Agenda

Description

There are no WIMPS (Windows Icons Mice Pointers Solo play) in the Metaverse. Instead, we all want to feel like Neo in The Matrix and think WHOAS. Rather than frame our content in windows and endless scrolling feeds we need to design Worlds for people to explore. Instead of clicking on button icons with mice, give people caves full of treasure they can interact with using Hands and Objects. Give people Avatars and Social collaborative play. Let’s not carry forward vestigial pancake monitor design practices to 3D worlds. Let’s not make the same mistakes we made in Web 2 when building Web 3. Whether you are building for Enterprise, Brands, or Games people need Metaverse native UX design. Join us for a deep dive into 12 new design principles for building the people centric Metaverse.

Speakers

Nicole Lazzaro

President , Xeodesign Inc

Description

If you need to raise capital for your games studio, where do you start? Bobby Thandi from XR Games reveals the do's and don'ts of raising investment. Including what you need to get ready before investment, what to expect during the process, red and green flags regarding potential investors, the questions you need VCs to answer, and the questions VCs will be asking YOU.

Speakers

Bobby Thandi

Founder and CEO , XR Games

Description

Learn how developers have been using the Snapdragon Spaces Developer Platform to bring new and existing AR experiences to life, hear first-hand their experiences and lessons learned using Snapdragon Spaces, moderated by Katie McCort, Product Manager at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Speakers

Dan Flanegan

Founder & CEO , That XR Company

Tom Minich

Co-founder and COO , forwARdgame

Javier Davalos

Founder/Lead developer , Overlay

Description

XR development is a new career for anyone seeking to work in the immersive technology industry. If you love being creative and transforming ideas into interactive 3D experiences, this could be the perfect pathway for you. Join Circuit Stream and alumni Nakita Chand to learn everything you need to know about how to become an XR developer.

Speakers

Stephane Licina

Partnerships Manager , Circuit Stream

Nakita Chand

Content Product Manager , Microsoft - Mixed Reality

Description

While enterprise adoption of AR technology is becoming widespread, siloed and proprietary solutions have limited the growth and reach of innovative AR deployments. With its open-platform approach, Magic Leap 2 makes it simple and easy to create and port applications so that you can run your solutions where they run best. In this session, we will cover the exciting new features of Magic Leap 2 and provide practical tips and guidance on how you can easily create and port your solutions to the most advanced AR platform that enables the most immersive AR experiences.

Speakers

Krystian Babilinski

Lead, Software Engineer, Developer , Magic Leap

Description

Learn how to leverage Lightship ARDK to build the real-world metaverse. Understand the full breadth of ARDK capabilities and get an aside look at top ARDK demos.

Speakers

Jameka March

Engineer , Niantic, Inc.

Description

Join us as we talk about what’s next for MRTK. In this talk, we’ll reflect on MRTK v2, identify the themes we are focusing on in MRTK3, and give you a sneak peak of what is to come!

Speakers

Grace Hsu

Product Manager , Microsoft

Description

Building AR apps poses a unique challenge for developers because they must account for dynamic environments and objects. In this session, we’ll show you how a simulation feature coming to Unity’s AR Foundation can help solve those challenges and increase development speed. You’ll also hear from a team of University of Florida developers about how they used Unity to build an XR app that helps reduce vaccine hesitancy by using body-tracking features and simulation.

Speakers

Ines Said

Software Engineer , Digital Worlds Institute, University of Florida

Phil Chacko

Senior Manager, Technical Product Management , Unity Technologies

Austin Stanbury

Founder , Digital Worlds Institute, University of Florida

Ciaran Wills

Manager, Software Engineering , Unity Technologies

Description

Meta’s core hand tracking technology represents a major step forward in bringing natural interaction and input methods to the metaverse. Will and Shannon, Meta Reality Labs product managers, will share more on our latest hand tracking technology offerings and how it works using computer vision and machine learning. Our team will also share our vision for the future of hand tracking for virtual reality and its many applications, particularly in fitness, which we see as a crucial category for the future of VR. We believe that taking advantage of hands-first inputs will allow developers to unlock powerful, more realistic fitness experiences for users. We'll be highlighting current VR developers leveraging our hand tracking tech to create meaningful and intuitive fitness experiences on Meta Quest, while sharing how other developers and customers can do the same.

