XRVienna

⭐️🎄It’s that time of the year again! 🦌⭐️ Homemade cookies and mulled wine are coming your way again. XRVienna’s pARty feVR is coming back in town! When: December 10, 6:00 PM CEST Where: vrisch HQ, Praterstraße 17/1/2, 1020 Vienna RSVP link: https://lnkd.in/dE_u_3Va More details coming soon, stay tuned! •••Event realized with the outstanding support of the Wirtschaftsagentur Wien and powered by Immersive Entertainment studio vrisch and XR studio Immerea ••• #xrvienna #xr #vr #ar #communityevent #networkingevent Euromersive Women in Immersive Technologies Europe

🤩 Some insights from our joint booth AWE together with Euromersive and Women in Immersive Technologies Europe 🙌 We had such an incredible time! Thanks to our amazing partners, to the community members who showcased their XR projects at the booth, to our volunteers, to our great neighbors Polycular, to the whole PICO XR and AWE team, and to each and every one of you for your incredible support, knowledge, and presence that made this event truly unique! •••𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 Wirtschaftsagentur Wien 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 vrisch 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗫𝗥 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 Immerea ••• Sonya Haskins Ori Inbar Georgeta Bocșe Nate Harper Isabel De Peuter-Rutten Ⓜ️ Sabine Madritsch Rob Pereira Heitor Bravi Jia Kim Leland Hedges François Bouille Anaïs Foin-Hakes Maud Clavier Stephanie Meisl Andreas Fraunberger Muki Kulhan Lisa Maria Egger Gero A.E. Egger Arrival.Space Tamer Aslan Florian Wiencek Victor Mabika Thomas Layer-Wagner Irina Paraschivoiu Klaus Neundlinger Gerda Leopold Vera L. B. Grablechner, MA Antony Vitillo and many more! #awe #aweeu2024 #xrindustry #virtualreality #augmentedreality #metaverse #technology #networkingevent #communityvibes

[COMMUNITY MEMBER NEWS] World's First Virtual & Global Tennis Party! Hey! 🎉 Join our tennis party to celebrate the launch of our Social Club! 🎾 You're invited for an evening of fun and community. Date: November 13th Time: 8 PM CET Place: Tennis Esports - Social Club on Meta Horizon Dresscode: Casual tennis outfit Can’t wait to see you there! #tennis #esports #meta #vr #metaquest #wilson #atp #wta #sportstech Gregory Gettinger, Ph.D.

Match XR 2024 is around the corner! 🚀 19.11.2024 🚀 get your ticket today! FIVR Euromersive XRVienna XR4Europe STHLM Music City EIT Culture & Creativity XR Women Women in Tech Finland Women in Immersive Technologies Europe XR INTERACTION CultTech Association

Last week, I attended AWE EU, the The World's #1 XR Event. City Games Vienna was one of the finalists in the Startup Pitch competition and it was a very nice chance to test my pitching skills as well as receive feedback from the jury and investors. We couldn't win it but I am very happy to see Maria Grazia Le Mura win with her company Beyond Words, helping thousands learn new languages using VR. Also, all finalists got a brand new Snap Inc. Spectacles, so it was great to try out the newest gadget in the market as well. Thanks! At the event I also had the chance to try out different AR and VR technologies. I must say some things still need clear use cases but I can definitely say they are getting better. Especially Niantic, Inc. is worth mentioning with their wide range of applications for location-based games. So once more, was a pleasure to meet all of you! Sonya Haskins Petri Rajahalme Gabriella Chihan Stanley Axel Dietrich Flavia Mazzanti Manuel Bonell Doruk Eker Ayda Karasakal Gokce Balkan Orb Amsterdam vrisch Immerea #AR #VR #XR #Gaming #innovation #Startups #Vienna

I got to witness the 1st #CultTech Summit in Vienna — thanks for the invitation, Severin! It was a very well-curated program and high-quality event. Great people, out-of-the-box projects, and the common mission to push creativity, tech, social impact, culture, and arts 👉CultTech Association RED-EYE Daniel Face Hannah Whitlow Stefan Lattner Garry Yankson Petra Kralj Novak Martijn van Schaik 🔜 Culttech Vienna Alexey Steblev Pierre-Francois Marteau Lena K Samuelsson Zara Ad Pa Daniel Adewole Daphne Laan Hermann Gams Uli Schmitz Oliver Holle Hazel Savage Robby Schwertner [CryptoRobby]🦋 Ben Santucci Katharina Jeschke Pavel Yablonskiy YIQIN ZHU Stephanie Meisl Kristina Leipold Brendan Ciecko Jo Vávra Gabriella Chihan Stanley Axel Dietrich EIT Culture & Creativity Peter Cafferkey New Renaissance Ventures Arrival.Space #culttechsummit #XR #innovation #web #immersiveculture #museumsquartier #vienna #arrivalspace

