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#volograms #volumetric #immersivevideo #6dof

Rafael Pages Co-Founded Volograms with Kostas Amplianitis and Jan Ondřej, it is an in-house venture from Trinity College Dublin their mission is to bring reality capture closer to everyone.

He has a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from trinity college dublin and worked at V-SENSE under the supervision of Prof. Aljosa Smolic, where he ha spearheaded research in the areas of Free-Viewpoint Video, #3D reconstruction, Computer Vision, #virtualreality #augmentedreality Volograms uses a set of videos taken from different viewpoints and transforms them into volumetric holograms that can be enjoyed in Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Their system works with different camera configurations, outdoor or indoor scenarios, and can even generate content with videos captured with handheld consumer devices….. they are building the first software-only, hardware-agnostic scalable volumetric video creation platform.

https://volograms.com/ 

http://rafapages.com/ 

https://ie.linkedin.com/in/rafapages/en-us

#accenture #extendedreality #virtualreality #immersivelearning

Nick Rosa is a Product strategist, experience designer, and digital transformation expert, currently part of the Accenture Digital UKI where he is the Go-To-Market Lead for XR (AR, VR, and MR).  A key part of his role is to use User-Centric Design and Digital Transformation frameworks to create innovative, transformational, business-sounding solutions for his clients using immersive technologies.

Nicola is also a Design Thinking practitioner and trainer, and he has been invited to speak at industry events as the VRShow, VRWorld and TechXLR8 about user experience, product strategy, and the future of immersive media. With more than 15 years of experience in the media and entertainment industry, Nicola worked for companies like Atari, Google, Spotify, Yahoo!, Virgin Radio and IBM iX designing B2E, B2B and B2C digital products and numerous App Store hits.

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/services/technology/extended-reality 

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nicolarosa 

https://twitter.com/nicolarosa 

https://aixr.org/insights/podcast

#podcast #voicesofvrpodcast #virtualreality #kentbye

As the creator of the Voices of VR podcast, Kent has interviewed over 1500 virtual reality pioneers since May 2014. As of June 2020 he has published over 900 of those interviews documenting the evolution of consumer VR as a communications medium. Drawing on an unusually technological background for a journalist, Kent is able to speak peer-to-peer with VR developers, cultivating an audience of leading VR creators who consider the Voices of VR podcast a must-listen.

https://voicesofvr.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentbye/ 

https://twitter.com/kentbye 

For more on Kent and to find out how to get on his podcast check out his main website at 

www.kentbye.com.

Amir Bozorgzadeh is co-founder and CEO at Virtuleap, a health and education startup that is taking cognitive assessment and training to the next level thanks to VR and AI.  Their Enhance VR brain training app offers a daily cognitive workout of short, intense and fun mini-games designed to help increase attention and concentration levels. Previous to Virtuleap, Amir founded Gameguise, a mobile games studio based in Dubai, and Time Dirham, the first social impact startup to introduce time banking to the Middle East.   

He loves building value, growing communities, forming partnerships, fostering teams & believes that creativity and innovation can be conjured up in practically any circumstance and that frugality and a bias for action are the best starting points. Amir prefers organizations that encourage constant cross-collaboration and cross-pollination of skills and resources. Compartmentalization, over a long stretch of time, seems to breed a lot of smart idiots. Thrusting yourself into a new role every few years that demands adapting to new conditions ought to be made into a mandatory human right. He is an alumni of York University and THNK School of Creative Leadership. Since 2015, Amir has been a contributing writer to tech blogs like VentureBeat and Tech Crunch on the topics of emerging tech, spatial computing, and startup ecosystems.  

https://virtuleap.com/ 

https://pt.linkedin.com/in/amirboz 

https://twitter.com/whiteboxamir 

https://medium.com/@whiteboxamir 

#virtuleap #braintraining #virtualreality

Eric Vezzoli is an engineer who has designed the haptics architecture for Interhaptics, he leads a team of engineers and product-marketing in building the Interhaptics- Haptics Composer: the first of its kind multi platform Haptics Design tool on the market. He co-founded Go Touch VR exploring skin indentation technologies for haptics applications in VR And was also the CTO of Hap2u….where he was in charge of the software team designing the rendering stack to drive surface haptics technologies at full capabilities. He has published 20 + scientific papers on haptics and human-machine interactions

https://fr.linkedin.com/in/eric-vezzoli-a380a58a 

https://www.interhaptics.com/

#womenintech #womeninvr #vrwomenmeetup #xr #diversity

Nina Salomons is an award-winning filmmaker and XR Creative, Producer & Consultant. She has worked in the XR space since 2015, is one of the co-founders of Women in VR meetup group, an XR journalist for two and half years, led the VR Diversity Initiative and has worked on creating, developing and using immersive technologies for various companies and brands.

