Intro

Kevin will be speaking on the possibilities for VR to grow outside of the home.

As VR capture in sport moves into the game engine Richard will showcase their recent work with Anthony Joshua, Formula 1 and the Premier League.

Pablo's talk will be based on CTIC's conversor called RealCAD. They have used this technology in several industrial and engineering applications that will be presented in the talk as real use-cases.

Maria will be speaking on the design of virtual learning experiences and the Affordances of Immersive 3D Virtual World Environments for Education and Training.

Drawing on Futuresource’s ongoing industry and consumer research, Carl aims to draw rational, balanced and realistic conclusions of what to expect this year and beyond in VR. Discussing trends across the hardware ecosystem and assessing the challenges and opportunities of monetisation models.

How do we engage medical professionals in virtual reality? Anna will be talking about her experience creating a medical app for CPR training using a physical mannequin in combination with VR and all the challenges she faced - from doing a prototype in 24h to finding a user base for the product.

Hear about how Cooperative Innovation’s online co-op RPG ‘Raiders of Erda’ came about and the technical and gameplay innovations behind it!

Josie Wardle describes her journey of working across multiple aspects of PlayStation®VR, from its inception to present day. Her talk will include insights into the innovative elements of VR gaming and how these may translate into the next chapter of future-facing VR games and experiences.

Ieva, together with Agnis who will join the conference from Lithuania via live holographic stream, will demonstrate that today it is possible to bring live 3D events into VR/AR. Showcasing and discussing the future of real time holographic streaming.

Will Freeman gets the day off and running!

Roy will share insights on the role technology is playing in the fast-growing world of virtual reality, and some of the latest developments in content and technologies that are propelling VR forward.

This session provides a developer’s overview of the HoloLens and holographic app development in Unity and C#.

Vive has been available for over a year but in this rapidly changing world the VR landscape doesn’t stop moving. Looking at what we’ve learnt and more importantly the directions for the future of VR the talk will give an insight into the world of Vive and the wider VR ecosystem.

Lunch Break

This talk will focus on the web as an emerging platform for VR/AR content and how new compression technologies are making 360 audio and geometry possible to any device with a browser and an internet connection.

Sol Rogers, REWIND's CEO & Founder gives a behind the scenes insight into the studio's latest project - a real-time virtual reality experience for the release of ‘Ghost in the Shell’. The project is a partnership between HERE BE DRAGONS, REWIND, Paramount, Dreamworks, and Oculus. Built from the ground up with Unreal Engine 4 and Unity game engines, the experience brings the audience inside the sci-fi classic.

Tom will be discussing how Ultrahaptics' incredible haptics technology provides this new level of immersion.

Paul Mowbray from NSC Creative explores the challenges of producing the world's first cross-platform dome and 360° VR science film, We Are Stars, and lessons learned so far.

Charles will be speaking on how virtual reality offers extraordinary opportunities for researchers and healthcare practitioners.

In her talk, Wendy will be providing an overview of the areas in which VR is already being used (or has the potential to be used) for improving health.

Through VR, Immersive Rehab offers effective physical rehabilitation that keeps those with limited mobility engaged with their physical rehabilitation programme. Isabel will be discussing Immersive Rehab’s work and findings in her talk.

Exploring recent findings on the treatment of phobias, PTSD and mental health issues using VR, and theories around the virtual-physical illusion of presence.

Lucy, along with Chiropractor Matt Flanagan, will be speaking on the ‘Virtual Spine’ that Blueprint Partners built for chiropractors Back to Health.

Intro

 What does creating VR for a brand entails? What is the purpose of it? How can we help clients? How can we all ensure we deliver an authentic experience for users? 

In this talk, backed by behavioural experiments, entrepreneur Samuel Huber argues that immersive technologies such as VR and AR are the biggest media revolution since television and will reshape the way brands tell their stories while minimising ‘ad blindness’.

Trina's talk will discuss the importance of translating increasingly complex technical concepts into easily digestible messages.

Dave’s talk will be exploring VR used for training and the impact this is having, based around Holovis’s proprietary LearnView platform.

Andre will speak on taking the pillars of VR and 360 degree design and turning them into engaging projects that immerse and delight users while leaving lasting impressions. 

Lunch Break 

Gunita’s talk will elaborate on VR beyond just a visualisation/marketing/sales platform, rather as new medium for design processes and creativity integrated communication within scales and stages.

This talk will explore how existing video-games technology can be leveraged to build low-cost, 3D synthetic viewing for remote robotics and autonomous systems.

Vin will be discussing C+L designed virtual reality toolkit that allows engineers to visit a virtual version of a Crossrail tunnel using data CAD, laser scans and drone photogrammetry.

Mike will be providing an insightful and useful talk focus on the opportunities out there for virtual reality investment.

The panel will be discussing where financing options available at the moment, and the trends that investors and the government are keen to explore.

Lisa will talk through some of the legal issues that can arise during the lifecycle of a VR product.

An informal panel with VR creators, directors and charity professionals discussing the subject of how VR/360 can be used to drive change in perception or increase charitable giving amongst government or the general public.

Intro

Martin will present TNO's ongoing efforts and experiences towards social and shared VR with their modular web based VR framework.

Come learn how Håvard believes science education can benefit from interactive teaching in VR.

Mel will introduce the topic of virtual body ownership, and discuss examples of how this has been used both for personal enhancement and for changing attitudes and behaviours.

 This talk will draw from history in order to chart forgotten lessons, tease out long term continuities, and map sites of difference as we continue our elusive pursuit of redefining reality.

