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Włodek Laskowski

Włodek Laskowski

Wlodek is like a Nomad: by day, he is a Partner with VC fund, and by night, he is an active Business Angel and entrepreneur – he is currently leading a great AR start-up called Frozen Chili Studio, whose flagship project creates a Tamagotchi-style AR mobile app, re-defining the famous classic and enabling the launch of an innovative AR platform. Back in 1988 Wlodek never expected to be where he is today, when at 18 years old he escaped from communist Poland to England. Once there, with hard work and strong determination he graduated from the prestigious LSE, upon which he embarked on a successful investment banking career in London. After the City, he joined GE Capital, where as a member of the elite GLDP (Global Leadership Development Program), he worked on top assignments in the US and Europe. Upon leaving the corporate world, Wlodek became an entrepreneur: he co-founded a US-based high-tech start-up Bot Inc. (together with the retired Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet), and led its R&D unit (80+ employees) in Krakow, Poland. After the company was acquired by Ernst & Young Technologies, he established a small investment banking boutique working with both: top-notch European VCs, as well as entrepreneurs seeking exit. Few years ago,  Wlodek co-founded a VC Fund (he called it Nomad of course!), where he is currently a Partner in charge of ICT investments. Although he went to the dark side (VC), he never ceased to be an entrepreneur at heart, and so he gets involved with start-ups as an active Business Angel....

Miho Tanaka

Miho Tanaka

Miho first began creating mobile apps for HIT Lab NZ (commercial dept, now called Motim Technologies) back in the day when Nokia phones was the most prevalent smartphone. As Lead concepter, she designed showcase apps to demonstrate the full potential of AR on mobile devices. She then worked as Senior Digital Strategist and Concepter at KKLD (ad agency): introducing new technologies and creating digital communication strategies for global brands such as BMW, MINI, and Bayer. AirMarkr has so far won 3rd prize at a Startup Weekend competition, and finalist at HY! Berlin (an international startup competition where MG Siegler, Om Malik, Esther Dyson and Paul Singh were part of the judging panel) Prior to this Miho has won International awards for advertising and digital campaigns such as the Epica, Echo and John Caples Awards....

John Murray

John Murray

John Murray is co-founder and CTO of Seebright, a new startup which is developing an open platform for augmented reality experiences based on existing hardware. He is a graduate student at the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz and is currently co-authoring a platform studies book on Flash for MIT Press, examining the intertwining role of culture and the platform’s evolution. John has taught art and computer science students programming and game design using platforms such as the Kinect, Flash and HTML5. He can be found on twitter as @lucidbard and online at lucidbard.com....

PAR Works

PAR Works

PAR Works brings augmented reality — the ability to overlay cyber imagery upon real world data feeds such as photos and videos — to a new level, offering imagery overlay accuracy to the ground-breaking precision of millimeters, all performed nearly instantaneously on any mobile device. By focusing on precision, speed and robustness, PAR Works is fundamentally disrupting and expanding augmented reality applications across numerous user groups. PAR Works’ advanced image analysis process allows any user with a smartphone to retrieve editable, tag-able information through image detection and comparison. The technology quickly achieves accuracy at millimeter-level scale, allowing for any arbitrary building, landmark, vehicle, or object to be analyzed and tagged, and to be done so remarkably faster than other augmented reality offerings. To date, augmented reality technologies have offered some level of precision and/or speed, but very rarely both. As consumers and businesses further embrace mobile technology to make faster, more informed decisions on the go, it is becoming increasingly important to deliver relevant information to the end user quickly. PAR Works, with its world class team of technology experts, is pioneering new, smarter ways to rapidly aggregate information around real world imagery. PAR Works technology meets and exceeds the needs of a broad array of user groups, including advertisers, consumers, social networkers, residential and commercial real estate agents and construction management, automotive and industrial companies. PAR Works takes augmented reality and informed decision making to a new level. http://www.parworks.com/...

RightSlope

RightSlope

RightSlope provides Mobile Augmented Reality Apps and related Digital Marketing Solutions. Our expertise in 2D/3D Models, Game Development, Mobile and Digital Technologies will enable us to address the needs of the new marketing era. http://www.rightslope.com...

Xiao “Nikita” Xiong

Xiao “Nikita” Xiong

Xiao “Nikita” Xiong is a graduating MS candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech. Her mission is to create joyful and intuitive interfaces and experiences for mobile and environmental scales with a user-centered design approach. She is especially interested in bridging the physical and virtual worlds with augmented reality and tangible interactions. She has previously worked as a UI/UX designer for mobile apps and interactive museum displays. She holds a BFA in Digital Film & TV Production and an MA of Digital Media Art from Communication University of China in Beijing....

Gheric Speiginer

Gheric Speiginer

Gheric is a PhD student advised by Dr. Blair MacIntyre in the Augmented Environments Lab at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He is interested in exploring novel user interfaces and interaction techniques, particularly those that exploit the unique characteristics of augmented reality. His current research focus explores the use of adaptive user interface concepts in order to address the design and usability challenges posed by dynamically changing contexts in augmented reality experiences. His research is supported by the NSF GRFP and GEM fellowships. Company: Georgia Tech http://ael.gatech.edu/lab/author/gheric/  Related Products: Argon...

Dustin Harris

Dustin Harris

Dustin Harris recently completed his MS in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech. He is interested in augmented reality as means of uncovering more information about the world around us in an unobtrusive way. He is also interested in how urban data collection can enable new augmented reality experiences. He currently works as a Program Manager at Microsoft....

Solatido

Solatido

SōLäTiDō develops wearable, tactile, Keyboards/Controllers, that when used with smartphones and HMDs, will enable complex AR Gaming, Mobile Enterprise document creation/editing, and musical instrument simulation, while standing or walking. www.solatido.com/‎...

Laster

Laster

Founded in 2005, LASTER Technologies is a pioneering company in mobile informative eyewear & augmented reality (AR). LASTER optical see-through technologies combine natural vision overlaid with virtual context-sensitive information in the form of text, images, 3D objects or videos, allowing easy and unhindered mobility. LASTER Technologies have developed and patented EnhancedView™ technology, recognized today as the AR display technology with the best optical performance. This technology can be integrated into a variety of products:  Head Mounted Displays (HMD) for professional applications, information display spectacles, motorcycle and fire fighter helmets, ski goggles and others eyewears. http://www.laster.fr/  ...

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