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Just the word, #unconference has me all excited. These are so fun and engaging and we've been wanting to do another one for a WHILE. Check out the eventbrite for further details and see you there!!! #seattlevr #ethics #immersivetechnology

The exhibition “Realities in Transition” at Ars Electronica shows how XR technologies are opening up new paths and poses important questions about the future of our digital world.

Funding opportunity: Innovative collaborations with the USA within XR - step 1 Support for the establishment of collaboration between Swedish and American actors with a focus on Extended reality, XR. This call is the first step in a two-step effort from Vinnova's Future Areas area and part of Vinnova's investment in pioneering technology. 🎟 What can you apply for? Expenses for travel in order to establish collaborations with US-based actors working with XR. ✏️ Who can apply? The call is aimed at Swedish research organizations, companies and public organizations, with the capacity to establish collaboration with a US-based actor. 💵 How much can you apply for? Up to SEK 150,000 per project. Read more and apply: https://lnkd.in/drJkbGMT Do you want to know more about your opportunities to collaborate with US or Swedish actors to drive innovation? Contact Hans Pohl, Program Director, Future Mobility. Lindholmen Science Park, Johanna Dahlin

Meta Reality Labs is shaping the future of immersive technologies. In a recent feature with IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, they share insights and their visionary approach to augmented and virtual reality. Read more to learn how they're pioneering a new era of meta-reality: https://lnkd.in/eTUhcUcd #ImmersiveTech #MetaRealityLabs #QuantumElectronics #FutureTech #IEEE Meta

Last week, I posted about our bi-weekly Show & Tell at Petricore, and this week, I want to share another meeting we alternate with it - a News Discussion. Years ago, I was diving deeper into XR (specifically MR/AR) as a space where our games could stand out. While we worked on numerous interesting AR client projects, our original games, mostly flatscreen, struggled to stand out in a really crowded space. One of Petricore’s core strengths is deep technical competence and embracing new tech challenges, so XR seemed like a natural fit. I was also really excited by the potential of designing games for mixed reality, and the unique challenges that would come with it. But me just announcing "we’re doing this now" wouldn’t work without buy-in from the team, and truthfully I needed to dig in more myself. Monty Sharma, suggested we create a space for team discussions on emerging trends. That’s how our Articles Sharing meeting began. Every other week, following our all-hands, the team shares articles or insights they've encountered, which we then discuss together. Some of the most helpful things we gained from this has been: Diversity of Information People brought everything from Reddit posts and Twitter clips of MR titles to research papers on Gaussian slats and articles on business trends. This broad range of sources, all focused on emerging tech, made us better informed as a team. Informed Design This knowledge helped inform the design decisions we made when first prototyping Mythic Realms. We discussed the rumors of new technologies coming, and the anticipated rise of MR on headsets like Quest 3 and AVP (neither of which had been announced yet.) We were able to design for future technologies, by reading about and understanding better what technology was coming, versus what currently existed. Team Buy-In Lastly, this helped solve my concern of team buy in. People who maybe were a bit more XR skeptical started seeing some of the same data that I found compelling. We all were looking at and becoming excited by this information together, and it helped gain momentum within the company that XR was a compelling path for us to go down. I think any company that is working in emerging tech, needs to dedicate some time for everyone on the team to be reading and better informed about those technologies. Making that time dedicated and group discussion focused helps get everyone thinking about it more deeply. Lastly, while my goal was to convince the team, I was also open to convincing myself otherwise. We share articles about the more concerning sides of XR in addition to the good, and keep our eyes/ears open to everything going on in the space. I don't think you can approach this planning to build a company echo chamber, and it's important that concerns are openly discussed for this to work properly.

💡𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Devices like #AVP are just the beginning. The future of digital content is spatial. I was interviewed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, a leading German Newspaper. They devoted almost an entire page to this topic in today's print edition! Here’s what we covered: 🔮 #AugmentedReality: Soon to be part of our daily routines, from restaurant menus popping up as you walk by to virtual workspaces projected on your wall. 💡 Spatial Revolution: Apple's Vision Pro & co are just the beginning. Way more to expect. Try it! 🇪🇺 Europe's role: Europe must take a leadership position in XR technology to ensure that innovation flourishes while protecting user privacy and security. Read the full interview here (Paywall) https://lnkd.in/dYUh5DPw The future is immersive, interactive, and ready to change the way we live. Are you? --- If you are interested in XR, let's connect! --- Bundeswehr University Munich, College of Business - University of the Bundeswehr Munich

