Qualcomm® Vuforia™ is a mobile vision platform that enables apps and devices to connect the physical world with digital experiences that demand attention, drive engagement, and deliver value. Providing best-in-class augmented reality experiences, Vuforia delivers interactive 3D graphics, touch, video, and audio features to bring movie magic and computer graphics to mobile apps and provides a broad range options for creative empowerment – including simultaneous tracking of multiple targets, video playback, virtual buttons, background effects, and occlusion management (“X-ray vision”). The platform provides reliable performance to ensure app experiences work the first time – and every time. Consistent, predictable experiences are possible even when targets or devices are in motion, or when targets are partially covered or distorted. Extended tracking delivers continuous visual experiences even when the target is out of view and experiences work in a variety of lighting conditions and at a range of tracking distances. Vuforia has been adopted by leading global brands and is supported by the world’s largest AR developer ecosystem of more than 90,000 developers and has powered more than 8,000 commercial apps. https://www.vuforia.com/
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As the world leader in LCD projection technology, Epson’s Moverio™ BT-200 smart glasses offer a true binocular display using a miniaturized projection lens system and optical light guide in each side of the glasses. The Moverio platform projects transparent overlays of digital content onto the real-world in the center of the smart glasses’ field of view, enabling a seamless blend of the physical and digital worlds. The Moverio BT-200 makes a new world of augmented reality applications possible for enterprises, developers and consumers. http://www.epson.com/
The new Intel® RealSense™ technology allows users interact with devices using natural and immersive senses: Voice, Gesture, Touch, Facial Recognition, Augmented Reality, and 3D Scanning. With the Intel® RealSense™ 3D Camera and SDK, developers have the creative and business opportunity to create innovative applications that go beyond the mouse and keyboard. Intel® IoT just announced the Developer Kit v1.0 is now available. The kit includes new software tools to get your dev environments ready for coding, plus a Windows* 64-bit installer for Intel® Edison. Last year we hosted 10 roadshows worldwide with over 1100 developers participating and over 200 projects were created with over 50 shared on instructables. In 2015, we are planning to host 20 IoT roadshow events for developer communities in cities across the US, Europe, South American and Asia. Connect with the global software developer community and gain an understanding of Intel platforms, access free tools, and engage with peers and Intel experts to share and gain knowledge about developing innovative applications. Learn more at: www.software.intel.com
Augmented reality is about to completely redefine human-computer interaction. In a few years, head-up displays and AR-enabled glasses will be ubiquitous, and anything that’s ever been on a screen will be accessible via a fluid visual interface that seamlessly appears to the individual anywhere, anytime. The functionality that today resides in a smartphone in your pocket will become infinitely more flexible and valuable once it can be displayed in the context of the world at large. Every industry will be affected by this revolutionary sea change, and our goal is to be a driving force behind it. We aim to visually connect the world around us with the right information at the right time in a way that is both meaningful and beautiful. Founded in 2010, DAQRI is a proven leader in the augmented reality space. Fueled by passion, inventiveness and collaboration, the DAQRI team has pioneered advances in both technology and design including vision-based solutions, image recognition techniques, experience delivery, and interaction design. Our 4D platform is the first and only enterprise-class cloud-based publisher that makes it easy to create, update and optimize augmented reality in real time. See examples of our work DAQRI.com
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Osterhout Design Group (ODG) is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Our story begins in 1999, revolutionizing the high-tech toy industry by leveraging and integrating electronics not typically used in children’s toys – miniature recording chips, tiny radio-frequency receivers, and infrared detectors. Today, we are focused on revolutionizing head worn technology and supplying innovative and sophisticated situational awareness, security and first-responder solutions. Our...
Since 2010, APX Labs has been the market leader in developing wearable technology for the hands-on workforce. APX Labs’ Skylight software product runs on many types of smart glasses, integrates with existing business systems, and is used today in a wide range of industrial operations including manufacturing, field service, repair, training, and compliance. For additional information, visit www.apx-labs.com.
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NGRAIN allows the world to see beyond reality. Our innovative, interactive 3D technologies empower decision makers in the most challenging markets around the globe, building a world where the enterprise workforce is always connected to the right information, at the right time, on the right device — maximizing operational uptime and eliminating costly mistakes. NGRAIN’s patented virtual reality and augmented reality software is used by leading Fortune 500 organizations in aerospace, defense, ener...
Metaio is the worldwide leader in Augmented Reality software, research and technology. With over 12 years of experience in Augmented Reality and Computer Vision, Metaio serves over 140,000 developers with over 50,000 published apps. In total, Metaio’s ‘AR’ software reaches over 250 Million consumers around the world. Founded in 2003, Metaio began by offering ‘AR’ to the industrial and automotive sectors for product design and factory planning. 12 years later, the company offers the most ve...
