Hackney House London is the new venue for the return of the London VR Developer Sessions in partnership with the upcoming Virtual Reality Show. The tri-monthly event presents a forum for immersive content developers to meet, share, collaborate and showcase their work.
Attend the London VR Developer Meetup
The first sessions will take place on April 3rd, followed by investor/developer pitches on April 21st at the Virtual Reality Show and a Sci-Fi special VR Meetup during the SCI-FI LONDON festival. A packed schedule of activities at the April 3rd meetup will concentrate under three main themes: Focus, Create, and Play.
Focus
In the Focus branch, several speakers will discuss where virtual reality fits within EduTech. Whilst the revenue models for VR teaching aids are not obvious, the potential for improved recall and engagement is:
Ben Kidd and Ciaran O Connor, from Curiscope, will share how they are harnessing VR gaming to globally inspire curiosity and fascination for learning.
Orbulus creator Peter Maddalena will reveal VR Drop and Share. A mobile social VR based platform to be released in April, that allows teachers to easily create and share VR presentations.
Learning languages through VR is being explored by companies like Mondly and Unimersiv. Newcomer Tom Mleko will reveal Lingalo, a yet-to-be-released app that immerses the viewer in various scenarios and contexts to teach language and culture (English for now).
James Sheridan from Igloo Vision, will speak and demo his work on Danceroom Spectroscopy, a digital art piece, that uses 8 kinects to interactively teach the general public about atomic and molecular physics.
Simon Davis from Unfold Stories will host two Google Expeditions classes, giving groups of 15 a chance to see firsthand how Sierra Leone beat the Ebola crisis or visit Dhaka to learn about Bangladesh’s burgeoning economy.
Create
Under the Create theme, April 3rd also marks the first VR Review Club hosted by Visualise. The highly praised Steam title Accounting for the Vive, by Crows Crows Crows, will be this meetup’s topic for discussion and for those who plan to attend, we suggest trying the game before arriving.
Faviana Vangelius, CEO and Co-Founder of SVRVIVE Studios (Stockholm-based VR games studio who created SVRVIVE: The Deus Helix) will share her seven key approaches to how to succeed in the unknown VR territory.
Mixed Immersion will present their end to end audio production services for virtual reality experiences. With a strong heritage in Hollywood and Cinematic Audio, the team have developed pioneering workflows, techniques and new formats for recording and capturing sounds & environments.
Animation company Picnic Studio will demo a trailer of Les Petits Choses (The Little Things), an immersive short film for Vive, which is a multi viewpoint story exploring third person, omniscience and synesthesia.
Play
In the Play theme, EF EVE will be conducting live holographic streaming that allows people to interact with others miles away as a point cloud generated hologram viewed through the Vive. At the event, guests will have the chance to chat with a hologram of one of their team in Lithuania.
Following a ‘lessons learnt’ talk about designing user experiences that are unique to VR, Harry Brenton from BespokeVR (you can watch a preview presentation there) will give people the chance to try Perception Neuron—the modular mocap system designed for start-ups—as a shapeshifting avatar demo. With increasing interest in AR, and companies such as Zappar having great Kickstarter success with Zapbox, Edward Miller from Scape Technologies will also talk about some of the state-of-the-art localisation technologies which will pave the way for next-generation AR content.
Finally, Tim Joyce will open the alpha programme of Constructive Labs, a multi-user collaborative platform that promises easy construction of VR experiences within VR itself.
Road to VR is a proud media sponsor of the London VR Developer Meetup