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Kimera Systems

Kimera Systems

Throughout history we’ve built tools to solve specific problems. Over the last few decades we’ve learned how to build powerful tools that we can adjust to our needs. But we’ve never built tools that understand why they’re being used so they can adapt to us. That changes today.  Imagine a planetary neural network that’s continuously working to understand you, your actions, intent, goals, and what’s going on in the world that’s relevant to you. It uses this intelligence to seamlessly augment applications specifically for you and your situation. Imagine this service running 24/7 on your smartphone and other devices. Imagine walking into a meeting in a restaurant. Without you doing anything, the Kimera smart agents on your phone have already communicated with the smart agents on the phones of the people you’re meeting, and those of the restaurant. Together they’ve handled one late arriver, three relevant subject updates from associates, a drink order, a prescription medication notice, and a food allergy alert. During your meeting, several smart agents will find ways to help the information flow without interrupting, and handle diversions like incoming calls based on what they know about you and your colleagues. One of your group will be notified to leave early because of impending traffic delays. No one will have made a call to find out any of this information. Our AI technology isn’t limited to a vertical market. Your phone will take a holistic approach to your life and continuously build a service that fits your need, even if your need goes beyond your current situation …in fact, that’s the point; it adapts to help you with every new development and situation. An open decentralized planetary network We’re creating a planetary neural network that everyone can choose to participate in and benefit from but isn’t owned by anyone. The last thing we need is global context awareness that’s owned by one or two big companies. Our technology is based on the founding principles of the Internet. We each own our own piece of the AI network and can decide how much and in what capacity we participate. The smart agents that make it all happen are easily custom-built from our SDK by any software developers who wish to participate. This AI-driven, ubiquitous contextual personalization service opens the door for an unprecedented level of innovation for everyone. It will change our planet by giving “life” and learning to tools and services. The result is continuous awareness of value in the moment that’s customized for each person. This technology does NOT aim at replacing humans; it’s designed to extend our human abilities, every day. Crowdfunding We need your help! This future will happen. The only question is how and when. By pledging to our funding project on RocketHub or on our site you help it happen now, by enabling user-controlled, personalized global AI services on any networked device, for anyone. This counters the trend for major Internet companies to control global intelligence technology. We want you to own your piece of the collective intelligence, not some big corporate Internet company who only cares about their bottom line. If we all work together, we can make it happen!   http://kimerasystems.com/...

Clark Dodsworth

Clark Dodsworth

Clark Dodsworth is VP Product Marketing for Kimera Systems, a B2B cloud services provider in the mobile context awareness space. He’s a tech strategist, converting it to products and services that support the User eXperience. He began doing mobile context awareness strategy in 2007 for the huge Dubailand leisure development managed by McKinsey. Since then the mobile context tech and services arcs he projected have been right on track. Kimera Systems is developing a 2nd screen service for a major hardware vendor and cloud-based infrastructural Context Awareness as a Service, for any app, any site. Clark is also involved in MedTech 2.0, enabling clinicians to collaborate using rich-media content any time, anywhere. Clark was co-creator of the Ambient Intelligence strategy for Philips worldwide in 1998, which was subsequently adopted by the EU for FP6, their 3.7B euro programme for R&D. Clark’s book “Digital Illusion” defined the paths for online and out-of-home entertainment, and he was a Director of the first nationwide location-aware mobile wireless marketing system, VideoCart, funded by Gian Fulgoni of ComScore....

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  ...