We are just 50 days away from the Augmented Reality Event (2-3 June, 2010 – Santa Clara Convention Center, California) – the best place to experience the latest and greatest of the augmented reality world.
2 days, 3 tracks, 30 hours of sessions, 40 AR companies, 76 AR experts speakers…and you!
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For updates and the latest news about the event checkout the website ARE2010.
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If you are interested in participating in any of these activities – submit your proposal today!
1) “Startup Launch pad” – Five AR startups present their business models and products in front of an expert panel: VCs, Entrepreneurs, and industry luminaries – hosted by a major media outfit. Winner receives: “ARE Best startup prize” (to be announced.) Submit your proposalhere and add: “Startup Launch Pad” in the title. 2) “The Auggies” – Teams get 5 minutes each to present on stage and compete for the coolest live AR demo. A panel with Bruce Sterling, Jesse Schell, Mark Billinghurst and a Jay Wright, will comment on the demos – American Idol-style. Winners will be determined by the audience and receive the prestigious “Auggies Award.” (to be announced.)Submit your proposalhere and add “Auggies” in the title. 3) ARE Press Conference – If you are planning to announce a new product or service – secure your spot in the press conference that will kick off the event. Submit your proposalhere and add: “Press Conference” in the title. 4) Exhibition and Sponsorships – A small number of booths is still available in the exhibition hall ($995 for 10′x10′.) Grab them while they last!
Magic, games, education, even live AR coding – we had it all last night at the Augmented Reality Meetup NY (or as we fondly like to call it ARNY.)
51 AR enthusiasts showed up in an amazing location (Thanks Sophia!) – out of 211 registered members – but who’s counting…we are all about quality ;) What I like about this group is that it represents all walks of life: developers, gamers, attorneys, artists, journalists, magicians, even a police officer!
ARNY’s purpose is to help advance the business of Augmented Reality, by bringing together the best of AR with the best talent in NYC. And have fun while at it.
In case you want to remotely take part in this meetup, or any other AR meetup around the world – there is a site for that: ARmeetup.org. (Last night wasn’t recorded due to a Ustream glitch)
Yours truly kicked off the evening with a recount of AR at GDC by the Numbers. Sony Move was the most exciting AR news at GDC.
Then, a fantastic lineup of speakers took the stage:
1) Alejandro Echeverría – Student at Engineering School in Chile, who came all the way from Chile just to be with us (seriously he’s a visiting student at NYU) – presented Games for learning with AR. I loved the simple yet memorable approach to use movement and augmented reality to teach kids about electricity.
2) Patrick O’Shaughnessey – Patched Reality – FLAR in Five: building a FLAR app “from scratch” (mostly) in five minutes. Patrick which is one of the most experienced AR developers out there received the bravery medal of the evening for demostrating live coding!
The feature presentation of the evening was next:
The man you’ve all been waiting for. He’s been traveling all over the world, blowing people’s mind with his AR magic show – and today he’s here, live at ARNY. Ladies and gentleman please welcome – Marco Tempest!
3) Marco Tempest – The highly anticipated Augmented Reality magician brought the house down.
See a live account of the show, along with a rare explanation of how it all works – in the video below:
4) Ohan Oda – Archemist – Augmented Reality Game with Goblin XNA
Last on on the program was another kind of magician, returning fresh from a demo at the game developer conference in San Francisco; he’s known for Goblin XNA – a development framework for AR applications for the Windows platform, and an avid AR game developer. This time, Ohan demonstrated his latest gravity-based AR game using Vuzix Goggles: Arble.
Here’s a video of a previous game with a similar mechanic.
UPDATE: Here’s a live video by ARNY member David Polinchock.
Next was my favorite part – high energy conversations in smaller teams. That’s where the true magic happens. Free beer courtesy of Topp didn’t hurt at all; the discussions went on late into the night.
Have you registered to the Augmented Reality Event (ARE 2010 in 2-3 June, 2010 – Santa Clara, CA)?
You are in luck.
Here is a discount code for the first 100 folks to register to the event (before the end of March). Go to the registration page, type in code AR245 and you’ll be asked to pay only $245 for 2 full days of AR goodness.
Watching AR prophet Bruce Sterling, and gaming legend Will Wright deliver keynotes for this price – is a magnificent steal. And on top, participating in more than 30 talks by AR industry leaders will turn these $254 into your best investment of the year ;)
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