The Immersed 2016 conference is approaching fast, and this year it is expanding in a big way. The ITA (Immersive Technology Alliance) is preparing a robust lineup of experiences for attendees to take in at its annual immersive technology industry conference.
The ITA is expanding the Immersed conference in a big way. The Immersed conference is primarily for industry professionals, but this year’s event features a huge public exhibit that includes dozens of experiences and exhibits to take in. If you live in the Toronto area and you haven’t had a chance to experience VR, you’ll want to keep your schedule open between October 16 and 18.
Immersed 2016 will include plenty for the public. You can expect nearly 20 HTC Vive room-scale booths showcasing a variety of content. The demonstrations include a collaborative castle-building game with up to six people in VR, Mars, and the moon walks. You can also visit Disney’s Tomorrowland in VR. You’ll have the chance to experiment with new technologies, such as the latest advancements in immersive audio and gesture sensing devices. Immersed will even feature prototype VR HMD hardware.
If you work in the VR industry, the professional side of Immersed features discussion panels and presentations from various leaders in the immersive technology industries. Speakers include Daryl Sartain, AMD’s Director and Worldwide Head of Virtual Reality & Displays, John Schrage, Experience Design Architect at Autodesk, Tim Dashwood, Founder of Dashwood Cinema Solutions, and Bertrand Nepveu, CEO of Vrvana. This writer will even be hosting a discussion panel during the event (The Immersive Technology Panel, 1:30PM-2:15PM, Monday Oct 17).
The ITA is still working to lock down the full list of exhibits, but here’s what we can confirm so far:
- Approaching 20 HTC Vive room scale VR demonstrations
- Collaboratively build a VR castle with six people in virtual reality!
- Experience VR empathy from an animal’s point of view with PETA
- See how immersive technology is being used in medicine
- Walk on the moon and Mars in virtual reality
- Learn how 360 camera rigs work
- Fly remote control helicopters with augmented reality!
- Experience the magic of holograms
- Hear the latest immersive audio technology
- Try new gesture sensing devices
- Walk between two skyscrapers at death defying heights
- See how a desalination plant works in virtual reality
- Try VR Polis and experience a recreation of the city of Santander that was filmed in 360 and remodeled in 3D.
- Relive the Olympic training experience of Rio 2016 athletes in virtual reality
- Visit Disney’s Tomorrowland in VR
- Cast spells and defeat your opponents in collaborative room-scale VR
- Try new VR HMD prototypes
- Experimental glasses-free 3D technology being used by NASA!
- Experience technologies by HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, and Google
- And More!
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