Agenda

Description

Over the past 15 years, we’ve seen mobile spearhead the biggest shift in interaction. Touchscreens are now the predominant interaction feature for personal devices, leaving keyboard and button controls behind. The result? More natural and intuitive experiences. So why should it be any different for a virtual world?
Interaction solutions that remove the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds are not only intuitive, they’re essential for any immersive experience. Just think, a digital world will be infinitely more engaging when you are able to reach out naturally and interact with your own hands, just as you do in the real world. This is why we believe that hand tracking will be as essential to VR as touchscreens have been to mobiles.
In this session we’ll cover:
* The importance of hand tracking
* How hand tracking can make VR more accessible
* Lessons learned from the paradigm shift that was controllers/keyboard/mice to touchscreens
* How to adapt VR games and apps made for controllers
* How to design hand tracking first

Speakers

Matt Tullis

VP XR , Ultraleap

Description

Many people talk about the “future of work” and what will be possible in 3-5 years, but what if the future is already here? Using Virbela’s virtual world technology, eXp Realty has built a multi-billion dollar business with no brick and mortar offices. Founded in 2009, eXp Realty operates in 14+ countries with over 57,000 real estate agents all connected through eXp World powered by Virbela.
In this talk, Alex Howland, President and Co-Founder of Virbela, will explain how companies can build and scale their businesses entirely in a virtual world. Learn how virtual world technology enables social presence, a sense of community, and psychological safety that is often only found in a traditional office space.
In this session you will learn:
How to foster a sense of community and culture in a virtual world
The advantages of scaling your business in virtual worlds for individuals, teams, and the organization
Lessons learned from eXp Realty’s growth into a multi-billion dollar business
Why Harvard Business Review recommends the approach for economic advantages

Speakers

Alex Howland

Co-Founder and CEO , Virbela

Description

Mixed reality creates realistic, immersive experiences for its users. It also allows for freedom of interaction that is unprecedented in previous entertainment and information mediums. These features combine to create extremely powerful experiences and tools, but with unrestricted user inputs and freedoms never before experienced outside of game worlds. Come join us our panel of XR game development experts to learn the benefits, dangers, and best approaches of game design that can be applied to XR experiences.

Speakers

Kirin Sinha

Founder & CEO , Illumix

Renee Gittins

Executive Director , International Game Developers Association

Jenny Xu

CEO , Talofa Games

Description

This session is the culmination of a workshop series back in August designed to forge partnerships and an open community for building the AR Cloud together. Development teams have been collaborating with a group of AR Cloud technology partners since the beginning of September to build experiences that foster collaboration, bridge social divides, and increase the meaning of relationships. In this session you will have the opportunity to see the projects that our illustrious panel of judges selected as finalists in October. Then witness them making the final call for best in class across a number of categories.
The qualifying experiences are built using AR Cloud technologies that incorporate some combination of:
Persistent content that is always accessible
Real-time multi user interaction
Instant, ubiquitous localization
Geometric understanding of the world that allows real world interaction

For details and to learn about the technology partners visit: https://www.awexr.com/usa-2021/ar-cloud-challenge

Speakers

Ali Hantal

CEO , XR Masters

Lisa Watts

Co-Founder , Cree8

Gabriel Rene

Executive Director , Verses

Naomi Augustine-Yee

Art Director , QXR Studios

Omri Stein

CEO , ReSight

Description

Hart will discuss the process of bringing an idea from his head into augmented reality, often embracing unconventional humor and special FX in the process.

Speakers

Hart Woolery

CEO , 2020CV, Inc.

Description

Augmented Reality has been a key driver to enable brands to engage with consumers to make them feel a part of the action from anywhere. Whether they are at home in their living room, or live at an event, AR removes the need to activate at only one location. MVP Interaction and 8th Wall partnered with the Tennessee Titans to create the first-ever augmented reality mural in the NFL. Whether fans were onsite in Nashville or at home, the WebAR experience was easily activated by a QR code, taking traditional LBE experiences into your living room.
Join our session and get an inside look into how companies are utilizing AR to optimize consumer interactions to analyze audience engagement from multiple locations.

Speakers

James Giglio

CEO and Founder , MVP Interactive

Description

The United Stated Department of Defense is ramping up it's innovation efforts. They are now looking towards AR, VR, and AI to help the US stay competitive on the world stage.
See how the DoD is leveraging the power of Mixed Reality to help prepare the future war fighter.

Speakers

Brian Streem

CEO , Vermeer

Description

One of the key challenges for augmented reality is the development of ultra-compact, lightweight, low-power near-to-eye display solutions with good image quality. Laser Beam Scanning (LBS) technologies can meet these key requirements and deliver form-factors that enable light weight, fashionable, all-day wearable AR smart glasses with the ability to scale resolution and field-of-view (FoV) with low power consumption.

In this session, we will briefly highlight the key technologies and solutions behind LBS that enable AR smart glasses, as well as more complex mixed reality HMD devices, including MEMS Micromirror scanners systems, laser diode modules, waveguides and LBS systems design considerations. Finally, we will briefly touch upon the ecosystem that supports end product manufacturers with key technologies and devices.

Speakers

Bharath Rajagopalan

Director, Strategic Marketing , STMicroelectronics

Description

Gamers, Developers, Enterprises and more, learn more about HP’s latest award-winning Virtual Reality technology designed to Connect, Collaborate, Create and Learn. Join Joanna Popper, HP's Global Head of Virtual Reality, Go-to-Market and tune in to get started!

Speakers

Joanna Popper

Senior Media, Ent & Emerging Tech Exec , Consultant

Description

Retiring baby boomers, and the fall-out of the pandemic are leading to unprecedented shortages in the skilled workforce ecosystem. Learn how big the problem is, and how the new XR spectrum of solutions could be a key ingredient to saving the world from billions, and possibly trillions of dollars in potential lost economic output. This talk will feature how Lenovo’s ThinkReality AR/VR solutions are pushing the limits on flexibility and scalability, including a feature of the ThinkReality A3 smart viewer device that tethers to a PC for virtual monitors, and tethers to Motorola smartphones to deliver spatially aware enterprise Android applications.

Speakers

Nathan Pettyjohn

Commercial AR/VR Lead , Lenovo

Description

Come party in the BrainDance virtual nightclub with an AWE-inspiring community of XR professionals!

Join an amazing XR ecosystem where end-users meet solution providers in a curated setting!

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Santa Clara Ballroom, 2nd floor, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara