Tópicos especiales en sistemas de información

Nombre del Equipo:

Menta solutions & engineering

Socios:
 Manuela Valencia Toro - CEO
 Andrés Sanchez Castrillón - CTO
 José Alejandro Roman Patiño - CIO

Tecnologías
AR Cloud:
Is a machine-readable, 1:1 scale models of the world that is continuously updated in real-time. It is
a collection of billions of machine-readable datasets, point clouds, and descriptors, aligned with
real- world coordinates; a living, shared, “soft copy” of the world created by scanning physical
features around us in which persistent augmented reality experiences reside.

Empresas:
 Immersal: Es una empresa que provee un SDK, el cual permite construir aplicaciones AR
con posibilidad de varios usuarios y precisión centímetro a centímetro que pueden ser
usadas en dispositivos móviles y gafas de VR
 Open AR Cloud: Es una organización sin fines de lucro registrada en Delaware, EE.UU. Su
misión es conducir el desarrollo de la tecnología AR Cloud de manera abierta e
interoperable. Con datos y estándares para conectar el mundo físico y el digital en
beneficio de todos.

Mission
Our mission is to drive the development of open and interoperable AR Cloud technology,
data and standards to connect the physical and digital worlds for the benefit of all.
We believe AR cloud technology will profoundly change the way we see and interact with
each other and our physical surroundings. We are dedicated to creating standards,
guidelines, tools, and data required to build a better world. We know that, above all, we
must protect & preserve our individual and collective freedoms, privacy, dignity and
opportunity…for one and all.
Values
 Be open, transparent and interoperable
 Be guided by immutable values
 Use standards created by consensus of a diverse active community
 Ensure authenticity and accountability via distributed data and technology
 Respect and protect the privacy and rights of individuals
 Foster innovation and opportunity
  Incentivize users to generate data and content
 Comply with local and global rules and regulations
Organization
The "Open AR Cloud Association" (OARC) is a global non-profit organization registered in
Delaware, USA. Our business address is in Portland Oregon, USA. OARC is managed by the
Governing Board with guidance from the Advisory Board. Further our organization
consists of members, partners, working groups and teams of volunteers.
Equipo:

Jan-Erik Vinje
Managing Director
Full stack dev, Norkart

Alina Kadlubsky
Director of Communications
Art Director, Web XR Developer

Christine Perey
Founding Board Member
Director, Perey Research

Arka Bala
Founding Board Member
Co Founder & CEO at ContextGrid
Colin Steinmann
Treasurer, Secretary
Product Manager, YOUar

Ori Inbar
Founding Board Member
Co-founder Super Ventures and AWE

Steven Swanson
Founding Board Member
Co-Founder & Director of Partnerships, VERSES

Michael N. Louka
Founding Board Member
Head of Department of VR/AR at IFE Digital Systems
  6D.AI: 6D está construyendo el mapa 3D del mundo. Utilizando la malla 3D generada por
la Plataforma de Realidad 6D, los desarrolladores pueden crear aplicaciones a escala
mundial donde los activos son persistentes, responden a la oclusión y se sincronizan entre
múltiples usuarios de manera más eficiente.

Mision

For the AR Cloud to live up to its potential, some tough technical problems needed to be solved.
Persistence and multi-player have been demonstrated several times over the past ten years,
however the real problem to be solved is in making it reliable and easy to use. Occlusion could only
be solved with power-hungry depth cameras with limited range and which didn’t work outside in
sunlight. Semantic understanding of a scene was restricted to 2D image recognition. The
technology to solve these UX problems needs to be a combination of dense mapping of the world
(every pixel, not just optical features), and 3D semantics to deliver a great UX. Then the technology
needs to be able to run on mass-market smartphone devices without any add-ons, to reach a big
enough support a business.

Vision

AR will usher in a similar transformations seen in the wireline internet and wireless internet
revolutions. However it will take longer than we would like, will require significant capital, wisdom
and some luck to thread the needle in the market. Building 6D.ai into the defining AR software
company, by making AR developers successful, is the mission of the team we are building, and
which we are honored to contribute our time and energy.

