Agenda

Description

The world's largest tech companies are spending billions to create metaverse platforms based on the real world. These visual maps, nerfed out digital cities and resulting mixed reality interactions will deliver real utility and magic to our daily lives. We'll talk about who's doing what, why and how; efforts to create open realities; identify killer apps, opportunities and obstacles ahead; plus share tips, tools & tricks to build better realities. Session continues in the bar afterwards to debate finer points of if we're living in a simulation.

Speakers

Katherina Ufnarovskaia

CEO , Augmented City

Ali Hantal

CEO , XR Masters

Avi Bar-Zeev

President , XR Guild

DAVE LORENZINI

Chief of Secret Police , Draw & Code

Description

The world's largest tech companies are spending billions to create metaverse platforms based on the real world. These visual maps, nerfed out digital cities and resulting mixed reality interactions will deliver real utility and magic to our daily lives. We'll talk about who's doing what, why and how; efforts to create open realities; identify killer apps, opportunities and obstacles ahead; plus share tips, tools & tricks to build better realities. Session continues in the bar afterwards to debate finer points of if we're living in a simulation.

Speakers

Katherina Ufnarovskaia

CEO , Augmented City

Ali Hantal

CEO , XR Masters

Avi Bar-Zeev

President , XR Guild

DAVE LORENZINI

Chief of Secret Police , Draw & Code

Description

This is a joint presentation by KONE and Tampere University. KONE provides its customers with elevators, escalators and innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance, and is one of the global leaders in its industry. Tampere University is one of the most multidisciplinary universities in Finland.

In this talk we share our experiences and good practices for industry-academia collaboration gathered during a co-creation project for a VR environment. We co-created a collaborative VR environment and tools to support maintenance method development and related technical documentation creation as part of the product development process. The development was done in close industry-academia collaboration using an agile approach. Our talk aims at inspiring other industrial companies and giving insight for XR companies and academic actors.

Speakers

Markku Turunen

Professor , University of Tampere

Viveka Opas

Virtual Reality Specialist , KONE Corporation

Description

This is a joint presentation by KONE and Tampere University. KONE provides its customers with elevators, escalators and innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance, and is one of the global leaders in its industry. Tampere University is one of the most multidisciplinary universities in Finland.

In this talk we share our experiences and good practices for industry-academia collaboration gathered during a co-creation project for a VR environment. We co-created a collaborative VR environment and tools to support maintenance method development and related technical documentation creation as part of the product development process. The development was done in close industry-academia collaboration using an agile approach. Our talk aims at inspiring other industrial companies and giving insight for XR companies and academic actors.

Speakers

Markku Turunen

Professor , University of Tampere

Viveka Opas

Virtual Reality Specialist , KONE Corporation

Description

Table stakes for the "The Metaverse" are to allow each user to be immersed into a virtual world that evolves with them. For too long this has been considered impractical due to the budget implications intrinsic in doing them manually. New advances in AI are shifting the calculus in a major way. In particular, new techniques make it possible to drastically scale up asset creation, improve runtime performance, and, most importantly, create a living world.

Speakers

James Kaplan

CEO & CoFounder , MeetKai, Inc.

Description

Table stakes for the "The Metaverse" are to allow each user to be immersed into a virtual world that evolves with them. For too long this has been considered impractical due to the budget implications intrinsic in doing them manually. New advances in AI are shifting the calculus in a major way. In particular, new techniques make it possible to drastically scale up asset creation, improve runtime performance, and, most importantly, create a living world.

Speakers

James Kaplan

CEO & CoFounder , MeetKai, Inc.

Description

The technology that brought us Deepfakes is permanently reshaping the way we create content of all kinds - from movies and music to apps and websites. The idea of applying algorithms to manipulate or generate media isn't new, but several advances in computer science have brought the technology out of the halls of academia and into the hands of anyone and everyone with a desire to create. In this session, we'll explore how synthetic media and computational design are inspiring all sorts of machine-assisted creativity, how it's changing the overall creative process, and see examples of how this will bring about an explosion of immersive content that will shape the metaverse.

Speakers

Ian Beacraft

CEO & Chief Futurist , Signal and Cipher

Description

The technology that brought us Deepfakes is permanently reshaping the way we create content of all kinds - from movies and music to apps and websites. The idea of applying algorithms to manipulate or generate media isn't new, but several advances in computer science have brought the technology out of the halls of academia and into the hands of anyone and everyone with a desire to create. In this session, we'll explore how synthetic media and computational design are inspiring all sorts of machine-assisted creativity, how it's changing the overall creative process, and see examples of how this will bring about an explosion of immersive content that will shape the metaverse.

Speakers

Ian Beacraft

CEO & Chief Futurist , Signal and Cipher

Description

With the acceleration and convergence of emerging technologies: Metaverse, blockchain, AI, super computers , 5G infrastructure all coming together in an ever faster pace, we are about to experience the age of the superhumans, where technology expands human abilities beyond what we can even imagine today.