As a consultant she is using VR to solve the problems that matter as well as helping immersive communities grow and become more diverse in the UK. She is co-founder of XRDI, an initiative to bring under-represented groups into the immersive space by offering hands-on workshops. She is developing a VR Film which uses cutting-edge eye-tracking technology that will allow audiences to interact with digital characters,

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ninasalomons 

https://twitter.com/nina_salomons 

https://www.xrdi.org

Nikhil Sawlani is the Co-Founder/Tech lead at ARway an #augmentedreality navigation startup which was incepted in Bangalore in 2017. Arway is powering camera devices with AI to recognize their surroundings for hyper-accurate location apps, the platform provides insights to better grasp local situations and understand the behavior of visitors through contextual notifications, seamless integration, intelligent way-finding and analytics, enabling visitors or other individuals to easily find their way in or out of places and buildings. They have iterated from being an #ar #navigation app to a complete #development platform that allows you to build all kinds of Augmented Reality applications.

https://www.arway.app/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilsawlani-nixar/

#virtualreality #vreducation #melscience #edtech #chinesenewyear #yearoftheox

Kai Liang holds several International Business director positions in VR educational companies and VR, AR hardware companies.  He has been leading VR K12 education deployments, and high profile industrial VR/MR projects throughout mainland China, Taiwan (part of China), Australia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, India, Saudi Arabia, UK, US and Malta, etc… the list is expanding quickly.  Kai is currently the commercial director of MEL Science, International business director of Growlib Beijing, European managing director of Shadow Creator as well as co-founder of Smart Stone Technologies in Australia. Before playing a leading role in XR industries, Kai was the VP of Dimenco and essentially closed all the biggest deals in the world for the Auto-stereoscopic 3D industry in the world for 5 years. He still runs some of the most significant deals for a glasses-free 3D community to date.

linkedin.com/in/kailiang/ 

https://melscience.com

#augmentedreality #awexr #extendedreality #superventures #oriinbar

Ori Inbar is the co-founder and CEO of Augmented Reality.ORG, a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing augmented reality. Augmented Reality.ORG’s mission is to educate and promote the true potential of AR, and hatch augmented reality startups that offer unique value to its active users. He has founded Super Ventures the first fund dedicated to augmented reality investing in early stage startups using AR superpowers to change the world.

In 2009, Ori was the co-founder and CEO of Ogmento, one of the first venture-backed companies conceived from the ground up to develop and publish augmented reality games – games that are played in the real world which was later acquired by #apple.

Ori has been an enterprising champion of the augmented reality industry since 2007. He established Games Alfresco – a leading augmented reality blog that helped popularize AR, and in 2010 co-founded the Augmented World Expo – the world’s largest and most influential conference for AR/VR/MR. Ori is a recognized speaker in the AR industry, lecturer at NYU, as well as a sought-after adviser and board member for augmented reality startups.

Previously, as Senior Vice President of Solution Marketing for SAP’s platform, Ori was responsible for the positioning and marketing of SAP NetWeaver – which under his leadership grew from a mere concept to a billion-dollar business for SAP. Prior to SAP, Ori joined TopTier Software, as one of the first employees of this start-up. He leads the development and introduction to the market of more than 15 multimedia and business applications including the world’s leading enterprise portal, which in 2001 was acquired by SAP for $400 Million.

Ori has a double major in Computer Science and Cinema from Tel Aviv University and is a graduate of INSEAD University's business leadership program.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/oriinbar 

https://twitter.com/comogard 

https://www.superventures.com https://www.awexr.com 

https://www.augmentedreality.org 

https://medium.com/@oriinbar

#metaverse #forbes #techwriter #spatialcomputing #charliefink 

Charlie Fink writes about XR on Forbes. Variety calls him “XR’s explainer-in-chief.” He is the author of the new book, Remote Collaboration, Virtual Conferences and the Future of Work (2020), and the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books Charlie Fink's Metaverse (2017), and Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data (2019). Fink teaches XR at Chapman University Film School in Orange, California.

http://www.charliefink.com/ 

https://xrdirectory.org/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliefink 

https://twitter.com/charliefink?lang=en 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/