MATT MIESNIEKS
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO

Matt is renowned as one of the AR industry's thought leaders through his influential blog posts. This is his
3rd AR startup, he also helped found SuperVentures (investing in AR), built AR system prototypes at
Samsung, and had a long commercial and technical career in mobile software infrastructure before jumping
into AR software infrastructure in 2009.
VICTOR PRISACARIU
CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF SCIENTIST

Victor is a world-renowned AR researcher and leader of the Oxford Active Vision Lab. 6D’s core IP is based
on research conducted by Victor over several years. After meeting Matt, the two worked to productize and
commercialize the algorithms with a vision of enabling all apps to truly understand the world.

MEGHAN HUGHES
VP MARKETING

Meghan has 15+ years of experience marketing today’s top tech companies and startups. She helped launch
Google’s first Android phone and worked on Google’s Enterprise comms team, managed engineering comms
at Facebook, and worked on Box’s marketing team from early stages to IPO. She began her career at the top
agencies in Silicon Valley and has been working with AR since 2009, where she first met Matt and Anthony at
Layar.

ERIC JOHNSEN
VP COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS

During the process of co-founding and selling IMsecure in 2003, Eric discovered a passion for the “zero to
one” phase of commercializing emerging technology. Since founding "Glass at Work" at Google in 2013, he's
focused on AR at Google, Upskill, and AWS. Eric started his career as an Army officer and is passionate about
Veterans causes.

JEFF MCCONATHY
VP ENGINEERING

Jeff is the bedrock of our Engineering team. He previously led the Engineering team at Trulia and grew from
being employee #4 to over 200 engineers through an IPO and multi-billion dollar exit. He's founded and
exited multiple startups, but after experiencing AR as a way to enhance the real estate experience, he
believes he's now working on enabling the next platform shift in computing.
RIK BASU

ENGINEER, PLATFORM APPS

Rik builds our sample apps on platforms such as Unity, and is the first person to use & test our APIs before they ship.
Before joining 6D, he spent several years building Tango apps for a large industrial manufacturer.

BEN BENFOLD

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, COMPUTER VISION

Ben is an alumni from the Oxford Active Vision lab, and after completing his Ph.D., founded a London based computer
vision startup, then spent some years building military AR prototypes exploring advanced applications of AR technology.

JUSTIN BLACK

SENIOR ENGINEER, DEVOPS

Justin has spent 20+ years building scalable infrastructure for fast growing startups, most recently at security startup
Qadium, and health startup Komodo Health, but also for helping Google and ICANN build out core infrastructure.

ARDAVON FALLS

SENIOR ENGINEER, ANDROID SDK

Ardavon brings 15+ years of experience and leads our Android SDK development. Joining us from Tokbox/Telefonica, he
started his career working on graphics for console video games and has spent the last 13 years working on mobile and
embedded video streaming projects.
MEGAN HARDY

SENIOR ENGINEER, DEEP LEARNING

Megan is focusing on implementing state of the art Deep Learning research in a fast and efficient fashion for devices
with limited resources. After graduating from NYU with a Masters in Electrical Engineering, Megan built deep learning
software for exact-match brand-specific product identification and worked with MIT and NYU Research Labs.

GUY KAYOMBYA

SENIOR ENGINEER, COMPUTER VISION

Guy has over a decade of experience in computer vision. He previously worked at Qualcomm as a software engineer in
corporate research and development working on computer vision for robots and drones applications as well as
designing, implementing and optimizing various computer vision algorithms on ARM based CPUs and mobile GPUs. He
also founded a seed-stage startup aiming to provide computer and internet access using thin clients and wireless mesh
networks in Rwanda and Tanzania.

DANIEL KNOBLAUCH

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, COMPUTER VISION

Daniel earned his Ph.D. in AR/VR at UCSD and then spent over 5 years as a leading researcher at Qualcomm building the
core 3D computer vision technology which underpinned the groundbreaking Vuforia AR SDK.

ANTHONY MAËS

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, IOS SDK

This is the 3rd time Anthony and Matt have worked together after meeting at Layar in 2009, and joining the founding
team at Dekko. After a 4 year stint building interfaces & APIs for the self-driving car team at Tesla, he's bringing what
he's learned back to AR in leading our SDK API development.
MEHDI NIKKHAH

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, DEEP LEARNING

Mehdi joins us from several years of leading the Deep Learning research team at Cisco, where he worked after
completing his Ph.D. in Electrical & System Engineering at UPenn. Mehdi works closely with Victor and the Oxford
researchers to apply state of the art 3D computer vision neural networks to give 6D developer apps an understanding of
the real world.

