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Lukas Kinigadner

Lukas Kinigadner

Founder, Anyline Identifying the potential of text recognition in the Augmented Reality field, Lukas has spent the last two years of his life assembling an amazing team of image processing experts. Starting in the Western Austrian Alps, expanding to Vienna and then internationally, Lukas has proven extraordinary leadership qualities at one of the leading mobile app agencies in Austria, which he co-founded – and now at Anyline. As Lukas is passionate about bringing mobile OCR to as many people as possible, he focuses on evolving the company around the main goal of teaching smartphones, glasses and wearables how to read and helping people in making less mistakes. Lukas holds a degree in Business Informatics from the University of Technology in Vienna and can look back at a fast-paced career in Consulting and Sales. Company: Anyline http://www.anyline.io Related Products:...

ZEISS Multimedia

ZEISS Multimedia

Carl ZEISS is the world leader in optics and electro-optic innovation. With the recent launch of ZEISS VR ONE, the ZEISS company has launched itself into the world of AR/VR. https://www.vrone.us Verticals Commerce & Retail, Education & Training, Automotive & Travel, Museums & Art, Military & Emergency Response, Enterprise & Industrial, Urban, Architecture & Construction Platforms Mobile, Wearables Products ZEISS VR ONE...

castAR

castAR

castAR is the company behind the castAR Augmented Reality Glasses. castAR is a fun way for you and your friends to engage with an Augmented Reality world that springs from your table, wall or just about any other tangible object. In 2013, Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson left Valve Software, where they both worked on augmented and virtual reality, to found Technical Illusions and develop the castAR system in Woodinville Washington. After months of development and a successful Kickstarter they built a team to complete development of the product. Since then we have raised some seed money and started to ship to our early backers. It is exciting to have reached the point where independent developers can start developing for the new platform. Our goal is to build the ubiquitous, shared interfaces that are the future of how people will work and play together. The castAR glasses are just the first of our products. We don’t want to be a “technology demonstration” company; we start our engineering by considering how real people work and play together. We strive to make products that are natural, responsive, and embedded in the physical world. Instead of isolating, they should be open, social, magical and engaging. We strive to be honest on all fronts, including all our marketing. Our Kickstarter video was filmed through real castAR glasses and did not utilize any CG. As we’ve matured, we’ve held ourselves to the highest standard of showing what’s possible now, not where we want to be in ten years. “Concept video” is not in our vocabulary. All in all, we just want you and your friends to have fun. http://castAR.com Verticals All Verticals Platforms Eyewear, Wearables, Projection Products castAR n/a...

