Since launching in 2011, Aurasma has quickly risen to become the world’s leading augmented reality platform with over 80,000 customers operating in over 100 countries. Our vision is to enable an augmented world, where every image, object and place has its own Aura. Download the free Aurasma app or become a customer and start changing the way you see and interact with the world today. http://www.aurasma.com/ ...
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The AWE recap is back. We look back at the biggest news in augmented and virtual reality to keep you in the loop. Augmented Reality BMW unveils Augmented Vision eyewear for the Mini: BMW entered the AR & wearables space this week as they unveiled a fashionable pair of smart glasses to be used while driving the BMW Mini at the Shanghai Auto Show. A collaboration with Qualcomm, the AR glasses show relevant driving information, provides drivers with new viewing angles and allows them to see their messages while in transit. Google cuts the price of Project Tango developer kits in half: In an effort to encourage more developers to use its 3D mobile sensing platform, Google has cut the price of the Tango developer kit in half to just $512 from the original $1,024. Interested developers were notified by email which also alluded to a wider release possibly in the near future. Ferrari rolling out AR in showrooms: Ferrari has created an AR app designed by Zspace and powered by Metaio to allow potential buyers to view all of the possible colors and models of its cars in the showroom. The app identifies one vehicle on the showroom floor and then lets the user toggle through additional alternatives via the AR experience. Virtual Reality Tribeca Film Fest makes a big push into VR: New York indie film fest, Tribeca, have made a huge push into VR this year with updating its lineup with talks on technology and VR demos. Some of the experiences include “The Machine to Be Another”, uses VR and a body cameras to give people the impression that they have switched bodies and environments with one another and a 360-degree shot episode of SNL. Google Cardboard grows up: Google announced some major updates for its Cardboard VR headset originally introduced at I/O last year. The announcement included the roll-out of a certification program for both apps and third party companies creating Cardboard, some new developer tools and enhanced search in the Google Play store to find applications that work with the device. Merge’s $129 virtual reality headset goes on sale this week: Texas startup, Merge VR are set to offer a foam-based VR headset this week for only $129. Like other cheaper alternatives, the headset uses a smartphone as the screen but the company wishes to differentiate themselves by bundling a handheld motion controller with the goggles. 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....
ERIC KRZESLO, CO-FOUNDER, CMO Eric has been a 3D enthusiast for more than 15 years and has managed SoftKinetic’s development work since 2003. Before starting SoftKinetic, he was a founding member of 72dpi, a developer of 3D technologies for the communication industry including the web, broadcast and live interactive experiences. Before that he started CMyK, a provider of high-end 3D simulations and CAD software. At the beginning of his career, Eric launched the 3D modeling and rendering studios for Belgium’s most famous architectural firm. Eric graduated from the Victor Horta Architecture Institute in Brussels. Company: SoftKinetic http://www.softkinetic.com Related Products:...
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....
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:...
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....
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....
You are in your living room and all of a sudden mini zombies spawn out of the ground. What are you going to do? Send them back to the dust they came from with a flaming robotic ball of course! This is the premise of “The Rolling Dead” a killer augmented reality game for Orbotix’s smartphone controlled robotic ball, Sphero. The Rolling Dead took home “Best Game” at last year’s Auggie Awards and it’s easy to see why. The AR app turns any place into a zombie battle ground. Using Sphero as a fire-ball shooting warrior, you must defeat the zombies by shooting them with fire and rolling away to stay alive. Zombies have always been a popular monster but with the success of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and movies like last year’s “World War Z” they seem to have reached new heights. The Rolling Dead continues the zombie craze by bringing them into your home, turning your world into a video game, in an augmented reality app unlike any you’ve played before. The app also proves that even mini zombies are pretty scary. 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....
With the AR/VR market on a consistent growth curve, potentially reaching $150 billion revenue by 2020 according to recent Digi-Capital report, the next five years of AR will be extremely critical. Much of this growth is being accelerated by the onset of wearable technology such as smart glasses which begin to hint at the future of AR in our everyday lives. To explore the “Road to 2020″, engineering user experience design firm, Interact, is hosting a special AR event in Seattle on Friday April 17, 2015 which AWE is proud to support as a sponsor. The event features AR visionary and AugmentedReality.org board member Dave Lorenzini who is best known for helping to create Keyhole.com (Google Earth) and innovative AR & glassware companies. It also features Brian Wassom, a partner at the Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP law firm with particular experience in digital and emerging media. Wassom is also the author of “Augmented Reality Law, Privacy, and Ethics: Law, Society, and Emerging AR Technologies”. Both Lorenzini and Wassom will also be speaking at this year’s Augmented World Expo. The event looks ahead to the future as well as what can be achieved today with augmented reality, exploring topics such as: The Road to 2020 and Perfect Vision: What the Next Five Years Holds Top AR Opportunities Today, Right Before Your Eyes Six Things You Need to Do Now to Get AR Ready What Do You Do First, When You Can Do Anything with AR In addition to the speaking sessions, Interact has also included an AR/Wearables Device Bar where the audience can go hands-on with the latest and greatest in AR as well as engaging in 1:1 sessions. The event takes place at the Harbor Steps Apartments, Mingle Room in Seattle on April 17 beginning at 6:30PM. Tickets are now on sale. 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....