From GPS-based experience to 3D –fying the world.

The first AR demo on a smartphone in 2008 was based on GPS and it wowed the world. For some nostalgia, here’s that first demonstration on a hill in Austria showing a castle 3 km away with an info bubble extracted from Wikipedia…

But when we tried it in urban areas or worse indoors – we realized GPS is not accurate enough and it significantly detracted from the experience.

But now all of a sudden we have in our hands the tools to map and sense the world in 3D. This is a hugely important factor to make the world a more interactive place!

Check out these talks from AWE 2014 looking at different ways to map the world.
Mapping Spaces

Matt Bell – Founder, Matterport
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt5UaDBAIEg]

Mapping spaces and objects

Jeff Powers – CoFounder and CEO, Occipital Structure Sensor -

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6UE61ekF34]

Mapping for Navigation

Oriel Bergig – Head R&D, Flyby Media

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfL3VwyV6nI]

Clemens Kirner – Founder, Insider Navigation

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCspeFqSaAY]

Projection Mapping on the Real world

Phillippe Bergeron – CEO, PaintScaping

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcYMh2Eig18]

For 135 more AWE 2014 videos visit our YouTube Channel at: YouTube.com/AugmentedRealityOrg/Videos