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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/
Scope AR provides the world’s most advanced Augmented Reality Training and Maintenance Solutions. We are leading the way in this emerging market, using the latest in augmented glasses and software to provide an incredible real-time 3D overlay training solution. Scope is currently working with some of the world’s leading multi-national companies to provide custom, state-of-the art training systems, while continuing to innovate and create novel Augmented Reality Training Solutions. Currently, Scop...
At Merlin, our cloud-hosted platform Alchemy enables enterprises to easily create and deploy mobile Augmented Reality (AR) content, for Marketing and Instructional applications, and then measure the effectiveness of those applications. Augmented Reality is the same technology that enables the “Yellow First Down Line” in football broadcasts, perhaps the greatest innovation in televised sports to date. Merlin’s innovative, AR Marketing Applications enable life-size, interactive, digital versions o...
Atheer is the pioneer in Augmented interactive Reality™ (AiR), combining the power of 3D augmented reality with gesture-based computing interaction to unlock human productivity. Atheer’s award-winning AiR SmartGlasses are the industry’s only mobile, gesture-controlled see-through smart glasses that allow users to view critical workflow information overlaid onto the real world, making it possible for users to interact with data in a natural way and collaborate with their peers like never before. ...
VividWorks Ltd. offers innovative online 3D design-to-purchase SaaS platform solutions to the global market. We provide instantly accessible tools, which enable visual customization of products as a part of the purchase experience. VividAR™ combines real space and virtual products giving amazing freedom to dream, plan and visualize any design. The solution enables to try amazingly realistic looking products to any space, anytime and anywhere. Visit us at AWE booth to see how to combine 3D produc...
Wikitude GmbH is the world’s leading mobile augmented reality (AR) technology provider for smartphones, tablets and digital eyewear. Its fully in-house developed AR technology is available through the Wikitude AR SDK enabling brands, agencies and developers to achieve their AR goals. With tens of thousands of developer accounts and thousands of published AR apps, Wikitude has grown to be the AR community of choice. The company chairs the international AR standardization as part of the Open Geosp...
Catchoom is a new world order cloud-based image recognition that brings you the tools you need to create digital experiences for the real world. Our motto? Less gimmicks, more actionable augmented reality (AR) and dissolve the boundaries between the physical and digital world. Our flagship product CraftAR combines the world’s best image recognition technology with the easiest AR content creation tool. Point a phone at a real world object to make an AR experience pop up or retrieve links, coupons...
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Project Tango is a platform that uses computer vision to give devices the ability to understand their position relative to the world around them. It’s just like how you use your eyes to find your way to a room, to know where in the room you are, and know where the floor, the walls, and objects around you are. These physical relationships are an essential part of how we move through our daily lives.
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/
MagiCubes® AR – Using MagiCubes® for objects & targets will deliver the haptic sensation they deserve. As users hold and play with the cubes, they discover that a 6 sided cube, transforms into a 9 or 12 panel object that engages the senses with the magic of touch. Combine your AR app with the benefits of haptic technology, will generate a positive emotion while customers touch, learn and experience your AR App with touch. Demo- bit.ly/mcar200 MagiCubes® AR 3D Media – MagiCubes.com 877-99-CUB...
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is a leading consensus building organization that nurtures, develops and advances global technologies, through IEEE external link. We bring together a broad range of individuals and organizations from a wide range of technical and geographic points of origin to facilitate standards development and standards related collaboration. With collaborative thought leaders in more than 160 countries, we promote innovation, enable the creation and expansion of inte...
Zappar is the world leader in AR-enabled product and entertainment experiences. Zappar works closely with brands, license partners and retailers across the world to produce innovative, customizable market-leading solutions as bite-sized entertainment. They have recently launched the Zapcode Creator, their new self-serve online solution.
Draw & Code are a digital creative studio based in Liverpool, UK. We are making the trip across the Atlantic to showcase our virtual and augmented reality prototypes. Our talented team of artists and programmers boast a diverse experience that allows us to make the most of emerging technologies. Our collective resume covers everything from augmented and virtual reality through to projection mapping, software development, large-scale interactive theatre sets and more. It is this intersection ...
