Kevin Hughes is a graduate student in Computer Engineering at Queen’s University researching in the RCV (Robotics and Computer Vision) Lab under the supervision of Dr. Michael Greenspan. Kevin’s specific area of research is background subtraction and event detection using subspace learning, his other interests include augmented reality, machine learning and robotics....
Ori Inbar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Augmented Reality.ORG, a global non-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing augmented reality (AR), and the producer of Augmented World Expo – the world’s largest event dedicated exclusively to the AR industry. Augmented Reality.ORG’s mission is to promote the true potential of AR, and hatch augmented reality initiatives that offer unique value to its active users. In 2009, Ori was the co-founder and CEO of Ogmento, one of the first venture-backed companies conceived from the ground up to develop and publish augmented reality games – games that are played in the real world. Ori has been an enterprising champion of the augmented reality industry since 2007. He established Games Alfresco – a leading augmented reality blog that helped popularize AR, and co-founded the Augmented Reality Event (ARE) – the world’s largest and most influential conference for AR – now in its 4th year. Ori is a recognized speaker in the AR industry as well as a sought after adviser for augmented reality initiatives. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Solution Marketing for SAP’s platform, Ori was responsible for the positioning and marketing of SAP NetWeaver – which under his leadership grew from a mere concept to a billion dollar business for SAP. Prior to SAP, Ori joined TopTier Software, as one of the first employees of this start-up. He lead the development and introduction to the market of more than 15 multimedia and business applications including the world’s leading enterprise portal, which in 2001 was acquired by SAP for $400 Million. Ori has a double major in Computer Science and Cinema from Tel Aviv University, and is a graduate of INSEAD University business leadership program....
Petter Ivmark is the cofounder of 13th Lab a startup working on computer vision for mobile devices. 13th Lab’s technology and browser understands and tracks both 2D and 3D environments. In 2011, we released the first iOS consumer application based on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), a technique for modeling and tracking 3D spaces in real time. We’ve since made huge improvements in speed, accuracy and map size, and are making this technology available to both regular web pages through the PointCloud Browser and to native iOS and Android applications through the PointCloud SDK....
Yung Jake was born on the Internet in 2011. His debut YouTube video Max Moyer combined a slide-show of photos poached from one young Max Moyer’s Facebook and Yung Jake’s custom cocky rap track, mythicizing the character and his seemingly opulent lifestyle. This began a series of clips documenting the evolution of the Jake ego itself. His next, more sophisticated piece Datamosh heavily explored the digital effect of datamoshing, its rap track parodying the trend of datamoshing in music videos and video art. In 2012, Jake broke though the YouTube format and the third wall of Internet user experience by creating a sophisticated, self-aware web video experience E.m-bed.de/d, its feature track commenting on Jake’s own Internet fame while a duplicate of a YouTube video page filled the screen with dynamic, meticulously-coded windows and elements referenced in the track, from growing YouTube hits to banner ad models coming to life and onto Jake’s lap. Displaying commendable technical proficiency, pointed meta-criticism and mad funny rhymes, Jake’s vibrant video work is accessible and zeitgeisty, laced with pop-culture references, inside art jokes and editing tricks, then dozed with swag. E.m-bed.de/d, Datamosh and his latest augmented reality app, Augmented Real, were featured in this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Yung Jake stay on the innernet and keeps coming out with new heat....
Since 1996 his technological innovations have created many developments in both the public and private sector such as seeing, smelling and hearing a virtual vacation of swimming with dolphins! He created ways to ease the stress, anxiety and improve the well-being of cancer patients enduring chemotherapy. Hundreds of school districts use his Virtual Reality labs to aid kids’ grasp of information or help teachers instruct through environmental and spatial technologies. All of those experiences led him to the untapped youth market. As Jochim explains his corner of the toy market, “as a technology company first, our entire line of toys is based on Augmented Reality and its capabilities. We provide animations and interactivity on every single page, as opposed to selective pages. We let our consumers play with our product in an array of different ways to appeal to multiple types of interactivity. One of our coolest features is that while you are enjoying and experiencing one of our 3D toys, we allow you to turn into your favorite character at the same time, and give you the option to create your own videos or pictures to share with your friends and family using our technology.” Accolades from the business community and the toy industry have reached the highest levels including being the youngest person to ever be reviewed and published by SUCCESS Magazine and his products glossing the front cover of WIRED and Popular Science Magazine. In 2005 Jochim took home the Future Fashion Designer Award of 2005 for an AD Runner Vest with Mobile LCD Technology. TV’s The View ranked his innovative AR books as the 2012 Best Toy of the Toy Fair. Company: POPAR http://popartoys.com Related Products:...
