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Metaverse Nails

Metaverse Nails

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR for Enterprise Creator: Metaverse Makeovers Pty. Ltd. Organization: Metaverse Makeovers =*=*=*= Description: METAVERSE MAKEOVERS (MM) Cross-cultural, future-forward, collaborative, transnational company. Our focus is pioneering, developing, and commercialising culturally-sensitive, pop-culturally prescient mixed reality products and immersive mobile experiences for the sensibilities and tastes of the (Asian) female mobile market and the Internet Generation. Metaverse Makeovers’ vision is to ‘restyle’ and ‘re-fashion’ the AR industry – make the AR medium HOT. Cool. Desirable. /// METAVERSE NAILS: AR POP POWER ON YOUR FINGERTIPS. HOT HOLOGRAMS IN AND ON YOUR HANDS. Our first product is Metaverse Nails. Metaverse Nails is an appcessory: wearable collectable stick-on fashion nails that work with a companion AR social mobile game app. Dazzling jewels, shimmering blinged out ‘hologram’ designs, glowing 3D nail art POPs in real time from the surface of users’ own nails. Hologram AR bling tracks fingers and gestures. Photos of users’ augmented nails can be shared to social media streams or emailed to friends, and eventually users will be able to purchase, customize and share the 3D nail sets themselves. /// METAVERSE NAILS MANICURES: AR YOU CAN TOUCH Metaverse Nails appcessory has been designed as an add-on service for Asia’s fragmented nail industry. Customers can enjoy interactive, personalised, and intimate virtual manicure/gaming experiences. With live streams of their AR blinged out nails to internet tv channels, and social media streams. Metaverse Nail’s dazzling POP-UP nail bars and appcessory products lure new customers and users to the AR medium, and assists participating nail bar partners to ‘pop out’/ stand out as a point of attraction amongst the suburban scape. The use of our Metaverse Nails products highlights nails bars as an innovative and connected social hub for young women/customers. // METAVERSE MAKEOVERS COMPANY: SUPPORTING AR GIRL POWER Metaverse Makeovers believes young women and girls deserve to be engaged and active in shaping the future direction of AR. Our mission is to empower young women by developing new products, employment, and business revenue streams through the convergence of beauty, nails, fashion, and mobile gaming tech industry. Where to find it: Metaverse Nails appcessory softlaunched in August 2013. App submitted to Appstore in July. Physical nails available for purchase via metaversenails.com Platforms: Mobile, Gesture Device, Internet of Things Additional Screenshots:...

The Ascent

The Ascent

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR Hardware Creator: Yehuda Duenyas (xxxy) Organization: Mindride LLC =*=*=*= Description: The Ascent is a mind-controlled immersive ride/game spectacle that allows riders to levitate high into the air through saturated environments of interactive lighting, sound, and atmospherics. Originally developed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Ascent puts riders in the center of a mind-controlled game world. Using mental power, riders control their own flight experience, crossing through enormous atmospheric thresholds, while triggering overwhelming EEG-reactive lighting and sound. Riders can achieve an epic-win by rising to the top of the ride, and are rewarded by an indoor firework display of hi-octane theatrics and show-stopping spectacle. Part adventure ride, part spiritual quest, this epic experience is the first neuro-driven ride of it’s kind, and as of June 2012 was considered the largest EEG bio-feedback machine in the world. The Ascent uses neuro-technology, custom software, and an original show-control system to deliver a mythic, mind-altering take on the intersections between humans and machines, Where to find it: Please join our mailing list at www.theascent.co and we will notify you about the next time and place you can experience The Ascent Platforms: Stationary Device, Gesture Device Additional Screenshots:...

