AREA partners facilitate the pooling of diverse expertise and resources, accelerating the development of AR technologies and applications. This fosters innovation by bringing together unique skill sets from various stakeholders, such as enterprise technology developers. Collaborative efforts can tackle complex challenges, including hardware advancements, software integration, and user experience enhancement.
Collaboration Drives Adoption
It is important to forge partnerships and alliances in this emerging industry. AR, with its potential to revolutionize various sectors, demands collaboration to drive innovation and ensure holistic growth.
Alliances also aid in market penetration and adoption. By partnering with established industry players or complementary businesses, enterprises can access broader customer bases and distribution networks. This leads to faster adoption of AR solutions across industries.
Knowledge Sharing & Research
Additionally, AREA partners provide a platform for knowledge sharing and research. This platform encourages the exchange of ideas, best practices, and technical know-how, fostering a culture of continuous learning. This helps industry players stay at the forefront of advancements, ensuring long-term competitiveness.
In a rapidly evolving AR landscape, partnerships and alliances mitigate risks. Shared investments reduce financial burdens, and collective efforts help navigate regulatory and ethical challenges more effectively.
Catalyzing Innovation
The emerging AR industry’s complexity and potential for transformation make partnerships and alliances crucial. These collaborations catalyze innovation, drive market growth, enable knowledge exchange, and enhance overall industry resilience.
The AREA collaborates with a number of strategic partners in a manner that benefits AREA members, helps the AREA achieve its strategic goals and offers tangible benefit to these partners and the broader partner network. These partner relationships foster closer co-operation and help to promote the development of interoperable Augmented Reality applications and services.
Since forming, the AEC Hackathon has quickly become a global community of thousands of innovators that include all elements of the built environment.
The AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) Hackathon is a non-profit organization established in 2013 for the purpose of connecting built environment professionals with technology designers and developers for the purpose of creating new technology solutions to built environment-related problems.
The AEC Hackathon provide weekend long hackathons with educational presentations and workshops from both tech and AECFM industry leaders. Attendees are mainly industry professionals from various AECFM (Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facilities Management) firms and software/hardware companies.
The bcom Technology Research Institute is a technology pioneer and provider for companies that want to digitally boost their competitive edge.
Created in late 2012, b<>com addresses several industries: culture & creation, digital infrastructures, health, defense and industry 4.0.
Its laboratories bring together talented people from a variety of disciplines and cultures in areas like artificial intelligence, immersive video and audio, content protection, 5G networks, the Internet of Things, and cognitive technologies.
b<>com’s researchers and engineers, drawn from the ranks of industry and academia, work at its Rennes campus and at its sites in Paris, Brest, and Lannion.
BrainXchange is pioneering the new way that business is being conducted and connections are being made.
BrainXchange is a boutique conference company dedicated to providing interactive learning and intelligent networking opportunities for leading minds and industry professionals at each and every quality event it produces.
BrainXchange’s Enterprise Wearable Technology Summits (EWTS) is the longest running and most comprehensive event focused on the enterprise industrial applications for AR/VR & wearables, bringing together end users and solution providers in an intimate environment conducive to learning and building long-lasting relationships.
ETSA is a Community Interest Company (CIC) comprising Member organisations, Individuals, Government agencies and military end-users, Academia, Media and other Strategic Partners from within the MS&T community.
ETSA represents the European training and simulation community. It provides a non-partisan environment for government bodies, academia, users and suppliers within Europe to network, exchange opportunities, ideas, information and strategies on education, training and simulation technology and methodology.
ETSA undergoes, and co-ordinates, research, development and innovation work to promote and help instigate, improve and extend the widespread use and efficacy of modelling and simulation technologies (including virtual, augmented and mixed reality) and practices for training and other applications throughout the European community.
ETSI provides members with an open, inclusive and collaborative environment, supporting timely development, ratification and testing of globally applicable standards for ICT-enabled systems, applications and services.
ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit, ICT standardization organization in Europe, headquartered in Sophia-Antipolis, France, with worldwide projection.
They are at the forefront of emerging technologies across all sectors of industry and society that make use of ICT. Their 900+ member organizations comprise a diversified pool of large and small private companies, research entities, academia, government and public organizations. They are drawn from 65 countries and five continents.
The world’s largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology
The IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
The IEEE and its members inspire a global community to innovate for a better tomorrow through highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. IEEE is the trusted “voice” for engineering, computing, and technology information around the globe.
IEEE sponsors more than 1,900 annual conferences and events worldwide, curating cutting-edge content for all of the technical fields of interest within IEEE.
The Khronos Group is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of over 150 industry-leading companies creating advanced, royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, augmented and virtual reality, parallel programming, vision acceleration and machine learning.
The Khronos Group is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of over 150 industry-leading companies creating advanced, royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, augmented and virtual reality, parallel programming, vision acceleration and machine learning.
Khronos standards include Vulkan®, Vulkan® SC, OpenGL®, OpenGL® ES, OpenGL® SC, WebGL™, SPIR-V™, OpenCL™, SYCL™, OpenVX™, NNEF™, OpenXR™, 3D Commerce™, ANARI™, and glTF™.
Khronos members are enabled to contribute to the development of Khronos specifications.
Make UK champions and celebrates British manufacturing and manufacturers. Together, we build a platform for the evolution of UK manufacturing.
MAKE UK stimulates success for manufacturing businesses, helping them to meet their objectives and goals. We empower individuals and we inspire the next generation.
Make UK is focused on creating the most supportive environment for UK manufacturers to thrive, innovate and compete. We do this so that together, we can build a platform for the evolution of UK manufacturing.
We enable manufacturers to connect, share, solve problems and create opportunities together. We do this through regional and national meetings, groups, events and advisory boards. We work at every level to ensure UK Manufacturing performs and grows, now and in the future.
The National Safety Council is America’s leading nonprofit safety advocate.
We focus on eliminating the leading causes of preventable injuries and deaths.
The National Safety Council is a 501 nonprofit, public service organization promoting health and safety in the United States of America. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, NSC is a member organization, founded in 1913 and granted a congressional charter in 1953.
Members include more than 55,000 business, labor organizations, schools public agencies, private groups and individuals.
The group focuses on areas where the greatest number of preventable injuries and deaths occur, including workplace safety, prescription medication abuse, teen driving, cell phone use while driving and safety in homes and communities.
The unique profile and skills of RA’pro enable it to provide project consulting on Augmented Reality implementations.
RA’pro is a non-profit member-based association founded in 2010 to promote the development and use of Augmented Reality by French speaking companies, institutions and individuals. The association organizes events and establishes corporate partnerships in order to increase awareness of the benefits of AR.
RA’pro participates in a variety of conferences and events and offers informative presentations about Augmented Reality to companies and other organizations. In addition, the association operates Ago’RA, a platform for matching skilled professionals with those who need them for Augmented Reality projects.
The Manufacturer is the premier industry publication providing manufacturing news, articles, events and insights while promoting best practice in the manufacturing industry.
The Manufacturer is the premier industry publication providing manufacturing news, articles, events and insights while promoting best practice in the manufacturing industry.
Covering all manufacturing sectors, The Manufacturer, is an essential resource for every manufacturing boardroom and for senior management, delivering thought leadership articles, regulatory updates and best practice case studies on a monthly basis.
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