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Alex Hill

Ori — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:11:25 +0000

Alex Hill PhD is Chief Scientist at Merlin Mobility where he leads the development of Merlin’s web-based Alchemy AR content authoring and deployment suite, which makes extensive use of the Unity Game Engine. Dr. Hill received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, the birthplace of the CAVE virtual reality room. There he leveraged virtual reality to prototype the development of augmented reality user interfaces and 3D WYSIWYG interfaces for their authoring. Before joining Merlin, Alex completed a fellowship working at the Augmented Environments Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology directed by Blair MacIntyre. During his tenure at Georgia Tech, he led the development effort of Argon, the augmented reality browser based exclusively on web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and KML. Dr. Hill has been published in peer reviewed conferences and journals including MIT’s Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces and the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. He is a frequent volunteer reviewer, contributor to AR standards efforts and recently chaired the W3C Points of Interest working group.

Company: Merlin Mobility http://www.merlinmobility.com
Related Products: Alchemy Studio AR development suite

Merlin Sandpiper S20 Pump Application

Alex Hill — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:38:57 +0000

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR for Enterprise

Creator: Alex S Hill

Organization: Merlin Mobility Incorporated

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Description:

Merlin Mobility is developing a web based authoring platform that allows organizations to rapidly create and deploy augmented reality content with high usability built right in. The details of our platform include an instruction architecture for managing multiple branching tasks with context sensitive voice, animations, videos, textual descriptions and intent-based presentation that ensures the user is viewing the desired content during each step. This recent application for pump manufacturer Sandpiper was developed in collaboration with Sentrinsic Incorporated. Features highlighted in the video include 3D tracking initialized by a QRCode, viewpoint dependent animations, intelligent part masking, dynamic arrows, object aware labeling and cuttaway view animations.

Where to find it:

http://www.merlinmobility.com/awe/sandpiper

Platforms:

Mobile

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Margaret Martin

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:17:31 +0000

Margaret Martin, Founder and CEO of Merlin, has over 20 years of experience in leading educational and media technology companies to commercial success. Her experience includes 13 years in the Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Portland, Oregon technology markets.
Margaret founded and led several of Atlanta’s first Interactive Media companies and her early work includes development for Turner Broadcasting properties’ TBS, Cartoon Network and TBS Advertising in New York. Margaret founded IQTV, an educational technology company featured at AT&T’s Distance Learning Lab and along with Georgia Tech professors, she founded her first Georgia Tech startup whose product inFusion, an integrated media distance learning tool, is still in use today.
Margaret’s extensive breakthrough technology experience paired with her ability to drive revenue has enabled Merlin to grow over the past two years with a small grant and Fortune 100 customer derived revenue.