Tonight at 75 Varick Street in New York two groups came together the desperately needed to meet – the Augmented Reality group and the Semantic Web Meetup.

The event called the The Augmented Lounge was organized by John C. Havens and Marco Neuman to highlight the need for the two groups to begin a dialogue about their collective work. The Semantic Web is the working meta layer and Augmented Reality is the future of the display layer.

Im not sure that either group would simplify the body of their work down to this level but at the core these are the functionalities that they provide.

With plenty of food and drink (n/a) available and a medium size room to hold them the groups began to speak awkwardly together like two singles on a blind date. But all got rolling when someone made the first Apple vs. Microsoft joke when on queue the presentation computer running Windows crashed the browser.

The conversation quickly found its way down a path that included the outernet, visualization technology, open letters, the AR consortium and usefulness of Google Wave as a framework technology for many real-time applications.

I’ll have more on the event tomorrow. But the conversation stayed civil and no doubt there are some interesting collaborations that will come from it.

(Please excuse typos as I am blogging this from my phone.)

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The Augmented Lounge is a post from: TechStartups.com

If you are looking for a meetup with more brainpower than horsepower you need to be in New York next week. Don’t come for Web 2.0 East, come for the Augmented Reality Lounge being hosted by and at Portner Novelli on November 17th at 7:00 p.m..

In this room will be some of the brightest stars from the Augmented Reality and Semantic worlds. You heard that right, AR and Semantic nerds in one room. Two of the most powerful forces that are shaping how the next web will be architected and delivered both on pc’s and mobile. The work of both groups will be the defining factors in how you experience the world around you.

If you would take part in shaping the future of the internet, these are the folks you should meet and talk to. Many of them are going to be in town for a panel on AR at the Web 2Open, an unconference event at the Web 2.0 Conference.  The others are based in New York and take part in the Semantic Web Meetup Group. That group is organized by one of the AR panelists and semantic technologist, Marco Neumann (@neumarcx).

Other members of this panel include:

• Robert Rice: CEO of Neogence, Chairman of the Augmented Reality Consortium
• Ori Inbar: Co-founder and CEO of Ogmento
• Jack Mason: Global Business Services, Strategic Programs and Social Media at IBM
• Lynne d Johnson: SVP Social Media at the Advertising Research Foundation and host of the NYC Android Developer’s Meetup
• Erik Manley: Manager, Digital Media at GE
• Michael Eisenreich: Technology Leader for GE’s company-wide Internet presence
• Matt Szymczyk: CEO of Zugara
• Marco Neumann: CEO and Founder of KONA, Lead Organizer for New York Semantic Web Meetup Group

This meetup before the event is the brainchild of John C. Havens (@johnchavens), the author of the book and blog Tactical Transparency and lead organizer for the first PodCamp NYC that helped to define all that followed. John has a strong interest in Augmented Reality and saw the obvious ties between the AR world and the Semantic side that I was talking to him non-stop about.

The Augmented Reality Lounge is an event that Marco described as:

“The Semantic Web is an ideal candidate to become the fabric for Augmented Reality applications in the near future. The global availability of HTTP and the flexibility of RDF, the foundational framework for the Semantic Web, make it a perfect match for distributed, heterogeneous and networked applications that can help to enable emergent Augmented Reality services.”

Believe me, if there is an iteration of the web that you should be a part of it is this one. The foundation that is being built from semantic data and the interaction with the real world that augmented reality presents is one that your ideas should be a part of.

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Shape the Next Web Next Week – with Augmented Reality and the Semantic Web is a post from: TechStartups.com