On May 16th 2013, Karl Krantz chaired the first ‘Silicon Valley Virtual Reality’ meetup (SVVR for short). Developers, enthusiasts and industry luminaries gathered to usher in and discuss the new dawn of Virtual Reality now upon us.
Revolution!
The VR Revolution is here, and this time it’s for good. Karl Krantz believes this and thought others probably felt the same. So, to mark this exciting new dawn in interactive entertainment, he organised the first Silicon Valley Virtual Reality meetup. As the website eloquently puts it:
Join us to discuss the lessons learned by early VR pioneers, share exciting new advances in stereoscopic displays, gestural interfaces, haptics, virtual worlds, 3D modeling, and game development tools, as well as the potential applications and social implications of VR. Virtual reality’s time has come. Let’s explore this promising new technology together.
Alongside enthusiasts and developers, the historic meeting attracted some big names. Representatives from from companies like Sixense (showing MakeVR featured by us here) and Matterport were there to discuss their emerging technologies whilst Cymatic Bruce attended as VR Evangelist. Even Oculus VRs VP of Product Nate Mitchell showed up.
As part of the event Bruce and Karl gave talks discussing various topics, from the history of VR to the need for development techniques to evolve in step with the technology. The videos of those talks have now been posted and they’re well worth checking out. So here they all are for your perusal. Meetup #2 kicks off on the 27th June and features the Project Holodeck team and Tactical Haptics (covered by us here).