Agenda

Description

Where are we in the course of spatial computing’s lifecycle? Where are AR and VR having an impact today… and where aren’t they? What's the fate of Apple's market entrance? And will Meta's big metaverse bet pay off? We’ll tackle these and other burning questions with a multidisciplinary panel of industry thought leaders, innovators, and heavy hitters.

Speakers

Catherine D. Henry

SVP Growth, Metaverse & Innovation Strategy , Media.Monks

Ted Schilowitz

Futurist , Paramount

Mike Boland

Chief Analyst , ARtillery Intelligence

Charlie Fink

Consultant, Columnist, Author, Adjunct , Forbes

Alvin Graylin

Global VP of Corporate Development , HTC

Description

Guests Benny Arbel along with Helen Freeman will cover how education is the only area of our lives that the digital revolution has not significantly improved. The experience gap between children's education and consumer life is massive and still growing. How Inception along with leading educational publishers like Oxford University Press is overcoming those barriers. Why XR is a key to ushering in the long-awaited digitization of children's education.

Speakers

Benny Arbel

Founder and CEO , InceptionXR

Helen Freeman

Director of Oxford Children's Books , Oxford University Press Inc

Description

As designers and developers build AR and VR hardware, applications and content, how can they make sure they are inclusively designed so that everyone - including those who identify as people with disabilities - can access, enjoy and benefit from them? How can AR and VR designers and developers leverage inclusive design and development practices to consider many aspects of human diversity such as ability, language, culture, gender, and age? What are some of the broader benefits of designing more accessible AR and VR such as broader usability for people with temporary impairments or people in different environments and use cases. In this session, panelists will explore these and other topics related to XR Accessibility as well as share a variety of practical community XR accessibility design and development resources.

Speakers

Pia Zaragoza

UX Mentor at Springboard and White House Presidential Innovation Fellow , Springboard

Bill Curtis-Davidson

Co-Director, Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT) , PEAT

Dylan Fox

Head of Community and Outreach , XR Access

Stephanie Montgomery

Senior VP of Research and Best Practices , XR Association

Nirav Desai

CEO , Moonbeam

Description

The annual Auggie Awards have been the most recognized industry AR & VR awards show in the world since 2010. Now in its 13th year, the Auggies continue to showcase the best of the best in augmented and virtual reality. Winners will be presented with a prestigious Auggie Award live on stage.

Speakers

Ori Inbar

Co-Founder , AWE and Super Ventures

Description

Shopping in the virtual world is still in its early days. Virtual showrooms and Virtual product experiences on the other hand have gradually evolved to a level where consumers can get a realistic shopping experience, even on the Web. Metadome.ai is building a unique Metaverse experience where Auto and Retail brands can host their products and create immersive shopping journeys for their customers. Our experiences empower users to create virtual avatars and have the maximum degree of freedom to interact, configure and play with the virtual world via virtual test drive and other gamification modules. A seamless user journey, with highly optimised load times and programmatic compression, helps us to load 3D content as fast as 2D content, across all platforms and devices.

Come experience with us, as we bring the real world aspects into the Metaverse, overcoming the slips of a disconnected digital journey, and transforming the marketing and sales funnel by pushing the boundaries to make the virtual world more reliable, relatable, and realistic.

Speakers

Kanav Singla

Founder & CEO , Metadome

Description

Join HP Extended Reality experts as they discuss the current state and challenges facing VR business deployments. You’ll come away with an exciting new timely software solution ExtendXR that addresses the urgent market need for end-to-end mid to large organization XR deployment and management.

Talking Points:

· Showcase positive impacts that demonstrate the VR at the commercial tipping point

· How VR sets the stage for end-to-end XR solutions

· Highlight more immediate challenges and struggles

· Solutions that address these challenges for a more comprehensive commercial XR approach

Speakers

Scott Rawlings

XR Commercial Solutions Senior Product Manager , HP