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David Marimon

David Marimon

David Marimon is the fearless leader of Catchoom, a new world order cloud-based image recognition technology that brings you the tools you need to create digital experiences for the real world. Catchoom is focused on dissolving the barriers between physical objects and the digital world. Less gimmicks, more actionable AR. David is the former Project Manager of Mobile Augmented Reality and Contextual Services at Telefónica R&D. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Augmented Reality from EPFL, Switzerland. David has been asked to speak at leading industry events including CES 2014 and has spoken at Augmented Reality Meetups in New York and Barcelona, MWC 2011, 2013 and now this year’s MWC 2014 on February 24th. He’s  considered an AR pioneer with more than 10 real years under his belt. Company: Catchoom http://catchoom.com/ Related Products:...

Martin Lechner

Martin Lechner

Martin Lechner co-developed the first version of the Wikitude World Browser on the Android platform, and started building up the team behind the Wikitude technology soon after. He is now the CTO of Wikitude, part of the company management team and manages a team of 20+ developers. In addition to his day-to-day job at Wikitude, he is chairing the Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML) 2.0 Standards Working Group within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). ARML 2.0 has recently been published as an official OGC Candidate Standard for describing and interacting with AR scenes. Martin initiated and managed the group throughout the entire process, comprising more than 50 institutions and individuals, including several universities and multi-national companies. Martin studied both Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Salzburg, Austria and the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is holding a PhD in Applied Computer Sciences and an Master in Mathematics. Before joining Wikitude, he was working as a software engineer for Sony DADC. Company: Wikitude http://www.wikitude.com Related Products:...