Nov 10
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Description
The global number of mobile augmented reality (AR) users is set to reach 2.4 billion by 2023, a rise of 2.2 billion from the 200 million seen in 2015, new data suggests. With the rapidly growing demand, retailers face a new challenge: how to efficiently produce AR-ready 3D models at scale. During this session, CGTrader’s CEO Dalia will be sharing these critical insights – everything from rewiring an entire organization to work with 3D to building out QA processes at scale.
Speakers
CEO
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CGTrader
Nov 10
11:20 AM - 11:45 AM
Description
Post our successful second year of BRCvr Burn Week, Doug and Athena will share what they learned, new discoveries, best practices and ways utilized to bring the community together while empowering them to create in the digital plane.
Speakers
CEO
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Big Rock Creative
CTO
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BRCvr
Nov 10
11:20 AM - 11:45 AM
Description
In this session, we will release the latest data on the Chinese spatial computing market, and provide an overview of the current market landscape. CEOs of leading companies in the region will share their opinions on the latest trends, biggest challenges, and excitement to come. A taste of AWE Asia!
Speakers
President
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AWE Asia, Sunrise International
Nov 10
11:20 AM - 11:45 AM
Description
Conversational AI systems now have the power to give intelligent, empathetic voices to all types of consumer electronics including xR devices, vehicles, robots and more. SapientX powers state of the art, photo-realistic, purpose driven characters and virtual assistants which can be embodied directly by popular game engines such as Unity and Unreal, including support for Epic’s new Meta-Humans and other high-resolution characters. Find out what it's like to have an intelligent conversation with a hologram (Meta-Ori!) and what's next for AI powered digital humans.
Speakers
CEO
,
SapientX
Nov 10
11:20 AM - 11:45 AM
Nov 10
11:20 AM - 11:45 AM
Description
Mobile augmented and virtual reality are undeniably shaping the future of how we consume and experience content. However, every player in the field faces major challenges that limit the growth and roll out of immersive technologies: Mobile devices come with their own limitations in computing and graphics power, the device market is fragmented, and the industry has concerns about data security. To address these challenges, allow the market to grow and introduce the next level of AR/VR applications we need platform based XR streaming. Join Holo-Light CEO Florian Haspinger and Evan Helda, SR. Specialist Spatial Computing at Amazon Web Services, as they introduce a new XR Streaming as a Service platform to the world – to provide the industry the potential to mass adoption of their XR use cases and mass rollouts in less time than ever before.
Speakers
Co-founder and CEO
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Holo-Light
SR. Specialist Spatial Computing
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Amazon Web Services
Nov 10
11:30 AM - 12:25 PM
Description
2021 has seen the launch of three important market studies focused on the XR Industry. In May, Ecorys and XRA released an update to an earlier examination of the EU XR marketplace and concludes that Europe’s long-standing VR research and manufacturing, highly-skilled workforce, strong creative industry, and cultural diversity put the continent at a clear competitive advantage to seize emerging opportunities and become an important player in the global XR industry. In July, the law firm Perkins Coie and XRA released the fifth annual XR Industry Insider Survey which found that among industry stakeholders that despite, or even due to the Covid 19 global pandemic, there is sustained optimism around immersive technologies and an expectation that while hurdles exist there will be increased investment in the sector. Finally, XRA will release its second annual survey of decision makers for enterprises across six different sectors and what their expectations are around the adoption and use of immersive technologies in their fields. Join our panel for a 360 degree view of the health and prospects of XR.
Speakers
Partner
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Perkins Coie
Project Manager
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The Martec Group
Digital Policy and Research Consultant
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Ecorys
Vice President Industry Relations
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XR Association
Nov 10
11:50 AM - 12:15 PM
Description
At REI we have been very busy leveraging XR solutions to display some of our products in augmented reality, and in providing immersive 3D captures of some of our stores. But we have a greater vision for how we can leverage this technology to help us be better enterprise operators and as a means to aid our millions of members in getting out and exploring their natural surroundings. I’d like to share with you some of the XR initiatives that are currently in-flight and present some ideas on what our collective futures might look like with these emerging technologies.
Speakers
XR Innovations
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Blue Origin
Nov 10
11:50 AM - 12:15 PM
Description
The advent of 5G technology will usher in an era of new, immersive experiences in fields from gaming to education. Big corporations and leading Telcos such as Samsung, LG and Apple jumped on the 5G bandwagon in the fall of 2020, and other major companies are following suit as they develop 5G compatible technologies. In fact, according to the Ericsson Mobility Report (November 2020), there will be 3.3M 5G subscriptions worldwide by 2026.
