The founding members of the AR Consortium are eight companies whose primary focus is augmented reality, whether technology, tools, applications, solutions, or content. Future members will be invited individuals who are actively involved in pioneering AR research, application, design, and theory. The Consortium will also seek the involvement of Corporations with a vested interest in augmented reality as Associate Members or Sponsors.
Chairman: Robert Rice, Neogence Enterprises
President: Ori Inbar, Ogmento
The founding member corporations of the Consortium are:
Int13 is a French developer of next-gen games for Smartphones (iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian S60, Linux...). Our goal is to create high quality, action oriented and innovative games for mobile platforms rivaling the quality of handheld games and using all the technical capabilities of the high-end mobile phones.
Recently we started to explore gaming potential of augmented reality technologies on mobile devices. We developed our own AR library, highly optimized to work within the constraints of a mobile phone.
President: Stephane Cocquereaumont
Metaio As a pioneer in the area of augmented reality technology, metaio develops software products for systems driven by visual interaction in both real and virtual worlds. Our "Unifeye" software platform not only lets you place 3D animations directly into live video streams, but also supports the seamless integration of images from the external user environment. By using software products from metaio, our customers can leverage Augmented Reality technology to increase their revenues and lower their costs
Owner, Managing Director: Thomas Alt
Mobilizy creates software for the Android platform. Our flagship product is Wikitude AR Guide. Wikitude AR Guide is a mobile guide with augmented reality functionality based on Wikipedia, Qype and Panoramio. You may search landmarks in your surroundings and view them on a map, list, and on an augmented reality (AR) camera view. You’ll see an annotated landscape, mountain names, landmark descriptions and interesting stories.
Founder: Philipp Breuss-Schneeweis
Neogence Enterprises creates next-generation solutions and applications for augmented reality, virtual worlds, visualization, and simulations technologies. Neogence is currently developing a state-of-the-art platform and SDK for the first global mobile augmented reality network.
CEO: Robert Rice
Ogmento is a New York and Los Angeles based company, founded by industry veterans committed to the new opportunities opened up by Augmented Reality (AR) technology.
Ogmento creates and publishes mobile AR experiences, made in collaboration with the best and brightest AR makers in the world
CEO: Ori Inbar
SPRX Mobile We are SPRXmobile, a Strategic Creative Consultancy specialised in mobile services. Sparked from our passion for mobile. Ignited with services as NOS Mobiel. Now ready to support your organisation with Mobile Campaigns, Mobile concepts and services. Our aim is to design services around the personal context of your customer in such an intuitive way that it seems like waving a magic wand.
Co-Founder: Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald
Tonchidot Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) offers an innovative web service/application named Sekai Camera, which enables mobile devices to change the view of the real world. Sekai Camera enables camera-attached mobile devices, through an easy-to-use augmented reality (AR) interface, to access hypertagged social, informational and entertainment services over the internet.
Owner: Takahito Iguchi
Total Immersion Total Immersion is a software solutions provider with a proprietary technology that has been developed since 1999. This technology called Augmented Reality integrates 3D objects into live video, the video is digitally processed and “augmented” with the 3D components. In other words this digital processing mixes real and virtual worlds together, in real time.
Owner: Bruno Uzzan
Additional Members
ARToolworks
Imagination
Since 2000, YDreams has been developing proprietary interaction technologies with a special focus on the field of Augmented Reality and computer graphics. As human-computer interaction specialists we integrate other Technologies such as mobile computing and robotics to create unique interactive experiences, where audiences use gestures, touch and movement to interact with digital elements, in venues that range from education and science, to retail and urban public spaces.
Zugara is an interactive marketing company focused on emerging media and technology. Zugara’s main areas of expertise include interactive video, social media, mobile marketing and website / application development. In addition to the marketing based services we provide for our clients, we are also dedicated to creating our own proprietary interactive marketing technologies and products that advance the interactive marketing industry. Zugara has already created an AR shopping app and motion capture method.
