Agenda

Description

Using VR in training and simulation is now more than a stopgap during the pandemic or a fad in the hype of the metaverse. Visionary Training Resources (VTR) and Tobii will share their experience of how VR and eye-tracking technologies convince major airlines to adopt this efficient and cost-effective pilot training approach. With Tobii eye tracking and scalable equipment of VR headsets, training and simulation are empowered by data insights for validation and evaluation. This will meet the needs of more strict and critical training and lead to a truly informed and adaptive approach. Other industries can also learn from this case and get their first movers' advantage.

Speakers

Rick Parker

CTO , Visionary Training Resources

Johan Bouvin

Senior Director of Sales and Business Development , Tobii

Description

The Metaversities Project is a groundbreaking initiative to bring college campuses and classes into Virtual Reality. Spearheaded by VictoryXR and Morehouse College, which began offering courses in VR in 2021, the Metaversity Project has expanded to include 10 institutions of higher learning in 2022.

A Metaversity is a digital twin of a college campus where students can gather from any physical location as avatars to attend classes conducted by their professors in real time. Each offers a virtual replica of the campus that provides a sense of belonging and connection with the school. But each campus also opens up into worlds of possibility, classrooms that may be nothing like those in the real world but instead might be oceans, planets, cellular organisms, or fictional locations.

At a Metaversity, students can conduct chemistry experiments without danger, perform dissections repeatedly to gain a deeper understanding of anatomy, and experience historical events in a visceral way.

A Metaversity brings all the promises and affordances of virtual reality to actual higher education courses. Education in the metaverse is here, now.

This panel will delve into what a Metaversity is, how it works, outcomes and success stories, and the implications of this pioneering model for the future of higher education.

Speakers

Steve Grubbs

CEO , VictoryXR

Muhsinah Morris

Metaversity Director and Professor , Morehouse College

Cerilenne Menendez Mendoza

XR Lead , T-Mobile

Monica Arés

Founder , Th3 Third Door

Karen Alexander

Immersive Learning Consultant , MetaVRse

Description

There are over 300 companies worldwide building VR training content and thousands of companies with
VR headsets, including over half of the Fortune 500. Immerse saw this as an opportunity to connect
creators and enterprise organizations looking to take advantage of the unique benefits of immersive
training. Allowing enterprises fast and easy access to all forms of content – from off the shelf to custom,
the Immerse Marketplace allows companies to quickly and cost-effectively offer immersive content to
their workforce, maximizing their VR investments and content providers benefit from new revenue streams.

The current VR landscape doesn’t make it easy – and we’ll look at the challenges and road ahead. But
this could be the key to unlocking a low cost, high impact VR vault that enterprise has long been looking
for.

Speakers

John Fecci

Partnerships Director , Immerse.io

Description

How to make remote collaboration and self-solve AR experiences accessible in Customer Support and Field Service scenarios, along with the importance of seamless integration into your organization’s existing service management platforms, such as ServiceNow, to drive scale, reduce technical sprawl, and increase value via post event visibility, audits, and AI insights to deliver improved business outcomes.

Speakers

Lance Anderson

VP Industrial Solutions , CareAR - A Xerox Company

Description

Businesses have boarded the XR bandwagon in the areas of marketing/user experience as well as employee onboarding and training, largely using asynchronous simulations or immersive experiences. Early XR adoption in university courses seems to be either from a technical skill building perspective or from an angle of exploring the possibilities of immersive technologies.

Synchronous learning in VR is largely overlooked at present, yet has many untouted benefits such as the ability to recreate the magic of community, shared knowledge, and belonging, which in-person training and education offered learners for decades. Learning in VR synchronously can be a meaningful way of enhancing immersive technology adoption in academia and industry.

This panel will discuss the various dimensions of integrating VR as the post-Zoom frontier in education and corporate training.

Speakers

Melissa Torres

Customer Success Manager , VR/AR Association

Renu Ramakrishnan

Head of Learning Experiences & Client Services , Edstutia

Daniel Sisson

CEO , Spatial Ape

Yogini Joglekar

Founding Faculty , Edstutia

Description

Electrocuted, shot with a nail gun, falling off buildings, Joe has found numerous ways to kill or seriously injure users SAFELY! Joe Millward shares the work he has developed in virtual and augmented reality to train users in areas from construction to hospitality to childcare. Learn how he evaluates industry processes to determine which would be most effective to deliver in an immersive environment. Discover the best immersive production practices to ensure that quality and training effectiveness is maintained. Joe will also share his thoughts on the growth and maturation of immersive technology and how this will impact the future of learning and training. Takeaways from this session include how to evaluate, develop and implement effective immersive training which delivers measurable outcomes.

