Aura
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Patrick McGovern
Serial Entrepreneur and Startup Guy. My interests are with Big Data, Mobile, Cloud, Open Source, and all things startup. Ran SourceForge for 5 years. Employee 8 at Splunk. Wrote iOS App that has generated over a million downloads.
Serial Entrepreneur and Startup Guy. My interests are with Big Data, Mobile, Cloud, Open Source, and all things startup. Ran SourceForge for 5 years. Employee 8 at Splunk. Wrote iOS App that has generated over a million downloads.
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The Aura app is your personal art notebook. It is our first step in applying mobile and big data technology to help everyone engage more with art everywhere.… · More Take pictures of art wherever you are-- in museums, cafes, or parks. Aura will analyze and help you remember the art you've seen, and share your art visits and memories with your friends.
Aura is your personal art notebook. Open it wherever you experience art -- museums, galleries, fairs, studio tours, cafes, the street...any place, really. Wherever you find art, Aura is there to help you remember it. At home or on a trip, record your art memories with Aura and you can come back to them at any time. Unlike your camera roll, Aura makes it easy to find any art you’ve experienced later through search and notes.
Use Aura to take photos of one or many views of any work you’d like to hold on to - the whole work, details, installation views, perspectives, or any angle you want. Aura will keep all the photos together as a single memory of that work. It also automatically reads and stores any text it finds as notes you can read and search later. You can also add your own tags or notes to remember your reactions, add keywords to find the work later, record conversations you had with others about the art, or to group related memories together.
Aura deepens your connection with art. It amps up your art knowledge, no matter how novice or expert you are. Browse your art memories anytime to relive and reinforce what you’ve seen. Aura will also often help you learn beyond the label by linking terms it recognizes to the Aura Universe of art knowledge: artists’ names, mediums, techniques and more. When artists’ names come up, search your memories to see if you’ve seen work by them before.
Aura is your personal art notebook. Open it wherever you experience art -- museums, galleries, fairs, studio tours, cafes, the street...any place, really. Wherever you find art, Aura is there to help you remember it. At home or on a trip, record your art memories with Aura and you can come back to them at any time. Unlike your camera roll, Aura makes it easy to find any art you’ve experienced later through search and notes.
Use Aura to take photos of one or many views of any work you’d like to hold on to - the whole work, details, installation views, perspectives, or any angle you want. Aura will keep all the photos together as a single memory of that work. It also automatically reads and stores any text it finds as notes you can read and search later. You can also add your own tags or notes to remember your reactions, add keywords to find the work later, record conversations you had with others about the art, or to group related memories together.
Aura deepens your connection with art. It amps up your art knowledge, no matter how novice or expert you are. Browse your art memories anytime to relive and reinforce what you’ve seen. Aura will also often help you learn beyond the label by linking terms it recognizes to the Aura Universe of art knowledge: artists’ names, mediums, techniques and more. When artists’ names come up, search your memories to see if you’ve seen work by them before.
Innovative Mobile App First to Combine Art, Data, and Social
Aura Network Inc is a consumer/social/mobile platform that gathers location-based data of art objects for personal visual analytics, data syndication and… · More geo-contextual commerce. We combine art, data and social all aimed at enhancing the cultural process of remembering, organic learning and sharing art while fundamentally preserving what makes discovering art great in the first place: actually experiencing it in person. We are applying world class social, sensor and big data technology connecting everyone's digital and physical lives to the meaningful objects they encounter.
From the halls of a museum or the streets of a city, inspirational works of art are all around us, but there’s just not a great way to capture these valuable moments of discovery and save it so we can relive that same experience later. Mobile technology gives us the technology to snap a picture, but not a centralized home to save, share, and display these memories in a meaningful and impactful way. We created Aura as a solution to that problem.
Aura continually gathers valuable demographic and behavioural datasets from art lovers worldwide building a critical data layer across the entire value chain that we believe will re-invent art buying. Our monetization strategies will drive the big data store to make profits providing an economic value insight to buyers, owners, sellers, and traders of art assets.
We've already made a lot of progress in our efforts in the last six months. Aura v. 1.2 is now available for download for iOS on the App Store, we secured a valuable partnership with our primary investor, the Toledo Museum of Art, and we are busy building v 2.0 iOS + Android now.
The plan now is to keep the momentum going to prepare for series A, but we need some support. As you may know we have secured $650k investment to date and are looking to reach $1.5 to complete our next growth stage.
From the halls of a museum or the streets of a city, inspirational works of art are all around us, but there’s just not a great way to capture these valuable moments of discovery and save it so we can relive that same experience later. Mobile technology gives us the technology to snap a picture, but not a centralized home to save, share, and display these memories in a meaningful and impactful way. We created Aura as a solution to that problem.
Aura continually gathers valuable demographic and behavioural datasets from art lovers worldwide building a critical data layer across the entire value chain that we believe will re-invent art buying. Our monetization strategies will drive the big data store to make profits providing an economic value insight to buyers, owners, sellers, and traders of art assets.
We've already made a lot of progress in our efforts in the last six months. Aura v. 1.2 is now available for download for iOS on the App Store, we secured a valuable partnership with our primary investor, the Toledo Museum of Art, and we are busy building v 2.0 iOS + Android now.
The plan now is to keep the momentum going to prepare for series A, but we need some support. As you may know we have secured $650k investment to date and are looking to reach $1.5 to complete our next growth stage.
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