xRの世界 | The world of xR (xReality)

拡張現実 Augmented Realty/仮想現実 Virtual Reality/複合現実 Mixed Reality の技術がもたらす DX(デジタルトランスフォーメーション)

Worldwide AR event ARE2012 is held in Santa Clara (May 8-9 2012) - 世界的#ARイベント ARE2012がサンタクララで開催

Worldwide AR event ARE2012 is held in Santa Clara (May 8-9 2012). 
It is the 3rd this year. The hardware technology and the software skill evolve compared with last year, and the introduction case has increased, too. It is becoming not a mere gimmick and promotion but an indispensable solution. This event in which a well-known AR dependent business participates can be expected. 

世界的ARイベント ARE2012がサンタクララで開催される(8-9 2012年5月8-9日)。
今年は第3回。昨年と比較すると、ハードウェア技術やソフトウェア技術が進化し、導入事例も増えています。単なるギミックやプロモーションではなく、なくてはならないソリューションになりつつあります。名だたるAR関連企業が参加するこのイベントは期待できそうです。



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ARE 2012 Speakers
-Keynote: Bruce Sterling:Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic, was born in 1954.

-Keynote: Frank Cooper:Mr. Frank Cooper, III serves as CMO and Chief Consumer Engagement Officer of PepsiCo.

-Keynote: Miles Ludwig:Mr. Ludwig is the Vice President of Digital Group at Sesame Workshop.
 
-Keynote: 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.

-Special Guest: Daniel Suarez:Daniel Suarez is the the best selling author of techno-thrillers Daemon and Freedom.

-Special Guest: Will Wright:Will Wright, widely acknowledged for creating the simulation video game genre, unveiled the highly anticipated SporeTM in September 2008.

-Tomasz Adamek:Tomasz Adamek is the co-founder and CTO of Catchoom.

-Baraa Ali:Baraa Safaa Ali, entrepreneur, international speaker, animator and professional musician.

-Helene Alonso:Helene is a creative technologist specialized in the design and production of interactive experiences.

-Thomas Alt:Thomas Alt founded Metaio, Inc in February 2003 together with Peter Meier and is currently serving as the CEO in both Munich, Germany and San Francisco, California.

-Sally Applin:Sally A. Applin is a Ph.D. student at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, in the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC).

-Chris Arkenberg:Chris Arkenberg is a strategic analyst and a technology professional, a beat-maker and a string plucker, a surfer, a writer, a lover and a fighter.

-Roy Lawrence Ashok:Roy Ashok is the product manager of the augmented reality (AR) platform at Qualcomm. In this role, Ashok handles the product requirements for Qualcomm’s augmented reality software development kit (SDK).

-Amir Baradaran:Iranian-Canadian, New York-based media and performance artist, works in the field of Augmented Reality (AR).

-Avi Bar-Zeev:Avi Bar-Zeev has close to 20 years professional experience in 3D entertainment, visual simulation and internet scale applications.

-Gene Becker:Gene Becker (@genebecker) is founder of Lightning Laboratories, an innovation hub specializing in human-centered mobility and 21st-century personal computing.

-Chuck Benton:Chuck Benton originally trained as a commercial aircraft pilot, flight engineer, and Airframe/Powerplant mechanic, 

-Oriel Bergig:Oriel Bergig is a co-founder of Ogmento and its Vice President of R&D.

-BC (“Heavy”) Biermann:BC Biermann possesses an interdisciplinary background that comprises academia, technology, and the arts.

-Mark Billinghurst:Mark Billinghurst is one of the world’s leading augmented reality researchers, focusing on innovative computer interfaces

-Ben Blachnitzsky:Ben Blachnitzsky joined metaio GmbH in 2005, after which he was involved in the development of metaio’s Augmented Reality

-Mindy Brooks:Mindy Brooks is the Director of Education and Research at Sesame Workshop.

-Andrea Carignano:Andrea Carignano is Co-Founder and CEO of Seac02, and founder and President

-Amber Case:Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and User Experience Designer from Portland, Oregon.

-Ben Cerveny:Ben has worked for over 20 years on user interaction and experience design, concept prototyping, and strategy in the context of media applications,

-Ina Yosun Chang:Starting from nothing but her wits last June through September,

-Jean-Francois Chianetta:Jean-Francois Chianetta is the founder of AugmenteDev.

-Juliana Clegg:As Co-founder and COO for MVS-California, Juliana Clegg is the architect of business strategy

-Di-Ann Eisnor:Di-Ann Eisnor lives in Palo Alto, by way of Portland, OR, Boston, New York City and Amsterdam.

