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ARE 2012 Keynote Speaker: Miles Ludwig – VP Digital Group at Sesame Workshop On Why Augmented Reality Will Redefine Learning and Fun

  In another sign that augmented reality is going beyond its gimmicky stage and reaching the mainstream, we are glad to announce a major addition to ARE 2012 keynote speakers lineup: Mr. Miles Ludwig, head of Sesame Workshop’s Digital Group. Miles Ludwig oversees creative and production for interactive and digital initiatives and has led the design and development of interactive educational experiences and educational software titles for every significant technology-based platform of the last 15 years, including product lines for Mattel, V-Tech, Hasbro, Electronic Arts, Jakks Pacific, Scholastic, Nintendo, and Sony. Miles leads the team that was recently awarded an Emmy (2009), a Webby (2010) and a Peabody award (2010) for Sesame Street broadband website. He was previously the Creative Director of Elias Arts Sound Intelligence Group, and the co-founder of Kirt Gunn & Associates, Inc. (KGA), an interactive advertising agency. At KGA, he led a team that created cross-platform campaigns for Diageo, LVMH, Ford, and Volvo. Miles was educated at Brown University and New York University. Miles was recently interviewed about his latest augmented reality project in collaboration with Qualcomm. In this project, beloved Sesame Street character toys Bert and Ernie come to life and are fully interactive. “Sesame Workshop and Augmented Reality!?” asks John from EPTV. “We’ll try anything to get kids to learn” answers Miles Ludwig. Mr. Ludwig and his team at Sesame Workshop are always exploring new technologies that will help kids learn in a fun way. They believe augmented reality can deliver on that promise and are currently researching and measuring the impact it can have on improving kids’ learning. Register to ARE 2012 and get inspired by Miles Ludwig along with Frank Cooper (CMO PepsiCO) and more than a hundred speakers that will talk about how to leverage augmented reality to make the world a more engaging place....

ARE 2012 1st Keynote Speaker Announced: Adrian David Cheok Inventor of "Krazy" Augmented Reality!

The line up of luminary speakers to keynote at ARE 2012, the world’s largest augmented reality event, will blow your mind. The first revealed is Adrian David Cheok, Professor at Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design, in Tokyo Japan, as well as a Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum. Dr. Cheok has been a hero of mine in pushing the envelop of augmented reality. He will join an amazing group of keynote speakers in previous years.   Adrian has been a champion of the idea that Augmented Reality is more than just about the visual sense, but has to include all the senses. Over the years, he’s been working hard to prove his idea and created many prototypes of augmented reality systems that involve the other senses. To warm you up, check out his Hug Accentuator. I can’t wait to see his Kissinger system in action. (Hint: it’s not about the legendary statesman.) Dr. Adrian David Cheok also created the first real world Pac Man game. When he wanted to create an exciting augmented reality game, he chose to remake the first video game to ever introduce a character – the legendary Pac Man. Cheok literally stepped into Pacman’s shoes in this first-person-shooter-like real world game. Make sure to register for ARE 2012 before the early bird discount expires on March 21st. Here’s an excerpt from Adrian’s illustrious career so far: Adrian David Cheok  was the Founder and Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, Singapore. and previously worked in real-time systems, soft computing, and embedded computing in Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Japan. Mr. Cheok has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics. He has successfully obtained funding for externally funded projects in the area of wearable computers and mixed reality from Nike, National Oilwell Varco, Defense Science Technology Agency, Ministry of Communications and Arts, National Arts Council, Singapore Science Center, Hougang Primary School. The research output has included numerous high quality academic journal papers, research awards, keynote speeches, international exhibitions, numerous government demonstrations including to the President and Prime Minister of Singapore, broadcast television worldwide broadcasts on his research (such as CNN/CNBC/ABC/Discovery/National Geographic etc.), and hundreds of international press media articles. In addition, Mr. Cheok has been a keynote and invited speaker at numerous international conferences and events. He was invited to exhibit for two years in the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, launching in the Ars Electronica Festival 2003. His works “Human Pacman”, “Magic Land”, and “Metazoa Ludens”, were each selected as one of the worlds top inventions by Wired and invited to be exhibited in Wired NextFest 2005 and 2007. More…    ...

ARE 2010 Keynote by Bruce Sterling: Bake a Big Pie!

are 2010 is over. It was a blast. Many thanks to 400 AR enthusiasts who joined us for 2 days of AR goodness. Special thanks to our 90 speakers from 40 augmented reality companies, our exhibitors, sponsors, and above all – for Qualcomm. For those who weren’t as fortunate, and couldn’t join the event – here are some of the highlights. Bruce Sterling’s keynote (aka the prophet of the augmented reality industry) opened it up with a bang: “It’s 9 am in the augmented reality industry…without vision people perish…it’s your chance to bake a big pie before you start slicing it up…it’s time for you to get dressed…good luck to you, I’ll be watching you” The Augmented Reality Event: Bruce Sterling’s keynote from Ori Inbar on Vimeo. More later…...