Tuesday the Culttech Accelerator program came to an end with the Demo Day at Culttech Summit, where we pitched City Games Vienna and our Monster Hunts. We received incredible interest! It is wonderful to see that many creatives and professionals share our vision and would like to join our journey. Here is some impressions from our participation and a shoutout to all the lovely people we met there :) So first: Thanks to the CultTech Association! Sarah Luiz Tatiana Ilyina Samanta P. Alejandra Prieto Galina Fallenegger Ulrike Adler Stevens Dear startups of the batch: Pamela Osman Michael Schramm Michael Fiorentino Tim Haering Virginie Maire Mathias Preisler Luis Martinez Bruno Muñoz de Escalona Gianluca Boccadifuoco Alaa Elhadba Marco Da Rin Zanco Xinyue Yang Stephanie Chan Daniel Adewole Terence Reilly Emil Thiim Berner Hansen Was lovely to see my Ars Electronica family: Kathrin Obernhumer Gerfried Stocker Christopher Lindinger As well as Vienna community: Gabriella Chihan Stanley Axel Dietrich Constanze Mitterhuemer Dudu Gencel Sergiu Ardelean Aaron Windfield Erik Herrström Andreas Göltl Thomas Traxler And all the visitors from around the world: Cagil Ozdemir Mari Matsuzaki Wouter Vertogen and if you are interested, come join our journey! https://lnkd.in/drtjXaSy #culttech #CultTechSummit #CulturalInnovation #CulturalEmpowerment #urbangames #gamification #culture

What’s more immersive, (i) a book or (ii) a #VR game/XR film? It seems that there are two types of immersion, that while they are independent they can be quite complementary! 🥹 There is emotional immersion: emotional engagement with the content - driven by storytelling, narrative, and empathy with (virtual) characters. 🔭 And there is spatial immersion: physical presence - driven by visuals, spatial sound, and interactive elements. I’ve experienced emotional #immersion a lot while reading, I’ve also experienced spatial immersion in my day-to-day work and in technical demos. But what really stands out are experiences that can give me both. And I found that a well-designed spatial environment can also enhance the emotional resonance by making virtual worlds feel more real so that it becomes really natural to empathize with situations or characters. Kind of a long intro 😂 ! I wanted to share, that we are doing a webinar/masterclass hosted by Oliver Kadel MPSE, and Monica Bolles! About: What’s the magic of hearing? What #spatialaudio solution is right for you? How can you evaluate the technical and perceptual quality of different spatial audio tools? What game engine, middleware, and plugin combinations to use for what project? How many sounds can we hear, and how many sound objects can be rendered? With: Live Demos and Jelmer Althuis as a special guest. 👉 Link to the event: https://lnkd.in/dyvXYEri 👉 Link to the LinkedIn event (for more info): https://lnkd.in/d8wAM9ZV For: sound designers, game devs, creatives, technical sound designers, audio directors and all of you: Lisa Maria Egger, Gabriella Chihan Stanley, Jelmer Althuis, Julian McCrea, Ana Monte, Hyunkook Lee, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Weronika M L., Thomas Aichinger, Théo Nogueira, Gary Spittle, Sean Garavan, Tom Bleys, Jacob Hedges, Johan Englund, Martin Rieger, Brian Schmidt, Niraj Gera, Stefans Marinaki -- Please comment if there is anything you’d like to learn more about in the context of spatial audio for games and XR? And if you know anyone who would like to learn more about this topic - please spread the word or mention. Really appreciate your support! #sounddesign #gamedev #unity #fmod

