Matterport Brings 3D Mapping To Life

Startup Matterport, having just closed a round of investor funding, is looking to bring its 3D mapping camera to life. The company’s “interactive viewing platform” allows consumers to built virtual, cloud-based maps of their homes, offices, or any other site of…

Hand Recognition Coming To Kinect

With an updated SDK expected in a few weeks, Microsoft’s Kinect will incorporate hand gesture recognition which will allow for more sophisticated interactions like pinch-to-zoom. We’ve seen this functionality with the much-hyped Leap Motion but Kinect is far and away the leader in bringing gesture controls to the mass market.

SmartAds Pays You To Watch Ads

In what appears to be an emerging app trend, SmartAds has positioned itself as a secondary player in the “Pandora for Advertising” model utilized by HitBliss. But whereas HitBliss incorporates their own media store, SmartAds skips the entertainment incentive and goes for the…

Comscore Releases Smartphone Market Share Report

New data from Comscore shows the leaders in the smartphone market during a three month span ending January 2013. According to the report, Apple is still easily the leading smartphone manufacturer with 37.8% market share while Android remains the largest platform with 52.3% of the total.

SXSW 2013 Has No Early Darlings

The rapid growth of South by Southwest’s Interactive portion is raising concerns over the event’s ability to effectively launch new tech startups. 28,000 attendees are expected at this year’s portion, a jump of 9,000 people from just two years ago. The festival has formed a…

Twitter Launches New Ad Buying Tool

Twitter, the king of social TV, geared up recently to capitalize on the second-screen advertising field by introducing an ad API. Now, in conjunction with partner TBG Digital, Twitter has launched a tool that lets marketers bid on ads on Twitter in a similar manner…

The Trigger: 3/7/13