YDreams
YDreams is an interactive technology company headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, with offices in Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and New York City. The company combines technology and design to produce digital solutions that let audiences interact with digital content and information in their surrounding environment, using simple and intuitive gestures instead of traditional interfaces such as buttons and keyboards.
YDreams was founded in June 2000 by António Câmara (who has been CEO since its inception) José Miguel Remédio, Edmundo Nobre, Eduardo Dias and Nuno Correia, professors and researchers in areas ranging from information technology, telecommunications, image processing, geographic information systems and environmental engineering at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the New University of Lisbon.
The privately owned company employs over 120 people with backgrounds in software, mechanical and electrical engineering, graphic and communication design, industrial and interaction design, Augmented Reality, human-computer interaction and robotics.
The company develops interactive environments, for clients around the globe, with a special focus on the field of Augmented Reality and Natural User Interface (NUI). All of the company’s proprietary technologies are researched and developed in-house, and then integrated into customized projects and solutions.
In 2006, António Câmara, YDreams' founder and CEO, and also a professor at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the New University of Lisbon, was awarded the prestigious Prémio Pessoa.
[edit] Joint Ventures & Spin Outs
In December 2008, YDreams joined with North American partners to found New York-based Audience Entertainment, a global company that creates & commercializes audience games for large - scale venues.
In January 2010, YDreams created its first spin out company, Ynvisible, a company focused on the development of new technologies in printed electronics; in February 2011, Ynvisible’s shares were listed on the First Quotation Board (Open Market) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
In the first quarter of 2011, YVision, the company division that focuses on Natural User Interfaces (NUI) and Augmented Reality (AR) officially became YDreams’ second spin out. YVision specializes in developing Software Development Kits (SDK) that are licensed to third parties to create NUI applications.
