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Products to support hybrid workplace communication,
collaboration and co-presence are driving the adoption of Extended Reality (XR) and immersive technologies. In this session, Ashley Coffey will share themes from PEAT’s “Inclusive XR in the Workplace” white paper, and share resources from community efforts to make XR and immersive technologies accessible to people with disabilities. Meryl Evans will share her lived experience, perspectives, and practices that can be used to help ensure that immersive collaboration technologies are designed with disability inclusion in mind.

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Ashley Coffey

Emerging Technologies Lead, Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT) , PEAT

Meryl Evans

Accessibility & Marketing Consultant , XR Access

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Please join us for Happy Hour from 5:30 – 6:45pm inside the Hall D - Playground, connected to the Expo Hall.

Come network and enjoy the spectacular experiences provided by some AWE-some XR companies. Enjoy a cocktail and some light snacks too.

Sponsored by Varjo.

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Outlets located throughout the Convention Center & Hyatt. Food available for purchase.

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Outlets located throughout the Convention Center & the Hyatt. Food available for purchase. Credit card sales only.

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Please join us for the Welcome Party from 6:00 – 8:00pm at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Terra Courtyard (poolside), located just outside of the Hyatt Regency hotel lobby.

Wind down after a busy first day and enjoy a 'Zappar-ol Spritz' and light snacks.

Sponsored by Zappar.

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Join us as startups pitch to our panel of judges for a chance to be named AWE's "Startup to Watch" for 2022. The winner will be announced at the Auggie Awards ceremony.

Judges for the Start-Up Pitch competition are Dave Haynes, Tipatat Chennavasin, Pearly Chen, and Kristina Serafim.

Speakers

Jenny Xu

CEO , Talofa Games

Dan Furman

CEO , Arctop

Timothy Porter

CTO , Mod Tech Labs Inc.

Pearly Chen

VP Business Dev. , HTC Vive

Alex Porter

CEO , Mod Tech Labs Inc.

Alex Westner

Founder / CEO , Xander

Kristina Serafim

Managing Director , Verizon Ventures

Yolanda Barton

Founder , Revere XR

Dave Haynes

Partner , FOV Ventures

Jonathan Nowak Delgado

CEO and Co-Founder , Spree Interactive

Aldo Petruzzelli

CEO/Co-founder , Aequilibrium

Noah Robinson

Founder & CEO , Innerworld

Tipatat Chennavasin

General Partner , The Venture Reality Fund

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Miniaturization is the trend to manufacture even smaller mechanical, optical and electronic products, medical devices, and other high-value parts. This trend continues to be strong, with year-over-year growth in many markets. One of the limiting factors to miniaturization is the inability of traditional manufacturing methods like injection molding and CNC machining to effectively and economically produce smaller and smaller parts.

Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3D Printing has been around now for over 30 years. For a long time, there were only a few technologies available and applications were generally limited to prototyping. Past advances in AM have come short in meeting the needs of small parts, printing them at a resolution, accuracy, precision and speed that made them a viable option for end-use production parts. That has all changed. Additive Manufacturing and Miniaturization are now converging – in a very meaningful and impactful way.

The growth in the AR/VR market and pace of innovation is opening up applications that were not even imagined a decade ago. With this comes challenges for manufacturing to scale at the same pace. Many leading AR/VR technology companies have started using micro 3D printing as a method for producing various micro-precision components as an alternative to traditional fabrication methods – finding huge time and cost savings.

Learn how micro-precision 3D printing enables companies in this competitive space to address development challenges limited by current microfabrication methods, but also allows companies to explore the potential of pushing the limits on miniaturization by expanding the boundaries otherwise thought impossible with 3D printing.

