Agenda

Description

There are billions of computing devices on Earth filled with millions of apps and hundreds of billions of media files. How do we bring their users into the future? 3D-aware AI technology is a stepping stone that provides a clear upgrade path for these users, creators, and developers ensuring full forwards and backwards compatibility of apps and media content. This talk will discuss free and paid tools powered by machine learning, as well as specific yet generalizable workflows for content capture, creation, development, editing, and distribution of software and media content. It will also highlight effective solutions for displaying XR content to all those people who are reluctant to put on a headset.

Speakers

Nima Zeighami

Director of Product , Leia Inc

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Carsten Lackner

Managing Director & CMSO , VRdirect

Max Limper

CEO , DGG

Barton Goldenberg

President , ISM Inc.

Tim Bajarin

President , Creative Strategies

Description

Internal training tools - the mere thought of them can put anyone to sleep. Mandatory training is often associated with reading boring paragraphs of text, watching outdated videos, and clicking through multiple choice questions that fail to determine proficiency. With the amount of time and money we invest in training our employees, why do our tools feel like they're stuck in the PowerPoint era?

Fortunately, we are at an inflection point in our thinking and the technology available to us. Emerging technologies like XR, AI, and real-time 3D allow us to create original content faster than ever before. By using tools and techniques from games, which encourage learning and mastery through play, we can create more impactful training tools and experiences for employees.

This talk will focus on how ustwo and MGM Resorts put these ideas into practice using a digital twin of one of their flagship properties. We will discuss how we used game design and development principles, real-time 3D, and AI/XR tools to create a first-of-its-kind training tool. You’ll leave with tangible insights, principles, and practices on how to discover meaningful ways of deploying these technologies in your organizations - impacting efficiency, effectiveness, and the bottom line.

Speakers

Juan Cabrera

Technical Principal , ustwo

Chris Marotta

Design Principal , ustwo

Robert Malko

VP of Innovation , MGM Resorts International

Description

Industrial AR has a large history, pilling up few “top” but also lots of “flop” cases, to everyone's frustration. While for a long time the industry focused on AR-assisted maintenance or of procedure-like guidance use cases, it turned out, that companies are not struggling to incorporate XR-enabling technologies, but instead struggle rolling-out pilots as solutions. There is no doubt about the solution’s benefit, but because of manual efforts and challenges in data preparation and information authoring, the ROI is far too often not there.

AR-based quality inspection has turned to be different. Data needed for the use case is close, if not similar, to already existing 3D/CAD data from engineering, eliminating the need for further preparation other than tracking of objects in order to augment this data onto its corresponding object. AR, specifically, is _the_ enabler technology to find deviation quicker and more immediately. No other principle enables such immediate way to compare a manufactured item to its CAD specification. As such, it is the perfect match of technology, effort and output.
Turning tablets into inspection tools with AR, mobile devices are leaner compared to existing 3D scanning and metrology boxes (which produce similar results but need far more time for preparation and conduction) and more flexible, as small or even very large parts can be verified for quality in real time and directly on location, wherever parts are produced or stored.

In our talk we present use cases from automotive as well as mechanical engineering and welding industries, including agricultural manufacturer Krone and Slavia Production Systems (a “hidden champion“ from Eastern Europe, who’s a major automotive supplier), who were able to quickly integrate AR into their production and have since been successfully using it in everyday operations.

We illustrate how, with AR, SMEs and corporates can use their CAD data together with mobile devices to transform their current quality assurance and production processes. With a few steps, they gain from increased inspection throughput as well as a digitalized inspection plans, while reducing costs and time for quality assurance. What's more, ensuring high quality standards, companies will automatically become cleaner, save on material transportation and money by avoiding scrap and rework. What else but a "killer case" could AR be with that kind of ROI?

Speakers

Harald Wuest

CEO & Founder , Visometry

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Ruben Cuadrat

Verizon

Veronica Yip

Product Manager & Product Marketing Manager , NVIDIA

Jason Yim

CEO , Trigger XR

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Back in 2020, Automata’s business changed overnight. For this robotics company, medical laboratories and testing facilities were calling non-stop looking to automate COVID-19 tests.

In this talk, Maxim Cooper, Team Lead and Pre Sales Application Engineer at Automata, will share how they navigated this tumultuous period and turned to augmented reality technology as a solution. He’ll discuss how they were able to make their team more efficient and effective, and share his plans for extending this to a showroom of the future.

Maxim will be joined by Zac Duff, Co-Founder and CEO of JigSpace, who will share a behind the scenes look at how this was possible, and the actions other companies can take to drastically reduce their sales cycle from 6 months to 6 weeks.

You’ll come away with practical examples of how companies can unlock real value by harnessing augmented reality to transform how they sell and support their customers, and be inspired by a company’s story of transformation.

Speakers

Maxim Cooper

Team Lead and Pre Sales Application Engineer , Automata

Zac Duff

CEO , JigSpace

Description

Discover real engagement practices and strategies in XR experience design that put human connection first.

In an age where we work on distributed teams, being able to stay creative, resilient, and connected in a meaningful way makes all the difference.

Being emotionally connected matters. Great leaders know how to reach others and how to tend to their own wellness in order to thrive at their best level.

Come to learn practices and strategies together, and see how they apply to enterprise experiences that are engaging and serve prime well-being needs for our teams, those we serve, and ourselves.

Speakers

Caitlin Krause

Founder , MindWise

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Technology is evolving quickly to bring XR capabilities into mainstream culture. The content in these systems need to be anchored properly to ensure correct and accurate display for consumers. Maxar’s high-resolution digital twin of the entire Earth is built with space-based data and machine learning, providing a foundational geospatial layer on which XR content can be connected to the real world. With Maxar’s digital twin, the entertainment industry can film movies in any location on Earth from one studio or scout global locations in virtual reality;video game developers can start with real cities as their canvas for building out new levels;industrial companies can train employees and rehearse operations before deploying in-field crews;the use cases enabled by this digital twin are only limited by the imagination.

Maxar will share the art of the possible with its digital twin and, together with its customers, Sturfee, will detail how this digital twin is anchoring a new, cutting-edge visual positioning system (VPS) that will enable the deployment of autonomous systems, the creation of enterprise maps and persistent digital advertising, among other uses.

Speakers

Kevin Bullock

Director, Strategic Partnerships , Maxar

Anil Cheriyadat

Founder and CEO , Sturfee

Description

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the importance of building experiences to support, engage and enable the inclusion of all people. This diverse panel of expert stakeholders will delve into the challenges and opportunities of creating inclusive and accessible XR technology for all focusing on enterprise environments. With insights and best practices, this panel will share solutions, use cases and advances where XR has enabled and served communities, and will provide a glimpse into the future of accessibility.

Speakers

Dylan Fox

Head of Community and Outreach , XR Access

Athena Demos

CEO , Big Rock Creative

Jazmin Cano

Accessibility Product Manager II , Owlchemy Labs Inc

Yao Ding

Accessibility Research Lead , Meta

Stephanie Montgomery

Senior VP of Research and Best Practices , XR Association

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Speakers

Joana Flor

Executive Producer , Inworld AI

Niko Chauls

XR Partnerships, Product Innovation , Verizon

Jason Yim

CEO , Trigger XR

Lucian Gheorghe

CCS UX Innovation Senior Manager , Nissan