I was a founding employee of Dekko, Inc. from December 1, 2010 through to January 11, 2013 and worked in the role of Senior Computer Vision Engineer, as the team grew from four people to ten.
I was responsible for the initial software architecture and the implementation of our computer vision based augmented reality system. Starting from academic research results, I implemented a real time SLAM optical tracker, and the foundations of our monocular 3D reconstruction system on a consumer mobile device. I also invented a monocular stereo initialization technique, developed the idea, sketched out the user experience and built a prototype to perform user tests. Eventually I built out the full initialization technology that was launched in the Apple App Store in mid 2012.
This video shows our SLAM based 3D reconstruction in action, enabling occlusion and collision of real world objects and a virtual character running in realtime on an iPad2.
With more than 
The Berlin Wall is back – in Augmented Reality! Experience german history at an historical place, right in the middle of germanys capital. Use your handset to follow the wall at the former border line at Brandenburg gate, the Reichstag and Potsdamer Platz and experience the Berlin Wall in it‘s original size. Do you have an idea how it feels to have this huge concrete barrier right next to you? Go and find out. It‘s incredible! 
I had the great honor to give one of the three keynotes at this year’s 
I had the great honor to contribute to this year’s Augmented Reality Conference ARE 2011 in Santa Clara, California. My presentation was all about making AR technology accessible to non-technical people, it was about content management for geobased AR and cross-browser publishing. It was great to share and discuss some of the learnings from building the Hoppala Augmentation content platform.
Dieser Artikel erschien zuerst in der Ausgabe 1/2011 der Zeitschrift Mobile Technology aus dem Software & Support Media Verlag, Frankfurt.
I’m grateful for the invitation to O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, California. In my session 
Hoppala Augmentation, the world’s largest content platform for mobile augmented reality applications, expands beyond Layar exclusivity and adds support for Junaio and Wikitude mobile AR browsers. 
Publishing content on mobile AR browsers today still requires creating program code, and without any established standards, content creation not only becomes a technology decision, but even a platform decision as well. Hoppala Augmentation takes away the burdens of technology and platform requirements. 
Creative Networks Birmingham is a monthly gathering of people who currently work in the creative and digital media industries and of students and graduates. I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the january Creative Networks event “Apps World: The next generation – augmented reality, games development and the digital agency.” My presentation was all about mobile augmented reality, starting with an overview of what’s already out there today we walked through some visionary future tech and applications in the mobile augmented space. Our main message: let the creatives jump in! 
I’m very happy I had the great honor to speak at XMediaLab Sweden in Malmö this january. XMediaLab events follow a very unique format. This one was specifically dedicated to location based services, it consisted of a conference day packed with interesting talks plus a two days workshop, the so called lab. During the lab conference speakers become mentors to work one-on-one with selected digital media businesses and project teams. The lab was held at a beautiful traditional countryside location, which certainly added good spirits. 
The Berlin Wall 3D once again served as a great showcase of what can be done in mobile augmented reality at Making Mobile Marketing Work workshop in Birmingham on december 1st. The workshop was presented by 
This time Swiss AR meetup group aimed at assisting professionals in the tourism trade and vendors who are serving the tourist market to get familiar with augmented reality and to explore the use of AR for their local visitors and businesses. Hoppala executed a couple AR tourism projects before. I presented “Berlin Wall 3D” as well as “Rhônes-Alpes Tourism” to name just a few. It was fun to join the intense discussions later the day. 