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ShowInRoom

ShowInRoom

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best Mobile/Wearable App Creator(s): Vitalii Goncharuk Organization: Augmented Pixels Co Description: ShowInRoom app creates a virtual showroom in your apartment or office. You have a variety of choices literally in your hands – in a convenient mobile format, and still you can preview the furniture in your room. Augmented reality gives you a space for experiments with your home furnishing. How does it work? – place the marker it in the room, where the furniture of dream is supposed to be – point your camera to the marker – choose the model you like from the catalog – now the furniture is available to play with: resize, rotate and move it around easily – take the pictures to email them or share over the social networks with your friends and family – when the virtual redesign is done, you can place an order Check different models, styles and colors and rest assured that when the furniture is delivered, it will completely satisfy your expectations. Only pleasant surprises! Where to Find it https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/showinroom/id781406455?ls=1&mt=8 Platform: Mobile Vertical: Advertising & Brand Engagement, Print, Media & Entertainment, Commerce & Retail, Enterprise & Industrial Additional Screenshots:...

Connectar

Connectar

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best Enterprise Solution Creator(s): Menno Ouweneel Organization: Zig Websoftware Description: Connectar is a platform build to connect existing sources (like CMS, E-learning tools, knowledge bases, content creation tools) to AR platforms such as Metaio, Layar, Google. This way organizations don´t have to start using new systems but they can use their familiar own program or system and still push great content top augmented reality. This will save license-fee´s, this makes augmented reality easy and accessible for every company and this will lower the threshold to start using augmented reality as an added channel to the total multi- or omnichannel strategy. Where to Find it www.connectar.com Platform: Mobile, Eyewear, Wearables, Projection, Location Tech Vertical: All Verticals Additional Screenshots:...

Greenlight Optics

Greenlight Optics

Greenlight Optics provides custom optical module development for emerging industries. We have extensive experience developing and manufacturing display modules for augmented reality(wearable displays), virtual reality (headsets), electronic viewfinders, sensors, picoprojection, gesture recognition, 3D imaging and 3D printing, and various sensor systems for robotics, automation, and interactive displays. http://greenlightoptics.com Verticals All Verticals Platforms Mobile, Eyewear, Wearables, Projection, Gesture Device, Internet of Things Products Optical System Design and Manufacturing Services We are the optics provider to enable new display and vision products...

The Heavy Projects

The Heavy Projects

In collaboration with Grand Center, the Art and Life Alliance and MOMO, Heavy has completed a digital, immersive, and interactive mural on the Moto Museum (Steve Smith, Owner) wall (85′ x 21′) in St. Louis @ Grand Center. The mural launched during the Dancing in the Streets event on Sept. 21, 2013. There are 14 basic shapes embedded in the painted mural. The Re+Public app unlocks 42 digital variations of those basic shapes and allows users to view and randomly re-compose the mural into hundreds of variations. http://theheavyprojects.com/index...

Tushar Chugh

Tushar Chugh

Tushar is a Software Developer at Microsoft. He recently completed his stint in the Hardware Division at Microsoft Research- Cambridge where he worked on ‘Sticker Circuits’ project. Sticker Circuits are a new way to build electronic prototypes by levering instant inkjet techniques which enables us to prints conductive circuits on photo paper. He is from the founding batch of the Young India Fellowship Programme (YIFP)– a multi-disciplinary, post graduate program started in 2011 in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania. Tushar is passionate about learning new technologies and making it accessible to the masses. He has participated and won many national and international competitions including project Wizitank (an unmanned ground vehicle) where his team represented India at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 in Warsaw- Poland and PregnaCare (for mother and child healthcare) which won second prize at the Imagine Cup 2011 national finals. His research interests include embedded system and robotics. One of his team projects named ‘viSparsh’, an electronic navigation belt for visually impaired was selected among the top 12 finalists of Asian Innovations Awards 2012 by The Wall Street Journal and was also titled ‘Innovation Jockeys 2012’ in a country wide contest powered by Accenture and Yahoo. His team also developed a wearable prototype (in the form of a t-shirt) for real-time health monitoring for which they won the first runner up prize at Health2.0 Developer’s World Cup 2012 at San Francisco by competing other country winners. He is an electronics and Communication Engineer. Company Site: www.microsoft.com Project viSparsh: www.visparsh.blogspot.com...

Ryan Rogowski

Ryan Rogowski

Ryan is the creator and CEO of Waygo, a visual translator application. Recently named Singapores 30 under 30 he lead Waygo to win the 2013 Echelon award. He was also a recent speaker at the 2013 Machine Learning Conference. He is an avid traveler with over 22 countries under his belt and he once ate 10 warheads at the age of 9. Ryan also built one of Asia’s top app store games Wordlands and Quoth . Ryan then built Tabber, an interactive guitar, that has been featured in TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, ABCNews, and MTVHive....

Rolly Seth

Rolly Seth

Rolly is a Program Manager at Microsoft. She has around four years of work experience in diverse fields like design, technology and management. Her interests lie in creative and interdisciplinary research work. She is from the founding batch of the Young India Fellowship Programme (YIFP)– a multi-disciplinary, post graduate program started in 2011 in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania. One of her team projects named ‘viSparsh’, an electronic navigation belt for visually impaired was selected among the top 12 finalists of Asian Innovations Awards 2012 by The Wall Street Journal and was also titled ‘Accenture Innovation Jockeys 2012’ in a country wide contest powered by Yahoo. Her team also developed a wearable prototype (in the form of a t-shirt) for real-time health monitoring for which they won the first runner up prize at Health2.0 Developer’s World Cup 2012 at San Francisco by competing other country winners. Rolly started her career as a Scientist Fellow at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an autonomous body under Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India and had other stints in research organizations like Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Raman Research Institute. She currently lives in Hyderabad- India. Company Site: www.microsoft.com YIFP Link: http://www.youngindiafellowship.com/ Project viSparsh: www.visparsh.blogspot.com...

David Francis

David Francis

David is a contextual marketing evangelist, working to re-engineer the value proposition of one of world’s largest industries: Print Communications. As Head of Blue Star Interactive, David has built the first AR-dedicated division inside one of Australia’s largest print companies, servicing more than 1500 blue-chip brands across extremely diverse vertical markets. A keynote speaker at FujiXerox’s Asian Conference, advising China’s top 200 print companies, David was a leading expert in the printing industry before stumbling across AR in early 2011 and falling head over heels in love with the 8th Mass Media. He has since conceived and produced AR for some of the world’s largest brands and is a regular speaker and panelist at digital marketing innovation events. Part of a tight knit international community of leading practitioners, David continues to build the terminology, best practice and business strategies to intersect and conjoin the AR, Print and Marketing Worlds....

Aakanksha Mitra

Aakanksha Mitra

Aakanksha is working as a Software programmer at Microsoft. She has been with Microsoft for 3 years now. Currently she is working towards creating an extensible framework around augmented reality cum infotainment system, named Ripple. A fast paced learner and enthusiast, She has also worked with the Windows Phone and Microsoft Compact Embedded team to deliver an end-to-end framework for end-users. She collaborated with the teams across Microsoft to create an application which can do intelligent Optical Character recognition post enhancements and automatically share it with people via email. She also has experience in domains like file systems, viruses/Trojans, data performance optimizations and Cloud. When not working, she likes to Play Sports like Cricket and Basketball. She graduated in Computer Science from NIT Kurukshetra in the year 2011. Company Site: www.microsoft.com...

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