Ultimarker

Ultimarker

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR Hardware Creator: Joris van Tubergen and Sander Veenhof Organization: Rooie Joris & SNDRV =*=*=*= Description: Will hardware or software innovations lead the way in the near future? Will augmented reality or 3D printing be having the most radical impact on the world of tomorrow by bringing DIY opportunities within the hands of everyone? Want something? Make it! If not “for real”, then virtual (Although that diffference will not be understood nor be relevant to future generations) If it’s up to Joris van Tubergen and Sander Veenhof, mixing these two techniques will be the most suitable approach for the semi-digital reality ahead of us. Combining the best of both worlds: living amongst tangible items with personalised manifestations because of their optional customizable virtual components. A reality shaped according to individual needs, ideas, wishes or moods. The Ultim-ar-ker project is an exploration of that hybrid future by augmenting an Ultimaker 3D-printer with a preview function of the model being printed. Besides being a showcase of a reality in which material and data merge, the ultimarker has a practical use too during the “1 euro per minute” printing sessions Joris van Tubergen is doing at public events. AR adds more liveliness to the otherwise lengthy printing process. Furthermore, additional real-time info about the printing progress is shown on an expandable augmented make-over of the cryptic quartz display of the Ultimaker printer. The set-up is based on a default Ultimaker with a paper marker attached on the front-side, to be downloaded from the webpage. While 3D printing thingiverse object nr 87078, open the “Ultimarker” channel within the Junaio app to experience this innovation on the cross-section of hardware and software.   Where to find it: If you have an Ultimaker, the webpage provides instructions on which Junaio channel to open to view it Platforms: Stationary Device Additional Screenshots:...

ZenFri

ZenFri

ZenFri Inc. creates and distributes cutting edge art & entertainment across a wide range of digital and traditional mediums. In an increasingly diverse media landscape, ZenFri boldly rethinks narrative conventions, merging mediums and technology in ways never before conceived, allowing our products to stand apart from the competition. http://zenfri.com/...

Clandestine: Anomaly

Clandestine: Anomaly

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best Mobile AR App Creator: Corey King Organization: ZenFri Inc. =*=*=*= Description: Clandestine: Anomaly is the next evolution in mobile gaming: the world’s first fully featured Emergent Reality Game (ERG). Think of it as reality’s expansion pack. We’ve mixed smart design with GPS and AR technologies to create a totally immersive, narrative-driven gaming experience. In your hand, you hold technology that reveals an unimaginable new layer of reality. A secretive organization – EDC – needs your skills and feet on the ground to detect and neutralize anomalies in the space-time continuum. These “anomalies” threaten the very fabric of reality and are breaking out all over the world – your world. The action is taking place in your city – even, literally, in your backyard. In Clandestine: Anomaly, you’re not a character in a fictional world: you are you, and your mobile device is a window into another layer of reality that is encroaching on our own. The world of Clandestine: Anomaly is all around you. Using GPS and Augmented Reality technologies your neighborhood is populated with 3D interactive characters and scenarios. Each player will experience the game as unique, one-of-a-kind story. Game design triggers help the game learn not only where your closest park is, but what locations matter to you most. No two players will every experience the same game twice. Throughout the game, you’ll collect alien nanotechnology, and parts programs through both missions and geocaching. Merging the two, you’ll assemble, and customize probes, utility drones and three story tall weapons for defense and attack.Through tower defense gameplay, you will literally defend your own community from attack. You’ll program and deploy arrays varying from alien creatures to futuristic war machines. After you strategically deploy your units, you will watch the epic battles play out in real time in the sky above you. In recon mode, you can command your arrays to focus their attacks on an enemy, call in an air strike, or recharge and repair them. Strategy is the key to victory. How you manage your resources and deploy your units will effect your success. Where to find it: Through the developers via Testflight Platforms: Mobile Additional Screenshots:...

SpiderSense

SpiderSense

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR Hardware Creator: Victor Mateevitsi Organization: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago =*=*=*= Description: SpiderSense is a revolutionary technology that may change the way we perceive the environment around us. Recent scientific advances allow the use of technology to expand the number of forms of energy that can be perceived by humans. Smart sensors can detect hazards that human sensors are unable to perceive, for example radiation. This fusing of technology to human’s forms of perception enables exciting new ways of perceiving the world around us. SpiderSense is a wearable device that projects the wearer’s near environment on the skin and allows for directional awareness of objects around him. The millions of sensory receptors that cover the skin presents opportunities for conveying alerts and messages. Watch cool video: http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/#clip884955 Where to find it: It can be experienced at AWE2013. I will be demoing it at the exposition. Platforms: Stationary Device Additional Screenshots:...

Otolift Stairlift B2B tools

Otolift Stairlift B2B tools

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR for Enterprise Creator: TWNKLS Organization: TWNKLS augmented reality =*=*=*= Description: Otolift is a Dutch company that produces stair lifts which are sold worldwide through a dealer network. The stair lifts are used by elderly and disabled people. Otolifts’ vision is to have all their business processes run on an iPad so that their sales representatives can work as fast and efficient as possible. In addition to the visualization and configuration tool that supports the sales representatives during their sales process, TWNKLS has developed a measurement tool. With the measurement tool, taking the measurement of existing stair lifts becomes a simple task and the 3D reconstruction of it is easily accomplished. Direct feedback about the quality of the measurement taken, and a reduced error margin (1 ‰), results in a reliable and usable measurement. The output of the measurement is a file that shows the reconstructed stairs in a 3D model, which can be used without further adjustment in the stair lift production process by the designers of Otolift. Thanks to this application; less time is needed to take the measurements, whilst the quality of the measurement increases. It now being an automated process, measurements errors no longer occur which results in a higher efficiency. Where to find it: http://www.twnkls.com/portfolio/stairlift-configurator-for-otolift/ Platforms: Mobile Additional Screenshots:...

Corey King

Corey King

Corey King is the Executive Producer / Creator of Clandestine: Anomaly and Chief Executive Artist at ZenFri Inc. An Award-Winning Storyteller and Producer, who has successfully worked across a range of mediums including Film, Books, Journalism, Gallery Art and Gaming. Corey is a dynamic creative force, using his talents to build ZenFri Inc. a startup that merges art, technology and business in a whole new way. His passion to create and distribute cutting-edge art entertainment, allows him to push the boundaries of storytelling, and create a truly unique corporate culture. To get great stories to market, he has successfully attracted and managed small local and large national teams, each handpicked to meet the needs of a project and bring his vision to life. For his Augmented Reality Project Clandestine: Anomaly, he’s attracted a stable of industry professionals who’ve worked on some of the worlds most valuable IP’s and attracted over half a millions dollars in development funding, all while driving the every aspect of the projects vision....

OBI 3D Finder

OBI 3D Finder

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR Campaign Creator: TWNKLS Organization: TWNKLS augmented reality =*=*=*= Description: OBI is the largest DIY Company in Germany. To inform her customers, OBI distributes 18 million prints of an advertisement flyer weekly. Once a month, the flyer contains extra information around a specific theme. TWNKLS has developed a mobile phone application for smartphones and tablets, called the OBI 3D Finder, which was released under the slogan: ‘play, collect, and win’. The most important strategic objectives were to amaze customers, generate a certain number of registrations for the OBI-app and to strengthen other online channels. Additionally, OBI wanted to build a reputation of being ‘innovative’. With the OBI 3D augmented reality ‘3D gewinnspiel’ and a copy of the OBI brochure, users could play a game and collect 3D items. Finding all the 3D experiences and collecting all the 3D items gave them access to a contest and the opportunity to win a prize. TWNKLS has designed and developed an iOS and Android application which enabled OBI to measure the results of their flyer by producing statistics and reports. Key numbers: Every installed application has been played 3 times. Of all people that downloaded the app, 58% has left their contact details. The average time played with the app was 5 minutes 17 seconds. From the app, many have followed the links to the mobile website of OBI and to their Facebook page. Conclusion: TWKLS has contributed to a successful and innovative campaign for OBI. Where to find it: http://twnkls.com/portfolio/obi3d/ Platforms: Mobile Additional Screenshots:...

Decolabs Interior Decorator

Decolabs Interior Decorator

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best Mobile AR App Creator: TWNKLS Organization: TWNKLS augmented reality =*=*=*= Description: The Decolabs Interior Designer changes the way people buy furniture. Your room will be the showroom, your iPad is the product catalog. With the Decolabs iPad app everyone is an interior designer! Decolabs (www.decolabs.com) is a multi branded iPad application for interior design. It combines an iPad application with a M-commerce back-end with a multi brand product catalog. We use social media and a community feed to let people review and share their designs. User and Usage statistics provide valuable information to participating suppliers. DecoLabs Interior Decorator has been nominated in the Netherlands for the SpinAwards (category Innovation) http://www.spinawards.nl/prijzen/Nominaties and for the Dutch Interactive Awards (category Disruptive) http://www.dutchinteractiveawards.nl/nominees. Where to find it: http://twnkls.com/portfolio/ Platforms: Mobile Additional Screenshots:...

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