Speakers

Shannon Hoople

Product Manager , Meta

Will Najar

Product Manager , Meta

Description

Products to support hybrid workplace communication,
collaboration and co-presence are driving the adoption of Extended Reality (XR) and immersive technologies. In this session, Ashley Coffey will share themes from PEAT’s “Inclusive XR in the Workplace” white paper, and share resources from community efforts to make XR and immersive technologies accessible to people with disabilities. Meryl Evans will share her lived experience, perspectives, and practices that can be used to help ensure that immersive collaboration technologies are designed with disability inclusion in mind.

Speakers

Meryl Evans

Accessibility & Marketing Consultant , XR Access

Ashley Coffey

Emerging Technologies Lead, Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT) , PEAT

Description

Laan Labs takes a development approach to compare what is possible with the various mobile phone 3D Reconstruction technologies and pipelines focusing on LiDAR, Photogrammetry, and TrueDepth. The talk discusses use cases for GIS, AEC, Fashion, Body Scanning (Feet, Torso, Hands, etc), Real Estate, Insurance Industry, Film & TV production. The advantages and drawbacks of each technology are compared in each use case. Lastly, the talk will cover integrating High-Precision scanning from devices like Leica, FARO, Trimble, Riegl info mobile phone workflows covering issues like data gaping and time progressive scanning.

Speakers

Jason Laan

Partner , Laan Labs

Description

Join Rigel Benton, Senior UX Designer at 8th Wall and Tony Tomarchio, Director of Technical Operations at 8th Wall, to learn how to make your WebAR experiences more social and rooted in places and things with real-time APIs, image targets, web integrations, common web frameworks and more.

Speakers

Tony Tomarchio

Director of Technical Operations , 8th Wall

Rigel Benton

Senior UX Designer , Niantic, Inc.

Description

With Lightship’s Visual Positioning System (VPS) available in the Lightship ARDK, developers can localize users with centimeter-level accuracy in under three seconds. Learn how you can leverage this technology to build the future of the metaverse and create AR experiences in the real-world.

Speakers

Anvith Ekkati

Sr. Software Engineer , Niantic, Inc.

Ian Rios-Sialer

Software Engineer , Niantic, Inc.

Description

Dive into the architecture of the Snapdragon Spaces Developer platform and, understand how OpenXR fits into the development workflow and get a sense of how to port your own apps to our Snapdragon Spaces Developer platform in this technical session by Steve Lukas, Director of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Speakers

Nanette Martinez

Sr. Manager, Marketing , Qualcomm

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

The OpenXR standard, from the Khronos Group, is a royalty-free open standard that enables application developers to program to a single, common, high-performance API which supports a number of different AR and VR platforms. Containing everything an application needs to drive XR devices in a system, OpenXR helps applications run on a multitude of platforms, allowing hardware manufacturers to gain access to a broader range of pre-existing content. In this session Brent Insko, Lead XR Architect for Intel and OpenXR Working Group Chair will be joined by Lisa Watts, VP Product Marketing & Developer Programs for Magic Leap to discuss the benefit of cross-platform development with OpenXR.

Lisa will present typical myth busters about developing on an OpenXR platform and Brent will share recent industry developments for the open standard, explain how XR developers can integrate OpenXR into their workflows, with updates about expanded augmented reality support that is under development for OpenXR. Together, these two speakers will highlight the role OpenXR plays in getting gaming, entertainment and enterprise XR developers to a common ground. Developers will leave with a fresh understanding of how to leverage OpenXR to create cross-platform XR experiences and expand the open metaverse.

Speakers

Lisa Watts

Co-Founder , Cree8

Brent Insko

Lead XR Architect , Intel

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

The potential of virtual worlds are limitless, but working with VR content has its challenges, especially when it comes to recording or recreating a virtual experience. Unlike the real world, capturing an immersive scene isn’t as easy as taking a video on your phone or hitting the record button on your computer. Learn how NVIDIA VR Capture and Replay enables developers and users to accurately capture and replay VR sessions for performance testing, scene troubleshooting and more. What started as an internal project to allow for VR performance testing across NVIDIA GPUs is now available as an early access SDK.

Speakers

Peter Pang

Senior Product Manager , NVIDIA

Description

Learn how to quickly create real-time cloud-connected 3D/AR/VR apps in a few simple steps. Join to see how you can build apps for the Metaverse for Android, iOs, HoloLens, MagicLeap, Unity, Unreal, and web browsers, all connected to the same cloud. In the session, we will learn how to change 3D content across all platforms simultaneously through the cloud without rebuilding the apps. We will look at why Metaverse developers are looking for new cloud solutions and why 3D-focused cloud infrastructure is needed. Participants are encouraged to either bring their laptops with Unity installed, bring their mobile device, or can follow the live demonstration.

Speakers

Alon Grinshpoon

CEO , echo3D