IAN RIOS-SIALER

ENGINEER, COMPUTER VISION

Ian is a computer vision and deep learning engineer who joined us from Civil Maps, where he worked for several years
building large scale 3D maps for autonomous vehicles, and dealing with the unique challenges of constructing these
maps at scale.

SASCHKA UNSELD

CREATIVE STRATEGIST

Saschka is a world-renowned Emmy & Peabody winning writer, director and creative leader in immersive experiences.
He previously co-founded Oculus Story Studio & multi Academy Award nominated Studio Soi. He was a Cinematographer
and Director at Pixar Animation Studios on The Blue Umbrella. Aside from his work with 6D, he is also the co-founder
and CCO of Tomorrow Never Knows, a leading VR/AR/XR Production Studio that utilizes cutting edge emerging
technologies like 6D for storytelling.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI):

It refers to methods and techniques in the application of artificial intelligence technology (AI) such
that the results of the solution can be understood by human experts. XAI is an implementation of
the social right to explanation. Some claim that transparency rarely comes for free and that there
are often trade-offs between the accuracy and the explainability of a solution.

Empresas:
 Google: Esta empresa ofrece un conjunto de herramientas y marcos de trabajo que te
ayudan a desarrollar modelos de aprendizaje automático interpretables y también
 inclusivos, así como a implementarlos con confianza. Con estas herramientas, puedes
interpretar atribuciones de funciones de AutoML Tables y AI Platform, así como investigar
visualmente el comportamiento de los modelos con la Herramienta What-If.
 Kyndi: Kyndi works with major entities across a broad spectrum of categories in the
Federal Government sector, including Defense, Intelligence, finance, healthcare, IT, and
infrastructure.
 Ditto: Our focus is on capturing human knowledge and recreating human expertise
perfectly. So you can be sure that any advice or recommendations you give are complete,
consistent and correct every single time. Its associations with accuracy, replication and
simplifying complexity mean that Ditto embodies our very essence.

Misión:
Buscamos proveer a diferentes sectores económicos la posibilidad de adquirir soluciones
tecnológicas enfocadas en sus necesidades específicas, para de esta forma cerrar brechas y
alcanzar mayor productividad, además de esto generaremos conocimiento en el ámbito de las TIC,
para después ser puesto a disposición de la sociedad contribuyendo en gran medida al desarrollo
de esta y al bienestar de sus habitantes.

Visión:
Para el año 2025 nos consolidaremos como una empresa enfocada en explotar los beneficios de
las tecnologías emergentes para el beneficio y desarrollo de la sociedad hasta convertirlo en una
ventaja competitiva para definir el éxito de una compañía por medio de tecnologías como lo son la
Inteligencia Artificial Explicable y Realidad Aumentada en la Nube, buscando colaboración de
socios estratégicos para lograr una mayor satisfacción para nuestros clientes.

Valores de la empresa:
-Máxima calidad como meta: Buscamos ofrecer el mejor servicio al mejor precio. Por lo que
consideramos importante tener una mejora constante de nuestros procesos productivos y
operativos con el fin de alcanzar una mayor eficiencia y eficacia en los resultados.

-Aprendizaje y adaptabilidad: Para nosotros es muy importante enfrentarnos a un aprendizaje

constante, de manera que se nos facilite adaptarnos a todos los cambios que vayan surgiendo y
que puedan comprometer nuestra competitividad y estabilidad en el mercado.

-Constancia: Nos enfocamos en el trabajo duro y la constancia al realizar nuestros trabajos, pues
luego se verá reflejado en los resultados que nos traerán beneficios tanto personales como
organizacionales.

-Innovación e investigación: Consideramos altamente importante mantenernos al tanto de cada

avance tecnológico y que pueda influir en nuestro campo de trabajo, Por lo que hacemos enfoque
en trabajos investigativos sobre ideas de innovación, y trabajamos sobre ello con el fin de obtener
un beneficio colectivo.