ARDevZurich

From Ardevcamp

CLOSED-THIS EVENT WAS CONDUCTED MARCH 1 2010

If you have questions about the event, just get in touch with Christine Perey cperey@perey.com

Contents 1 Introduction 2 February 28 Evening No-host dinner 3 Twitter 4 Planning 4.1 Draft Agenda 5 Format 6 Special feature with MobileMonday Switzerland 7 Topics/Sessions 8 Organizers 8.1 Supporting organizations 9 Planning to attend? 10 Sponsors 10.1 Media Partner

Introduction

AR DevCamp Zurich is a full day of information sessions, discussions and hacking opportunities in an open format, BarCamp style to which all interested people and organizations are warmly invited.

• When: March 1, 2010 9h00 to 16h00

• Where: the IBM Forum Zurich

Vulkanstrasse 106

8048 Zürich

There is also a Swiss Augmented Reality Meetup Group to which you are invited. To find out more, and to join, go here.

If you wish to follow us on Twitter

February 28 Evening No-host dinner

If you are arriving in Zurich on Feb 28 (or live in Zurich), and would like to meet with other people who are registered and planning to attend the AR DevCamp on Monday March 1, please feel welcome to join us at the Crazy Cow Restaurant beginning at 19h00. The Crazy Cow restaurant address is Leonhardstrasse 1 and it is just up the hill/road from the Haldenegg tram stop for lines 6, 7, 10 and 15.

Everyone will pay for their own meal and drinks.

If you have trouble finding or have questions, just call Christine (mobile +41 79 436 68 69).

Twitter

Anyone using Twitter can follow @ardevcampch for updates and info in the next few days and to learn of future AR DevCamp activities in Switzerland.

To tweet about the March 1 2010 AR DevCamp Zurich meeting, please use #arzurich

Planning

The purpose of this page is to organize an AR DevCamp in Zurich.

We have a sponsor for the venue (facility): IBM Forum in Zurich-Altstetten. Many thanks to Sid Arora for arranging the IBM Forum Auditorium for us!

Draft Agenda

Since the DevCamp is an "unconference" the topics of the sessions will be determined by the participants' interest and the availability of session leaders. To guide planning and participation, please note the tentative agenda below.

• 8h30 Registration and Coffee/networking
• 9h00 Introductions, Sponsor Recognition and Welcome
• 9h15 Overview of Augmented Reality (presentation)
• 9h30 Session 1: Shaping the topics for small and large group sessions (moderated discussion)
• 10h15 Coffee Break
• 10h45 Session 2: Overview of proposed program and assignments to sessions/modifications and move to subgroups
• 11h00 Session 3: Topics designated by attendees
• 12h30 Session 4: Lunch with topics/find topic leader
• 13h30 Session 5: Topics designated by attendees
• 15h00 Coffee Break
• 15h30 Session 6: large group exchange of observations, conclusions recommendations for future, awards
• 15h45 Departure for Meeting Point at Main Train Station in Zurich for Mobile Monday Hands-On Augmented Reality event
• 16h00 DevCamp close

Format

The event will be informal. There will be some pre-planned sessions but the participants are expected to shape the agenda to meet their needs.

Language: English to permit and encourage international participation

Special feature with MobileMonday Switzerland

From 16h00 to 18h00 on Monday, March 1, 2010 MobileMonday Switzerland will conduct a special event designed to permit the public and all mobile industry professionals to experience Mobile Augmented Reality first hand.

The Hands On Augmented Reality sessions will be led by friendly and experienced AR Tour Guides. Demonstrations will feature outdoor as well as indoor (object and image-based) Augmented Reality.

Following the Hands On Augmented Reality sessions, all participants of AR Dev Camp and MobileMonday Hands On AR sessions are invited to professional networking at a public venue in the old city of Zurich.

This joint DevCamp and MobileMonday event will be an opportunity to meet up with colleagues, developers, faculty and anyone interested in Augmented Reality.

For more information and to register to attend the MobileMonday Hands On Mobile AR sessions, please go to http://www.mobilemonday.ch/?page_id=1891

Topics/Sessions

These are the topics proposed so far for discussion at AR DevCamp Zurich:

• Basics of AR Markup Language- Martin Lechner, Mobilizy

• Development platforms, architectures and work flows- Andreas Simon, FHNW

• Permission and Privacy Framework Architecture and Design - Dan Romescu, Augmented Citizen

• How and when to use Natural Feature Recognition in AR- Till Quack, kooaba

• Designing Augmented Reality User Experiences- Sibylle Peuker, Swisscom Innovation

• Social Augmented Reality on Mobile- Peter Meier, metaio

• Mobile AR business models- Christine Perey

• Developer Go-to-Market strategies- Christine Perey

• Risks and Obstacles to the Growth of AR- Christine Perey

• Avoid reinventing the AR-wheel - The WIKITUDE API- Martin Lechner, Mobilizy

• Best uses for AR on the Web and in Standalone PC applications- Bruno Mettler, Vanija

You are invited to add more topics here if you want to propose to lead a session or would like to participate in a session which is not listed above

Go to Zurich Session Descriptions page for more information about proposed sessions.

Organizers

• Christine Perey cperey@perey.com PEREY Research & Consulting
• Till Quack kooaba and ETH Computer Vision Lab
• Matthias Sala Gbanga
• Suvarchala Narayanan suvarchalaa@gmail.com

Supporting organizations

• MobileMonday Switzerland
• IGDA Switzerland

Planning to attend?

If you are planning to attend, please complete this form.

Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsor:

Media Partner