The opening morning of ARE 2011 brought a packed opening press conference with industry leading AR companies making ground breaking announcements. You can find several of the announcements below:
Layar First to Provide Direct AR Content Publication Through-Third Party Tools
First Public Showing of Volummetric 3D Hub
Metaio – The Big Picture of Augmented Reality
Innovega Breaks the Mobile Media Bottleneck
Imagine That Technologies Introduces Streamline
ingZ inc – Traveller AR brings Augmented Reality to iPad and iTouch as well as iPhone
Immediate following the press conference AR attendees representing 24 different countries filled the Main Theater at the Santa Clara Center to witness an opening video montage and Bruce Sterling’s visionary keynote. The AR inspiring keynote started with a surprise space liberation ambush and new freepace manifesto. To catch all the action follow the #are2011 twitter stream.
Stay tuned..
I enjoyed Bruce Sterling’s visionary keynote speach on http://vimeo.com/6189763 Look forward to reading more!