SouthWest VR Conference, Bristol, UK

Agenda

Time	Speaker	Company	Topic
09:00	Registration		Registration
09:30	Will Freeman (host)		Introduction
09:50	Dave Ranyard	Sony Computer Entertainment	Virtual Reality: A New World to Explore
10:10	Henrique Olifiers	Bossa Studios	They who matter: the players and their first VR experience
10:30	Patrick O'Luanaigh	nDreams	The intersection of VR and AR
10:50	Tom Carter	Ultra Haptics	Feeling without touching: where the virtual meets reality
11:10			Break
11:40	Phil Harper	Alchemy VR / Atlantic Productions	How I learned to stop worrying and love 360 video
12:00	Stephen Gray	Little Arrow 360	The Virtual Museum & Zombie rock & the VR music video
12:20	Edward Miller	Immersiv.ly	Will virtual reality be the future of broadcast television?
12:40	Andre Lorenceau	Innerspace	How to build a VR company
13:00	Duncan Burbidge	Third Floor Inc	How lessons learned while Visualizing Hollywood feature films can be applied to Storytelling in Virtual Reality
13:20			Lunch
14:30	Katie Goode	Triangular Pixels	Allow them to believe: Lessons learnt creating dynamic, VR gameplay
14:50	Ana Ribeiro	Pixel Rift	From pies to virtual reality
15:10	Nick Pittom	Fire Panda	Real-time VR storytelling experiences - Opportunities and possibilities for Filmmakers and Animation Studios
15:30	Mark Washbrook & Paul Colls	Fierce Kaiju	Early Access - from cool ideas to stuff on the shelf
15:50			Break
16:30	Will Freeman (host), Dave Ranyard, Henrique Olifiers, Kevin Williams	Sony, Bossa, The Stinger Report	Panel
17:00	Will Freeman		Wrap-up
19:00		Opposable Games	Afterparty, Bristol Aquarium

Time	Speaker	Company	Topic
11:15	Julian Williams	Wizdish	Patently non-obvious. What you need to know about VR locomotion
13:20	Andy Brammall	Unity	Implementing VR in Unity
13:40	Phil Hall	Elzware	Engineering + Anthropology + Conversational A.I. ( Ext.I. ) = NPC++
14:00	Martin Coulthard	Lush VR	Look Mum, hands!
16:00	Richard Tongeman	Hammerhead VR	Why 360 video is easier than it looks, but not yet.