RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL REVEALS IMMERSIVE STORIES LINE-UP & NOMINEES
7 MIRACLES, THE WORLD’S FIRST FEATURE-LENGTH CINEMATIC VR EXPERIENCE TO RECEIVE ITS WORLD PREMIERE Raindance Film Festival continues to champion creators who are pushing the artistic development of the new mediums of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. This year’s immersive strand, Raindance Immersive Stories and Interactive Worlds, held between Thursday 4th – Sunday 7th October, will feature the annual showcase, Gallery of...
2019 Asia VR&AR Fair&Summit @ China
2019 Asia VR&AR Fair&Summit (short for: VR&AR Fair 2019) Asia VR&AR Fair has been successfully held for two consecutive years (Twice a year, Guangzhou(Main) and Wuhan), becoming the One and Only Professional Demonstration and Trade Platforms of the VR&AR Industry in China. Over the years, we has gathered numbers of famous companies at home and abroad to facilitate the future of VR & AR for win-win cooperation...
Enterprise Companies Seeing Strong Return on Investment in VR & AR
Enterprise Companies Seeing Strong Return on Investment in VR & AR “Industry Survey by VR Intelligence Shows Immersive Tech is Bringing Benefits to Business” Businesses working in areas such as automotive, construction, manufacturing and retail are seeing a good return on their investment in virtual and augmented reality, according to an industry survey by VR Intelligence. The survey targeted senior-level business...
Immersed 2018 Calls For Future Computing Speakers and Visionaries
Immersed 2018 Calls For Future Computing Speakers and Visionaries Founded in 2014, Immersed is the leading future computing conference and will be held November 8-9, 2018 at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Canada. Celebrating its fifth year, Immersed delivers the best opportunities for pursuing business development, top level expertise, and rare media access. Early bird tickets are on sale now! “Immersed delivers...
VRX 2018 Announces First Speakers from Google, HTC, Microsoft
VRX 2018 Announces First Speakers from Google, HTC, Microsoft & More “Annual B2B Event Gathers Business Execs to Discuss What’s Real & What’s Hype in XR” The organizers of VRX 2018 have announced the first wave of speakers for their fourth annual conference and expo in San Francisco this December 6-7. Focused on filtering through the hype around VR, AR and immersive tech, the line-up includes senior execs from...
The First International Children VR Film Fest ( ICVRFF ) in Hong Kong
The First International Children VR Film Fest ( ICVRFF ) to be Held in Hong Kong This year ACGHK is collaborating with VR Educate to launch the International Children VR Film Fest at the Hong Kong Convention Centre to screen VR short films from 9 countries/territories including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Russia, Spain, USA and Australia. The best of award winning VR short films include USA Baobab Studio’s 2017 Daytime...
VR Awards 2018 Finalists Announced
VR Awards 2018 Finalists From Different Categories Announced After a rigorous shortlisting process, these potential winners will now present to the panel of judges in the coming weeks. The winners will be revealed on October 16th on the night of the VR Awards in Central London. View the full list by visiting awards.vrbound.com/shortlist-2018
Webinar: Technological Advances in AR/VR Create New Growth Opportunities
Webinar: Technological Advances in AR/VR Create New Growth Opportunities Frost & Sullivan, the growth partnership company, will host a live, complimentary Growth Innovation Leadership (GIL) briefing, titled “Technological Advances in Augmented and Virtual Reality Create New Growth Opportunities Across Industries”, on Tuesday, July 24th, 2018, at 10:00 AM Central Time. Sign up to the free webinar on this page. The...
Webinar on VR & AR: What’s Hype & What’s the Future?
Webinar on VR & AR: What’s Hype & What’s the Future? Analysts have long predicted that VR & AR would take time to overcome the barriers to mass adoption, in both consumer and enterprise markets. So what’s the real state of the industry right now and how are the major players approaching those barriers? On Thursday July 19, VRX hosts a webinar with senior execs at Google, HTC Vive and SuperData Research, to ask who’s...
Global Virtual Reality Conference Gathered Technology Leaders in Shanghai
Global Virtual Reality Conference Gathered Technology Leaders in Shanghai The Third Global Virtual Reality Conference (GVRC) was successfully held in Pudong, Shanghai from June 27-29, 2018. Industry leaders and experts from China, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries and regions brought together far-reaching industrial policies, profound insights, the latest scientific and technological...
