The real story of 1st Augmented Reality Business Conference - last 24 hours
"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value" Albert Einstein
ARE 2010 The next Event where I will participate like Augmented Citizen Advocate
Gracefully thanks you: speakers, participants, crew team, sponsors ( Ericsson , Madvertise , Vito , Metaio , Tic-Mobile , Smaato ), streaming team from Aurea , Location Management LEH, partners and media partners
Start on 22.04 Evening :-) 8:30 p.m. meeting with Kwela and Willi
10:00 p.m. Test the skype connection and take the movies from Max Celko for the presentation
11:00 Chetan Damani is definitevely blocked in India :-(
12:00 in Bed, try to sleep...
2:00 a.m. Check the last time the list of the speakers that will come and who is blocked. NY people, oha... Think about a solution, skype and beamer - ah!! organize a beamer.
3:00 a.m. Write new emails to be sure. Good news Alex Oldwal will come, Pia Vuohelainen not...
4:00 a.m. write the last twitts, facebook arbcon site
5:00 a.m. Matthew Szymczyk told me that a live presentation will be very difficult to do, I need on my side AVS components, find a new speaker or improvize
8:00 a.m. From Gesundbrunnen to the Ludwig Erhart Haus, the way with S-Bahn
7:05 a.m. I am in the Haus, Sacha and Anja are waiting - very precise and punctual work, i love them. Start the organisation - technical think my improvisation with the skype calls is working.
Klaus Löw and his team start to install the transmission hardware. Very professional, for the next time I have a some Idea how to make more interactive the event, but now constructive stress.
8:00 a.m. The first members of crew are coming. Oh, oh I have forget completly to send someone to take the beamer, quick send Stefan Hampel - great that you were here :-)
8:40 a.m. The first participant!! and where are the Lanyards??
Harald Neidhardt where are you?
Carsten Szameitat is the first to the exhibition area, he help me with very good information about the workflow of an Event. I remember for 4-5 years when we meet first time in Cologne, M-Days was just born :-).
8:45 a.m. OH, Oh Harald is coming with the Lanyards :-) Patience Dan, will be everything OK, said Kwela Hermanns , it's for me like a swister for all the day.
Sacha and Anja have finished to arrange the badges, people are coming, they are open to show or to learn something new. Willi call me, he is printing the schedule, we have one mobile but seems that people not to have enough devices to look on mobile. I hate paper, is very good for writing history but not for real-time information... 9:00 a.m. Beamer is here, start to install the remote part of the conference - I call this "Volcano Solution" I do not know how many conferences where organized this week, but I must to start a meet-up group to chage information how we have managed this crisys context.
Alex send me an email that his machine was canceled OHOOO!!!. But he will try to catch another. Now is to take a decision, take his speak out - I decided to wait, change with Christian slot, and let Alex to perform at the end. Hope will work. Sabine have started to manage the press part, we meet first time face2face, but she is very professional. Stories based on experience, I like his Idea because this what I want to make with Augmented Citizen. The story will continue next days, stay tuned...
ARBcon.europe just started, stay tuned for new announcements
Augmented Reality New York Meetup, hosted by Ori Inbar #ARNY
1st EUropean Augmented Reality Conference and Developer Camp in Berlin 23-24.04 http://www.arbcon.eu/
I have the possibility to be online @ this event in NY with one of the Augmented Reality Ambassador Ori Inbar.
#ARNY Requested Augmented Reality applications ported 2 WebOS. Developer in audience said "why."? PALM doesn't have a clue what they up against.
Ori start to narrate about the GDC 2010 - The 2010 Game Developer's Conference, which ended in San Francisco on Saturday, attracted a record industry turn out of over 18,000, the show's organisers have confirmed.
We start with watching a demo of Sony Playstation game simmulation Move then AR game Drone; is open source!!
GDC 2010: Developing for Tablets & Augmented Reality
Ori presented us some interesting AR digits at the GDC: 3.5 sessions, 4 press releases, 5 demos, 6 devices, 100% developers knows about AR :-)
Now was time for demo's:
Alejandro Echeverría - Student at Engineering School in Chile (visiting NYU) - Games for learning with AR
Patrick O'Shaughnessey - Patched Reality - FLAR in Five: building a FLAR app "from scratch" (mostly) in five minutes
Patrick O’Shaughnessey is currently the President of Patched Reality Inc, an augmented reality software development company. Prior to founding Patched Reality, Patrick was VP of Software Development at The Electric Sheep Company, an online casual game and virtual worlds production and technology company. There he oversaw the development of the Webflock multiplayer platform and the Ridemakerz Virtual Experience. A software engineer with over 18 years of professional experience, Patrick’s specialties include augmented reality, virtual worlds, casual games, social networking, iPhone, object-oriented programming (Flash/Actionscript 3, Objective-C, Java, PHP), and agile project management
Marco Tempest - The highly anticipated Augmented Reality magician is finally here! - see preview :
Ohan Oda - Archemist - a new game demo presented at the game developer conference (with Vuzix AR glasses and built with Goblin XNA)
At the end, very tired I must to find my bed. A very inspirating evening, I must to thank Ori http://ogmento.com/ and show some of his apps:

