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Ralph Osterhout

Ralph Osterhout

Founder and CEO Ralph is a developer, designer and entrepreneur. In his career, he has developed over 2,000 different products and hundreds of separate product lines for companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500s, as well as the government. He founded ODG in 1999, after several decades founding, building and selling companies in consumer products, sporting goods, defense contracting, personal electronics and high tech toys. He has over 160 US Patents and Applications to his name. He graduated from San Jose State University with a BS in Psychology....

Charles Woodward

Charles Woodward

Dr. Charles Woodward received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Helsinki University of Technology in 1990, where Woodward and his team pioneered in developing 3D modeling and ray tracing visualisation for industrial designers. The years 1991-2000 Woodward headed his spin-off company DeskArtes Oy in international software business, with product lines for 3D CAID and Rapid Prototyping. After joining VTT in 2001, Woodward was nominated Research Professor of Multimedia technology in 2004, and Research Professor in Augmented and Virtual Reality 2010. Throughout the last decade, Woodward and his team at VTT have produced world leading solutions for various Augmented Reality (AR) application fields, including media and marketing, entertainment and games, interior design, industrial applications, and collaborative telepresence interaction. Woodward’s special research focus is on Augmented and Mixed Reality application in the AEC sector (Architecture, Engineering and Construction). Company: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/proj2/multimedia Related Products:...

Dexter Lilley

Dexter Lilley

Executive Vice President and COO, Index AR Solutions Dexter Lilley is the Executive Vice President and COO of Index AR Solutions. Prior to Index, Dexter held several executive positions in the shipbuilding industry. Most recently, he served as Director of Strategy and Business Development for Huntington Ingalls Industries, creating value through diverse innovations such as HII’s teaming agreement with one of the top wind energy companies and winning corporate development funding for augmented reality. Prior to joining Strategy and Business Development, Dexter was Director of Steel Fabrication and Assembly. Previously, he was Director of Component Fabrication and Assembly at Newport News Shipbuilding. In these construction and manufacturing roles, he acted as an agent of change, bringing lean manufacturing tools and techniques into the company to drive significant improvements on touch labor cost and using modern scheduling techniques, such as theory of constraints, to dramatically improve schedule performance.  Earlier in his career, Dexter was selected to participate in the NNS’ prestigious Process Innovation Initiative. He also served several roles of increasing responsibility in the company’s Finance Division....

“Augmating” the workforce using smart glasses

“Augmating” the workforce using smart glasses

What do mechanics, field workers and vets all have in common? They have to follow a set of procedures which require their hands in order to do their job. Imagine looking through the lens of a pair of smart glasses to be instructed on how to fix a specific mechanical issue in a car, get hands-free step-by-step instructions on how to lay concrete along with setting a timer or scan a dog’s ID tag to be provided valuable information as a vet on medicine to administer and instructions on how to do this effectively – all of these examples are scenarios Augmate is making possible. One burgeoning sector for smart glasses is enterprise. The workforce is ripe for disruption and the use of this hands-free technology to augment our capacity to perform on the job and keep us safe is vast. AWE sponsor and exhibiting company Augmate is leader in industrial smart eyewear applications, providing the necessary building blocks to create smart eyewear business applications to empower the deskless and handsfree worker. Augmate is working with various industry verticals to create smart glasses apps using its cloud-based wearables development platform including agriculture, automotive, aviation, construction and manufacturing. They are partnered with various smart glass manufacturers including Recon Instruments, Epson, Vuzix and Optinvent. As part of our speaker line-up, Augmate CEO Pete Wassel will be talking about how to choose industrial use cases for AR. As an example, Augmate’s video below shows how a Warehouse CMS app developed by Vuzix. The app aims to increase productivity and accuracy by using QR codes and a hands-free, audio guide or order picking. Augmented World Expo (AWE) is the world’s largest conference for professionals focused on making the world more interactive – featuring technologies such as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Wearable Computing, Smart Glasses, Gesture and Sensors devices, and The Internet of Things. Now in our sixth year, AWE 2015 is our biggest event yet with over 3,000 tech professionals, 200 demos, 100+ AWE-inspiring talks and over 150 participating companies. Tickets are on sale now....