It has been a privilege to have the visionary and friend Bob Cooney giving a keynote in Barcelona. Our city has become the LBVR capital of southern Europe, and the presence of industry authorities at the #XR Live Meetup only reinforces this fact
Introducing first XR Barcelona Live Meetup! Alessio Romano invited me to this #XR community event couple of weeks ago, I didn't know much, but how could I say no?! 🚇 Today, we've meet on the L4 Barceloneta metro station, and traveled to the other side of Barcelona to witness positive vibes of GameBCN studio, where XR creators started to trickle in. 😰 As with any event, first couple of minutes are filled with this positive anxiety, excitement, and I've been watching as Alessio Romano slowly losens up, as we said hi to Bob Cooney, and I've introduced myself to Heitor Bravi, Norman Benet and Leland Hedges from PICO XR. 😃 💰 What followed was an insightful presentation from Bob Cooney about ecosystem of Location Based Virtual Reality (LBVR). Bob Cooney shared his $20.000 advices, effectively granting all of us with over $10 million in his first hand knowledge about state of the industry, painting a complex, but a hopeful picture. 💰 "JUST DON'T DO IT" sounded like an invitation! 👓 Next Heitor Bravi shared updates from PICO XR about their new headset, technical specs and future possibilities - I personally am a big fan of these modular trackers they started to showcase, enabling any object to be tracked precisly in VR/XR. 💬 After this, we just started to connect and talk shop, exchanging perspective and insights, effectively building relationships, that are not that easy to build when you are stuck in front of the code or design canvases most days! 📡 Like I said in the video - meetups, events like this, they all create capacity for community to self-organize, and really breathe life into our work, and ideas we work on (especially #impact related!). I know how hard it is to organize these things (live, online and in virtual reality), so I want to really congratulate Alessio Romano, Norman Benet, Leland Hedges, Heitor Bravi for putting this up! 🎮 And also, GameBCN sounds like an interesting place to look into! Fer Arrebillaga! Let's use #XR technology to visualize, and solve invisible problems!