Augmented reality, discover ARKit, ARCore, Google Tango and HoloLens

Augmented Reality (AR) is getting very popular this year but what is it exactly? More important how does it work? Even more crucially how can YOU explore content, build tools and solve problem with it?

This event will be a mix of presentations of the start of the art, hands on workshop and discussion in order to understand and democratize AR rather than just watch it from afar.

In collaboration with VR.Lab Brussels (https://www.meetup.com/VR-LAB-Brussels/).

Presentations:

• ARCore and Tango with the Unity SDK by Srinivas Rao (https://github.com/gsssrao), back from ISMAR (https://ismar2017.sciencesconf.org/)

• WebAR, status of the specifications (https://github.com/w3c/webvr/issues/254), browsers and libraries (Argon/AR.js/WebARon{ARKit (https://github.com/google-ar/WebARonARKit),ARCore (https://github.com/google-ar/WebARonARCore),Tango} (https://github.com/google-ar/WebARonTango)/HoloJS) by Fabien Benetou

• Beyond WebAR by Trevor Smith (https://github.com/TrevorFSmith), Mozilla

• Charles Boyle (https://plus.google.com/+ChuckKnowledge) (aka Chuck Knowledge), co-founder and Managing Director at Signal Garden, live from SF

• Omar Shaikh (https://github.com/Omarasifshaikh), Founder of Anstrom Tech, live from SF

We'll do our best to have all the current commercial hardware (Lenovo Phab2Pro, Asus ZenFoneAR, Microsoft HoloLens, Samsung S8, etc).

Luckily, we'll have also a HoloLens around with a demonstration to complete the most popular platforms.