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VRWC17 was fantastic

Continuing the trend from 2016’s event, VR World Congress in 2017 will feature a packed agenda across three full days.

11th April: Registration, VRWC17 EEN Matchmaking Event, afternoon talks, press-only expo pre-show

12th April: Talks, expo, meetings, evening networking event (Invite-only)

13th April: Talks, expo, meetings, after party

VRWC17 will include upwards of 70 speakers, 30 exhibitors and ample opportunity to meet with the brightest minds in virtual reality.

Timed Schedule:

Tuesday 11th April:

9:00+: Registration (Reminder - You must register at Expo first)

9:30 - 16:30: VRWC17 EEN Matchmaking Event

14:00: afternoon talks

19:00 - 23:00: Press & VIP expo pre-show

Wednesday 12th April:

9:00+: Registration (Reminder - You must register at Expo first)

10:00 - 17:40: Talks

9:00 - 17:00: Expo Open

14:00-16:00: VRWC17 EEN Matchmaking Event

19:00 - 23:00: Evening Mixer (Invite-Only)

Thursday 13th April: 

9:00+: Registration (Reminder - You must register at Expo first)

10:00 - 17:20: Talks

9:00 - 17:00: Expo Open

14:00-16:00: VRWC17 EEN Matchmaking Event

19:00+: After Party

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At-Bristol
Watershed - Waterside 3
Watershed - Cinema 1
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April 11th

Watershed - Waterside 3

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14:10
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VR's Out-of-home Opportunity

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

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14:30
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Sport Capture in VR

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Richard Nockles
Surround Vision
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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.

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360 Video Entertainment Film production Marketing VR 101
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14:50
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Democratizing VR adoption by engineering and industrial companies

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Pablo Coca
CTIC Technology Center
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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.

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15:10
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Learning in 3D: making education more real and inclusive

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

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15:30
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WW VR/AR/MR Market review

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Carl Hibbert
Futuresource Consulting
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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.

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15:50
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Making health training a reality, by using virtual reality

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Anna Stoilova
Dual Good Health
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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.

 

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17:10
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Social VR and the next iteration of VR gaming

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

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17:30
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Virtual Reality: The PlayStation® Way

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Josie Wardle
Immersive Technology, Sony
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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.

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17:50
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VR: live holographic streaming

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Agnis Stelingis
Experimental Foundation
Ieva Stelingyte
Experimental Foundation
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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.

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April 12th

At-Bristol

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Will Freeman gets the day off and running!

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10:10
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Lead Keynote: Insights from AMD's Roy Taylor

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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.

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11:10
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Developing with HoloLens: The Path to Mixed Reality

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

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12:10
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Vive and the evolving ecosystem of VR

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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.

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12:45
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14:00
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Streaming VR/AR Content over the web

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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.

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14:20
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Ghost In The Shell VR - A Deep Dive

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Sol Rogers
REWIND
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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.

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14:40
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The importance of touch: Mid-air haptic feedback for VR & AR

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

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15:00
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360° video distribution challenges

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Paul Mowbray
NSC Creative
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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.

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15:20
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Face: the final frontier in VR

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

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15:40
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Virtually Better - VR for health and wellbeing

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Dr Wendy Powell
University of Portsmouth
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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.

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16:00
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VR & physical rehab

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Dr Isabel Van De Keere
Immersive Rehab
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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.

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16:20
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Hacking the Brain: Unlocking the power of NeuroVR

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

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16:40
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How VR in healthcare is also going to transform corporate training

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

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Watershed - Waterside 3

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10:50
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Muki Kulhan
Muki International
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11:00
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Collaborating with brands in VR

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Russell Harding
Conspexit Games Studio Ltd
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 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? 

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11:20
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The immersive media revolution: how VR and AR are changing the advertising paradigm

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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’.

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11:40
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Translating Technology

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

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VR Community VR Innovations VR 101
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12:00
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Using VR to save lives

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

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12:20
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Creating Magic! Blow People's Minds and Expectations Through VR

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Andre Elijah
OPIATS
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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. 

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12:40
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14:00
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A new medium to build better cities

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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.

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14:20
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Using Game Engines to Develop Virtual Reality for Robotics in Challenging Environments

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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.

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14:40
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Crossrail Tunnel in VR using eXperium Toolkit

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Vin Sumner
Clicks & Links
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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.

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15:00
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Investing in VR

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

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15:20
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VR Finance - Startup to Scaleup

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Jon Gill
TLT LLP
Fiona Kilkelly
Knowledge Transfer Network
Anna Mansi
BFI
Philip Tellwright
Business West
Andrew Mulvenna
Accelerated Digital Ventures
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The panel will be discussing where financing options available at the moment, and the trends that investors and the government are keen to explore.

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15:50
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Legal issues to consider when bringing VR products to market

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

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16:20
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VR For Positive Change

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Erfan Saadati
Surround Vision
Amy Pearson
Plan International UK
Jade Williams
Apache
Alex Asen
UNCCD
Mary Matheson
Freelance filmmaker
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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.

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Watershed - Cinema 1

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10:30
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James Parker
Ground Shatter
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10:35
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WebVR meets WebRTC: Towards 360-degree social VR experiences

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

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10:55
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Protein synthesis: From textbook to room-scale in one month

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

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11:15
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Virtual Futures Track: Virtually Be Someone Else and Change Yourself

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Mel Slater
University of Barcelona
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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.

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12:00
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Virtual Futures Track: VR non-fiction - things to come from a historical perspective

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 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.

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12:45
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14:00
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Layers of Immersion: adding senses to 360 film

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Sarah Jones
Perspectives VR / Coventry University
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Sarah examines and reveals how adding different sensory experiences changes the level of immersion an audience feels.

