Agenda

Description

In the session we will explore how dynamic aberrations correction can increase the apparent resolution, eliminate color fringing and pupil swim effects, and enlarge the eye-box in the highest-end displays, such as Oculus Quest, Varjo VR-1 and HP Reverb G2.

Having to achieve high resolution, wide field of view, and large eye-box, the VR/AR head-mounted display makers face the challenges impossible to overcome by hardware design alone. Even the latest-and-greatest devices retain the common flaws spoiling user experience: blur and color fringing outside of the small “sweet spot,” picture quality degradation and geometry distortion at wide gaze angles, and a tiny eye box.

In order to achieve realistic picture quality and natural visual experience, the rendering pipeline has to include advanced image pre-processing beyond the standard geometry warp and channel scaling. Almalence created the Digital Lens, a computational solution utilizing a precise characterization of HMD optical properties along with a dynamic aberration correction technique, adjusting on the fly to the eye-tracking data.

Speakers

Eugene Panich

CEO , Almalence

Description

The ability of field medics and field surgeons to be able to get immediate consultation from an expert surgeon may be the critical difference in the survival and more positive longer-term recovery of a wounded warfighter. Being able to do this in an Augmented-to-Virtual Reality space would set this collaboration experience to an even higher level. This 3D collaborative space would provide a spatial calibration of the physical and virtual realities to allow the Novice surgeon to work on the physical body within an augmented reality alongside an Expert surgeon’s avatar with a virtual reproduction of the patient’s injury in his virtual reality.

The Virtual Augmented Distributed Engagement Reality (VADER) is an AR-VR Remote Telementoring/Telemedicine application that was implemented by SOLUTE for a medical organization in San Diego and is part of their operations center showcase offerings highlighting the latest leading-edge medical technologies.

Speakers

Vivian Hsu

Software Engineer , SOLUTE

James Pinpin

Principal Software Engineer , SOLUTE

Description

This session will review some of the most exciting technological innovations that are being patented throughout the world in the AR / VR / MR space. Numerous examples of patented and patent-pending innovations covering both hardware and software inventions from the smallest companies to the largest companies (e.g., Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook) will be provided. Predictions of future patent infringement lawsuits will also be made.

Speakers

Jeff Rosedale

Partner , Baker & Hostetler, LLP

Description

OnBoardXR is a seasonal, virtual festival of short, live performances and artists showcasing their own experimental XR tools in a single 3D virtual event. Audiences may access the show from almost any device to experience roughly one hour of curated synchronous, short spatialized performances. Join this session to see highlights from the last year, including full body motion capture dance, IOT connecting the physical and virtual worlds, structured improvisation and semi-traditional theater using avatars and web cameras.

Speakers

Rebecca Evans

XR Producer & Director , Dimension Adventures

Michael Morran

Digital Events Producer , Active Replica

Clemence Debaig

Artistic Director , Unwired Dance Theatre

Brendan Bradley

Scrappy Storyteller , The Jigsaw Ensemble

Description

Panel discussion with XR platform leaders to compare and contrast what form factors and scenarios will entice main stream consumers to engage in XR. Evaluate VR versus AR in terms of what consumers will actually enjoy and see value in. Do we really need 360VR or is location triggered AR a better use case?

Speakers

Matt Miesnieks

CEO , LivingCities

Matt Miesnieks

CEO , Dejavu

Wilson Tang

CEO and Chief Designer , Yumebau

Lisa Watts

Co-Founder , Cree8

Darrell Kong

Principle of Business Development , Cradle Mountain Advisors

Description

At the heart of every successful Augmented Reality(AR) experience, is solid storytelling that leaves the user with an emotional connection to the brand. Consumer demand for a personalized experience and emotional realism to content has been a major driver for AR experiences. However, capturing lifelike, digital recreations was limited. Volcap enables AR to break free from the frame and into fully immersive worlds, creating authentic, realistic experiences for the user across multiple verticals including entertainment, sports, training, enterprise, gaming, and more. How do you tell your brand story in AR using VolCap? Join our panel as they discuss how AR has taken the reins using VolCap to create personalized experiences for consumers, while providing brands with the ultimate immersion.

Speakers

Christina Heller

CEO , Metastage

James Giglio

CEO and Founder , MVP Interactive

Niko Chauls

XR Partnerships, Product Innovation , Verizon

Description

Advances in XR technology raise important socio-technological issues – not the least of which is the potential for unprecedented insight into users’ behaviors, preferences, and mental processes.
That said, however, the adoption of XR technology need not and should not be an “us (the consumer) versus them (the industry)” scenario. Instead, industry and civil rights advocates should work together to tackle privacy challenges and ensure we get forthcoming policies and best practices right. Because XR is still relatively nascent, we have the opportunity to avoid mistakes of the past and develop this technology with a more informed, cleared-eyed approach. The XR industry and XR users should be partners in this process.
This panel will explore the ways in which the XR industry, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders can work together to advance the greater good. We will discuss the influence of civil society; the role of law and policymakers; the science behind XR technology and the challenges privacy by design presents to engineers; and the opportunity for industry to help lead the way.

Speakers

Michael Richards

Director of Policy , U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Carlos Gutierrez

Deputy Director and General Counsel , LGBT Technology Partnership & Institute

Joan V. O'Hara

Vice President of Public Policy , XR Association

Sandy Kunvatanagarn

Reality Labs Policy Manager , Meta

Geo Saba

Chief of Staff to Rep. Ro Khanna , U.S. House of Representatives

Description

18Loop and the American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) have conducted a Joint Experimental Intervention Research Study (JEIRS) to measure the efficacy of VR on children with pediatric cancer. This session will report on the findings and recommendations as well as a presentation on the benefits of Virtual Stress Management, the gamification of meditation and collaboration to the larger issues of mood and pain management.

VR is truly a family intervention and data suggests that the experience strengthens family bonds (especially when related to families coping with illness). Attendees will learn three types of VR approaches in pediatric oncology, what our results look like and what the industry needs to do moving forward regarding standards and hardware to support the Virtual Pharmacy.

Speakers

Greg Tarnacki

CEO / Founder , 18Loop

Heather Bucalos

RN/Consultant , 18Loop

Description

Miniaturization is the trend to manufacture even smaller mechanical, optical and electronic products, medical devices, and other high-value parts. This trend continues to be strong, with year-over-year growth in many markets. One of the limiting factors to miniaturization is the inability of traditional manufacturing methods like injection molding and CNC machining to effectively and economically produce smaller and smaller parts.

Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3D Printing has been around now for over 30 years. For a long time, there were only a few technologies available and applications were generally limited to prototyping. Past advances in AM have come short in meeting the needs of small parts, printing them at a resolution, accuracy, precision and speed that made them a viable option for end-use production parts. That has all changed. Additive Manufacturing and Miniaturization are now converging – in a very meaningful and impactful way.

The growth in the AR/VR market and pace of innovation is opening up applications that were not even imagined a decade ago. With this comes challenges for manufacturing to scale at the same pace. Many leading AR/VR technology companies have started using micro 3D printing as a method for producing various micro-precision components as an alternative to traditional fabrication methods – finding huge time and cost savings.

Learn how micro-precision 3D printing enables companies in this competitive space to address development challenges limited by current microfabrication methods, but also allows companies to explore the potential of pushing the limits on miniaturization by expanding the boundaries otherwise thought impossible with 3D printing.

Speakers

Jason Bassi

Director of Sales, the Americas , Boston Micro Fabrication

Description

360 XR gaming technology is immersive, inner-active, and at the very least cool. It is the main driver of the metaverse industry. Immersive VR Video and VR Filmmaking is a huge departure from traditional filmmaking. Come learn from this panel how they capture reality “as real as it is” and tell their stories in a 3D Metaverse. VR as a medium, has the ability to transport the mind without ever having to leave the comfort of your own home. With this comes a great ethical responsibility for anyone creating in the VR Metaverse.

Join us for a provocative and engaging conversation as we discuss the elements of storytelling as it applies to VR; how VR can expand your brand; and the responsibility that falls to all of us given the ethical concerns that are innate with the technology.

Speakers

Hugh Hou

Co-Founder / Head of XR , CreatorUp

Karen X. Cheng

Director , Karen X LLC

Michael Shabun

VP, Marketing and Business Development , Insta360

Keeley Turner

Executive Producer for VR Content , CreatorUp

Description

The Metaverse is coming and it will impact all our lives before the current decade is out. As an industry pioneer who began working in AR and VR over thirty years ago, I have a broad perspective on where the field has been and where it's going. And right now, I am both excited and concerned. Excited because the momentum has finally hit critical mass. Concerned because of the very real prospect that large corporations could bring the destabilizing features of social media into the Metaverse. To address this, I have been calling for sensible regulation of metaverse platforms to help ensure the technology rolls out in a positive way. This talk will address this important issue by answering three key questions: (1) What will the metaverse really be like when widely deployed? (2) What are the most significant risks consumers will face? and (3) What are the most helpful and sensible forms of regulation to avoid the metaverse becoming a destabilizing force like social media?

Speakers

Louis Rosenberg

CEO and Chief Scientist , Unanimous AI

Description

Until recently, many companies were skeptical about the benefits of implementing augmented reality into their operations and marketing. But advancements in hardware have broken down the barriers for end users, and now new tools are making XR more accessible to creators. I will be exploring how XR tech has been demystified though consumer activations, and can be developed faster and easier than ever before, eliminating obstacles both in front and behind the scenes, and increasing demand.

Speakers

Lauren Lemieux

Founder , Mostly Misfits

Description

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Antti Sunnari

CEO , Dispelix

Description

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Speakers

Jordan (Seungmo) Shim

Business Developer , MAXST

Description

NASA developed a series of XR medical scenarios for astronaut training during deep space exploration missions. Led by Dr. Roger Dias, MD, PhD, MBA at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School, and funded by the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), this project has a rather lengthy title “Mixed Reality (MR) Care-delivery Guidance System to Support Medical Event Management on Long Duration Exploration Missions” but is a very noble and important mission. The development of these XR, highly realistic, medical scenarios for in-flight space training was carried out by a collaboration between the BWH, Radiant Images, Inc., and Panogramma Inc. The photogrammetry and volumetric video capture, editing, and processing were performed with several other collaborators, including Metastage, Sony, and Arcturus. This session will cover the challenges and solutions this team faced and solved in the production of these medical training modules.

Speakers

Piotr Uzarowicz

Head of Partnerships & Marketing , Arcturus

Christina Heller

CEO , Metastage

Rodrigo Cerqueira

CEO , Panograma Inc

Roger Dias

Asst Prof of Emergency Medicine , Harvard Medical School

Michael Mansouri

CEO , Radiant Images + MeetMo.io

Description

Within USA TODAY NETWORK's DNA is the desire to innovate how the organization tells stories. Since 2018 USA TODAY's Emerging Technologies team has developed over 40 highly engaging and interactive augmented reality (AR) experiences, exploring complex, historical, and trending news topics. Recognizing an opportunity to improve the core user experience within the app's framework, the team leveraged engagement analytics and external user testing to develop a robust and intuitive user onboarding sequence, resulting in a 3x increase in average time spent per user.

A few media-rich AR experiences that include the updated framework are “Seven Days of 1961: A Dangerous Ride on the Road to Freedom,” "Champions of Women's Suffrage,” "Accused: The Impending Execution of Elwood Jones,” “Attica: A Prison Uprising 50 Years Later,” and many others. The Emerging Technology team has also implemented accessible designs to meet their audience's growing expectations for new and inclusive forms of premium interactive experiences.
Will Austin, the Senior Designer of Emerging Technology, will explore the evolution of UI/UX to foster a deeper understanding of AR amongst casual consumers. He will also share insights and case studies on USA TODAY's onboarding challenges, new instructional design, and its vision for the future of premium interactive editorial experiences.

Speakers

William Austin

Sr. Designer , Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK

Description

Good friends Alex Goldberg and Lee Kebler reminisce on some of the most influential examples of spatial computing from the films that they grew up with, and they elaborate on products and services that might have been subsequently influenced. There will be a Q&A session at the end where they encourage audience members to share some of their personal favorite examples.

Speakers

Alex Goldberg

XR Innovations , Blue Origin

Lee Kebler

Director , Journey

Description

IEEE Future Directions drives efforts on current, new and emerging technologies. Specifically of interest is the focus on immersive and intelligent realities leveraging AR/VR/MR, AI/ML driving the overall digital transformation. Hear more on what IEEE is doing in this space.

Speakers

Nicholas Napp

Co-Founder , Xmark Labs

Kathy Grise

Future Directions Senior Program Director , IEEE

Thomas Coughlin

President , Coughlin Associates

Description

The definition of the open metaverse needs to go beyond the notion of just connecting isolated game platforms and virtual worlds to real time sense making, including AR, digital twins, cyber/physical experiences, Web3, and more…. This panel will look at the future of open spatial cyber/physical UI/UX and OS architectures through the experience of leading technology architects and designers.

Speakers

Anselm Hook

CTO , MorpheusXR

Tish Shute

Co-Founder , AWE

David A. Smith

CTO, Founder , Croquet

Deshjuana Bagley

Founder / CEO , TechPlayzone

Andrew Melchior

Founder , The Mill