At Inception, we believe 5G technology will take entertainment to the next level, enabling innovative capabilities never seen before - faster speeds, hyper-capacity, and high-quality streaming experiences. Inception’s flagship product, Bookful, is a 5G compatible educational reading app offering rich and immersive content, encouraging kids to read, and promoting productive screen time. Our 5G powered app opens up a whole new playful reading universe for children. This talk will focus on how Bookful and its partners are using 5G to offer an improved experience to consumers, thereby transforming the future of reading.
Speakers
Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer
,
InceptionXR
Nov 10
11:50 AM - 12:15 PM
Description
Artificial Intelligence and XR streaming technology pave the way for future XR applications in training and virtual surgery. With a combination of augmented reality software and hardware, the company specializing in virtual simulation systems, MXR Tactics, aims to increase the efficiency of trainings in healthcare, security, forensics and industry by 40-60 percent. Enhatch, the Intelligent Surgery Ecosystem is harnessing AI to create a faster, safer and more personalized surgical experience for the millions of patients. Both XR use cases are empowered by Holo-Light’s XR streaming technology ISAR.
Speakers
CFO
,
Holo-Light
CTO
,
MXR Tactics
CFO
,
MXR Tactics
CEO
,
Enhatch
Nov 10
11:50 AM - 12:45 PM
Description
Please join us to hear from our UK Delegation who will be talking about their Report ‘The Growing Value of XR in Healthcare in the UK’ It is the first of its kind to explore the use of XR in the UK’s healthcare sector today. Join the discussion and hear from experts on report findings and opportunities to collaborate with the UK and as a blueprint for other Governments to strategically consider how XR Healthcare can scale for their citizens
Speakers
Head of Technology Enhanced Learning
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Health Education England
Founder
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Concept Health Technologies
Co-Founder
,
XR Health Alliance
Deputy Director of Innovation Development
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NHSx
Founder
,
XR Health Alliance
Nov 10
11:50 AM - 12:45 PM
Description
If you are tasked with implementing AR and VR in your company then this session is for you. It can be difficult to separate the hype from reality when it comes to implementing emerging technologies. Everything works great in a pre-recorded demonstration online and it might even perform well in a training center or conference room. But we live in the trenches and it’s a different environment there. In this session we will hear from real industry experts that have forged the path by putting technology in the hands, and on the heads of factory workers, warehouse employees, engineers and technicians on the front lines. During our discussion we will discuss:
The toughest lessons we’ve had to learn in implementing XR
Where have we found allies in our journey
What obstacles stand in the way of adoption
The right way to look at vendor relationships
Why there isn’t one solution for everyone and how to deal with this reality
How to manage expectations with your leadership and customers
Is COVID helping our hurting the business of Extended Reality
Pro-Tips on how to simply get things done in XR
Speakers
OPS Transformation Product Leader
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Koch Industries
XR Product Manager
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WestRock
Director of Labs
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Moving Brands Inc
Nov 10
11:50 AM - 12:45 PM
Description
The use of XR in entertainment, from production to marketing and distribution, continues to grow as consumers expect more immersive and engaging content. This panel of studio executives will share their perspectives on why XR creates a stronger medium for more authentic brand storytelling and how they apply XR as a part of their larger branding initiatives. They’ll also discuss best practices for deploying these experiences, learnings from new technologies and their future outlook for XR in entertainment.
Speakers
VP, Emerging Products Group
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ViacomCBS
Senior Client Partner
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Trigger
Director of Interactive Experiences
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Disney Consumer Products, Games, and Publishing
Nov 10
12:20 PM - 12:45 PM
Description
AR streaming creates vast, new opportunities for immersive content to be consumed more broadly and by more devices than ever before. It gives creators almost unlimited resources. Mawari’s mission is to unlock creative capacity by enabling creators to do what they do best without delivery constraints.
Speakers
Founder and CEO
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Mawari
Nov 10
01:15 PM - 01:40 PM
Description
Technology has revolutionized entire industries. But despite advancements in computing, commerce, and connectivity, healthcare has lagged behind. To democratize the healthcare industry, address the impending shortage of skilled physicians, and reduce surgical error for improved patient outcomes, immersive and intelligent technologies must be integrated into the operating room.
Discover how Proprio is collaborating with groundbreaking industry leaders at world-class medical centers like UCSF to democratize healthcare using XR, AI, and real-time volumetric imaging to recode and redesign the practice of medicine. The future of surgery is finally here.
