacker le portail « pour obtenir une clé qui permet de continuer a avoir des infos sur le portail même en étant à distance » remarque notre lecteur. Créer votre propre portail T'as l'air d'un illuminé... Nil Sanyas. Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game - Liz Gannes - Mobile. What’s the wackiest thing you can imagine Google launching?
How about a game to fight for control of the minds of everyone on earth? Or maybe that’s not so wacky. Meet Ingress, a new free mobile app and alternate reality game made by Google launching today (on Android first, available as soon as it makes it through the Google Play release process). Ingress is a project of former Google director of geo John Hanke and his Niantic Labs, a start-up team wholly inside of Google.
“This grew out of us thinking about notions of ubiquitous computing,” Hanke told AllThingsD this week. Ingress also aims to get people out in the physical world, both for physical activity and to see their surroundings in a new way. Users can generate virtual energy needed to play the game by picking up units of “XM,” which are collected by traveling walking paths, like a real-world version of Pac-Man. “The concept is something like World of Warcraft, where everyone in the world is playing the same game,” Hanke said.
Ingress. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Ingress est un jeu en réalité alternée développé par Google[1], et qui fonctionne sur les appareils Android. Il sort le 15 novembre 2012[2] après une campagne de marketing viral commencée le 8 ainsi qu'au Comic-Con de San Diego le 12 juillet. Avant ce lancement de la beta privée sur le Play Store, le jeu a été testé pendant au moins 6 mois par les employés de Google sous le nom de code Nemesis. Historique[modifier | modifier le code] Ingress est le fruit d'un projet mené par John Hanke, anciennement responsable de la division « Geo » de Google (qui édite notamment Google Earth, fruit du rachat de Keyhole, Inc. que dirigeait Hanke lui-même). Au sein de l'équipe Niantic Labs, intégrée à Google, l'idée du jeu a germé à partir d'une réflexion sur la notion d'informatique ubiquitaire avec l'idée de faire « disparaître » l'appareil mobile dans l'expérience de jeu.
Synopsis[modifier | modifier le code] Principe[modifier | modifier le code] Ingress. L’homme simplifié : le syndrome de la touche étoile. Practical Scientific Analysis of Big Data - PraSci-01-Intro.pdf. The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery. To Succeed with Big Data, Start Small - Bill Franks. By Bill Franks | 7:00 AM October 3, 2012 While it isn’t hard to argue the value of analyzing big data, it is intimidating to figure out what to do first. There are many unknowns when working with data that your organization has never used before — the streams of unstructured information from the web, for example.
Which elements of the data hold value? What are the most important metrics the data can generate? What quality issues exist? As a result of these unknowns, the costs and time required to achieve success can be hard to estimate. As an organization gains experience with specific types of data, certain issues will fade, but there will always be another new data source with the same unknowns waiting in the wings.
The Traditional Way In most organizations, big data projects get their start when an executive becomes convinced that the company is missing out on opportunities in data. Next, the organization launches a major IT project. A Better Approach More >> Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking - Justin Fox. By Justin Fox | 12:00 PM October 4, 2012 Big data, it has been said, is making science obsolete. No longer do we need theories of genetics or linguistics or sociology, Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote in a manifesto four years ago: “With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.”
Last year, at the Techonomy conference outside Tucson, I heard Vivek Ranadivé — founder and CEO of financial-data software provider TIBCO, subject of a Malcolm Gladwell article on how to win at girls’ basketball, and part owner of the Golden State Warriors — say pretty much the same thing: I believe that math is trumping science. What I mean by that is you don’t really have to know why, you just have to know that if a and b happen, c will happen. Anderson and Ranadivé are reacting to something real. But that does that really mean there are no hypotheses involved?
As best I can tell, there are three hypotheses inherent in this replace-the-Fed-with-algorithms-plan. More >> Insight Center: Big Data - Sponsored by SAS. The Apple Maps Debate and the Real Future of Mapping - Dennis Crowley. By Dennis Crowley | 4:39 PM October 3, 2012 The news of the last couple weeks about the stark differences between Apple and Google’s maps have shed light on how hard it is to build a mobile map.
Showing a destination that’s a few hundred yards off becomes a critical flaw, and there are tens of millions of such place markers on these maps. While the narrative over Apple’s recent maps release has largely focused on the base utility of maps — that is, navigation — the reality is that building the map of the future is something that’s even more ambitious and difficult. The future of mobile maps is not just satellite imagery and a draggable interface (as amazing as those things are). It’s about access to real-time information about everything around you, from deals to popular places to where your friends are. Crowdsourcing, where a community of users populates an ecosystem with content, is the best way to create an expansive and accurate map.
More >> Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter - Robert Plant. By Robert Plant | 11:00 AM October 5, 2012 Ever waited hours, in vain, for a repair service to arrive at your home? Of course you have. We all have. Chances are you’ve also shifted your allegiance away from a company that made you wait like that. So why do companies spend millions on big data and big-data-based market research while continuing to ignore the simple things that make customers happy?
For that matter, why do they send trucks with the wrong inventory on board? Big data is today’s panacea, the great new hope for unlocking the mysteries of marketing. But in the meantime, most companies haven’t done much to improve the customer experience. Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of “small data” — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful.
I’m not saying that all big-data projects are useless. More >> Good Data Won't Guarantee Good Decisions. Global businesses have entered a new era of decision making. The ability to gather, store, access, and analyze data has grown exponentially over the past decade, and companies now spend tens of millions of dollars to manage the information streaming in from suppliers and customers. For all the breathless promises about the return on investment in Big Data, however, companies face a challenge. Investments in analytics can be useless, even harmful, unless employees can incorporate that data into complex decision making. Our research offers a succinct warning to managers. At this very moment, there’s an odds-on chance that someone in your organization is making a poor decision on the basis of information that was enormously expensive to collect.
To help organizations measure and improve employees’ facility with data-driven decision making, Corporate Executive Board created the Insight IQ, which assesses the ability to find and analyze relevant information. Big Data Hype (and Reality) - Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro. The potential of “big data” has been receiving tremendous attention lately, and not just on HBR’s site. With interest in the topic growing exponentially, it has been the focus of countless articles and perhaps too many meetings and conferences. But to the extent that big data will have big impact, it might not be in the classic territory addressed by analytics.
Most applications of data mining and analysis have been, at their hearts, attempts to get better at prediction. Decision-makers want to understand the patterns in the past and the present in order to anticipate what is most likely to happen in the future. Film ratings. In just two weeks, several teams had beaten the Netflix algorithm, although by very small amounts, but after that, progress was surprisingly slow. Netflix Price Competition Progress It took about three years before the BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos team managed to win the prize with a score of 0.8567 RMSE. Customer attrition. Web advertising response. Hbr big data.