Web ontology, the reality of AI art, data semantics, and the future of fashion. These were some topics I (and my kid, as you can see in the photos 😂) learned and discussed during this week's CultTech Association's Summit and the Wikimedia Foundation's MediaWiki conference. As always, I'll avoid conference summaries and share some conference ponderings as if you were sitting next to me there. Here it goes: 📚 Knowledge Management, Semantics, and Data Sovereignty What is the future of structured data? #DataSovereignty is and will become an increasingly vital topic to discuss and consider. It's not enough to think of how to gather and organize data, but also how users can use it, how they keep control of it, and how they can learn how the organizing structure influences their #digitallegacy and online persona. There is an increasing need for data-organizing systems that move data away from commercially oriented algorithms and closer to users to empower them to gather, organize, and archive their data based on their values and motivations. I'm working on a project that explores understanding and organizing #knowledge when using #AI and natural language to structure #data. Thanks, Dr. Karsten Ehms, Richard Evans, and especially Cindy Cicalese, for your interest in my initiative 😁 🖼️ Experimentation and digital literacy in #artsandculture #innovation It was a pity I didn't get to ask questions during Brendan Ciecko, Kristina Leipold, and Martijn van Schaik 🔜 Culttech Vienna's panel (your moderation questions were EPIC, Stephanie Meisl!), so I share it here for the panelists in hopes that we can all learn from the answer. My question is: A recurrent statement during your talk was, "We need to experiment a lot in-house before investing in culttech projects." Thinking of #sustainability, purposeful tech development, and the price of trial and error, what do you base this experimentation on? How much #digitalliteracy do you invest in (or suggest to your clients) to ground your final result? When you kill a running initiative, how do you care for its current community? How do you measure initiative success? Is it quantity? Transformative power? What do you base yourself on when you discontinue a tech project? 🧥Is the #futureoffashion expression? In a panel moderated by Sergiu Ardelean, I asked this: #Fashion is culture, iconic, and fashion is history. Think of the 70s and 80s and how fashion has identified them. In an ever-growing customization of fashion, how do you see the iconic fashion legacy of our era and the ones to come? Gloria Maria Cappelletti, YIQIN ZHU, and Veronica D'Souza, I want to keep picking your brain! I ran out of characters, so I need to stop 😂 Congrats Tatiana Ilyina, Samanta P., and the CultTech team for an excellent event and also thanks to Wirtschaftsagentur Wien for the MediaWiki conference ticket. Also, Bistra Kumbaroska your debate was FIRE! Lisa Maria Egger Reanne Leuning Tamer Aslan Ricard Gras Selena Deckelmann

The opening party by Lenovo kicked of AWE Europe yesterday October 28th in Vienna. 🍻 It was great to engage with Oliver Wöhler to exchange about the business opportunities that #thinkreality offers. Good some good insights that will for sure make our clients life’s easier for integration #xr #experientiallearning into their existing educational settings!  In that respect I had also a brief exchange with Michael Alber for better scaling up our #xrtrainings  Of course a large delegation of XRVienna has been present as well and it was great seeing you folks Gabriella Chihan Stanley Axel Dietrich Manuel Bonell Flavia Mazzanti , also looking forward to CU guys tonight again! Following this, I attended the FINNISH-AUSTRIAN INNOVATION NIGHT @AWE: SPOTLIGHT ON INDUSTRIAL METAVERSE AND AI organised by Business Finland  Süleyman Zorba summarized in his opening talk the state of the Austrian XR industry and lined out the opportunities an exchange between the Finnish and Austrian XR industry would open up!  The podium discussion led by @Santeri Saarinen and on the podium with Matthias Grabner Alissa Burova Sehrschön Harald Markus Wiedemann summariezd nicely the state of the industry and the related challenges #UX #headsets #accesibility  I Learned about the XR ambitions from Hanna Heinonen KONE with respect to their maintenance workforce as well as about the aims Umdasch Group with Maria Tagwerker JUNGHWO PARK & Ersan Ismami The concluding presentation by Martin Herdina provided some positive vibes and projections for the XR Ecosystem in the context of Hololight ’s agenda. #xreducation #xrtraining #experientiallearning #reskilling #upskilling #workforcetransformation Pasi Hurri Jani Leskinen  Christoph Sitar Benjamin Roszipal Markus Karlseder Bernhard Schmatzberger Gerald Dipplinger Andreas Balog Florian Hader Raimund Schatz Andreas Sackl Horst Orsolits Kerstin Repolusk Norbert Lechner Thomas Wolfinger Holger Hager Michael Gschwandtner Jakob Selinger XRCONSOLE MINDCONSOLE