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Portable Concerts presents: Amsterdam band swap

Portable Concerts presents: Amsterdam band swap

Portable concerts creates a virtual concert experience. Especially for the Augmented World Expo the team behind the Portable Concerts organised a ‘band swap’. On the same moment when you watch the Amsterdam based band ‘Ik Jan Cremers’, in Amsterdam the San Francisco based band ‘Enablers’ will perform! Meet us near the City Visions Mural in Hall A for a special Google Glass virtual band experience of this band swap on Wednesday 12:30 – 13:30 p.m and 2:30 – 3:00 p.m! To experience Portable Concerts at AWE 2014 use Junaio channel: “portable concerts” This project was launched during the virtual festival ‘Zo niet, dan toch’ on a stage where no amplified music was allowed. A huge crowd with smartphones and headphones showed up to experience the virtual concerts. It’s perfect for events and festivals, or on locations where no loud music is allowed. Do you want to organise or create a virtual band experience? Visit www.portableconcerts.com. Portable concerts is created by: Sander Veenhof, AR artist Klasien van de Zandschulp, AR designer Mark Meeuwenoord, concept developer Holly Habstritt, interaction designer This team is part of the Dutch initiative ‘Zo niet, dan toch’ (this translates to: If not possible, we do it anyway). ‘Zo niet, dan toch’ creates AR experiences for events, art projects and festivals all over the world. Projects are Silent disco’s (DuoDisco), Portable concerts, location based audio, animations and stories, etc. Visit our website for more info www.portableconcerts.com or www.zonietdanto.ch....

Frederik Windey

Frederik Windey

Frederik Windey is a senior software engineer in the user experience (UX) team at 3D vision and gesture recognition specialist: SoftKinetic. After working for five years as a teacher in entertainment software development, Frederik spent an additional six years working in the fields of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, digital signage, 3D scanning, motion control and gesture recognition. Frederik is considered a Unity development specialist and has created a wide variety of demos and proof-of-concepts on PC, console and mobile platforms as well as emerging technologies such as the Oculus Rift and in-car gesture systems. Fred’s day-to-day working methodology is based around the principle of ‘let’s try it and see what we learn’....