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Speaker: Nicole Lazzaro (XEODesign, Inc.)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
Speaker: Matthew Simari (Facebook)
Location: Colonial, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Partners, Games & Entertainment
Format: Sponsored Session
Learning to Do Design Thinking for Immersive Experiences
Speakers: Doug North Cook (Chatham University), Kat Harris (Microsoft), Kyle Vaidyanathan (Unity Technologies), Clorama Dorvilias (DebiasVR), Andrew Eiche (Owlchemy Labs)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
Speakers: Erik Horn (Fair Worlds), Isabel Mogstatd (EDF)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
Coffee Break (Presented by XR Association)
Location: California East & West Foyer, 2nd Floor + Italian Room, Mezzanine Level
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Special Event
Format: Special Event
Location: Grand Ballroom, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Partners
Designing Content for VR Arcades: Lessons Learned
Speakers: Vivian Tan (Beast, Inc.), Katie Hughes (Beast, Inc.)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
Opening the Curtain on VR Success (Presented by Viveport)
Speaker: Rikard Steiber (Viveport, HTC)
Location: Colonial, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Partners, Games & Entertainment
Format: Sponsored Session
The Stanford CHARIOT Program: Clinical Applications of Immersive Technologies in Pediatric Medicine
Speakers: Samuel Rodriguez (Stanford University School of Medicine), Thomas Caruso (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Healthcare
Format: Session
XRDC's 2018 Innovative AR/VR Showcase
Speakers: Shimon Alkon (TinkerVR), Kimberly Hieftje (play4REAL Lab, Yale)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
Location: Grand Ballroom, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Special Event
Format: Special Event
'Brass Tactics': Reinventing the RTS for VR
Speaker: Patrick Lipo (Hidden Path Entertainment)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
3D Scanning and XR Powered Home Improvement: A Lowe's Case Study
Speaker: Mason Sheffield (Lowe's Innovation Labs Seattle)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Enterprise Training & Education
Format: Session
Developer Panel: Developing for the Standalone Ecosystem (Presented by Viveport)
Sponsor Speakers: Ernest Lee (AmazeVR), John Voorhees (Primitive), Michael Hodson (Only In VR)
Speaker: Michael Almeraris (HTC)
Location: Colonial, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Partners, Games & Entertainment
Format: Sponsored Session
Mixed Reality Guidance for Medical Procedures
Speaker: Brian Hargreaves (Stanford University)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Healthcare
Format: Session
Cracking the Mobile AR Code: A Cross Platform Case Study
Speaker: Iman Mostafavi (8th Wall)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
Games as Medicine: FDA Clearance Tradeoffs
Speaker: Noah Falstein (The Inspiracy)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Healthcare
Format: Session
Speaker: Gijs den Butter (Sense Glove)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Enterprise Training & Education
Format: Session
Coffee Break (Presented by XR Association)
Location: California East & West Foyer, 2nd Floor + Italian Room, Mezzanine Level
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Special Event
Format: Special Event
'Sprint Vector': Evolving VR for the Esports Scene
Speaker: Andrew Abedian (Survios, Inc.)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
Adaptive Design in MR: UX Problems and Solutions
Speaker: Jada Williams (Microsoft)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
Empowering Mixed Reality Users by Leveraging Azure Cloud Services (Presented by Microsoft)
Speaker: Jesse McCulloch (Microsoft)
Location: Colonial, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Partners, Innovation
Format: Sponsored Session
UX Design Guidelines for Building AR Cloud Apps
Speaker: Neil Mathew (Placenote)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
BAFTA Culture Clash: When Games Meet Movies in Immersive Entertainment
Speakers: Maria Rakusanova (HTC VIVE / Raindance Film Festival), Andrew Eiche (Owlchemy Labs), Dave Ranyard (Dream Reality Interactive), Julia Hamilton Trost (YouTube), Laura Dodds (Dream Reality Interactive)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
Risk Assessment in XR Design: Stolen from the Space Program
Speaker: Jim Toepel (Independent)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
Top 5 Things VR Developers Need to Know Based on Data
Speaker: Lucas Toohey (Observer Analytics)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
XRDC 2018 Opening Night Reception (Sponsored by Microsoft, Oculus & Viveport)
Location: Grand Ballroom, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Special Event
Format: Special Event
Viveport Developer Mixer (Presented by HTC VIVE)
Location: Elizabethan D, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Special Event, Partners
Format: Special Event
Digital Medicine: What's Different About XR for Health?
