It does exist, we have been there! Google’s Zeitgeist event was this year hosted at The Grove Country Club in Hertfordshire, UK.  The attendee list read like a whos-who in business, all 300 were C-level. Speakers included Boris Johnson, Desmond Tutu, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page and Layars’ own Maarten Lens Fitzgerald. AugmentReality were asked by Google UK to develop a special layer for the event and I was invited along to demo it for the 2 days.

Highlights included:

Demo-ing to Larry Page – his comment: “That’s cool”

Trying out a pair of AR glasses Maaten Lens Fitzgerald had brought along (demo-ing them was not so fun!)

Trying out Google Earth hooked up to 8 flat-screen TVs and a control stick.

Hooking up Layar to our big screen in the event demo area… must remember next time not to demo with an iPhone with a broken compass!

Seeing a robot solve a Rubiks Cube!!

Here’s a few shots from the event:

Maarten with the AR Glasses

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