* Joint presentation with Dr. Rajiv Saigal
Speakers
Co-Founder, CEO
,
Proprio
Associate Professor in Res, Neurological Surgery
,
UCSF
Nov 10
01:45 PM - 02:10 PM
Description
Should robots feel emotions? More importantly, would these emotions cause them to perform their tasks better? In humans, emotions have historically played a vital role in the way we survived and evolved as a species. Moreover, emotions are an indispensable part of what makes up the fabric of intelligence and critical functioning. No wonder it has been a long-held view amongst leading experts in Artificial Intelligence (Fig.1) that infusing robots and intelligent systems with emotions would greatly heighten their functioning capabilities in the role they were designed for and beyond.
"I don't personally believe we can design or build autonomous intelligent machines without them having emotions." Yann LeCun - Chief Ai Scientist at Facebook silver professor winner of the Turing award in 2019.
Affective computing, born in 1995, relies on big data to recognize, process, and simulate human emotions;however, it does not provide the machines with their own emotional response. In contrast, Emoshape aims to encode real-time emotions in AI using Emoshapeâs EPU (Emotion Processing Unit) through Emotion Synthesis. Instead of the bootstrap approach of Googleâs Deep Mind (1, 2), Emoshapeâs vision is to teach the machine to preserve biological life above mechanical life.
Through the combination of cloud learning and a novel microchip, Emoshapeâs patent-granted technology can be ported into any existing AI or robot. The EPU will synthesize an emotional state within the machine, enabling real-time language appraisal, emotion-based reasoning and emotional personality development. This will make possible intelligent machines capable of understanding how words are associated with feelings, and able to respond with the natural empathy of a human. This response will also be reflected in their vocal responses and visual expression, which play an important role in audiovisual speech communication, increasing comprehension and creating a soothing environment or a trust/loyalty connection with wide applications in the entertainment, education, healthcare, or industrial sectors. Moreover, emotion also improves body-consciousness based on situation, particularly relevant to real-world autonomous intelligent machines, whether it is robots, metaverse, games, etc.
Speakers
CEO
,
Emoshape Inc
Nov 10
01:45 PM - 02:40 PM
Description
3D assets are being deployed everywhere: in e-commerce, marketing, product design, architecture, learning, education, professional training, and art. Pervasive 3D presents great opportunity to the content development community, because it represents a growing cross-industry marketplace for their skills but it also presents specific challenges. When products and assets are being deployed everywhere, they must work anywhere: on any operating system, any platform, and any device. In the e-commerce business model, the entire value chain can leverage 3D assets at scale if they can make them reusable and consistent.
This panel brings together experts from each part of the e-commerce value chain from retailer to content creator to 3D developer to tool provider to discuss how to build a scalable 3D production pipeline and the impact of 3D and XR on the e-commerce evolution. Panelists will share case studies and talk about how 3D and XR are changing consumer expectations from the moment of conception with product development and design, to pre-commerce, all the way through the entire pipeline to the post-purchase journey.
The panel will also explore what is possible by achieving the 3D-rich retail landscape through standardization of technology. Panelists will talk about their ongoing work with open standards to resolve longstanding challenges, how artists, developers, agents, retailers, and content creators can incorporate existing tools and guidelines into their workflows, and what can be gained from investment in XR. Panelists, all members of The Khronos Group's 3D Commerce Working Group, will discuss what the problems with creating, distributing and storing 3D and XR assets, what solutions exist today, why they are investing in 3D, and the vision for the future where 3D and AR content is leveraged for machine learning, production and more.
Speakers
CEO
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ALL3D
CEO & Co-Founder
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Hexa3D
CEO
,
CGTrader
CEO
,
DGG
Product Manager, Media & AR/VR
,
Shopify
CEO & Co-Founder
,
Emersya
Nov 10
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
Description
Explore Haiti in VR! The new experiential app is modeled off one of Hope for Haiti's partner schools in rural Haiti. Users can explore the three room school, interact with different elements such as a well, chalkboard, flag pole, etc. and connect with one another through customized avatars. The space is designed to not only provide an engaging and hands-on experience, but also to give users an alternative (and more positive) perception of Haiti.
To download the Haiti VR app on Sidequest (https://sidequestvr.com), type "Hope for Haiti" in the search bar, or download the APK from the link below and side-load it to your Oculus headset using Sidequest. If you have never side-loaded an application to your headset before, see the article for detailed instructions.
APK File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uBjnPxlu6Q1_E48VPSjK9zQILBJd_mGx/view
How to sideload content to your Oculus: https://uploadvr.com/sideloading-quest-how-to/