Augmented World Expo announces call for nominations for 6th annual Auggie Awards

Augmented World Expo announces call for nominations for 6th annual Auggie Awards

Augmented World Expo has opened nominations for its annual Auggie Awards. Now in its sixth year, the Auggie Awards are back to celebrate excellence in augmented reality. Every year, the best of the best in the Augmented World compete for the one-of-a-kind Auggie Trophy and sponsored prizes in numerous categories for both hardware and software. Winners of the 2015 Auggie Awards will be announced at Augmented World Expo on June 9, 2015 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. Nominations may be submitted on the Augmented World Expo website. The Auggies promote excellence in augmented reality across various platforms and categories worldwide. The awards are consistent with AugmentedReality.org’s mission to educate, connect, and hatch new initiatives in the augmented world, and AugmentedReality.org’s global goal to inspire adoption towards the goal of 1 billion active AR users by 2020, AugmentedReality.org is co-sponsoring this competition, offering award trophies and additional prizes. “In 2014, over one hundred nominations were submitted to the Auggies and ten products were awarded the prestigious trophy,” said CEO of AugmentedReality.org and Augmented World Expo producer, Ori Inbar. “With the accelerated growth and maturity of the industry we expect a new record in quantity and quality in 2015.” This year’s Auggies is made-up of ten categories, including Best Smart Glasses, Best AR Application, Best AR Enterprise Solution, Best Hardware, Best Game or Toy, and Best Sci-Fi-to-Reality. Nominations are open now until April 30. Public voting will begin May 1 through to the end of May to help select the finalists that will move on to the judging by our esteemed panel. In addition to kicking off the sixth annual Auggie Awards, Augmented World Expo is pleased to announce the addition of Google’s Project Tango Lead Johnny Lee as a keynote speaker at this year’s event. Lee will be present some of the underlying technologies that are making Project Tango possible such as hardware sensors and software algorithms. Project Tango is set to change computer vision and robotics by concentrating this technology into a mobile device. The Google team is developing smartphones and tablets that can track 3D motion and create 3D models of the environment around it allowing you to map the world around you in real-time. In doing so, Tango unlocks some unique opportunities in directions, dimensions and environmental maps as well as the creation of immersive augmented reality experiences that merge the digital and the physical world. Before Project Tango, Lee helped Google X explore new projects as Rapid Evaluator and was a core algorithms contributor to the original Xbox Kinect. His YouTube videos demonstrating Wii remote hacks have surpassed over 15 million views and became one of the most popular TED talk videos. In 2008, he received his PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University and has been recognized in MIT Technology Review’s TR35. “3D-fying the world, or creating 3D maps of everything, is key to the future of the Augmented World and Johnny Lee’s charismatic personality has been instrumental in rallying the troops towards this vision,” said Inbar “I can’t wait to see inspire us all at Augmented World Expo.” Augmented World Expo, now in its sixth year, is the world’s largest international event for AWE 2015 will be held June 8-10, 2015 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Tickets can be purchased at www.augmentedworldexpo.com.   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....

AWE Recap: Lots of money in AR & VR – funding news & forecasts

AWE Recap: Lots of money in AR & VR – funding news & forecasts

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 Magic Leap gains ex-Samsung Executive: AR company, Magic Leap, which has funding from the likes of Google, has hired Yannick Pellet, a top executive from Samsung, as senior vice president of software engineering. Previously he was vice president, advanced software platform at Samsung Research America. InfinityAR raises $5M in Series B: InfinityAR has raised $5 million dollars in series B funds from Japan’s SUN Corporation, New Zealand private investment fund Singulariteam Fund II and US-based fund Platinum Partners Value Aritrage Fund L.P. The funding and new strategic partnership with SUN Corporation will help InfinityAR break into the Japanese market. Atheer’s new Operations and Communications Console brings a sophisticated new level of communications to AiR Smart Glasses, enabling enterprises to manage and oversee communications with their deskless workforce from anywhere. Atheer update brings communications console and Unity Integration: AR smartglass pioneer, Atheer, released an update to its Atheer AiR OS bringing with it anew Operations and Communications Console which enables enterprises to manage and oversee communications with their deskless workforce from anywhere. In addition, the update brings with it Atheer a plug-in for the Unity 3D Engine. Virtual Reality Wearality Sky wants to be your cheap entry-level VR device: A new smartphone-powered VR headset has hit Kickstarter this week offering its VR solution to early backers for as little as $49 with a delivery date of October of this year. WearVR App Store raises $1.5M: Virtual Reality app store, WearVR has raised $1.5 million dollars from aa group of Atlanta-based investors. The money will be used to help the app store expand and improve its offerings including launching an app to help users find VR software. Augmented and Virtual Reality To Hit $150 Billion, Disrupting Mobile By 2020: Digi-Capital has released a new report outlining the future of AR and VR over the next few years until 2020,. In it, the company forecasts that AR/VR could hit $150 billion revenue by 2020, with AR taking the lion’s share around $120 billion and VR at $30 billion. 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....

If you jump on a virtual couch does it hurt? Looking back at 2014 Auggie Best Campaign winner

If you jump on a virtual couch does it hurt? Looking back at 2014 Auggie Best Campaign winner

