Author Archives: Marc
Mentoring Workshop at DMMK / Create10
This year I joined Germanys multimedia congress DMMK and international conference for creative industries Create10 in Stuttgart. I had the great honor to add to the expert team of the “Visual experience” and the “Mobile experience” workshops. Create10 is succeeding the Creativity World Forum 2009, and together with the DMMK two days conference it is one of the major digital media conferences in Germany. It was held at Stuttgarts creative center in the Römerkastell. Read more…
Augmented Reality & TV – On stage with Dale Herigstad at ARWorld
It was a great honor to speak with Dale Herigstad at Germany’s augmented reality event ARWorld in Düsseldorf last monday. Dale Herigstad is chief creative office at digital media agency Schematic, he’s an internationally recognized thought leader on the future of media consumption in an interactive and many-screen world of increasingly rich media interfaces and was part of the research team that developed the visionary gestural interfaces that first appeared in the movie “Minority Report”. In our presentation “From science fiction to fact” we pointed out the intersection of content consumption in augmented reality and TV. Read more…
Interview auf der DMMK/Create10
Vom 10.-11. November findet in Stuttgart der Deutsche Multimedia Kongress DMMK gemeinsam mit der Kreativmesse Create10 statt. Ich freue mich schon, am zweiten Tag bei den Workshops “Visual Experience” und “Mobile Experience” als Fachexperte für das Thema Augmented Reality dabei zu sein. Read more…
Speaking at Voice+IP Frankfurt
This tuesday I talked about business opportunities in mobile augmented reality at the Voice+IP conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. With approximately 1.500 participants the Voice+IP conference is the most influential IT, TK and mobile-communication summit in Germany. Board members of the most known companies talk about how the future of communication will influence our lives and point out upcoming business opportunities. Read more…
More Stuttgart Region Clusters
The Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation (WRS) published two more mobile augmented reality applications for regional industry cluster visualization today and proved professional usecases in mobile ar once again. Inspired by the great success of a very early Layar project back in summer 2009, the WRS decided to add creative industry and industry real estate data to the existing IT business information. With three mobile ar applications for Layar the Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation is one of the very early adopters of mobile ar in the professional business. Read more…
Add Twitter to your Layar augmented reality application
Add Twitter to your Layar augmented reality application with Hoppala Augmentation, the Layar content management system with built-in Twitter support. Customizable geocoded status updates allow for instant sharing of nearby augmented content. It’s never been so easy to connect your mobile ar experience with Twitter.
Hoppala Augmentation provides an easy way for non-technical creatives to start experimenting with augmented reality and Layar. It seamlessly connects your mobile AR experience with Twitter with just a couple mouseclicks. All in an easy to use grafical web interface. Read more…
Augmented Reality ist das Medium des Mobilzeitalters
Dieser Artikel erschien zuerst in der Ausgabe 09/10 2010 der Zeitschrift Website Boosting aus dem Hotspot Verlag, Würzburg.
Augmented Reality wird zum Massenmedium des Mobilzeitalters, es ist das einzige Medium, das alle Komponenten moderner Smartphones gleichzeitig verwendet. Gerätehersteller und Netzbetreiber haben den Trend erkannt und bewerben Ihre neuen Produkte mit Augmented Reality Anwendungen. Die Inhalteanbieter konkurrieren um die besten Plätze. Read more…
3D Mobile AR game Woomba Mania
Whilst on a journey through the desert the Woombas – the main attraction of Senor Zambarinos traveling circus – managed to escape! El Grande Zambarino desperatly needs your help to catch them. In his indescribable generosity he’ll pay you muchos pesos. We teamed up with our long-time partner Superimpose again to create this beautiful three dimensional game in Mobile Augmented Reality. It comes with a lot of eye candy 3D characters, a sensible story line and rich user interaction.
Woomba Mania is nominated for the Augmented Planet Readers Choice Awards 2010 in the category “Best Augmented Reality Browser Content”. Vote for Woomba Mania here and win a fantastic Samsung mobile phone! Read more…
Keynote at MobileTechConference 2010
I had the great honor to give one of the three keynotes at this year’s MobileTechConference – besides Microsoft and Google. The subject of my talk was “Augmented Reality – From Science Fiction to Mass Medium”. It covered the current state of Mobile AR, sketched out the different pieces of technology that will make their way into the industry and pointed out how they will possibly play together very soon. Besides all the fancy tech we talked about the business side of Mobile Augmented Reality and shed some light on what is driving the different players in the industry and their business cases. Read more…
Teaching at Good School Hamburg
It was a great honor to give a lecture on AR at the two-day creative workshop about innovative communication technologies at the Good School for marketing and communication in Hamburg on Sept, 4th and 5th. The workshop explicitly addressed senior level strategists at media agencies and marketing departments. I basically contributed an overview about Mobile Augmented Reality and why and how AR is becoming an emerging mass medium of the mobile age. In the afternoon we added some hands-on experience about AR content creation using our Augmented Reality Layar Content Management System Hoppala Augmentation. Read more…