Speakers: Noah Falstein (The Inspiracy), Sarah Hill (Healium), Josh Sackman (AppliedVR), Carrie Shaw (Embodied Labs), Sophia Batchelor (UC Berkeley)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Healthcare
Format: Session
Immersive Data Visualization: Design Challenges in AR
Speakers: Reena Ganga (IBM), Jenna Goldberg (IBM)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
The Holodeck is Here...Now What? Advanced Interactions for Room-Scale VR
Speakers: Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Andrew Eiche (Owlchemy Labs)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
Coffee Break (Presented by XR Association)
Location: California East & West Foyer, 2nd Floor + Italian Room, Mezzanine Level
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Special Event
Format: Special Event
Location: Grand Ballroom, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Partners
Designing for Unpredictable Experience Sizes in AR
Speaker: Alesha Unpingco (Google)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
Rendering Quill Art on Oculus Quest (Presented by Facebook Social VR)
Speaker: Pierre-Antoine LaFayette (Facebook)
Location: Colonial, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Partners
Format: Sponsored Session
VR Interaction Design in 'Moss'
Speakers: Brendan Walker (Polyarc), Josh Stiksma (Polyarc)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
VR Training Use Cases: BMW to American Football
Speakers: Rosstin Murphy (STRIVR), Ginny Willis (STRIVR)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Enterprise Training & Education
Format: Session
Location: Grand Ballroom, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Special Event
Format: Special Event
Location-Based VR Entertainment: Successes, Challenges and the Road Ahead (Presented by Viveport)
Sponsor Speakers: Daisy Berns (Exit Reality), Jason Crawford (Modal Systems), Aaron Pulkka (Two Bit Circus), Paolo Werbrouck (PlayDigital Innovation Lab, IGT), Alexis Macklin (Greenlight Insights)
Speaker: Pearly Chen (HTC)
Location: Colonial, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Partners, Games & Entertainment
Format: Sponsored Session
Mixed Reality and Magritte: Bringing an Immersive Space to SFMOMA
Speaker: Charles Yust (frog)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
Performance Under Pressure: Simulating Stress in VR Training
Speaker: Jonathan Perry (Ractive)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Enterprise Training & Education
Format: Session
Speaker: Jaroslav Beck (Beat Games)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
AR/VR Challenges for Training Environments
Speaker: Eric Spalding (Boeing)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Enterprise Training & Education
Format: Session
Powering a Cognitive Assistant for the Blind Using AR
Speakers: Yang Liu (Caltech), Markus Meister (Caltech)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
The Dolphin Swim Club: A Healing Underwater VR Experience
Speakers: Benno Brada (The Dolphin Swim Club), Marijke Sjollema (The Dolphin Swim Club)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Healthcare
Format: Session
Coffee Break (Presented by XR Association)
Location: California East & West Foyer, 2nd Floor + Italian Room, Mezzanine Level
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Special Event
Format: Special Event
Designing VR Content with Students in Mind
Speakers: Lisa Castaneda (foundry10), Anna Cechony (foundry10)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Enterprise Training & Education
Format: Session
Get Ready for the Age of 6DoF Mobile VR (Presented by Nolo VR)
Sponsor Speaker: Sunny Sun (NOLO Co., Ltd.)
Location: Colonial, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Partners, Innovation
Format: Sponsored Session
Lighting a Legend: Art Pipelines in 'Hold The World' with Sir David Attenborough
Speaker: Laura Dodds (Dream Reality Interactive)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
Reasoning APIs: How to Translate AR Between Engineering and Design
Speaker: Andrew Maneri (Unity Technologies)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
Design Beyond the Screen: Mixed Reality at Osmo
Speaker: Tony Aube (Osmo)
Location: California West, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Games & Entertainment
Format: Session
Speaker: Chris O'Connor (ZeroLight)
Location: Elizabethan B, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Innovation
Format: Session
VR Demos: Best Practices So People Won't Hate You
Speaker: Jon Oakes (SVVR)
Location: California East, Second Floor, Tower Building
Pass Type: XRDC Pass
Track: Enterprise Training & Education
Format: Session