Bio
Dr. Charles Woodward received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Helsinki University of Technology in 1990. The years 1991-2000 Woodward headed his spin-off company DeskArtes Oy in international 3D CAD software business. After joining VTT in 2001, Woodward was nominated Research Professor of Multimedia technology in 2004, Research Professor in Augmented and Virtual Reality in 2010, and Principal Scientist since 2014. Over the years, Woodward and his team at VTT have produced world leading solutions for various Augmented Reality application fields, including media and marketing, entertainment and games, interior design, tourism, industrial applications, AEC sector (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) and collaborative telepresence interaction. VTT’s world leading 3D Tracking technology is available as the ALVAR SKD (A Library for Virtual and Augmented Reality), the latest commercial release to be announced at AWE.
Sessions
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Wide Area AR for Cities04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Oct 19The presentation will be a range of wide area AR applications for different use cases, in cities (real estate, city planning, city info) as well as industries (construction, renovation, facility maintenance). As special topic, I’ll discuss how augmented Social Media can be taken further to industrial applications, for capturing tacit knowledge among maintenance workers. Technical topics include 3D tracking in wide area applications, enabling facility asset management and interaction with BIM and further links to enterprise systems.