Architect turned XR-chitect, Alex has been creating theater (and theaters!) for over a decade. A consummate adopter of emerging tech, in 2013 he brought VR to Fisher Dachs Associates to design venues around the world. This led to helping venues previz live shows with VR and AR. In 2016 Agile Lens opened as an XR creative studio. Building for clients from architects and storytellers to Intel and Samsung, in 2018 they kicked off a study of effective live VR performance. The results of these studies led to collaborations on several pieces, including the Venice Biennale’s first live VR show viewable around the world, Loveseat, as well as the ongoing live VR theater festival, OnBoardXR. Alex's newest venture, Heavenue, is a platform to immerse audiences interactively in high-fidelity live performances through cloud computing. The first production was a new take on Christmas Carol with Actors Theatre of Louisville in December 2021.The next show show will be a reinterpretation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, opening May 31. Learn more at https://www.theorchardoffbroadway.com/
03:25 PM - 03:50 PM
Alex Coulombe | Heavenue / Agile Lens
03:40 PM - 05:10 PM
Chaitanya Ravi | SentioVR
Amber Hawkes | Here LA
Ariella Lehrer | Legacy Games
Quentin Turner | Intrinsic XR
Pearly Chen | HTC Vive
Giovanni Fantoni Modena Fantoni Fantoni | Vitruvian
Dominique Wu | XReality Pro
Tipatat Chennavasin | The Venture Reality Fund
Dave Haynes | FOV Ventures
Kristina Serafim | Verizon Ventures
Ofer Baharav | Villa
David A. Smith | Croquet
Alex Coulombe | Heavenue / Agile Lens
Sherry Chang | Neural Lab