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Thomas Alt

Thomas Alt

Thomas Alt founded Metaio GmbH in February 2003 together with Peter Meier and is currently serving as the CEO. Over the last decade, Thomas has grown Metaio into one of the most important names in Augmented Reality, serving customers around the world in diverse areas such as retail, manufacturing and aerospace. With over 120 employees worldwide and offices in Munich, San Francisco and New York, Metaio continues to bring to market the most innovative technology in the field of Augmented Reality and computer vision, both for device manufacturers, and end users. Thomas received his PHD in 2002 from Otto-Von-Guerike Universität Magdeburg, where he focused his dissertation on Augmented Reality. Company: Metaio http://www.metaio.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 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:...