Tuesday June 4, 2013 – Tuesday June 4, 2013 Map and Directions | Register Description: Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology which helped define the cyberpunk genre. In the last few years, Bruce has been regarded as the prophet of augmented reality, covering and critiquing the emerging field and has headlined previous ARE events. Register...
Andrew McPhee is CEO and co-founder of Obvious Engineering, a computer vision platform and IP company working to add a digital dimension to the physical world, using mainstream mobile devices. He sees digital content that is responsive to physical objects and space as a natural evolution of how we live our lives in the digital age, bridging the online/offline gap. Having started his first company at age 20, Andrew is a user experience fanatic who worked in visual effects for film before moving into interface, interaction and application design. Andrew has previously grown Harmonypark, a successful technology R&D, prototyping and incubation company, helping to create and launch successful products and businesses over the past seven years before co-founding Obvious Engineering....
The largest university in the Chicago area, UIC has 27,580 students, 15 colleges-including the nation’s largest medical school-and annual research expenditures exceeding $335 million. UIC operates the state’s major public medical center and serves as the principal educator of Illinois’ physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and other health-care professionals. Check out the Spider Sense Exhibit. http://www.evl.uic.edu/...
We are a team of strategists, experience designers and computer vision experts working to make computer interactions much more natural. http://zugara.com/...
Wikitude GmbH is the world’s leading mobile augmented reality (AR) technology provider for smartphones, tablets and digital eyewear. Its fully in-house developed AR technology is available through the Wikitude AR SDK enabling brands, agencies and developers to achieve their AR goals. With tens of thousands of developer accounts and thousands of published AR apps, Wikitude has grown to be the AR community of choice. The company chairs the international AR standardization as part of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Wikitude® is a registered trademark of Wikitude GmbH, for more information please visit: www.wikitude.com...
Vuzix Corporation is a leading supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses products in the consumer, commercial and entertainment markets. Vuzix is the world leader for hardware that supports Augmented Reality and Virtual reality and continues to be on the forefront with innovating product solutions. http://www.vuzix.com/...
lm/nl builds gaming experiences that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. Headquartered in New York, we build enhanced reality games that warp your senses of sight, sound and touch to immerse you in new universes. We fuse physical play with digital elements and network awareness to transform the way you see and interact with the world. http://www.vertigore.com/...
The University of Pisa, founded in 1343, is one of the most ancient and prestigious universities in Europe. http://www.unipi.it/english/...
The University of Kent has a distinctive mission. We are the UK’s European university with an international reputation in which Europe meets the world. We are a leading research-intensive UK university creating a global student and staff community that advances knowledge and stimulates intellectual creativity, and performs at the highest levels. We believe in the unity of research and teaching, in the freedom and responsibility that staff have to question and test received wisdom, in the transforming power of higher education, in acting with integrity, and the value of an inclusive and diverse university community. We are committed to growing, shaping and supporting the regions in which we operate so that we may have a positive impact. http://www.kent.ac.uk/...
UC Davis ranks No. 8 among the nation’s top public research universities. One of 10 campuses in the University of California — the world’s pre-eminent public university system — UC Davis is known for its academic excellence and global impact. http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu...