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10 Industries Being Reinvented with Augmented Reality

10 Industries Being Reinvented with Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality has leaped beyond the gimmicky stage and is well into its productive stage. Augmented World Expo 2013 featured exhibits and talks that demonstrate how AR is solving real business problems, and how large corporations are investing in these solutions to improve their businesses and delight customers. AR is Ready for business! Here is a collection of 36 AWE 2013 talks and demos in the business track across 10 verticals: 1) Retail & Commerce 2) Automotive & Tourism 3) Print, Media & Entertainment 4) Enterprise & Industrial 5) Military & Government 6) Urban & Architecture 7) Education & Learning 8) Training & Maintenance 9) Health & Recreation 10) Branding & Marketing 1) Retail and Commerce Matt Szymczyk, CEO, Zugara   Bruno Uzzan, CEO, Total Immersion   Andrew Couch, CEO, CandyLab   Scott Jochim, Popar Toys 2) Automotive and Tourism Victor Ng Thow Hing, Honda Research (Automotive) Jana Rodic, LiveViewStudio (Tourism)   Andrea Carignano, CEO at Seac02 (Tourism) 3) Print, Media and Entertainment Chris Grayson, Telepathy (Media)   Ricky Bacon, VP R&D at Noise (Entertainment)   Chris Collins, FMI Games (Entertainment) 4) Enterprise and Indutrial Gabriel Weiss, Mitsubishi Electric   Gerben Harmsen, GM, TWNKLS   Aiaz Kazi, SVP, SAP   Nic Doodson & Will Powell, Keytree 5) Military and Government Tom Soderstrom, IT CTO, NASA JPL Paul Sells, Newport News Shipbuilding 6) Urban and Architecture Dave Lorenzini, CubeCities   BC Biermann, The Heavy Project   Susan Brazer, Lionshare   Demo with Markus Meixner, ViewAR 7) Education and Learning Miles Ludwig (MD Content Innovation Lab at Sesame Workshop) and Mindy Brooks (Director at Sesame Workshop)   Christopher Stapleton, Simiosys   Jay Van Buren, Early-Adopter 8) Training and Maintenance Steven Feiner, Professor at Columbia University   Naomi Kawase, Ngrain   Jim Dailey, Digital Delta Design Alejandro Vazquez, Seabery Demo of Augmented Reality Training with Basilio Marquinez, Seabery Soluciones Demo with Mauro Rubin & Paolo Invernizzi, JoinPad SRL 9) Health and Recreation Kevin Hughes, ARPool Queens University Demo of AR Pool with Kevin Hughes, Queen’s University Patricio Barreiro, Innovar Group   Gaia Dempsey, Co-founder and Director of Marketing & PR at daqri 10) Branding and Advertising Ambarish Mitra, CEO, Blippar   Brian Selzer, President, Ogmento   Nathan Kroll & Jonathan Burns, Ad-Dispatch...

Mauro Rubin

Mauro Rubin

Mauro Rubin was born in Turin, He is thirty-one years old. He developed his first program in “basic language” when he was eleven years old, discovering the passion that would stay with him for the rest of his life. From 1998 to 2001 He teached skydiving in the Italian Army. In 2003 he started to work as analyst developer for several companies including Pricewaterhousecoopers. In 2009 Mauro started to be interested in Augmented Reality and geolocal based services: the Joinpad project was born. In 2010, he organized the first event in Italy focused on Augmented Reality: IAR2010 (Italian Augmented Reality). In December 2010 together with Andrea Gonteri and Alessandro Vannicelli he founded JoinPad, the first Italian Augmented Reality Farm, with the objective to create new user experiences for companies that want to communicate in an innovative way. At present he is CEO of JoinPad.net (JPad srl) and Blogger on plumfake.com....

Markus Meixner

Markus Meixner

Markus started his first tech business when he was just 17 — a company to rent out game servers from his home in Vienna. Within a few of years, he also launched what would become Austria’s most successful photo upload system. While still earning his Masters Degree in Business Informatics from the Technical University of Vienna, Markus formed IT5, a tech services company that has delivered, among many other projects, an innovative HR planning solution for Austria’s largest hospital, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Wien. Markus’s latest technology venture, ViewAR, allows him to apply his experience with gaming technologies, databases and server systems to the brave new world of mobile technologies, 3D design, and augmented reality. ViewAR provides practical AR solutions for global businesses by forging strong creative connections between brand and customer. Built upon the ViewAR Catalog System, ViewAR’s custom mobile commerce applications utilize the most advanced product visualization tools to energize sales and marketing efforts, drive faster buying decisions and produce new revenue streams. ViewAR continues to enjoy exponential growth as its platform is adopted by leading retailers and global brands. Company: ViewAR http://www.viewar.com  Related Products: AR Business Applications...

Telepathy

Telepathy

Telepathy is an innovative device encourages real-time, hands-free, interactive communication by instantly sharing the user’s visuals with individuals from all over the world, enabling the reception of immediate feedback. http://tele-pathy.org/...