Mobile Augmented Reality » zeitgeist event http://www.augmentreality.co.uk/blog Augmented Reality Technology | Mobile Augmented Reality | Visual Search | AR Development Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:34:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Zeitgeist Europe 2010 http://www.augmentreality.co.uk/blog/google-zeitgeist-europe-2010.html http://www.augmentreality.co.uk/blog/google-zeitgeist-europe-2010.html#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:11:15 +0000 Howard http://www.augmentreality.co.uk/blog/?p=156 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:

The Grove

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Maarten with the AR Glasses

Maarten with the AR Glasses

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