Speakers

Joe Millward

Innovation Manager , *

Description

The hiring race for top XR talent reached a pivotal turning point. Tech giants are all hiring thousands of top talent at unprecedented salaries and benefits. "Metaverse" Job listings increased 10x compared to last year. Competing for tech talent is not just an HR challenge anymore. It is a matter of survival when the XR tech capabilities of companies are at stake.

Topics to be discussed:
• Challenges of recruiting experienced and diverse XR dev teams
• Key XR tech skills and tools to look out for
• Building a strategic XR talent pipeline
• How to formulate benefits packages and salary levels to retain talent?
• How to hire game dev/designer into enterprise roles?
• What’s the secret sauce behind building strong XR teams?

Speakers

Kavya Pearlman

Founder & CEO , XR Safety Initiative

Ferhan Ozkan

CEO , XR Bootcamp

Brandon Samuel

Public Policy Recruiting Manager , Meta

Description

A wonderfully exciting opportunity is upon us to utilize the tools of virtual reality to change the current educational paradigm. Daniel and Angelina will be asking each other questions regarding the critical considerations of mass adoption of virtual reality within teaching and learning.
Dr Angelina Dayton, senior Virtual Reality Research Scientist at Virtual World Society has put over 30,000 first time users into a headset. Daniel Dyboski-Bryant' organisation - Educators in VR - has delivered over 3,000 virtual workshops, talks and sessions.

Speakers

Angelina Dayton

Executive Director , Virtual World Society

Daniel Dyboski-Bryant

Founder , Virtual World Society

Description

The rise of the metaverse has ushered in a new age of digital work and with it have come challenges and opportunities. In this session we will explore how XR technologies are merging our physical and digital worlds and the impact this new reality is having on training, collaboration, and co-presence. We will also explore the differences between AR and VR and take a look at some of the newest wearable AR solutions and use cases under development.

Speakers

Lisa Watts

CEO , OneTwenty1

Description

Join HP for an overview of XR solutions and the best ways to enhance Collaboration, Training, and Education. With groundbreaking technology and manageability tools, is powering the most desirable immersive XR ecosystem that naturally empowers all people to better themselves.

Speakers

Matt Gaiser

Head of VR Business Development , HP

Description

Western Science has a lot to learn from Indigenous Science, it’s a co-evolution of HCI (Human Computer Interaction) knowledge that is so key, right now. We are in the tools building decade. For the past several years LINK (Living Indigenous Network of Knowledge) has been at the forefront building XR tools for global Indigenous communities to create their own stories. At the same time AXRI has been building tools and understanding for neurodivergent communities to participate in virtual worlds/building. At the very core, it's about embedding and/or infusing Indigenous and Neurodivergent values and essence into any object oriented design processes. It's integrated thinking and individualized storytelling at a time where we haven’t yet finished the “proverbial" book on Universal Access & Design. This realtime conversation of what is happening in Russia/Ukraine applies. The LINK of tribal networks can use XR to cross borders and boundaries to help tell stories and be translators when physical access is shut down.

Speakers

Kathleen Cohen

Tech Humanist, XR Strategist , The Collaboratorium

Jon Waterhouse

Research Scientist , University of Idaho

John Anderson

Professor , University of Idaho

Julio Gonzalez

Project Developer , AXR Institute

Description

With augmented reality, teachers are able to stimulate their students' sense of sight, hearing and touch, heightening the level of engagement and motivation the students have for learning. Sara Smith, CEO and Cofounder of MARVL, and Murewa Olubela, CBO and Cofounder of MARVL, will share insights on how using immersive technologies, in particular AR, leads to increased interactive experiences with coursework, collaboration between students, improved motivation, and increased learning gains for students, and why it would benefit the XR industry to create solutions that enable equity in education.

Speakers

Sara Smith

CEO , MARVL

Murewa Olubela

Cofounder and Chief Building Officer , MARVL

Description

Companies are often intimidated by implementing VR Training due to the challenges of scaling it. Join PIXO and its panel to discuss how enterprises have overcome these challenges, including:

• Getting buy-in from IT and other stakeholders
• Compliance and security
• Hardware acquisition
• Unique use cases
• How to blend VR with traditional training methods
• LMS Integration
• Identifying relevant content and deploying it remotely
• Cost/ROI

Speakers

Marc McConathy

Learning & Development, Digital Learning , Chick-fil-A

Sean Hurwitz

CEO, Founder , PIXO VR, Corp

Rich Beaudrie

Learning & Development, Digital Learning , Chick-fil-A

Brad Waid

Content Portfolio Director , PIXO VR, Corp

Description

The social unrest and increase in crime the past few years -- exacerbated by the pandemic -- has led to renewed concerns for safety. In this session, we explore how VR is actively being used to improve public safety training for optimal outcomes. From increasing access to training, to learning situational awareness around mental illness, to improving decision-making under stress, Axon is pioneering VR with a mission-based purpose: to protect lives and make our communities safer.

Speakers

Chris Chin

VP , Axon