Pro iOS 5 Augmented Reality
Copyright 2011 by Kyle Roche
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Contents at a Glance
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About the Author
Kyle Roche has been focused on emerging technologies since 2000. During his time at Appirio, he led some of the world's first and largest Google and Force.com
cloud platform migrations. He is the chief architect behind RingDNA (ringdna.com
) and the co-founder of 2lemetry (2lemetry.com
). Mobile applications and connected electronics (M2M) are the main focus of all of Kyle's projects. Augmented reality and gaming frameworks play a large part in how these applications are visualized. Kyle studied mathematics and was on the wrestling team at the University of New Mexico. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Jessica and their four children: Aodhan, Avery, Kelly, and Timmy. If there is ever free time outside of family life, Kyle spends it playing hockey or building iOS applications for local nonprofits. You can find him at kyleroche.com
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About the Technical Reviewers
Yosun Chang has been creating apps for iOS and Android since early 2009, and is currently working on a next generation 3D and augmented reality mobile games startup called nusoy. Prior to that, since 1999 she did web development on the LAMP stack and Flash. She has also spoken at several virtual world, theater, and augmented reality conferences under her artist name of Ina Centaur. She has a graduate level background in physics and philosophy from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley. An avid reader who learned much of her coding chops from technical books like the current volume, she has taken care to read every single word of the chapters she reviewed and vet the source. Contact her