Hardware specialist that craves evaluating and realizing disruptive technologies. Track record of initiating and managing multidisciplinary activities involving conceptual design, research and development, engineering, production, and technical marketing. From chip level (Intel, Tadiran & GEC) to large format batteries and electric vehicles (Arotech Corp. & ETV Motors) Company: Woojer http://woojer.com Related Products:...
Connell Gauld is co-founder and Platform Director of Zappar. Connell graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters in Engineering (Distinction). His Masters project focused on the description and rendering of interactive 3D augmented reality scenes. During this time Connell built the beginnings of the portable runtime framework that powers Zappar experiences to this day. He also ported the framework to its first mobile platform – Android. Connell co-founded Extra Reality Ltd in 2010 with Dr Taylor. At Zappar, Connell leads the Platform team, overseeing many of the technical aspects of the business including app development, server infrastructure, statistics and analytics collection and analysis, and in-house and consumer tooling. He and his team have leveraged Zappar’s underlying technologies to build a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for external clients to provision their own Zapcodes and AR experiences in an automated manner. The server infrastructure that powers Zappar’s app and AR experiences was designed by Connell to be secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable. The system has scaled seamlessly, having served experiences to tens of millions of consumers in over 50 countries across the world. Company: Zappar http://zappar.com Related Products:...
Philipp Wartenberg received his diploma in electrical engineering from TU Dresden in 2010. Even during his studies he joined the analog & mixed-signal IC design group, where he was first involved in an OLED-microdisplay IC design. After graduation he becomes a research fellow at TU Dresden before returning to Fraunhofer IC design team at the beginning of 2011. Since than he is managing several public as well as private funded IC design projects. Company: Fraunhofer FEP http://www.fep.fraunhofer.de/ Related Products:...
Meg Athavale (AKA Rabbit) spent her childhood in northern Canada running through forests, fishing, swimming, and climbing trees. She runs three successful interactive design companies, and has invented connected toys and interactive experiences for children all over the world. She nerds out on augmented and virtual reality, and has presented her vision of the future at SXSW, TEDx, and Ignite. She is a contributing writer for O’Reilly Radar and is currently working on a report about how technology is changing the nature of play. Company: Lumo Play, Po-motion and PO-MO Inc. http://megrabbit.com Related Products:...
Alex Hill PhD is Chief Scientist at CN2 Technology where he leads the development of the company’s web-based Alchemy AR content authoring and deployment suite, which makes extensive use of the Unity Game Engine. Dr. Hill received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, the birthplace of the CAVE virtual reality room. There he leveraged virtual reality to prototype the development of augmented reality user interfaces and 3D WYSIWYG interfaces for their authoring. Before joining CN2, Alex completed a fellowship working at the Augmented Environments Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology directed by Blair MacIntyre. During his tenure at Georgia Tech, he led the development effort of Argon, the augmented reality browser based exclusively on web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and KML. Dr. Hill has been published in peer reviewed conferences and journals including MIT’s Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces and the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. He is a frequent volunteer reviewer, contributor to AR standards efforts and former chair of the W3C Points of Interest working group. Company: CN2 Technology http://www.CN2Technology.com Related Products:...
A born entrepreneur and well versed in international activities having managed multi-million dollar B to B and B to C businesses. He is an American and co-founded Optinvent in France. Before founding the Start-Up, he had worked for Invensys, HP, and Thomson. Previously he directed component businesses in for Thomson Multimedia (now Technicolor) where he went on to successfully set up and run the optical component business from scratch. Preceding the optical activity, he ran an RF component business with two R&D centers (Singapore and Germany), manufacturing in Indonesia, and a worldwide sales force. He holds a BSEE degree from University of Illinois and has studied Operations Management at the ESCP the oldest business school in Europe....
Applied Research Associates (ARA) is an employee-owned scientific research and engineering company founded in 1979 and dedicated to producing innovative solutions to critical problems in National Security, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment, and Health. Over the past seven years, ARA has pioneered high performance augmented reality technology for outdoor, on-the-move soldier operations. We call it ARC4. Rather than looking down at a 2D map or chest-worn computer, the soldier sees iconic information (e.g., navigation waypoints, blue forces, aircraft, points of interest) overlaid on their real-world view. The soldier is able to perform his or her mission with high awareness of their surroundings, with enhanced safety and speed, and in close coordination with team members. ARC4 integrates with daytime see-through displays and night-vision goggles. ARA is currently extending ARC4 into commercial, industrial, and immersive training applications. http://www.ara.com Verticals Military & Emergency Response, Enterprise & Industrial Platforms Mobile, Eyewear, Wearables, Gesture Device, Location Tech Products ARC4...
Artur Grzybowski is Leading Augmented Reality Projects in Jaguar LandRover at the Virtual Innovation Centre. His main role is to develop the strategy and deliver tools to be used in the JLR toolset.. With years of experience in content creation of various configurators and Point of Sales systems in portfolio, where I he had part in 3D modelling, animation, rendering & product correctness Artur is well versed with systems & schematics that corporate environments are driven by and how to reuse that data for Virtual & Augmented Reality....
Lumus Ltd. was founded in 2000 by a world class team of physicists and optics specialists, whose disruptive and pioneering approach has created a scientific breakthrough in wearable display technology – the Light-guide Optical Element (LOE). The patented LOE is an ultra-thin, see-through lens that displays large, high quality images in front of the eye and enables the design of display eyewear with a natural look of eyeglasses and sunglasses. With its game-change crystal clear transparent optics, Lumus enables true Augmented Reality enabling wearers to seamless blend the real and digital worlds. Already the field proven market leader in near-to-eye displays for combat aviation, Lumus is in the process of revolutionizing the world of mobile displays, creating a paradigm shift in the way mankind views content and receives data http://www.lumus-optical.com Verticals Automotive & Travel, Military & Emergency Response, Enterprise & Industrial, Health, Sports & Recreation Platforms Mobile, Eyewear, Wearables Products See-through wearable displays...
David Marimon is the fearless leader of Catchoom, a new world order Image Recognition and Augmented Reality technology provider 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, Mobile World Congress 2011, 2013 and 2014. He’s considered an AR veteran with more than 12 real years under his belt. Company: Catchoom http://catchoom.com Related Products:...