🆕📄| I am excited to share our latest article titled “Virtual reality aiding fire scene investigation: A thankless endeavour or catalyst for change?”. This article delves into the potential of immersive technology and its application in enhancing fire scene investigations, particularly as an enhancement for the training of fire investigators, enabling more systematic, evidence-based, and unbiased training. Immersive technologies hold the potential to overcome the limitations of traditional training methods in simulated fire scene setups, which are expensive, can only be used once, and are prone to deterioration and contamination. 📄| This paper discusses the key aspects and requirements beyond the technical feasibility challenges that are demanded by the forensic science and judicial communities for the technology to be admissible within the justice system. 🟢| This paper capitalizes on the experience of several years of planning, researching, developing, and integrating novel technologies into forensic science. I extend my gratitude to the co-authors of this article, Eva Ljungkvist, Benny Thomsen, and Niamh NicDaeid from the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science. This output is a demonstration that such implementation must see forensic scientists and forensic practitioners working together to meet the requirements demanded by this field. 🔗 | For more details, I invite you to read the full article at this link (open access): https://lnkd.in/dPw6djeq Your feedback and thoughts are most welcome. #forensicscience #forensics #virtualreality #VR #extendendreality #XR #research

Celebrating Wilhelm Röntgen: "The Power of Seeing the Unseen" Let's celebrate the anniversary of Wilhelm Röntgen's game-changing invention X-rays. His groundbreaking work not only earned him the first Nobel Prize 🥇 but also brought the invisible to light, transforming how we understand the human body. Just as X-rays visualize the hidden within us, the concept of a #DigitalTwin aims to reveal the inner workings of processes and systems. It's all about making the invisible visible and helping us understand 🧠, learn, and improve our industrial products and plants. And just like surgeons are exploring immersive and remote operations by means of XR, we see the same immersive and collaborative environments in the context of the #IndustrialMetaverse. Let's celebrate 🎉 the remarkable impact of these innovations, today and tomorrow! #SiemensXcelerator (look, there is that X again 😉 )

Solving the most pressing problems in extended reality accessibility with XR Access Its conference took place on June 6-7, 2024, on the Cornell Tech campus, hosted by Cornell University. Renowned organizations and groundbreaking #research in their PLENARY SESSIONS: XR Access Stories: Why Access Matters - Dylan Fox 🦻 Meryl Evans, CPACC (deaf) Sunny Ammerman Jesse Anderson Ann Burke, PhD Unseen Sound - Andy Slater Sammie V. Designing Interactive AI Visual Guides for Blind and Low Vision People - Ricardo Gonzalez Jazmin Collins Using Surface Electromyography (sEMG) to Create a New XR Human-Computer UI - Kati London ASL Champ!: Learning ASL in VR with AI-powered Feedback - Lorna Quandt, Ph.D. Shahinur Alam, Ph.D. XR for Individuals with Hearing Impairment - Stefania Serafin Wheelchair Based Navigation in VR - Justin Berry StoryTrails: The People’s Metaverse - Angela Chan Do You See What I’m Saying? – The Design of Owlchemy Labs’ Subtitle System - Peter Galbraith Virtual Steps: The Experience of Walking for a Lifelong Wheelchair User in Virtual Reality - Atieh Taheri Accessibility as a Guide for Equity and Sustainability in Virtual Conferences - Andrea Stevenson Won Learnings from Co-Designing Products with People with Disabilities - Nicol Perez Erin Leary A Machine-Learning-Powered Visual Tour Guide for Attentional Disorders - Hong B. Nguyen Learn from #technologies aimed at assisting #disabledpeople in order to make mainstream #XR more #accessible: https://lnkd.in/dYFDbh2

Just had our monthly XR Practitioner Call for XR at Work and what a great conversation! 7 of us that put tech into industrial enterprises shared pain and laughs and encouragement about things like: a. What ELSE will our employer ask us to do beyond XR?! :) b. How are we supposed to keep track of all of these assets?! c. How do we keep individual plants from breaking ranks and standing up risky security threat solutions in their plant when......we have the good stuff if they only knew about us. d. Are we a financial burden on our company or are we making more money than we're spending? (Spoiler Alert: We were split down the middle on this one!) e. How do we provide emerging tech during the tough times (COVID, etc.) and not get in trouble when the smoke clears and people find out some of what we had to do to get the job done? LOL All in all a wonderful conversation with some of the smartest people in XR today who solve real problems in manufacturing with practical solutions. I love this group, this community and the people that make it special. Scott Burkey If you are an enterprise Extended Reality Practitioner and would like to join our monthly calls reach out to me at [email protected]