I was invited to cover the VR Intelligence Conference that debuted in San Francisco on November 9-10, 2015. It was a smaller but very focused gathering of decision-makers from a wide range of different industries, and they’re holding a European VR Intelligence Conference in London on May 12-13, 2016. I had a chance to catch up with conference organizer Pete Carkeek to hear about some of the industry analysis highlights from the panel discussions, how the VR Intelligence conference came about, and where they’re going in the future.
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I was able to interview a lot of analysts, venture capitalists, and executives that I don’t easily bump into at other conferences. Here’s my top 10 favorite interviews from the VR Intelligence conference:
- Predicting the Future of VR & AR with Gartner’s Brian Blau
- Violent Video Games & Ratings: Protecting the Frontiers of VR with ESA
- Creating Meaning & Saving the World with CCP & Virtual Reality
- Going Beyond Gaming & Entertainment with Clay Park VR’s Shauna Heller
- Tim Sweeney on Three Major Modes of VR Gameplay
- Lessons from Casual Mobile Games with Presence Capital’s Amitt Mahajan
- Google Venture’s Investment Strategy & Outlook for Virtual Reality
- Building the Metaverse with janusVR
- Richard Marks on the Evolution of Sony’s PlayStation VR
- Signia Venture Partners on 8i Volumetric Capture, Photorealism, and Presence
The VR Intelligence Conference has also published many of the talks on their YouTube channel, and one of my favorite talks was Jesse Schell’s 40 predictions of VR & AR from 2016 to 2025:
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