Speakers

Alexandra Hussenot

CEO & Founder , Immersionn

Description

With the acceleration and convergence of emerging technologies: Metaverse, blockchain, AI, super computers , 5G infrastructure all coming together in an ever faster pace, we are about to experience the age of the superhumans, where technology expands human abilities beyond what we can even imagine today.

Speakers

Alexandra Hussenot

CEO & Founder , Immersionn

Description

Doug Engelbert expressed the idea of augmenting human intellect, not just for individuals, but as a collaborative experience. We have been working on Croquet, with the goal of creating a foundation that would enable such an augmentation of our ability to create, explore, understand and solve problems collaboratively. We define the augmented conversation as follows:
1 - A discussion within a group of users that is extraordinarily enhanced with the kinds of tools and capabilities that are only available with a computer.
2 - A computer AI is a full participant in this conversation. It allows us to jointly discuss and explore complex systems, data sets, and simulations as naturally and easily as we engage today.
3 - There is a guarantee of shared truth. The simulation I see must be the exact same as what you see. Anything I do to affect the shared simulation must also be accurately shared. If this is not the case, then there is no guarantee that what you see and understand is the same as for me, so you are unable to trust that communication channel.
In the very near future, the virtual objects that will soon populate our world must be as responsive and alive as a physical object. There won't be a physical reality and a virtual or augmented reality. Soon, there will only be a seamless, multi-user reality.

Speakers

David A. Smith

CTO, Founder , Croquet

Description

Doug Engelbert expressed the idea of augmenting human intellect, not just for individuals, but as a collaborative experience. We have been working on Croquet, with the goal of creating a foundation that would enable such an augmentation of our ability to create, explore, understand and solve problems collaboratively. We define the augmented conversation as follows:
1 - A discussion within a group of users that is extraordinarily enhanced with the kinds of tools and capabilities that are only available with a computer.
2 - A computer AI is a full participant in this conversation. It allows us to jointly discuss and explore complex systems, data sets, and simulations as naturally and easily as we engage today.
3 - There is a guarantee of shared truth. The simulation I see must be the exact same as what you see. Anything I do to affect the shared simulation must also be accurately shared. If this is not the case, then there is no guarantee that what you see and understand is the same as for me, so you are unable to trust that communication channel.
In the very near future, the virtual objects that will soon populate our world must be as responsive and alive as a physical object. There won't be a physical reality and a virtual or augmented reality. Soon, there will only be a seamless, multi-user reality.

Speakers

David A. Smith

CTO, Founder , Croquet

Description

UX concepts in XR are the key for inclusive access to physical and digital content, products and services. Marco Richardson and Nina Blömer are discussing the topic Technical Opportunities VS community-based limitations and behaviors.

The duo is showing how to unlock the full power of Web 2.0 with technical aspects of metaverse in the first run, build trust and daily habits – step by step.

They will show how to build bridges to your data, XR is the IO interface with complete different UX concepts and ways, how we interact with digital content in the real word. One important fact is to empower people to make the UX shift.

Speakers

Marco Richardson

Founder and CEO , Inclusify AG

Nina Blömer

Product Manager , Inclusify AG

Description

UX concepts in XR are the key for inclusive access to physical and digital content, products and services. Marco Richardson and Nina Blömer are discussing the topic Technical Opportunities VS community-based limitations and behaviors.

The duo is showing how to unlock the full power of Web 2.0 with technical aspects of metaverse in the first run, build trust and daily habits – step by step.

They will show how to build bridges to your data, XR is the IO interface with complete different UX concepts and ways, how we interact with digital content in the real word. One important fact is to empower people to make the UX shift.

Speakers

Marco Richardson

Founder and CEO , Inclusify AG

Nina Blömer

Product Manager , Inclusify AG

Description

Please join us for Happy Hour from 1800 - 2000 in Pavilion 1. Network while checking out spectacular experiences provided by AWE-some XR companies. Also enjoy a cocktail and some light snacks. Sponsored by META®.

Description

Please join us for Happy Hour from 1800 - 2000 in Pavilion 1. Network while checking out spectacular experiences provided by AWE-some XR companies. Also enjoy a cocktail and some light snacks. Sponsored by META®.

Description

Join us at the FIL Rooftop for the official AWE Afterparty!

Open to all AWE participants with an AWE badge.

Come enjoy drinks and snacks in this gorgeous setting while mingling with friends and colleagues to make memorable, AWE-some connections!

Description

Join us at the FIL Rooftop for the official AWE Afterparty!

Open to all AWE participants with an AWE badge.

Come enjoy drinks and snacks in this gorgeous setting while mingling with friends and colleagues to make memorable, AWE-some connections!