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Tutorial: Top 10 Augmented Reality SDKs for Developers

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:43:22 +0000

AWE 2013 ended over 2 months ago and the amazing energy generated by attendees can still be felt: “There is a gold rush mentality in Augmented Reality” says said John Jackson, an analyst for market tracker IDC.
Many new “diggers” (aka developers) are joining the space and one of the first question asked is: “what are the best AR SDKs in the market?”

Luckily, Patrick O’Shaughnessey, our AWEsome CTO, did a fantastic job answering this question in his tutorial at AWE 2013.

The 3 hour session lead by Patrick reviewed the best Mobile AR SDKs in the market and how to get started with them, followed by vendor presentations featuring: 13th Lab, Metaio, Vuforia by Qualcomm, Total Immersion, and Wikitude.

You won’t find a better summary and comparison of the leading AR SDKs by an independent person who’s worked with literally all leading AR SDKS.

And as a bonus, we top it off with an AR Design workshop by the great Mark Billinghurst!

Here it is. Enjoy.

Intro by Patrick:

Patrick’s Slides

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Vendors Presentations:

13th Lab – Oskar Linde

Metaio – Ben Blachnitzky

Vuforia by Qualcomm – Roy Ashok

Total Immersion – Benjamin Zysberg

Wikitude – Martin Lechner

Mark Billinghurst – AR Design Workshop

Hope this was helpful. Let us know what you’d like to see next year.

Oskar Linde

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:39:13 +0000

Oskar Linde is CEO and cofounder of 13th Lab, a startup working on computer vision for mobile devices. 13th Lab’s technology and browser understands and tracks both 2D and 3D environments. In 2011, 13th Lab released the first iOS consumer application based on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), a technique for modeling and tracking 3D spaces in real time. Since then the company has made huge improvements in speed, accuracy and map size, and are making this technology available to both regular web pages through the PointCloud Browser and to native iOS and Android applications through the PointCloud SDK.

Ben Zysberg

admin — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:45:53 +0000

Lead Engineer at Total Immersion

Roy Lawrence Ashok

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:35:35 +0000

Roy Ashok is the product manager of the augmented reality (AR) platform at Qualcomm. In this role, Ashok handles the product requirements for Qualcomm’s augmented reality software development kit (SDK). He is also responsible for Qualcomm’s AR developer relations, a community of more than 5,000 active developers who use the Company’s AR SDK to build cutting edge applications. Ashok created and managed Qualcomm’s 2010 Augmented Reality Developer Challenge that attracted more than 50 global developers who competed for $200,000 in prizes. When Ashok first joined Qualcomm in 2003, he held an engineering position. As senior engineer, he developed VoIP and video telephony systems for 3G technologies such as UMTS and EV-DO Rev A. Before joining Qualcomm, Ashok was a software engineer at Hughes Software Systems where he helped build early commercial VoIP signaling stacks and frameworks. While completing his MBA, Ashok acted as manager for BR Ventures (Cornell University’s early stage venture fund), led an investment into Appinions (Jodange Inc), and evaluated several startup companies.

Ben Blachnitzky

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:28:38 +0000

Ben Blachnitzky joined metaio GmbH in 2005, after which he was involved in the development of metaio’s Augmented Reality core-system as well as end-user applications. Today Ben is serving as Director Research & Development at the California office of metaio, Inc. and is focussing on mobile Augmented Reality development. Ben holds an MS in Computer Science in Media from Furtwangen University (German), where he also gathered his first experiences with Augmented Reality.

Company: Metaio http://metaio.com
Related Products: Metaio SDK

Patrick O’Shaughnessey

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:22:42 +0000

Patrick O’Shaughnessey is the founder of Patched Reality, an augmented reality software development company. Previously, he led the engineering team at The Electric Sheep Company, publishers of the Webflock virtual worlds platform. A software engineer for over 18 years, his background also includes game development, machinima, mobile computing, and telecommunications. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is a co-inventor of five patents.

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