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Dirk Groten

Dirk Groten

I am passionate about new technology and how to turn it into simple, useful services for the rest of us. My focus is on mobile technology. For the past 5 years, I’ve been CTO at Layar, shaping the technology of the company from an app showing a couple of layers of augmented reality to the platform it is now: an app downloaded more than 35 million times and a back-end serving more than 80000 developers and publishers of content. I manage a team of 15 people developing server software in Django/python hosted on AWS, and client software for iOS, Android and the web....

Connectar

Connectar

Connectar is an open platform using cloud technology. Any content system can communicate with the Connectar cloud via API or JS API open standards. This allows you to create AR content from inside your own system or with content from your system. We even created free to use plug-and-play plugins/extensions for the three most used open source CMS platforms. Just to make it easy http://www.connectar.com Verticals All Verticals Platforms Mobile, Eyewear, Wearables, Projection, Virtual Mirror, Gesture Device, Internet of Things, Location Tech, Stationary Device Products Connectar...

Catchoom

Catchoom

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR SDK Creator: Catchoom Organization: Catchoom =*=*=*= Description: Supporting over 3 Million active users every month, Catchoom Image Recognition is fast, accurate, easy to use, and resilient. With our SDKs and example open source code or direct Recognition API, Catchoom allows developers, ISVs and integrators to give everyday objects a digital life. Our technology sets a new industry standard for 3D object recognition. Catchoom is not limited to recognition of flat or 2D Objects. Packaged goods, monuments and places can all be queried. Catchoom’s scalable, cloud-based system is built for a massive database search while maintaining the fastest round-trip object recognition time (0.5 seconds) and lowest false positive rate (under 1%), as benchmarked by Layar. Even in the most difficult illumination conditions, Catchoom delivers. Our solution expands the reach of Augmented Reality because even feature-phones can connect to our cloud-based recogntion, taking AR beyond high-CPU powered devices. With example client code for iOS, Android and Python (and more up coming), the Catchoom Recognition Service (CRS) allows developers to build a wide range of Image Recognition applications and services. Because we provide the means to integrate any tracking SDK into our solution, everything remains flexible. The CRS Recognition API conforms to REST (Representational state transfer) constraints. The CRS Management API enables bulk image upload and easy administration that provided scalability for developers beyond device limitations.   Where to find it: http://catchoom.com/product/image-recognition-saas/ Platforms: Mobile Additional Screenshots:...

Layar

Layar

Layar is the world-leading Augmented Reality browser for mobile devices. It uses the technology already built-in to your iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or Google Android device to feed additional information about your surroundings.Looking through the camera on your phone, Layar reveals practical data that can link into more detailed web-based content. In addition to this, the Layar Stream enables the user to browse location-based data quickly and easily. It’s free to download from the Android Market or the AppStore....

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald is Co-founder and General Manager of Layar. A company at the forefront of the emerging medium of Augmented Reality, with over 1 million users of the Layar Reality Browser, and thousands of developers creating AR experiences on the platform. Maarten started as an Internet professional in 1993. He helped national and international companies take their first steps online. Later he developed permission based strategies and campaign concepts focusing more on the marketing side of things. He moved on to mobile in 2007 when he started Mobile Monday Amsterdam and later SPRXmobile where Layar was born. In 2008 Maarten was diagnosed with cancer and become know as patient 2.0. He shared all his experiences through twitter and his blog maartenjourney.com. Maarten declared himself ex-patient 2.0 in the summer of 2009. Maarten is married and lives with his wife and two cats in Amsterdam....

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  ...

The Best in Augmented Reality on Display at ARE 2012 Exhibition

Here are the exhibitors and sponsoring companies at ARE 2012: ARE Exhibition will provide a chance to see, touch and feel the latest and greatest products in the augmented reality world. Less than 2 weeks are left for the event and tickets are selling out fast – Register today!...

107 speakers from 76 augmented reality companies on a single stage

Only 23 Days left for the Augmented Reality Event 2011. Register Today! 30 hours of the latest innovation in augmented reality by top speakers from the following companies: 3DVIA AR traveler AerialFireTech All Things Digital The Virtual Magician Augmatic Bloom/VURB Cagefree Consulting Chart Venture Partners Clothia Columbia University Daqri Defiant Exploratorium Franklin Institute GeoLoqi Georgia Tech Goldrun Google Goggles Graz University HIT Lab NZ Hoppala Gigantico Idea Builder Homes Immersion Optics Innovega Intel capital Keiichi Matsuda Teksylos Layar Lit Studios Maker Lab MapQuest Metaio Microsoft Mob-Labs Mobilizy MPR Center mShakespeare MUVEDesign Nokia Occipital Ogmento Osage Associates OWNI Parkridge police PepsiCO Pillsbury Law Platial Previznet Qualcomm Sacred Land Film Project Seac02 Simiosys Spotmetrix Tactical Information Systems Tanagram Technology Systems, Inc. ThingM Total Immersion UgoTrade Unity3D University of Kent, Canterbury Vertigore Virtual Public Art Project Vitamin AR VTT Viewdle Vuzix Waze Web3D Whistlebox Quest Visual YDreams Zenitum Zugara...