-Jon Epstein:President, Omek Interactive. Jonathan Epstein leads companies at the intersection of media and technology.

-Jacob Ervin:Jacob Ervin is an application developer for metaio Inc.

-Justin Farris:Justin Farris holds the position of Product Manager at Gravity Jack.

-Steven Feiner:Steven Feiner is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University,

-Jon Fisher:Jon is CrowdOptic’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder.

-Julianne Fox:Principal Scientist, Human Factors at Decision Speed Inc.

-Marc Rene Gardeya:Senior AR Engineer, Dekko.Marc was the very first engineer to join Dekko and now leads our optical tracking software engineering.

-Masaki Fukuchi:Team Lead Sony Augmented Reality Research, Japan

-Stephane Gervais-Ducouret:Stephane Gervais-Ducouret has 19 years of experience in the semiconductor industry as global marketing, business development, project management, and product designer.

-Chris Grayson:Chris Grayson is Director of Digital at Humble, a pre-to-post production creative collective and bleeding-edge special effects house in New York City,

-Damon Hernandez:Damon Hernandez works in many areas of the Web3D Industry and has been active in virtual environments and the 3D web open standards for over eight years now.

-Anselm Hook:Anselm Hook is a veteran software developer.

-Tsutomu Horikawa:Tsutomu Horikawa joined Sony Computer Entertainment Inc in 1997.

-Mike Housholder:Mike Housholder is the Senior Director of Business Development for InvenSense (NYSE: INVN),

-Ori Inbar:Ori is co-founder and CEO of Ogmento, a developer and publisher of mobile augmented reality experiences; 

-Dr. Alfonso Jimenez:Dr. Jimenez has been educated and trained in family medicine at Michigan State University

-Bob Ketner:Bob Ketner is a digital media product developer.

-Irina Kharseeva:Irina Kharseeva is responsible for directing Fitting Reality’s overall PR and strategic planning programs and corporate communications.

-Justin Langseth:Justin Langseth is the CEO of Augaroo. Augaroo is a 25-person startup at the intersection of augmented reality, social, mobile, and big data.

-Martin Lechner:Martin studied both Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Salzburg, Austria and the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

-Maarten Lens-FitzGerald:Maarten Lens-FitzGerald is Co-founder and General Manager of Layar.

-Guatam Lohia:Gautam Lohia has been at Blast Radius for 11 years in various executive roles, overseeing the growth of the company into a globally recognized strategic digital agency.

-Trak Lord:Trak Lord is the Chief of Production and Founder of Vitamin AR, a mobile AR development agency, as well as a writer for the tech blog TweakTown.

-Rob Manson:Rob Manson is Managing Director of MOB, an innovation lab based in Sydney, Australia.

-Christopher Manzione:Christopher Manzione earned a BFA in sculpture from William Paterson University,

-Kevin Manson:Kevin Manson is the director of Cybercop Inc, a non-profit, educational organization. His public service career spans all three branches of governmental service.

-Luke Robert Mason:Luke Robert Mason is a Researcher in Technology and Cyberculture.

-Matt Miesnieks:CEO, Dekko Matt’s passion is finding product/market fit for emerging technologies,

-Silka Miesnieks:Silka Miesnieks, Product Designer Silka provides experienced design leadership and is the voice of our users.

-Kayvan Mirza:Kayvan Mirza co-founded Optinvent S.A. in Rennes, France and became its CEO on February of 2007. He brings over 15 years of industry experience to the company.

-Ambarish Mitra:Ambarish Mitra is CEO and co-founder.

-Blippar is a revolution for traditional media and advertising offering the power to turn every single piece of printed collateral or physical

-Jason Mitura:Jason is the President and CPO of Viewdle?a mobile computer vision company that develops lightweight gesture, object, and face recognition technologies

-Ignacio Mondine:Founder of Teletouch.es, a Barcelona start up focused on the intersections of telepresence and augmented reality.

-Brian Mullins:Brian Mullins is a visionary and a pioneer in the field of augmented reality.

-Lisa Murphy:Lisa Murphy is a senior development manager at metaio, the world leader in Augmented Reality (AR) solutions.

-Suresh Narasimha:Suresh Narasimha Founder & CEO ? TELiBrahma Convergent Communications Pvt Ltd.

-Victor Ng-Thow-Hing:Victor Ng-Thow-Hing is a principal scientist at the Honda Research Institute USA in Mountain View, CA

-Scott O’Brien:Scott OBrien is co-founder of Explore Engage, an Augmented Reality (AR) specialist company based in Sydney, Australia specializing in AR across web, kiosk, mobile and AR glasses.