Lunch Break 

Sarah examines and reveals how adding different sensory experiences changes the level of immersion an audience feels.

Ed will walk through a new tool for creating city-scale AR content, allowing developers and creatives to truly bring the virtual world to life.

A retrospective on development struggles and learnings from developing and releasing a VR game in under 6 months, including how, why, and what did and didn't work.

Hrvoje will showcase how recent advances in sensing and display technologies make it possible to manipulate user’s perception in surprising ways.

Michael will use important scientific results to analyse the psychological effects of VR, identifying possible risks and providing recommendations for minimising those risks.

Will Freeman gets the day off and running.

This talk begins with an overview of the rendering pipeline in Unity, which will help you understand where you can make optimisations. You'll get simple recipes and other tips and tricks for AAA content rendering on mobile VR, like how to bake high-resolution cubemaps and content directly in Unity.

Iganicio will be speaking on Google’s Daydream platform, an excellent talk for all levels of VR interest and knowledge.

An exploration into how and why Bristol has become a world authority in VR through its unique combination of adopted production models, geo-political landscape and immense tech-creative groundswell. Particular attention will be paid to the role of the BBC in Bristol, with VR releases like Oogi setting a creative, technical and collaborative standard for others to follow.

This panel of BAFTA VR Advisory Group Executives and leaders in the VR industry will discuss whether VR is just an add-on to the TV, film and games industries; or a stand-alone medium, deserving of its own ecosystem, rules and regulations.

Mitch Turnbull will talk about how she tackled building narrative when she produced and directed factual 360/VR experiences for the UN and BBC Earth.

Tom Nelson will detail how VR can bring together the old and the new and build audiences for opera and ballet.

Lunch Break

Emily and Alchemy’s latest partner Science Museum London will discuss how they collaborated to produce Space Descent VR with Tim Peake.

Aardman will be dissecting their projects to look at how emotional connections between audience and story are established in VR.

Resh shares the lessons learned creating the Fantastic Beasts virtual reality experience.

Join Edward Saatchi, cofounder and Executive Producer of Oculus Story Studio for a series of guesses and predictions about where VR storytelling might be by 2020. 

The talk will cover the technical and design limitations of VR and AR and how to overcome those challenges.

We’re seeing many success stories emerge from companies starting or transitioning to the world of Virtual Reality. Many of these companies have had some hardships that they’ve overcome over the past few years and there’s always more challenges to come. Hear from 5 successful companies from across Europe and how they solved problems they faced and what issues the envisage in the future.

An analysis of how VR technology from MelodyVR will change the music and live events industry by making gigs, festivals and concerts easily accessible from anywhere in the world.

The panel will discuss the future of narrative design and creative storytelling for Immersive Entertainment formats, aimed to provide different viewpoints and outside expertise. Original VR Writers Room.

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Jan and Marcin will present challenges in managing multicast shows & solutions used by event agencies, VR cinemas, fairs, schools and more.

This talk is a distillation of Luke and Lucas’ experience designing VR experiences for both consumer and out-of-home contexts as well as the work they have done porting projects between the two.

This talk will explore the challenges of designing VR for a physical space (in this case a museum) and present data and lessons learned from the first 3 months of audience testing.

In his talk, Lukas will give practical advice gained from personal experiences, detailing tips and tricks for optimising for Mobile VR.

Sam will be speaking on this unique topic of domestic abuse & 360 films, helping to bring the issue into the limelight.

Lunch Break 

Drew will be describing his work for the New York Times and How to Rig 360 video.

Tom’s talk will discuss Coatsink’s discoveries, successes and failures over three years of developing games, experiences and tools for VR.

A look at VR-specific barriers for people with impaired vision, hearing, cognitive and motor ability, and how to overcome them through design.

Break

This panel will look at the hurdles needing to be overcome in the year ahead for creative studios working in the VR space. Led by an industry-leading analyst and featuring a highly-experienced team of successful VR professionals, the discussion is poised to produce a veritable wealth of useful advice.

This panel will explore the part haptics must play in the future of truly immersive, interactive experiences. From tactile experiences to kinesthesis, the panel will explore the information that the sense of touch can give the user, what current technologies can simulate this information, and how they see haptics being brought to virtual worlds in the future.

Intro

Dave's talk covers all aspects for VR Audio Production and centres on multiple techniques which have been used within the film industry for the past 7 years and how these seamlessly merge into virtual worlds.

Samantha Kingston and her panel look at diversity in VR and the challenges that lay ahead.

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Lunch Break

Amir will be speaking on how WebVR's role in jumpstarting the VR industry is paramount during the hype cycle stage.

Join a mixed panel of industry veterans who are placing their bets on WebVR and learn why it will play a key role in jumpstarting the industry.

Tom will be talking about some of the best ways to work with audio in VR, including some best practices and pitfalls of different approaches.

In this session, leading sound designer Steve Lane (GCRS) will talk about the importance of Sound Design in creating truly immersive VR experiences.

In his talk, Doug will explore how to design human interactions and experiences that exist in virtual spaces that transcend human capacity. 

At IBM, we’re on a mission to bring human-centered design to our thousands of product and service experiences. During this fast-paced workshop, Sheelagh will introduce you to IBM Design’s approach to design thinking. You’ll engage in a Virtual Reality Design Thinking Challenge where you will be guided through the process of developing ideas using proven problem solving skills.

During this 90min workshop we will walk through all the key steps of making an AFrame experience. From defining a scene, adding primitives and assets, adjusting their position with the inspector to publishing it online as WebVR content. Finally we will test on whatever device we have available.