Who Should Attend are2010 (the Augmented Reality Event) in Santa Clara, CA June 2nd & 3rd, 2010

Over the last 2 years we have seen growing interest in Augmented Reality in various events – panels, dev camps, meetups – and many more. Due to growing demand for knowledge and expertise in augmented reality (AR), a group of AR industry insiders, backed by the AR Consortium have put together the first commercial event dedicated to advance the business of augmented reality. How is are2010 different from ISMAR previously touted as the “World’s best Augmented Reality event”? Well, ISMAR is still the best AR event for the scientific community. If you want to learn about (or present) the latest advancements in AR research – you should be in Seoul this October for ISMAR 2010. However, for the rest of us, who wish to take advantage of AR in practice, in the commercial world, and build a business around it – there was a gaping hole. That is, until now. Meet the Augmented Reality Event. Who’s this event for? For established and start up AR companies For established and start up AR companies (such as Total Immersion, Metaio, Acrossair, Ogmento, Circ.us, Mobilizy, Layar, Zugara, Neogence, whurleyvision, Chaotic Moon Studios, and many more) – are2010 is a stage to showcase their products and services; a venue to form partnerships, learn about latest innovations, and most importantly speak with clients. Bruno Uzzan, CEO of Total Immersion will wow the audience with a cutting edge augmented reality show; Peter Meier, CTO of Metaio, will speak about his companies latest products. Early stage startups and individual developers will receive guidance from Cole Van Nice (Chart Venture Partners) for how to build a successful company in the AR space, including raising funding (from VCs that actually invest in AR), licensing technology and IP, legal aspects, forging partnerships, etc. Christine Perey will speak about the scope of the mobile AR industry today and it’s growth trajectory. For Developers are2010 is a window into the latest AR algorithms, engines and programming tools. Learn from case studies and post mortems delivered by experienced developers from the leading companies in the space. Blair MacIntyre, director of the GVU Center’s Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech, will speak about his experience with tools and technologies while developing augmented reality games. Daniel Wagner, one of the leading mobile AR researchers in the world, will bring developers into the wonderful world of mobile AR. Patrick O’Shaughnessey, which has lead the development of more webcam-based AR campaigns than anyone else I know – will share his knowledge of what works and what doesn’t. Mike Liebhold, Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the Future , will speak about Technology foundations of an Open ARweb. Gene Becker, co-founder of AR DevCamp, will dive into augmented reality and ubiquitous computing, and Sean White, a pioneer in Green Tech AR will suggest concrete examples of how AR can help save the planet For Mobile, Hardware, and Platform companies For Mobile, Hardware, and Platform companies (such as Vuzix, Nokia, Qualcomm, Intel, Qdero, Microsoft, Google, Apple etc.) are2010 consists of a captive audience to launch and showcase their latest devices, processors, AR glasses, sensors, etc. The best collective minds of the AR commercial world will be onsite to articulate the market demand characteristics and help influence the design of future hardware. For clients and agencies In entertainment, media, publishing, education, healthcare, government, tourism, and many more are2010 offers everything you need to know about AR how to leverage augmented reality to advance your brand, attract and keep your customers, and how to build successful campaigns and products that will delight users, including postmortems of landmark augmented reality projects. Jarrell Pair, CTO and a founder of LP33.tv, will speak about “Augmented Reality in Music Entertainment: Then and Now”, Brian Selzer, co-founder and President of Ogmento, will deliver a crash course for clients and agencies about how to leverage AR in marketing campaigns. Marshal Kirkpatrick, lead blogger for ReadWriteWeb, will share the results of his AR survey collecting feedback from dozens of AR developers and their experience in delivering AR campaigns and apps. Kent Demain, designer of the visual effects in Minority Report, will open our minds with the talk: “Taking Hollywood visual effects spectacle out of the theatre and into your world”. And of course… For any AR Enthusiast Are you an AR Enthusiast? If so, you’re going to feel like a kid in a candy store at are2010, with a soon-to-be unforgettable keynote by Bruce Sterling, demo gallery, exhibitors from leading companies, artists installations from AR artists such as Eric Gradman and Helen Papagiannis, and many more surprises. If you are into Augmented Reality – are2010 is the one event you should attend this year. Want to join us? Click here to register!...