With the sixth annual Auggie Awards kicked off this week, we thought it was a great time to take a look back at some of our previous winners while nominations are being submitted. This first one couldn’t help but make us smile, especially the whimsical video which sees people jumping on virtual couches and picking up virtual furniture as if with superhero strength. Last year, augmented reality software leader, Metaio, took home Best Campaign for its work in bringing the 2014 Ikea catalogue to life. Using AR, Metaio gave Ikea catalogue readers the ability to place virtual furniture in their own homes to visualize the pieces before purchase. The campaign used the physical printed catalogue as an AR marker. Users would set the catalogue in their room where they wanted to see a piece of furniture and then viewed their room through a smartphone or tablet to see how it looked. The campaign is a creative way to enhance the value of the popular print catalogue from the furniture maker by turning it into a practical tool to help readers better visualize products in their home. The team at Ikea had some fun with the app in this marketing spot (below) which sees a family having some fun with the ability to manifest virtual couches and chairs on command. Metaio is a sponsor at this year’s AWE event and can also be found in the Exhibitor area so be sure to stop by and talk to them. Metaio’s CEO, Thomas Alt, will also be speaking on “Devices are About to Open Their Eyes, and It’s Going to Change Mobile Forever”. Think you have what it takes to be one of the BEST in the 2015 Auggie Awards? Head on over to our submission form to get started.   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.  ...

Skild

Skild

Skild is an adaptable software service for professional challenge organizers.We originally built a competition management system to help run our own challenges, and in the process learned that other organizations had the same need.We’ve built an easy-to-use online management tool—now anyone can develop and run competitions, awards, prizes and contest promotions from start to finish. Plan your event today: http://www.skild.com/...

Amar Kona

Amar Kona

Developer Evangelist Manager, Intel® Software Developer Program, Intel® Corporation. Amar Kona manages the developer evangelism team and is focused on Intel® RealSense™ and Android*.  He is responsible for developer training and advocating Intel technologies to developers. Living in the bay area, he is a regular participant at the developer and technology meet-ups, Hackathons, and events....

Brigitte Alexander

Brigitte Alexander

Director of business development, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. In this role, she’s responsible for growing Qualcomm’s robust community of developers and publishers, as well as developing strategic alliances with media and technology companies. She has held a variety of positions including director of partnerships, partner marketing and product strategy at such companies as Yahoo! and Infospace. Brigitte holds a MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA from UCSB....

2015 Auggie Awards gets new Sci-Fi category to bring “Sight” to life

2015 Auggie Awards gets new Sci-Fi category to bring “Sight” to life

The Auggies are back! Every year, the best of the best in the Augmented World compete for a one-of-a-kind Auggie Trophy to celebrate excellence in augmented reality.  This year’s awards have ten categories including best smart glasses, best app and best marketing campaign. New to the awards program this year is a challenge created in partnership with IEEE to find the Best Sci-Fi to Reality application. The Best Sci-Fi to Reality IEEE Challenge will accept nominations that implement design concepts depicted in a Sci-Fi Film. This year’s challenge film is “Sight” (winner of 2013 Auggie Awards). Sight is a short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. The film presents a time beyond smart glasses when users upgrade their sight with AR-capabilities provided by a tech giant called Sight Systems. In the film, we see a day in the life of the main character, as he gamifies making dinner by turning the chopping of a cucumber into a competition and turns the walls of his home into a large screen with feeds and virtual art. The film goes on to show our hero on a date where he uses a dating app called Wingman to help him gauge how interested his date is and coach him on what he should say and order to get her “adoration” level to a more appropriate stage. The goal of the Sci-Fi to Reality award is to implement one or more of the following scenes from the film and bring it to life. Each scene has a certain number of points based on difficulty. Opening Titles – 1 point Flying Game – 3 points Refrigerator food status – 3 points Cucumber slicing game – 3 points Cook an egg game – 5 points Walls of information – 1 point Virtual fitting room – 3 points Star constellation recognition – 3 points Menu ordering – 3 points Vocal/face emotion detection – 10 points Animated Van Gogh painting – 5 points Sadly, there will be no points for the Wingman app. As this is the IEEE challenge at AWE 2015 – extra points will be awarded to openness and interoperability. A judging panel will award points to each nominee based on how similar the implementation is to the Sight film and how well it really works in reality. Bonus points from IEEE goes to an implementation that promotes openness and interoperability. Check the full Sight film belowt to get inspired! We can’t wait to see you bring this to life. Nominations are now open so when you are ready, head on over here to submit your Sci-Fi to Reality project. Sight from Robot Genius on Vimeo.   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....

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