03:30 PM - 03:45 PM
Nathan "V-Tach" Baker | VR Esports League (VREL)
Kevin Austin "PigOnPCin4K" Goldstein | VR Esports League (VREL)
Amy Stormant | VR Community Builders
Dewey Blankenship | VR Party League
Jade Michael | VR Esports League (VREL)
VR esports take competitive gaming to the next level through a combination of technology and physicality. For the past couple of days the team you'll see here on stage, along with PeskyCashew (Asst Leagues Director) and Damage (Business Relations/Marketing Director), have offered an introduction to VR esports in the AWE Playground.
Now we invite you to sit back and enjoy a quick mini-competition featuring Ready At Dawn's Echo Arena. Watch professional players duck, jump, and dodge as they try to score goals in a 2v2 match that will require skill and precise cooperation with their teammate.
Don't miss this exciting on-stage demo as players compete for the win and the glory while professional casters from VR Esports League (VREL) give play-by-play commentary on the action!
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
09:35 AM - 10:00 AM
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
A fireside chat with Rony Abovitz, CEO of Sun and Thunder (founder of Magic Leap and MAKO Surgical), and his podcast co-host, Forbes tech columnist Charlie Fink. Rony will discuss why he thinks we're in a difficult but necessary middle "Gemini" phase (Mercury-Gemini-Apollo) before a deeper convergence of multiple technologies enables a full flowering of the XR seeds we have been planting for the past ten years, and the five decades before that.
01:00 PM - 01:25 PM
"What are the AR Use Cases?" It's a question we get asked all the time as platform builders, but the truth is that this space has been so inundated with visions of the future that it's easy to overlook the fact that XR is here today with solid practical use cases... if you know where to look and how to look for it. Pull back the veil on the mysteries of XR as we explore case studies on XR as a value driver today and answer the philosophical question of "What would make me put on AR glasses not tomorrow, not someday, but today?" The answers may surprise you.