TechCrunch & Viond Hosting VR Creative Hackathon
VR Creative Hackathon Goes Global with TechCrunch & Viond The opportunity to bring your interactive 360° experiences to life and take them to the world stage of hackathons is here with TechCrunch and Viond! Technology transcends borders and with Virtual Reality (VR) now your experiences can too. The theme #VRBucketList was chosen to inspire designers, hackers and marketers from all corners of the world to bring their ideas to life...
VR Days 2018 Calling for Speaker Submission
VR Days 2018: Open Calls VR Days Europe hosts over 27 different events during the three day festival. If you are interested in collaborating with us to share your story as a speaker, to showcase your last project, or pitch for investment for your startup, you can apply now to participate: SPEAKERS • Share your user case study, your vision, your technologies, your failures and your accomplishments with the XR community. Please send us...
VR / AR Global Summit @ Vancouver, Canana
VR / AR Global Summit and Conference @ Vancouver, Canana The VR/AR Global Summit will bring together the most intriguing and innovative leaders in VR/AR/MR. Hardware developers, content creators, big brands, manufacturers and designers will gather to learn, share and discuss advancements in the industry. Collaboration spaces, hands on workshops, real conversations, Keynotes, presentations, marketplace and events will bring everyone...
VR Worldwide Inc. Announces VR World NYC’s One-Year Anniversary
VR Worldwide, Inc. Announces VR World NYC’s One-Year Anniversary and over 1,000,000 VR Experiences Played VR WORLDWIDE INC., North America’s largest Virtual Reality (VR) entertainment destination, reaches 1,000,000 VR Experiences played by visitors since opening its doors to the public in late June of 2017. An attraction by day, an entertainment lounge by night, VR World lets visitors take a deep dive into the captivating world of...
DIGILITY 2018: A MR, VR, AR, AI Focused B2B Conference
DIGILITY 2018: MR, VR, AR, AI Focused B2B Conference & Expo Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), 3-dimensionality (3D) and computer-generated imaging (CGI), as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will be the core themes of DIGILITY 2018. The leading B2B conference and expo for digital reality in Central Europe will also once again present state-of-the-art technologies and an...
NEWVIEW AWARDS 2018 Presents VR Content for Art, Fashion, Culture
NEWVIEW AWARDS 2018 Presents VR Content for Art, Fashion, Culture Psychic VR Lab (Head office: Shinjuku-ku,Tokyo, Representative Director: Masahiro Yamaguchi), which provides VR Creative Platform “STYLY (http://styly.cc)”,and PARCO, Loftwork ajoint the project “NEWVIEW”. A global award “NEWVIEW AWARDS 2018” will be held as part of the project to discover VR contents in the fashion / culture / art...
AWE Reflecting ‘Tipping Point’ for Explosive XR Industry Growth
AWE 2018 Reflecting ‘Tipping Point’ for Explosive XR Industry Growth The 9th AWE (Augmented World Expo), the world’s #1 conference and expo dedicated to augmented reality and virtual reality (XR), officially wrapped after delivering a glimpse into the future of XR. Nearly 250 exhibitors showcased world-changing technologies that spanned more than 100,000 net square feet of exhibit space at the Santa Clara Convention...
AR for the Blind, Gesture-Controls, Hi-Def Haptic Wear, MR Sports at AWE USA 2018
AR for the Blind, Gesture-Controls, Hi-Def Haptic Wear, AR ‘Ears,’ MR Sports at AWE USA 2018 AWE (Augmented World Expo), the world’s #1 AR+VR conference and expo, officially opened its doors yesterday in Silicon Valley, kicking off the biggest event in its nine-year history. With nearly 6,000 attendees, over 400 speakers, 400 journalists, and nearly 250 exhibitors in 100,000-square-feet expo including a...
PlayStation Legend Shuhei Yoshida To Deliver Opening Keynote At Develop:Brighton 2018
PlayStation® Legend Shuhei Yoshida To Deliver Opening Keynote At Develop:Brighton 2018 Early Bird tickets on sale until 6 June. Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, has today been announced as the opening keynote speaker for this year’s Develop:Brighton conference and expo at the Hilton Brighton Metropole in July. Yoshida will also be awarded the Legend Award at the Develop Awards, organized...
AR & VR in Manufacturing – New Insights
AR & VR in Manufacturing – New Insights The use of augmented and virtual reality technologies in manufacturing is gathering pace. From design and visualization in pre-manufacture to enhanced worker guidance during the production process, new and improved ways of using AR & VR across business lines are constantly being piloted and deployed. VR Intelligence has produced a brand new free report which looks at how companies are...