Founded in 2009, Patched Reality has developed over a dozen desktop and mobile augmented reality experiences, for such brands as Pepsi, Ben and Jerry’s, Red Bull, HBO, PBS/Henson, A&E, Cisco, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. http://patchedreality.com/
Occipital is equal parts science lab and software startup, and develops state-of-the-art mobile computer vision applications. Occipital is venture-funded, was backed by Techstars in 2008, and is also known for developing RedLaser, a barcode-scanning application that was acquired by eBay Inc. In 2010, the company reinvented panoramas with 360 Panorama, an app which makes 360-degree image capture as simple and fast as recording a video clip. Most recently, Occipital has launched the Structure Sens...
meta is a Y Combinator startup spun out of Columbia University. The meta interface brings to life the computers seen in Iron Man, Avatar and Minority Report using a sterescopic augmented reality display combined with depth input to track gestures. The interface has been in development for two years but the components have been cost-prohibitive until the last few months. With Chief Scientist Steve Mann who is also keynoting at AWE and Lead Advisor Professor Steven Feiner meta has the scientific m...
Honigman is a leading business law firm based in Michigan with an international practice. Headquartered in Detroit with offices in Lansing, Oakland County, Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo, the firm has attorneys practicing in more than 50 different areas of concentration. Honigman’s highly credentialed attorneys and staff, along with its customer-service focus, provide clients in a wide variety of industries timely and cost-effective counsel. Our approach is built on relationships. That means a comprehe...
Augmate Corporation is a next generation internet software company, we provide visual efficiency tools for businesses and consumers by merging the digital and physical worlds using eye-wear (AR Glasses) and mobile devices. We cut the tether of the laptop and break the chain of a desktop computer by placing digital information, imagery, and applications directly on top of physical world objects. Our software architecture utilizes augmented reality on mobile devices integrating with content manage...
My passion is to teach about the positive uses of emerging technologies while raising awareness to the potential downside of innovation. I have dedicated my life teaming up with ewarriors around the globe to protect the innocent in this lifelong mission. “ The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” by William James is my favorite quote. http://www.ardirt.com/
Founded in 2007, Optinvent is one of the pioneering companies in near to eye display technologies. Optinvent’s team has developed patented technologies, extensive know-how, and manufacturing expertise to deliver cutting edge head products and provides a powerful AR Smart Glass platform for professional called the ORA-1©. A consumer product with a disruptive form factor called the ORA-X© is on its way which will revolutionize the head worn mobile AR hardware space. http://optinvent.com/
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Our Mission: Advancing Augmented Reality to Advance Humanity. Our Goal: Inspire 1 Billion active users of augmented reality – before the end of the decade – that is 2020. AugmentedReality.org is a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing and promoting the true potential of augmented reality. As trusted partner of its members and supporters, AR.org facilitates and catalyzes the global and regional transformation of the AR industry. AR.org also owns and produces the la...
Qualcomm® Vuforia™ is a mobile vision platform that enables apps and devices to connect the physical world with digital experiences that demand attention, drive engagement, and deliver value. Providing best-in-class augmented reality experiences, Vuforia delivers interactive 3D graphics, touch, video, and audio features to bring movie magic and computer graphics to mobile apps and provides a broad range options for creative empowerment – including simultaneous tracking of multiple targets, video...
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We bring tech communities together to learn, discuss and celebrate the wearable technology space. Our aim is to collectively foster adoption and facilitate innovation in wearable tech by offering events, acting as a hub for collaboration and sharing stories of those leading the charge in this new wave of computing. We welcome startups, entrepreneurs, investors, brands, marketers, developers, designers and enthusiasts to join the movement. Together, We Are Wearables! http://www.wearewearables.com...
We turn the concept of a traditional trade show upside down as it focuses on technology that’s relevant to particular lifestyles. See more at: http://livingindigitaltimes.com/
BrickSimple LLC is a leading developer of next generation web, mobile, and wearable computing applications. Our talented creative team develops custom solutions and products that leverage current mobile/tablet computing and powerful emerging technologies. Our team is committed to developing innovative application experiences for our clients. BrickSimple developers thrive on challenging technology problems and devising robust scalable solutions. We have assembled a team of experts with the experi...
Wearable World connects businesses to the social fabric of the Internet of Wearable Things. Our goal is to provide an innovation platform to foster the blend of technology, art and humanity. Through news content, incubator and accelerator programs, and events, Wearable World acts as the catalyst for future Wearable Technology innovation. The Wearable World platform addresses the need for entrepreneurs to connect, learn, and engage the wider Wearable Technology global ecosystem. http://wearablewo...
Dedicated To Everything Wearable Tech: Mobile, Data, Fitness & Sports. Wearable technology pioneers, inventors & advocates come together to discuss the evolution and future of the industry. Gain perspectives on how wearable tech devices and technology differ from each other, how and why they work the way they do, and discover what lies ahead for the billion dollar industry. Interact with colleagues, meet new partners, see live demos and participate in in-depth discussions. Get wearable t...