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14:20
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Pokemon Go 2.0: Next gen localisation for AR

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Ed Miller
Scape AR
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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.

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14:40
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Prototype to release in 6 months

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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.

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15:05
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Virtual Futures Track: Perception = Reality: Exploiting Perceptual Illusions for Design of Compelling AR & VR Interfaces

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

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15:50
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Virtual Futures Track: The Ethics of Virtual Reality: Risks and Recommendations

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

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16:35
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The Future of VR Video

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Ian Baverstock
Focal Point VR
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April 13th

At-Bristol

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10:00
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Will Freeman gets the day off and running.

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10:10
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High Art, Low cost: VR in Unity

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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.

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10:40
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VR for everyone: Daydream

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

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11:10
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A Virtual Reality Check

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Scott Fletcher
Play Nicely
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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.

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11:40
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BAFTA VR: Is VR a legitimate new type of entertainment?

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Sol Rogers
REWIND
James Knight
AMD
Mark Burvill
Aardman
Jon Wadelton
The Foundry
Bradley Crooks
BBC Worldwide
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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.

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12:15
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Story-telling in factual 360

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Mitch Turnbull
Bramble Media
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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.

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12:35
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Can VR change opera and ballet?

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

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12:55
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14:00
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Virtual Reality: Taking museum visitors on extraordinary journeys

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

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14:20
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Trying To Connect

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

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14:40
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Creating magical experiences: Behind the scenes with Google Daydream and Warner Bros Fantastic Beasts VR

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

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15:00
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VR Storytelling in 2020: Some Guesses

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Edward Saatchi
Oculus Story Studio
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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. 

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15:40
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Designing for VR/AR

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

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16:00
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Challenges faced in VR: Past, present and future

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Josh Naylor
Unity
Daniel Kihlgren Kallander
SVRVIVE
Sam Watts
Make Real
Michal Wróblewski
Setapp
Katie Goode
Triangular Pixels
Adam Robaszynski-Janiec
House of Fables
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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.

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16:30
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How will VR revolutionise the music industry?

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Steven Hancock
Melody VR
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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.

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16:50
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VR Writers Room

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Tanya Laird
Digital Jam
Resh Sidhu
Framestore
Tom Nelson
Royal Opera House
Rob Yescombe
Freelance
Simon Barratt
Cooperative Innovations Ltd
Kim Majkut
Great Guns
Kevin Williams
KWP
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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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Watershed - Waterside 3

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10:50
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James Parker
Ground Shatter
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11:00
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VR distribution – reaching out to thousands and millions

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Jan Szczycinski
World of VR
Marcin Pleta
World of VR
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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.

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11:20
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Out of the Living Room: Bringing VR to Arcades and Amusement Parks

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Luke Noonan
RUST LTD.
Lucas Miller
RUST LTD.
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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.

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11:40
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How do you put VR into museums?

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Phil Stuart
Preloaded
Dave Patten
Science Museum
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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.

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12:00
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Practical advice for optimising for mobile VR

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

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12:20
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360 Docs: Bringing Domestic Abuse into the light

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

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12:55
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14:20
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Narrative 360 video - Rigging for 360 video

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

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14:40
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Three years in VR

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

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15:00
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VR & accessibility

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

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15:20
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15:50
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Survival Tips for VR Studios and Developers in 2017

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Jonathan Wagstaff
CONTEXT
Jason Lovell
Captivate VR
Liz Biggs
Alchemy VR
James Valls
Rebellion
Jon Hibbins
Psytec Games
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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.

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16:20
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Reaching out: the importance of touch in VR

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Rowland Manthorpe
WIRED
Tom Carter
Ultrahaptics
Alastair Barrow
Generic Robotics
Thomas Gere
The Realities Centre
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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.

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Watershed - Cinema 1

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11:00
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Muki Kulhan
Muki International
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11:10
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Immersive Audio: The Invisible Advantage in VR

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Dave Black
Mixed Immersion
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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.

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11:30
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Women in VR

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Samantha Kingston
Virtual Umbrella
Catherine Allen
BBC
Emily Smith
Alchemy VR
Kim Majkut
Great Guns
Alyssia Frankland
Breaking Fourth
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Samantha Kingston and her panel look at diversity in VR and the challenges that lay ahead.

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12:00
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Practical tips for managing a VR production TALK CANCELLED

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Ben Curtis
Freelance
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CANCELLED The talk will cover various practicalities, tips, information sources and techniques developed from my experience or adapted from traditional producering

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Development Film production
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12:20
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Lunch Break

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Lunch Break

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14:00
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WebVR: jumpstarting the industry from the ground up

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

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Development VR Community VR Innovations
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14:20
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WebVR

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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.

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Development Panels VR Community VR Innovations
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15:00
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Making the most of VR Audio

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Thomas Bible
Submersion Audio
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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.

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360 Video Development Entertainment Film production Music and Audio VR Innovations
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15:40
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Do you hear what I hear? The impact of sound on VR

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

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Music and Audio
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16:00
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Building for VR First: Design Thinking and Interactive Environment Design

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Doug North-Cook
DecoderVR & Chatham University
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In his talk, Doug will explore how to design human interactions and experiences that exist in virtual spaces that transcend human capacity. 

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Development VR Innovations VR 101
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Watershed - Waterside 1

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11:00
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Design Thinking Workshop

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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.

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Art and Design
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15:30
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Workshop : AFrame, from an empty page to a public WebVR experience in minutes

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Fabien Benetou
Freelance
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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.

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Art and Design VR Community
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