YDreams
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YDreams is an interactive technology company headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, with offices in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
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, São Paulo
São Paulo
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 and New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

. 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
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

, telecommunications, image processing
Image processing
In electrical engineering and computer science, image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as a photograph or video frame; the output of image processing may be either an image or, a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image...

, geographic information systems and environmental engineering
Environmental engineering
Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...

 at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
The Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, FCTUNL or FCT for short, is a Portuguese faculty of the New University of Lisbon located on the Caparica Campus, near Lisbon....

 of the New University of Lisbon
New University of Lisbon
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, , also known as NOVA ) was established in 1973 and is the youngest of the three public universities of Lisbon, in Portugal....

.

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
Augmented reality
Augmented reality is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is...

, human-computer interaction and robotics
Robotics
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

.

The company develops interactive environments, for clients around the globe, with a special focus on the field of Augmented Reality
Augmented reality
Augmented reality is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is...

 and Natural User Interface
Natural user interface
In computing, a natural user interface, or NUI, is the common parlance used by designers and developers of computer interfaces to refer to a user interface that is effectively invisible, or becomes invisible with successive learned interactions, to its users. The word natural is used because most...

 (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
Prémio Pessoa
The Prémio Pessoa is a Portuguese award instituted in 1987 by the newspaper Expresso and the IT company Unisys. It is granted annually to the person of Portuguese nationality who during this period, and in the course of previous activity, has distinguished him or herself as a figure in scientific,...

.

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.
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