The biggest event for wearable technology – The Wearable Technology Show – will take place on the 10th & 11th March 2015 in London. In 2014, 1400 delegates from 35 countries, 40 exhibitors and over 100 speakers took part in the inaugural event in London – the biggest event of its type held anywhere in the world.. Press coverage was massive; the BBC, Financial Times, Wired and Tech Radar all helped to promote the event to more than 30 million across the UK and Europe Compani...
The Embedded Vision Summit West 2015 is a full day of “how-to” presentations, product and technology demos, and inspiring and insightful talks by industry leaders in one of the hottest areas of innovation today—embedded vision—“machines that see and understand.” Organized by leaders in embedded vision technology, the Summit serves as a technical educational forum for engineers interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software. The Embedded Vision Summit West 20...
Neurogaming Neurogaming 2014 Conference and Expo is the where your mind and body meet game play. Neurogame developers are using the latest emotional, cognitive, sensory and behavioral technologies to create radically compelling experiences to engage and entertain gamers worldwide. Sessions will focus on how neurosensing impacts AR, VR, entertainment, education, health and much more. www.neurogamingconf.com Verticals Gaming Platforms Wearables Products neurogaming conference
Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) allow the creation of fascinating new types of user interfaces, and are beginning to show significant impact on industry and society. The field is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, displays, sensors, to name just some of the most important influences. MR/AR concepts are applicable to a wide range of...
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ABI Research
We are a technology market intelligence company with a 25 year proven track record that is focused on putting information into the hands of executives in order to enable them to make the right decisions on technology and market investment at the right time. ABI Research quantifies the important markets of today, defines the strategic technologies of tomorrow, and provides insight on how technology is adopted into vertical markets.
AR in China
“AR in China” is China’s leading augmented reality platform, founded in the middle of 2013. The platform includes an online portal, an online forum and an offline event management system. There are more than 10,000 developers registered on the forum in less than one-year time. The goal of “AR in China” is to break the communication gap between the global AR industry and China’s local market. The vision of “AR in China” is to connect world’s innovative AR companies with the massive number of Chinese developers and end users. The main online portal of “AR in China” contains four major sections: AR blog, Case-Video Showcase, AR APP Downloads and AR Company Info. It allows the information to flow seamlessly from the international AR industry to the people who live inside of the “Great Fire Wall”. The online forum is the “home of AR developers”; software tutorials and technical supports are handled by experienced developers. Moreover, the offline event management system creates face-to-face communication opportunities within the local Chinese AR communities. The Chinese AR market is rising in a fast pace. We look forward to catch on the global AR trend and to make AR the “next big thing”! arinchina.com
AR Summit
The AR Summit is designed to explore this new dynamic reality and provide delegates with the perfect opportunity to uncover Augmented Reality in full and explore the opportunity’s AR brings any brand or company.The AR Summit is positioned at the forefront of this exciting continually developing new industry. Whether you are a Brand, Advertiser or Agency, Technology provider or Developer looking to meet key industry figures, keep up with the latest developments, technology’s & tools or simply to network with other from the world of AR The AR Summit is an excellent platform for you.
ARNext
ARNext.ru is the first and best media on the Russian internet fully dedicated to augmented reality (AR). We believe AR is the next step of computer interfaces evolution. Augmented reality will eventually erase the line between the normal and digital worlds. On ARNext.ru, we are making our best to embrace the new technological wave with daily news, articles, regular interviews with important players on the AR market like Qualcomm, metaio, Augmented Pixels, EligoVision, Blippar, PlayDisplay and also with scientists who build the fundamental part of these technologies. ARNext.ru have already been featured as experts for such magazines as Forbes (Russian edition on June, 2013) and Itogi, a large offline and online publication on the Russian media market. In 2013, ARNext.ru was chosen the best blog on the Russian internet writing about innovations in the contest ‘Russian Innovations Through The eyes Of Journalists – 2013′ run by Russian Venture Company and one of the largest Russian media holding RIA Novosti.
FORA.tv
FORA.tv is the leading site for engaging video programs from conferences, summits, public forums, university debates and think tanks across the globe. At FORA.tv we believe that there are brilliant ideas expressed everyday, everywhere, and we don’t want you to miss them. We work with more than150 organizations from the Aspen Institute to the Commonwealth Club to the New Yorker to the 92nd St Y. Our curated collection of more than 10,000 free and pay-per-view videos and a full schedule of live events brings the talks, debates, and conversations changing the world right to your screen. http://fora.tv
Games Alfresco
Games Alfresco vows to sensuously take the pulse of the new field of Augmented Reality (AR). They say it will reinvent interactive entertainment. And Games Alfresco believes it’s best played outdoors.
