Last Saturday, the daqri team participated in an augmented reality developer’s dream event: ARDevCampSD. Held at the Qualcomm Headquarters in beautiful San Diego, CA, the all day event featured presentations by some of the top leaders in the AR industry, as well as a chance to network, hack, and break bread with other developers, designers, marketers, artists, investors, philosophers, tinkerers, and general enthusiasts in the realm of augmented reality.
Oh and by break bread, we really mean cake and cookies. Sure, there was pizza at lunchtime, but the most stunning culinary feat of the day came toward the end of the day with this set of gorgeous cakes from Extraordinary Desserts in San Diego:
For more photos, check out organizer Jonathan Agoot‘s set of photos from the day as well as the daqri photo set on Flickr.
In addition to sweets, daqri CEO Brian Mullins gave a phenomenal opening keynote speech to kick off the DevCamp. He talked about the current state of the AR industry, some of its history, the size and growth rate of the market, and the key lessons that daqri has learned so far. He emphasized the idea that all of us in the augmented reality industry today are not competitors, but rather allies, because the market is growing so quickly and the any publicity and acceptance from the general public is good news for us all. You can watch the whole thing (30 minutes) here. Hint: If you want to get really into the state of AR and the technology behind it, there is gold in the Q&A section.
You can access Brian’s presentation slides here:
Brian and Peter Preuss from Qualcomm wrapped up the full day of sessions with a panel discussion.
Thank you so much to everyone who came out for the ARDevCampSD this year, and a huge thank you to Jonathan for organizing this awesome event, and to our cosponsors Qualcomm, Big Playar, and UC San Diego.
Full of #awesome. Thanks Gaia for posting :)
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Stay inforamitve, San Diego, yeah boy!
Great stuff.
I completely support the “turn on the Video Out” plea for Apps developers!
Then users can experience the AR on large screen ‘virtual’ screens like those from Vuzix They have see-through glasses coming later this year and have 3D, head tracking and cameras on board existing products. This is going to be a big enabler for the AR industry!
As you can tell I am a Fan of Vuzix (and not just on Facebook: VuzixEurope)
But I am an investor, not a Vuzix employee. This is a hot area.
Daqri is clearly on the right track.
Thanks so much for your comment and enthusiasm. We love Vuzix too :) You are absolutely right, this is a VERY hot industry and we feel lucky to be part of its growth!
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OARN – Thank you for posting this link to Brian’s talk and slides. We appreciate the post and hope to see you again at the next AR event!
You’ve hit the ball out the park! Incrdebile!
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[...] CEO Brain Mullins gives a keynote talk on San Diego’s ARDevCamp titled “The state of augmented reality“. I may or may not link to it just because I got quoted (but [...]