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John Murray

John Murray

John Murray is co-founder and CTO of Seebright, a new startup which is developing an open platform for augmented reality experiences based on existing hardware. He is a graduate student at the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz and is currently co-authoring a platform studies book on Flash for MIT Press, examining the intertwining role of culture and the platform’s evolution. John has taught art and computer science students programming and game design using platforms such as the Kinect, Flash and HTML5. He can be found on twitter as @lucidbard and online at lucidbard.com....

PAR Works

PAR Works

PAR Works brings augmented reality — the ability to overlay cyber imagery upon real world data feeds such as photos and videos — to a new level, offering imagery overlay accuracy to the ground-breaking precision of millimeters, all performed nearly instantaneously on any mobile device. By focusing on precision, speed and robustness, PAR Works is fundamentally disrupting and expanding augmented reality applications across numerous user groups. PAR Works’ advanced image analysis process allows any user with a smartphone to retrieve editable, tag-able information through image detection and comparison. The technology quickly achieves accuracy at millimeter-level scale, allowing for any arbitrary building, landmark, vehicle, or object to be analyzed and tagged, and to be done so remarkably faster than other augmented reality offerings. To date, augmented reality technologies have offered some level of precision and/or speed, but very rarely both. As consumers and businesses further embrace mobile technology to make faster, more informed decisions on the go, it is becoming increasingly important to deliver relevant information to the end user quickly. PAR Works, with its world class team of technology experts, is pioneering new, smarter ways to rapidly aggregate information around real world imagery. PAR Works technology meets and exceeds the needs of a broad array of user groups, including advertisers, consumers, social networkers, residential and commercial real estate agents and construction management, automotive and industrial companies. PAR Works takes augmented reality and informed decision making to a new level. http://www.parworks.com/...

RightSlope

RightSlope

RightSlope provides Mobile Augmented Reality Apps and related Digital Marketing Solutions. Our expertise in 2D/3D Models, Game Development, Mobile and Digital Technologies will enable us to address the needs of the new marketing era. http://www.rightslope.com...

Xiao “Nikita” Xiong

Xiao “Nikita” Xiong

Xiao “Nikita” Xiong is a graduating MS candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech. Her mission is to create joyful and intuitive interfaces and experiences for mobile and environmental scales with a user-centered design approach. She is especially interested in bridging the physical and virtual worlds with augmented reality and tangible interactions. She has previously worked as a UI/UX designer for mobile apps and interactive museum displays. She holds a BFA in Digital Film & TV Production and an MA of Digital Media Art from Communication University of China in Beijing....

Gheric Speiginer

Gheric Speiginer

Gheric is a PhD student advised by Dr. Blair MacIntyre in the Augmented Environments Lab at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He is interested in exploring novel user interfaces and interaction techniques, particularly those that exploit the unique characteristics of augmented reality. His current research focus explores the use of adaptive user interface concepts in order to address the design and usability challenges posed by dynamically changing contexts in augmented reality experiences. His research is supported by the NSF GRFP and GEM fellowships. Company: Georgia Tech http://ael.gatech.edu/lab/author/gheric/  Related Products: Argon...

Dustin Harris

Dustin Harris

Dustin Harris recently completed his MS in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech. He is interested in augmented reality as means of uncovering more information about the world around us in an unobtrusive way. He is also interested in how urban data collection can enable new augmented reality experiences. He currently works as a Program Manager at Microsoft....