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Videos for NFC
Here we present a collection of videos that can tell you more about developing apps for Nokia devices. As new videos are added over time, they will replace the older items on the page listing. You can sort the video topics using the drop down list below.
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NearSpeak, an NFC app powered by Windows Phone 8
Andreas Jakl, founder of Mopius and one of the developers of NearSpeak, demonstrates how this cool NFC app works.
Halfbrick: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Jason Harwood, Producer at Halfbrick, and Phil Larsen, Chief Marketing Officer at Halfbrick, discuss the experiences developing with Nokia. Halfbrick's new Fruit Ninja application on Windows Phone has allowed better gameplay for users via faster frames per second as well as additional goodies such as ringtones, and Xbox live achievements.
NFC games by Nokia Research Center
Luis Sarmenta, a principal scientist at Nokia Research Center, demonstrates how NFC technology enables a whole new way to play games. Rather than looking at a phone’s screen and pressing buttons, Nokia's new class of ‘tangible’ games lets players have fun in the real world — naturally — with physical objects, just as they would when playing traditional family and party games.
WIMA 2011: NFC technology opportunities
Mark Selby, VP sales and industry collaboration, and Evren Kozcu, NFC implementation manager, from Nokia along with developers from Proxama, Digia, NOW! Innovations, iMPak Health, and Poken talk about the possibilities offered by NFC technology on Nokia devices.
Poken: NFC technology using Qt
Stephane Doutriaux, founder and CEO, and Scott Tavelli, software engineering project manager, at Poken talk about the NFC enabled Poken application. Poken enables users to make use of NFC technology by transferring social business cards and reading NFC tags embedded in a variety of objects, from posters to menus.
NearSpeak, an NFC app powered by Windows Phone 8
Andreas Jakl, founder of Mopius and one of the developers of NearSpeak, demonstrates how this cool NFC app works. The app pushes the boundaries of mobile technology innovation by taking advantage of NFC in combination with voice recognition, Bing Translation, and voice synthesis. Together, these technologies create a unique and compelling use case. The app has great potential for tourism, museums, events, geocaching, and many others. NearSpeak was the first runner up in the Lumia Geek 8-Week Challenge.
Halfbrick: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Jason Harwood, Producer at Halfbrick, and Phil Larsen, Chief Marketing Officer at Halfbrick, discuss the experiences developing with Nokia. Halfbrick's new Fruit Ninja application on Windows Phone has allowed better gameplay for users via faster frames per second as well as additional goodies such as ringtones, and Xbox live achievements. Additionally, with new Nokia NFC enabled devices; users are now able to unlock exclusive content in the game. Fruit Ninja is also available on Xbox Kinect, as showcased in this film; further exemplifying the distribution on multiple platforms. With Halfbrick's experience on multiple platforms and integration with various monetization models their continual success is limitless.
NFC games by Nokia Research Center
Luis Sarmenta, a principal scientist at Nokia Research Center, demonstrates how NFC technology enables a whole new way to play games. Rather than looking at a phone’s screen and pressing buttons, Nokia's new class of ‘tangible’ games lets players have fun in the real world — naturally — with physical objects, just as they would when playing traditional family and party games. These games can be played alone or with friends, anytime and anywhere, using any NFC tags the players already have. And the same tags can be used with any number of different games. This video gives you a glimpse of a whole new world of possibilities that are available with Nokia's new Symbian Belle smartphones and NFC. You can try the games now at Nokia Beta Labs.
WIMA 2011: NFC technology opportunities
Mark Selby, VP sales and industry collaboration, and Evren Kozcu, NFC implementation manager, from Nokia along with developers from Proxama, Digia, NOW! Innovations, iMPak Health, and Poken talk about the possibilities offered by NFC technology on Nokia devices. The video was recorded at WIMA 2011 in Monaco.
Poken: NFC technology using Qt
Stephane Doutriaux, founder and CEO, and Scott Tavelli, software engineering project manager, at Poken talk about the NFC enabled Poken application. Poken enables users to make use of NFC technology by transferring social business cards and reading NFC tags embedded in a variety of objects, from posters to menus. Scott discusses also how using Qt made it easy for a small team to create the mobile application in just a few weeks.