Inception and Kaleidoscope Announce First Joint Online VR Film Festival
Inception and Kaleidoscope Announce First Joint Online VR Film Festival Inception announces the launch of its first ever online film festival, in collaboration with Kaleidoscope. The festival will be receiving submissions throughout May, with winners announced June 14. The festival will be giving out a prize pool of $15,000 plus distribution and marketing deals to the films selected for the festival. Creators looking to submit can...
VR Scientific Festival 2018 Presents The Virtual Reality Cinema Program
VR Scientific Festival 2018 Announces its VR Cinema Program The second edition of the VR_SCI FEST would be held in Stockholm, Sweden from May 17 to May 20 and would include the variety of programs dedicated to using of immersive technology in Science and Art. In May 2017 VR SCI FEST introduced the concept the first time. The focus of interest was concentrated on the ways how creative use of VR/AR/MR technology might help to the...
World’s First VR Poker Tournament at VRLA 2018
Showcasing Cross Platfom Poker VR with Phil Hellmuth at VRLA — 2018 Poker VR is will have a big presence at VRLA 2018 , one of the biggest VR/AR conferences dedicated to Virtual Reality — and we have a lot planned to make this conference a HUGE event for our community. Here is what you can expect: For the first time, Poker VR team will be showcasing cross platform functionality of Poker VR between PC VR, Standalone VR and Mobile VR!...
9th Annual NYC Independent Film Festival Present Virtual Reality Showcase
NYC Independent Film Festival Present Showcase in Partnership with REVIRE Immersive The 2018 Virtual Reality Showcase will exhibit works curated by Mark Sternberg, co-founder of REVRIE Immersive Works, a cinematic virtual reality production company dedicated to telling compelling narratives. It will also present original works, including 360 Video, Cinematic VR pieces, and Interactive VR videos, by indie filmmakers who submitted to...
SPLITX VR/AR SUMMIT in CROATIA on May 25-27
THE FIRST SPLITX SUMMIT GATHERS VR/AR EXPERTS IN CROATIA Key industry experts and pioneers are among the confirmed speakers of the first SplitX VR/AR Summit in Split, Croatia. The event will take place on May 25 to 27 and is invitation-only due to the essence of the event and the limited number of seats. Among the speakers are Dominic Eskofier – Head of VR, EMEAI at Nvidia, Krasimir Nikolov – CEO of QuarkVR, Daniel Sproll...
Multiplayer VR Will Connect Players Across the Globe at VRLA
Multiplayer VR Will Connect Players Across the Globe at VRLA Exit Reality and Neurogaming are partnering to install a massive, completely wireless 36’ x 36’ PolygonVR arena featuring haptic controllers and full-body tracking at their booth (#618). Attendees will have the chance to be part of an elite squad tasked with completing a top-secret mission in Blackout, a full-immersion, sci-fi shooter game – and they’ll be joined by...
SXSW Announces 2018 Winners for 10th Accelerator Pitch Event
SXSW Announces 2018 Winners for 10th Accelerator Pitch Event This evening, South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the winners for the 10th annual SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event®, which took place March 10-11 during the Startup & Tech Sectors Track at the Downtown Hilton Austin. In addition to the 10 winners chosen among the 50 finalists – five finalists for each of Accelerator’s 10 categories with one...
Registration Open For Develop:Brighton 2018
Registration Open For Develop:Brighton 2018 – Call for Speakers Closes Wednesday 14 March Registration is now live for Develop:Brighton, with delegates able to save as much as £325 on a three-day Super Early Bird pass bought on or before 25 April at www.developconference.com. Develop:Brighton, Europe’s leading game developer conference and expo, will consist of eight tracks: Design; Art; Audio; Business; Coding; Evolve; Indie...
Long Beach State University’s Hosts VR Day for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Long Beach State University’s Hosts VR Day for Innovation and Entrepreneurship WHAT: The all-day event at Long Beach State University includes a keynote conversation, faculty and practitioner panels, demonstrations, a VR career readiness workshop presented by the Career Development Center and two screenings of the innovative VR film, “UTURN.” VR Day is free and open to the public. Campus parking is $8 for the day. Attendees are...
Unity at GDC 2018: Week-Long Event With 100+ Sessions to Experience Unity’s New Technologies
Unity at GDC 2018: Week-Long Event With 100+ Sessions to Experience Unity’s New Technologies Unity Technologies (https://unity3d.com/), creator of the world’s most widely-used real-time 3D development platform, today announced Unity at GDC (https://unity3d.com/gdc-2018): a week-long series of events that democratizes access to the games industry by giving all developers the opportunity to experience Unity’s new technologies. Centered...
Naughty America VR