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Jason Bassi

Director of Sales, the Americas , Boston Micro Fabrication

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With a proven 20-plus year track record in providing clinical-grade ‘near-ground truth’ 3D surface imaging systems to children’s (and teaching) hospitals and research institutions worldwide, 3dMD is now providing the same ‘near-ground truth,’ high-throughput, dynamic-4D capture systems to its tech sector customers to compete in the race to build and shape the metaverse. Dynamic anatomical-3D precision is mandatory for medical applications. It is equally key in creating and sustaining a lifelike, comprehending, and comfortable metaverse experience. This presentation will focus on how 3dMD provides an efficient image capture workflow tool for XR/VR/AR, Computer Vision, AI, Machine Learning, and Human Factors teams to personalize natural human actions, behaviors, gestures, nuances, etc. into digital media interpretation input that will persistently populate, train, and wear the metaverse.

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Chris Lane

Co-Founder, CEO, & Chief Technology Officer , 3dMD

Kelly Duncan

Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer , 3dMD

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Laan Labs takes a development approach to compare what is possible with the various mobile phone 3D Reconstruction technologies and pipelines focusing on LiDAR, Photogrammetry, and TrueDepth. The talk discusses use cases for GIS, AEC, Fashion, Body Scanning (Feet, Torso, Hands, etc), Real Estate, Insurance Industry, Film & TV production. The advantages and drawbacks of each technology are compared in each use case. Lastly, the talk will cover integrating High-Precision scanning from devices like Leica, FARO, Trimble, Riegl info mobile phone workflows covering issues like data gaping and time progressive scanning.

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Jason Laan

Partner , Laan Labs

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Where does the Great Resignation leave more than 2 billion frontline workers? Thanks to recent advancements in assisted reality, the frontline workforce will be able to get real-time contextual data in the right place and time and be a part of the industrial metaverse. Digital transformation and XR will connect them to their machines and teams in ways they never thought possible. In so doing, they will be seen as an essential part of the Digital Factory, elevated with new skills to navigate exciting new environments -- including AI and IoT. Hear from RealWear what the future holds using an industrial strength HMD, such as RealWear NavigatorTM 500 solution. Learn how macro trends including AI, IoT and Cloud have converged to create the modern frontline industrial worker. RealWear’s chief product officer will share new emerging use cases that will continue to accelerate the next industrial revolution.

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Rama Oruganti

Chief Product Officer , RealWear

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18Loop and the American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) have conducted a Joint Experimental Intervention Research Study (JEIRS) to measure the efficacy of VR on children with pediatric cancer. This session will report on the findings and recommendations as well as a presentation on the benefits of Virtual Stress Management, the gamification of meditation and collaboration to the larger issues of mood and pain management.

VR is truly a family intervention and data suggests that the experience strengthens family bonds (especially when related to families coping with illness). Attendees will learn three types of VR approaches in pediatric oncology, what our results look like and what the industry needs to do moving forward regarding standards and hardware to support the Virtual Pharmacy.

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Gregory Tarnacki

CEO / Founder , 18Loop

Heather Bucalos

RN/Consultant , 18Loop

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Glimpse the future of "Simulation Metaverse ". Siemens Technology (Siemens central R&D department) develops a prototype to enable the real time collaboration of multiple experts during the post-processing stage and improve the knowledge flow among the different disciplines from CAD designers, to simulation and testing experts by bringing all the project relevant data (simulations, experimental data, reports etc) in one common environment , where all the team members can access and meet virtually in order to exchange or retrieve information . This prototype comes with cross-platform capabilities (PC, VR, Tablet, AR) to allow people to enter the session independently from the end device. Moreover, with the implementation of modern and novel UI leveraging techniques from the gaming industry we lower the entry barriers from novice users. During this session we will provide some key insights of our developments, the faced challenges and how we tackled them as well as we will give for the first time a demonstration of our first prototype using two different use cases from the industrial field.

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Theodoros Papadopoulos

Business Developer , Siemens AG

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There is a lot to be excited about Magic Leap 2. ML2 has industry-leading optics for best-in-class image quality. A 70° field of view delivers an expansive digital workspace. While pioneering dynamic dimming capabilities boost the solidity of digital content in bright environments. Enterprise-ready, light as a pair of headphones, and ergonomically designed to support modern Manufacturing, Health, Defense, and more.