-Adam Odessky:Adam Odessky is a Product Manager at Orange Silicon Valley and also the Founder of the DocPal project.

-Sophia Parafina:Sophia is a Geographer without Portfolio, which means she thinks about space, business, and money.

-Aaron Parecki:Aaron Parecki is a Portland-based iPhone and PHP developer interested in solving practical problems with technology.

-Christine Perey:Christine Perey is a Spime Wrangler and evangelist for mobile AR with 20 years experience in new multimedia communications markets and technologies.

-Jeffrey Powers:Founder, Occipital

-Joseph Rampolla:Joseph Rampolla has been a law enforcement officer for 17 years for a suburban police department in the NY/NJ Metropolitan area.

-Edward Roche:Affiliate Researcher, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information;

-Hafez Rouzati:Hafez Rouzati is a Graduate Researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Augmented Environments Lab

-Brendan Scully:Brendan is a Business Development Manager and Experience Designer at metaio, Inc., the world-leader in Augmented Reality (AR) solutions.

-Brian Selzer:Brian Selzer is the President and Co-Founder of Ogmento, a developer and publisher of mobile augmented reality games and entertainment.

-Nuno Serrao:Nuno Serrao is Portuguese designer, photographer and filmmaker.

-Josh Shabtai:Josh Shabtai is a game designer, interactive marketing pioneer and science-fiction geek.

-Tish Shute:Tish Shute is a digital strategist, speaker, writer, cyborg anthropologist, and founder of Ugotrade 

-Christopher Stapleton:Christopher Stapleton is an entrepreneur, educator, inventor and artist 

-Matthew Szymczyk:Matthew Szymczyk is co-founder and CEO of Zugara.

-Bruce Taragin:Bruce has 20 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney.

-Paul J. Travers:Paul J. Travers is the founder of Vuzix and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since 1997 and as a member of our board of directors since November 1997.

-Neil Trevett:Neil Trevett has spent 20 years in the 3D graphics industry. 

-Bruno Uzzan:Bruno Uzzan has been driving the growth of Total Immersion since 1999 ? from start-up to the company’s current position of global category leader.

-Brian Wassom:Brian D. Wassom is a First Amendment lawyer in the broadest sense of the term.

-Scott Wellwood:Scott Wellwood currently holds the position of Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances at Total Immersion,

-Richard Wetzel:Richard Wetzel is a research associate at the Fraunhofer Insitute for Applied Information Technology since 2006.

-Mitch Williams:Mitch Williams was born an entrepreneur. 

-Stephen Willey:Steve Willey, M.A.Sc., MBA, CEO Innovega: Steve has built his career from a passion for development of ground-breaking products.

-Jason Wilson:A veteran of location based and location aware products and experiences, Jason has been working at the intersection between media, location and narrative for more than a decade.

-Michael Winter:Michael, along with famous game designer Will Wright (Sims?, Spore?) co-founded Stupid Fun Club, LLC in 2001.

-Jason Wither:Jason Wither is a HCI researcher at the North America Lab within Nokia Research Center.

-Jordan Wollman:Partner / Executive Creative Director, Aria
Jordan’s experience ranges from Fortune 100s, to moms, pops, and his own creative ventures.

-Jay Wright:Jay Wright is responsible for developing and driving Qualcomm’s augmented reality commercialization strategy. 

Participating Organizations
Artoolworks AR traveler AerialFireTech All Things Digital The Virtual Magician Augmatic Bloom/VURB Cagefree Consulting Chart Venture Partners Clothia Columbia University Churchill Navigation Daqri Davis Brand Capital Defiant Dokogeo Exploratorium Franklin Institute GeoLoqiGeorgia Tech Gigantico Goldrun Google Goggles Graz UniversityGravity Jack HIT Lab NZ Hoppala Idea Builder Homes Immersion OpticsInnovega Intel capital Integrated Realities Joinpad Keiichi MatsudaTeksylos Layar Lit Studios Maker Lab MapQuest Metaio Microsoft Mob-Labs Mobilizy MPR Center mShakespeare MUVEDesign Nokia OccipitalOgmento Osage Associates OWNI Parkridge police PBS PepsiCOPillsbury Law Platial Previznet Qualcomm Sacred Land Film ProjectSeac02 Simiosys Spotmetrix Tactical Information Systems TanagramTechnology Systems, Inc. The Tech Museum ThingM Total ImmersionUgoTrade Unity3D University of Kent, Canterbury Vertigore Virtual Public Art Project Vitamin AR VTT Viewdle Vuzix Waze Web3D WhistleboxQuest Visual YDreams Zenitum Zugara

(via http://augmentedrealityevent.com/)