Eunjoo Kim is a Sr. Staff User Experience Designer at Qualcomm Technology Inc. where she is responsible for user experience designs of Vuforia (Qualcomm’s augmented reality platform). Prior to joining Qualcomm, Eunjoo worked as a UI manager at Consumer Experience Design at Motorola. She has worked for over 16 years on user interaction and experience design in the mobile platform & applications, web services, web applications, and software development domain. Eunjoo received a Master of Design in Human Centered Communication Design from the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology....
Gregory Kipper is a futurist and strategic forecaster in emerging technologies. He specialized in IT security and information assurance for 17 years, working for the last 11 years in the fields of digital forensics and the impacts emerging technologies have on crime and crime fighting. Mr. Kipper has been the keynote speaker at select industry events, a digital forensics instructor, and a trusted adviser to both the government and commercial sectors. He has published books in the fields of digital forensics and emerging technologies, including: “Investigator’s Guide to Steganography,” “Wireless Crime and Forensic Investigation,” “Virtualization and Forensics,” and “Augmented Reality – An Emerging Technologies Guide to AR.”...
Bob Ketner is a digital media product developer. In 2011 he developed a public-facing “test zone” of emerging interfaces, deploying augmented reality, eye-tracking, gestural, tablet, and tangible foam in the museum field, and curated a tangible media art piece for the Zero1 Biennial in 2012. An industrial designer by training, he has worked as a consultant to venture capital and institutional investors, a number of Internet startups, and has worked in product development and licensing in consumer categories. Bob has presented on the topic of augmented reality and virtual worlds at Engage Expo, ARE, Silicon Valley Innovation Institute, SRI, Stanford, and NASA. Bob is the founder and and chair of the SVForum Digital Media SIG (special interest group) which provides a platform and community for augmented reality developers and business users and meets bi-monthly in Santa Clara....
Yolande Kolstee studied social sciences in Leiden. She founded the AR+RFID Lab in 2006, based on a funding for innovative initiatives in professional universities. She co-operated from the very start with various groups of Delft, University of Technology. She and her team of students teachers, artists and scientists were able, in the first year, to be part of new-media networks and to create some nice projects in the cultural domain. The focus on the cultural domain stayed as well as projects involved in the development of the first optical see-through augmented reality headset, called “George”. With this and an adapted virtual reality headset, AR Lab showed in Milano, at the Salone del Mobile in Italy, already in 2008, virtual furniture and textiles. After this, various projects with museums followed: sometimes using AR as a medium for autonomous art and more often as tool to enhance the experience of an exhibition. We did projects with Kröller-Müller Museum, Boijmans van Beuningen, Van Gogh, Escher in the Palace and many more. As per Februari 2011 she holds the post of Lector (Dutch for researcher in professional universities) in the field of Innovative Visualisation Techniques in Art Education for the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Bringing students, artists, scientist, SME in the professional field and cultural heritage institutes as museums together is one of her tasks. She lectured in and outside The Netherlands, from Maastricht (I-Fabriek) to Harvard USA (School of Design) and from Amsterdam (Beamlab, Discovery, Picnic) to Glasgow (British Computer Society), Pavia (Itlay), Ismar 2011in Basel, Switserland, AR Summit-London, and ISMAR 2012 in George Tech, Atlanta, Georgia. AR Lab started in 2012 the AR[t] Magazine, a journal about Augmented Reality, art and technology, which you can glance through via www.arlab.nl...
President Ad-Dispatch Inc. Nathan’s has been recognized and awarded as the BDC Young Entrepreneur of the year, E&Y Entrepreneur of the year (technology), 2009, 2010, 2011 “Progress magazine fastest growing companies in Atlantic Canada”, 2009,2010, 2011 “Profit Magazine fastest growing in Canada”. In June off 2009 he was introduced to a technology called augmented reality. Immediately recognizing that AR was an emerging technology, he began building the internal software development and creative development teams to be able to build augmented reality. With the purchase of Volt media in late 2009 the final pieces of the puzzle were in place to launch Augmented reality in Canada. In the past four years, Ad-Dispatch has created the Augmented Reality industry in Canada and in the last 2 years Ad-dispatch has exploded onto the US market. Ad-dispatch has been one of most active companies introducing AR to mainstream North America with products like Stamps Alive, Superhero AR (Avengers cinematic release), Webslinger (Spiderman Cinematic release) Turtles AR, Absolut AR, and a consumer product App called Boostar. Ad-dispatch has built and is building Augmented reality for Walt Disney, Marvel, Wal-Mart, Nickelodeon, GM, Mattel, Absolut, Drambuie, Labatt Blue and more. Nathan’s ability to recognize the potential of augmented reality has allowed Ad- dispatch to become an industry leader. A leader of what is expected to be a 3 billion dollar industry by 2015....