Agenda

Description

A detailed look into the making of Fictioneers’ and Aardman’s latest location-based AR experience, Wallace & Gromit: Fix Up The City. Hear from Ryan Measel, CEO and Co-Founder of a location-based AR platform, Fantasmo, who will talk about how creating a digital twin of the city for authoring the content, enabling occlusion, localizing devices, and overcoming the challenges of embedding AR features into cities in a new and pioneering way.

Speakers

Ryan Measel

CEO & Cofounder , Fantasmo

Description

How do you experiment with XR in the Immersive and Location-Based Experience Space? Join Meow Wolf's CTO Barbara Ford Grant as she shares the history of Meow Wolf's POV on XR, and how Meow Wolf has integrated XR through a variety of real-time interactive technologies that allow participants to further engage a dive deep into our narrative experiences, including RFID gamification, AR simulations, and multi sensory "memory storms," all the while aligning XR with a mission and commitment to connect to our community.

Speakers

Barbara Ford Grant

Chief Technology Officer , MEOW WOLF

Description

XR gaming brings a new level of immersive interaction, and multiplayer experiences can create the sense of amazing social presence. Chicken Waffle has built some of the top social XR content in the world, and has launched a new Indie XR Creator Fund to help innovative developers bring their content to market! Additionally, Chicken Waffle has been collaborating with some amazing location-based entertainment (LBE) partners like SPREE Interactive to bring new cutting-edge XR content to their locations with multiplayer arenas and gaming centers. This session will cover advanced development tips and publishing solutions for creating interactive cross-platform multiplayer XR experiences.

Speakers

Jonathan Nowak Delgado

CEO and Co-Founder , Spree Interactive

Finn Staber

CEO , Chicken Waffle LLC

Description

Ingress is the first AR game Niantic produced prior to becoming an independent company, and it continues today with a thriving community of players around the world. It also has always been a place where Niantic developers, producers and engineers pioneer new technologies and game mechanics to advance the story and engage players. Ingress producer Brian Rose and AR software engineer Anthony Maes will share how the team is using the Niantic Lightship ARDK for real-time mapping and meshing combined with in-game incentives to crowdsource millions of AR scans, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in this battle between the Enlightened and the Resistance.

Speakers

Anthony Maes

Software Engineer , Niantic

Brian Rose

Director , Niantic, Inc.

Description

Now is the time for brands who partner with sports leagues, musicians and other entertainment venues to invest in a proactive and scaled XR gameplan to connect with their consumers who desire more immersive fan engagement. The panel will explore new ways for brands to leverage innovative XR experiences to enhance the fan experience; from using Web AR to give fans access to behind the scenes experiences, to immersive up close experiences with world-famous athletes, musicians and celebrities - these connected experiences are only the beginning of what's possible.

Speakers

Craig Brown

XR Program Manager, 5G Experience Activations , Verizon

Diana Mendez

Marketing Coordinator , 8th Wall

Jason Yim

CEO , Trigger Global

Jessica Owens

Field Marketing Director , Molson Coors Beverage Company

Description

Holoride takes everyday journeys and transforms them into immersive experiences by combining navigational and car data with XR. The technology has the power to change backseat entertainment forever while its Elastic SDK helps creators build breathtaking content and seamlessly implement it for enjoyment within the car.

In a rather conversational format, Nils Wollny (CEO & co-founder holoride) and Jesse Schell (founder Schell Games) will look at what’s so exciting about developing games with holoride’s Elastic SDK and how the content creator community can benefit from this completely new media format called Elastic Content. The session will further examine lessons learned from past and current projects and share insights about their most recent title in development, Cloudbreaker, which is scheduled to be released in 2022. Both Nils and Jesse will conclude with valuable tips on how to make the most out of the holoride experience, outline how to leverage the Creator Space with its powerful tools, and how to benefit from this exciting in-car entertainment revolution.

Speakers

Jesse Schell

CEO , Schell Games

Nils Wollny

CEO & Co-Founder , Holoride

Description

In a world where the COVID pandemic has deprived the public of live music and where artists have had to invent new ways of communicating online with their audience, it is not difficult to imagine that the future of concerts could be through virtual worlds.

The catalyst for this massive market opportunity is rooted in how habits have changed in 2020. During COVID, everyone has become a digital native. Musicians are looking for new ways to reach their audiences and vice-versa. As social platforms with the built in mechanisms for engagement that concert goers crave, games presented an opportunity for a new type of virtual music experience as an extension of the live music circuit.

As we enter into this rapidly emerging virtual concert market, games and music are intersecting more and more where just as we’re defining what the metaverse is, we’re also defining what virtual concerts are as these two industries converge.

In this one of a kind panel, we hear from Mavericks at the forefront of the gaming and music industry, and from the venture capitalist perspective to better understand where the cross section of these industries is at, and what it means for the future of these industries, their respective stakeholders and you.

It’s when technology is in the hands of the artists that we see the most exciting future that stimulates innovation, conversation, and audience-first designs that are leading towards a vibrant 1:1 digital twin of the music industry in the Metaverse. Whoever gets this next move right in this space is going to win big.

Speakers

Daniil Solopov

Head of Strategic Business Development & Innovation , Sensorium

Elizabeth Moody

General Counsel , Wave

Shara Senderoff

President/Partner , Raised in Space

Anne McKinnon

Cofounder & CEO , Ristband

Description

If you want to see where the widespread adoption of holograms is headed, look no further than location based entertainment (LBE). Agencies and creatives have discovered the power of anchoring holograms to specific locations which users can interact with either through phones, tablets, head mounted displays or touch screens. These don't have to be difficult to set up either - whether using Scan QR codes or spatial anchors, Steve Sullivan, (General Manager, Microsoft) and Christina Heller, (CEO, Metastage ) will discuss how clients and creators can elevate experiences outside the home and on location. They'll walk through a number of highly successful use cases from partners like Verizon, RYOT, Nexus, Jackson Family Wines and more.

Speakers

Christina Heller

CEO , Metastage

Steve Sullivan

Partner, General Manager : Mixed Reality Capture Studios , Microsoft

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