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Brian Selzer
As a pioneering creative executive for over 15 years, Brian Selzer has made his career pushing the boundaries of digital media and entertainment. Having established business models that drive today’s online, mobile and social media space, he is a recognized leader and innovator in the interactive industry. Brian has created, produced, marketed and distributed award-winning content to a client list that includes Sony, Microsoft, EA, Activision, Fox, Universal, Warner Brothers, Paramount, MTV, Marvel, Hasbro, Pepsi, Nike, Lego, NBA and others. As an entrepreneur, Brian has co-founded several globally recognized companies, including Ogmento, Inc., the first venture-backed developer and publisher of augmented reality games and entertainment. He currently serves as the Vice President of Business and Product Development at DAQRI, the leading augmented reality developer helping businesses leverage the latest innovations in computer-human interaction. Brian is a recognized speaker at industry events and a sought after advisor on augmented reality initiatives, location-based apps and services, immersive technologies, emerging media platforms, games, gamification, transmedia, and the future of entertainment. Company: DAQRI http://www.daqri.com Related Products:...
Josh Shabtai
Josh Shabtai is a game designer, interactive marketing pioneer and science-fiction geek. As creative director at Vertigore Games, he’s building game experiences and platforms that promise new breakthroughs in player immersion. The company’s augmented reality-shooter Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner debuted for iOS in November 2010, quickly becoming one of the year’s most buzzed about titles and one of the gaming industry’s most commercially successful AR games to date. In Fall 2012, Vertigore is developing an integrated software platform to launch with Hasbro’s line of Lazer Tag: AR blasters. Josh also serves as a creative director at the ad agency JWT, where he helps brands like Band-Aid, J&J and Bloomberg develop transmedia experiences that bridge the real and the virtual, building community and sparking meaningful engagement....
Tish Shute
AWE Cofounder and Chief Content Officer. Tish has an extensive career in design and technology, working on projects as diverse as developing real time systems for cinema, theme parks and aerospace, to creating to internet scale social augmented experiences....
Mark Skwarek
Mark Skwarek is a new media artist working to bridge the gap between virtual reality and the real world by using augmented reality technology. He is one of the founding members of the artist augmented reality group manifest.AR. Skwarek earned his M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design’s Digital Media Department. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at New York University Polytech, where he is also a researcher in residence. Reviews of his artwork have appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Boing Boing, WIRED, the Boston Globe, and Leonardo. Skwarek has exhibited in various venues, including: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; ISEA; the CyberArts Festival; the Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing; and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois....
Tom Soderstrom
Tom serves as the IT Chief Technology Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where his mission is to identify and infuse new IT technologies into JPL’s environment. He has led remote teams and large scale IT best practices development and change efforts in both small startup and large commercial companies, in international venues, and in the US Government arena. Some of the companies he has worked for include Telos, enterWorks, User Technology Associates, Digital Island, Exodus, Cable & Wireless, and Raytheon. Tom has been both a frequent producer and consumer of advanced collaboration and engineering tools and practices as his ventures have always included a highly distributed workforce that required advanced collaboration practices. Lately, he has sponsored an effort to bring Social Networking, Virtual World, Virtualization and Cloud Computing technologies into effective use at JPL. In so doing, he learned a lot from his teenage daughters and their peers as well as from startup companies...
Christopher Stapleton
Christopher Stapleton, is President of Simiosys Real World Laboratory (www.Simiosys.com), an applied research firm for innovative experiential media installations to expand human performance and perception. He has applied his success in designing and producing future concepts for Disney, Universal, Nickelodeon, Canon and Sanrio to advance user experience (UX) for next-generation entertainment, education and training. His research projects have been funded by NASA, National Science , Department of Defense and the the Department of Education. As the Founding Director of the University of Central Florida’s Media Convergence Laboratory, he pioneered the use of Mixed Reality for mainstream media and experiential venues such as museums, schools, entertainment centers, hospitals, retail marketing and conferences. His role as General Co-chair of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) he founded their MR research forum in the Arts, Media and Humanities. As Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich, he collaborated with the Computer Aided Medical Procedure (CAMP) to explore how to stimulate the systematic workflow of innovation from laboratory to operating procedures. As a conference committee chair for ACM-Siggraph (1994 & 1998) he expanded the presence of the SigKids and Emerging Technology venues, global showcases of interactive computer graphics....
Mengu Sukan
Mengu Sukan is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and a member of the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab at Columbia University. His research interests include 3D user interfaces, augmented reality (more specifically for navigation, maintenance & repair, games), and information visualization. He is advised by Prof. Steven Feiner....
Matthew Szymczyk
Matthew Szymczyk is co-founder and CEO of Zugara, Matthew drives the firm’s strategic vision for a roster of globally recognized brands and is currently overseeing Zugara’s launch of Augmented Reality based products for online shopping, gaming and video conferencing. Matthew’s core industry passions include Interactive Video, Augmented Reality and Mobile Marketing. Slides from presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/MHSzymczyk/overview-of-the-virtual-dressing-room-market-augmented-world-expo...