ARE 2011 Kickoffs – AR Madness Ensues

The opening morning of ARE 2011 brought a packed opening press conference with industry leading AR companies making ground breaking announcements.  You can find several of the announcements below: Dagri – Smart New Publishing Platform Simplifies the creation and visualization of augmented reality for consumers and designers Layar First to Provide Direct AR Content Publication Through-Third Party Tools First Public Showing of Volummetric 3D Hub Metaio – The Big Picture of Augmented Reality Innovega Breaks the Mobile Media Bottleneck Imagine That Technologies Introduces Streamline ingZ inc – Traveller AR brings Augmented Reality to iPad and iTouch as well as iPhone Immediate following  the press conference AR attendees representing 24 different countries filled the Main Theater at the Santa Clara Center  to witness an opening video montage and Bruce Sterling’s visionary keynote.  The AR inspiring keynote started with a surprise space liberation ambush and new freepace manifesto.  To catch all the action follow the #are2011 twitter stream. Stay tuned.....