During this talk, dive into the "WildFire" demo with Ash Shah– our latest ML2 demo available to experience at the Magic Leap booth 305.
As Magic Leap recently started the early access program for enterprise partners, the company is starting to develop tools for developers, take a look at the design process that led to the creation of the unity keyboard with Alessio Grancini.

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Alessio Grancini

AR Prototype Engineer , Magic Leap

Ash Shah

AR Prototype Engineer , Magic Leap

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Gamers explored virtual worlds long before the term Metaverse was coined.
Festival goers understand the nuances of what makes an experience incredible- why they go back year after year to make new memories that last a lifetime.
Music of each era is an indication of where our culture is going before we even realize it.
As these core pillars of culture collide in the Metaverse, we’ll hear from panelists who come from deep inside the music, gaming and the broader world of entertainment to learn how fandom is evolving, and how understanding it is key to building a successful business in the Metaverse.

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Marisol Segal

Head of Digital Partnerships , AEG

Vickie Nauman

Founder , CrossBorderWorks

Danielle (Dani) Tran

Associate , Konvoy

Anne McKinnon

Cofounder & CEO , Ristband

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Advertising and marketing is evolving. Marketers today need to find new ways to engage users wherever they are, especially new strategies to offer a personalized experience that drives results. AR experiences are intrinsically personal as they put the user at the center of a story and make them an active participant with branded content. AR drives engagement with demonstrated results across the marketing funnel including dwell time and lift in purchase. In this session, you will learn how AR is changing advertising and marketing, the massive opportunity of web-based augmented reality, and review case studies and key success metrics of in-market AR experiences.

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Tool Callif

President , Tool of North America

James Giglio

CEO and Founder , MVP Interactive

Jason Yim

CEO , Trigger Global

Diana Mendez

Marketing Manager , Niantic, Inc.

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Advances in kinesthetic haptics and 3D spatial technology with high-fidelity graphics are putting the final nail in the cadaver coffin and rendering risky human surgical training obsolete. What was once science fiction is now science fact. Immersive technology brings a sensory realism so acute that solutions are now a credible alternative to traditional medical education methods. This session with Richard Vincent and Dr. Rafael Grossman will look at how immersive technologies have accelerated VR capabilities to build "pre-human" competencies that allow medical professionals to acquire and hone skills before they encounter patients. It will look at the technology making this possible and how pre-human competencies enhance patient outcomes through increased safety and precision while reducing costs.

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Richard Vincent

CEO, Co-Founder , FundamentalVR

Rafael Grossmann

Surgeon, MD, FACS , University of Portsmouth

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See how enterprises and organizations are transforming the customer and employee experience to deliver improved business outcomes using an AR/AI-powered platform for live remote solve, self-solve, and training use cases. To meet enterprises' service delivery requirements, levelling up the service experience demands a powerful, scalable, extendable, and secure platform.

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Kevin Summers

Head of Product Management , CareAR, A Xerox Company

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The prize of functional, lightweight, all-day wearable smartglasses remains as elusive as ever. The missing linchpin component is the optical combiner which must reconcile the conflicting requirements of see-through quality, display performance, light weight, efficiency, prescription, compatibility and aesthetics. In this talk I’ll describe META’s approach to AR optical combiners based on a free space architecture enabled by holographic optical elements. Combined with our ophthalmic compatible ARfusion lens casting technology, the result is a monolithic combiner that provides extraordinary optical efficiency, ophthalmic grade see-through clarity, and the prescription and aesthetic properties that opticians, consumers, and regulators expect from eyewear. I’ll present META’s One Stop Shop approach to individualization that circumvents many of the concerns around eyebox size and manufacturability.

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Andrew Mark

CTO , META® Materials