Quick facts about the event
- Four tracks (Vision, Experience, Innovation, Developer)
- Presentations und panels with 150 speakers from of various industries
- Expo with 60 exhibitors
SOME HIGHLIGHTS AND TRENDS
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. – Alan Turing
In 2016 the question about VR changed from “IF” to “WHEN”:
- 2007: 6.2 Mio iPhones were sold in the first year
- 2016: 6.3 Mio VR Headsets sold (HTC VIVE, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR… not including Google Cardboard!)
Motion Tracking and Haptics
- Motion tracking = analysing how we interact with the world
- Haptics provides a better understanding of that interaction of the environment with us
Creating 3D Models for VR
Capture the world in 3D with your mobile device anywhere – anytime – in real-time with astrivis (ETH SpinOff!). watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfwKRfxwkU
Storytelling in VR
VR is the next evolution in Storytelling, it will be as transformative for storytelling as the leap from radio to TV or from PC to Smartphone. – Dominic Collins, JAUNT
The success of VR in the future is not so much tech but content. Technology will transcend, good content is timeless. – Matt Beveridge, Pebble Studios
Immersion is often created by what you don’t see. – Matt Beveridge, Pebble Studios
The only rule for VR is that old rules of storytelling don’t apply. VR is not film without edges, we need alternative paradigms. – Matt Simmonds, Telegraph Media Group
First ever BAFTA awarded for a VR Film
Last month, David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef Dive VR produced by Alchemy VR won the first ever BAFTA Award for a VR experience in the Digital Creativity category. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mA07ZnSPVg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvqAoPFpO2s
VR and the arts
Panel “The place of VR in Arts, Culture and Heritage”: “Curating” the user experience, draw in theatre experience. Go back to the roots of VR? Is VR a tool or an art expression?
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein
The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Alan Kay