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2013 Auggie Award™ Winners Announced!

2013 Auggie Award™ Winners Announced!

Auggie Awards™ Winners Announced! 6 Auggie Award™ winners announced this week at the Augmented World Expo award ceremony. Additional winners were announced for Best AR Startup (Startup Launchpad) and Best Hardware Startup (From The International Hardware Startup Meetup competition.) The 4th Auggie Award™ Competition is where the best of the best in the Augmented World competed for the one-of-a-kind Auggie Trophy and $20,000 in cash prizes in 6 categories. Following 87 nominations, over 1500 voters determined the 5 finalists in each category. A judging panel selected the winners and awarded the prizes during the Auggie Award Ceremony on June 4th. The Auggie: One of a kind hand made art sculpture by artist Sigal Arad Inbar Winners Best Augmented SDK For Developers Augmented Reality Software Developer Kits for any platform (mobile, PC, Projection, etc.) Winner: Vuforia by Qualcomm Finalists   Best Augmented World Mobile App Mobile apps with Augmented reality such as AR browsers, games, apps for education, etc. WINNER: Hermaton – Enter the Grid by Sahar Fikouhi (Darf Design) FINALISTS   Best Augmented Marketing Campaign AR marketing campaigns for major brands launched on any platform (mobile, PC, Projection, etc.) WINNER: GOLD STREETWEAR by GIOVANNI LANDI FINALISTS Best Augmented Solution for Enterprise AR solutions for enterprises and industrial applications on any platform (mobile, PC, Projection, etc.) WINNER: Otolift Stairlift B2B tools by TWNKLS FINALISTS Best Augmented World Video Concept videos that depict a future world with augmented reality (design fiction) WINNER: Sight by Eran May-Raz & Daniel Lazo from Bezaleal Academy of Arts FINALISTS Best Augmented World Hardware Hardware products such as eyewear, gesture devices, wearables, stationary installations, etc. WINNER: Sphero by ORBOTIX, INC. FINALISTS Best Augmented World Start-up In the Startup Launch Pad session 5 AR Startups pitched their companies in front of a VC panel and competed for the award and $5000. The winner was selected by the panel and announced during the Event Wrap-up. WINNER: Robert Wang – CEO, 3GEAR SYSTEMS Contenders Best Hardware Startup (International Hardware Startup Meetup and Competition) Winner: OpenFuelCell Carlos Uranga (CEO, H2MDK) Contenders List of contenders who participated in the first international Hardware Startup Meetup and Competition That’s it – submissions for the AWE 2014 awards will be announced later this year!...

Hermaton: Enter the Grid

Hermaton: Enter the Grid

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best Mobile AR App Creator: Sahar Fikouhi Organization: Darf Design =*=*=*= Description: Hermaton is an augmented reality exploration game designed as a large scale spatial installation, which follows from our initial architectural prototype for “Grid”. Although available at table top versions, the premise of this project lies in its capacity to harness augmented reality as a spatial medium which transcends mere visualisation and enters a dialogue between physical and digital space. The large scale of the installation allows a greater understanding of how augmented reality can affect us at an architectural level and change the way we inhabit and perceive the built environment. The project uses a buzz wire maze which people can navigate through in real-time, attempting to interact with the digital objects of the “Hermaton” machine. The design of this environment provides both an interactive and performance space which allows the user to fully immerse in a new augmented physical landscape. The AR system is enlarged to occupy an entire room by covering each wall with trackable markers which can be experienced on both Android and ios devices. The prototype was developed using Vuforia Augmented Reality SDK and Unity3d. Where to find it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hermaton/id645299043?ls=1&mt=8 Platforms: Mobile Additional Screenshots:...

Darf Design

Darf Design

Darf Design is a small independent game design studio located in London. The studio was founded by Sahar Fikouhi after graduating from UCL with an MArch in Architecture, and was consecutively joined by  Arta Toulami. The studio is focused on creating imaginative spaces of play and interaction.   http://www.darfdesign.com/...

Sahar Fikouhi

Sahar Fikouhi

I am a London based designer and co-founder of Darf design, working predominantly with augmented reality and mobile technology. Having trained in both architecture and computation, I have previously worked as an architect for a number of companies, including Foster and Partners, where I was focused on seeking new computational strategies for architectural design practices. Recently graduated from a Masters in architecture from UCL, where my work was predominantly based on creating spatial propositions using hybrid digital and physical spaces which transcend the limitations of material architecture. Our work at Darf design is a continuation of this study and focused on creating meaningful spaces of interaction and discourse through digital technology....

Leading Augmented Reality Innovators Confirm Participation in AWE 2013

Thanks to the amazing response for the AWE 2013 call for proposals, we have been able to select – so far – a list of 76 AWEsome innovators in the Augmented World. Here is the list of companies and organizations confirmed to present at AWE 2013: (For the latest list of 94 confirmed speakers go here) 13th Lab AD-Dispatch Anomaly AR23D ARDirt ARLab ARUP Augmate AugmenteDev AugmentedReality.ORG BuildAR CandyLab Catchoom Columbia University CrowdOptic Daqri Darf Design Dekko Digital Delta Design Early Adopter EchoVC eMagin Epson ExploreEngage Fraunhofer Frozen Chili Studio Full Swing Future Crimes Institute Grey Area Foundation for the Arts Heavy Projects HIT Lab NewZealand Honda Research Institute Honigman InfinityAR Interhacktive ISMAR Kimera Systems Layar Live View Studio Meta-View Metaio Microsoft Research MIT Media Lab Mitsubishi Electric NASA Ngrain Nvidia Occipital Ogmento Optinvent Orbotix Parc PatchedReality Perey Consulting Qualcomm Queens University RealityPrime Recon Instruments Samsung Seabery Seac02 SecondSite Sesame Workshop Simiosys Six-15 SmartTech Publishing Stupid Fun Club SuperTouch Group Telibrahma Tomi Ahonen Consulting Total Immersion University of Illinois at Chicago  Vertigore Vuzix Wikitude Zugara  ...