Conference Program - The Future of AR and VR
Host: Arne Hessenbruch - Partner, Muninsight, Lecturer, MIT
Monday October 9, 2017 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Preliminary)
11:00 AM Topic 1 - AR and VR today
A state of the nation update
Each panelist speaks for 10 minutes Followed by a 20-minute panel
Moderator: Jacob Lowenstein - Manager Business Development and Product Strategy Samsung Next
Varun Mani - CTO and Founder Waypoint Labs, Reality Virtually 1st Place 2016 and Harvard Business School Candidate
Shannon Norrell - VR Evangelist, HP
Callie Leone - CEO Founder Braver Labs
12:00 PM Break
1:00 PM
Topic 2 - AR and VR in the predictable future
Think along the lines of the NSF classification of research between blue sky and development. This talk and panel would focus more on research that is in the development stage, early release or first product. Not perfectly predictable, however, we might see the technology leave the lab in one or three years. Hear what innovators predict will be impactful an relevant in the near future.
James Hamet: Lead Engineer at Neurable Lead Developer Neurable
Laszlo Gombo - Director Samsung Research America
Mike Festa Director Wayfair Next
Jinha Lee Co-Founder Chief Product Officer, TED Fellow Spatial.is
Moderator: Scott Greenwald
2:00 PM Topic 3 - AR and VR, a futurist's view
This is the opposite of Topic 2 because it is not tied to scientific research. It is a meta-perspective of people who have synthesized the present and research with a vision for AR and VR that is not tied to research or development, nor has a fixed delivery date.
Each panelist speaks for 10 minutes Followed by a 20-minute panel
Amy Korte - Principal Arrow Street
Christopher Morley - Dell, Public Relations Senior Advisor
Jim Novack - CEO, Talent Swarm & Dynatec
Osamah Choudhry: Co-founder and CEO, MediVis
FY Zhu: Holojam, Co-founder and creative Technologist
Gavin Finn - CEO, Kaon Interactive
Rus Gant - Director, Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab
Dan Novy, Ph.D. - MIT Media Lab
Amber Case - MIT Media Lab, Research Fellow
Fengyuan Zhu -
Moderator: John Werner