GigantiCo
GigantiCo is the online journal of Chris Grayson, a digital creative strategist in the advertising & marketing world of New York City. At GigantiCo, any forward-looking subject near the intersection of culture and technology is fair game: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Gadgets, Transhumanism, Robotics, Kinetic/Animatronic Sculpture, Electric Vehicles, Aviation, Space Travel, Architecture, HI/UX Design and The Arts.
GigaOm
The GigaOM Network is a business media company linking the world’s leading technology innovators to a global audience of prospective customers, business partners, and investors. The GigaOM Network builds communities, uniting innovators and their partners through online media, events, and research.
h+
h + Magazine covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing and will change human beings in fundamental ways. They follow areas like NBIC (nano-bio-info-cog), longevity, performance enhancement and self-modification, Virtual Reality, The Singularity, and other areas that both promise and threaten to radically alter our lives and our view of the world and ourselves.
Immersive Tech
Immersive Tech is a California non-profit organization that promotes the development and adoption of immersive technology so that the human experience is improved. They run an annual summit to collaborate on cutting-edge immersive technology, its applications, and its implications. They also connect technologists with business developers and promote their endeavors so that immersive technology can enter the mainstream market.
O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying faint signals from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
Privacy Indentity Innovation
ARE is partnering with the 2nd annual Privacy Identity Innovation conference (pii2011), and you’re invited to join us at the conference. It’s taking place May 19-20 at the Santa Clara Marriott right after ARE ends and you can save 20% off tickets for pii2011. The pii2011 conference will look at where innovation is heading and what it means for the future of digital privacy, identity, reputation and trust. Join a diverse group of 200+ technology executives, investors, entrepreneurs and policy experts to explore the business, technological, ethical and legal issues in a candid and comprehensive way.
Ra’pro
Ra’pro is the first and, today, only French association linked to augmented reality field. We promote this technology through our blog (www.augmented-reality.fr) followed monthly by more then 7000 people. We organize and co-organize many workshops, events and conferences, such as ARusecamp, ARParis,Dimension3, etc. We are media partner of Laval Virtual, Dimension3, Augmented Summit India (2013 Mumbay India) , International Conference on Human Machine Interaction (2012 – Sousse – Tunisia) Goals of our organization are: – Creating the connection between the projects promoter and the RA’pro community. The members of community is composed of experts from companies, researchers, students and passionate. – Establishing of working groups. This groups will reflect specific issues related to customs, standards, and techniques augmented reality. We wish to establish specific trade such sessions: augmented reality and wine, tourism, use augmented reality in museums, etc… Following the conclusions of these workshops, and we hope to publish repports. – Promoting and advancing the use of the Augmented Reality. – Organizing workshops to teach the use of the technology.
ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb is a top ten blog and the number one information technology blog in the world. ReadWriteWeb is known for offering some of the most insightful commentary available about each day’s Internet industry news.
SVForum
SVForum fosters innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership within the San Francisco/Silicon Valley ecosystem of individuals and businesses participating in emerging technologies. We do this by, creating connections and community and providing education and access to resources. https://svforum.org/
Tech Zulu
Based in Los Angeles, California, TechZulu is an independent news organization delivering an insightful story of the technology industry by showcasing the very people creating it. Our mission is simple: to discover, cover and connect you with vetted technology resources in the Southern California ecosystem and beyond. A pioneer in live Web television, TechZulu engages millions of viewers through real time reporting at conferences and its weekly news show, TechZulu Live. TechZulu also offers production services for conferences and events, and runs the Spotlight Series highlighting promising new technologies. http://techzulu.com/
Ubergizmo
We love gadgets and the technologies that make the gadgets go. We are geeks to the core, but we also talk about electronics in a way that everyone can relate to. We take everything into consideration from design, to user interface to practicality, pricing and competition.We make lists to help you decide what gadgets you need (or don’t). And we deliver live coverage at conferences like CES, E3, Mobile World Congress, CTIA, DEMO and GDC, so our readers can feel like they are there with us. If it’s cool, we are covering it. And our hard work is paying off: we are a Webby Award Honoree, have been nominees at the Bloggies and voted in the top 100 blogs for PC Magazine and the Hot Site on USA Today. But most importantly, we are reaching out to electronics lovers around the world. Currently, Ubergizmo is distributed in 3 languages and read in 212 countries. Check us out!
