Visions about Virtual Reality: Our Artists Speak

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In addition to regular tickets, we are hosting a special VIP event for a select group prior to the event allowing greater access to our artists. This VIP event includes appetizers and drinks.

NO EARLY ENTRY

To read more about the purpose of this event, please read our article; https://medium.com/@jodischiller/how-will-augmented-and-virtual-reality-shape-our-imagination-and-our-stories-b5bf05f593f8#.cdqerrkv7

Tonight we will explore the greater meaning of a world using VR and AR as a daily part of life. How will that change us? What are the greatest possibilities? The greatest dangers?

Brett Leonard, the director of Lawnmower man and one of the founding visionaries for VR will be on hand to share his astounding vision for how virtual reality will move humanity forward.

Our artists are our modern day shamans and our best futurists.

Come hear four visionary artists on our panel discuss their perspectives in an inclusive community that celebrates and invites women and all underrepresented groups to join us in creating a new world.

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There will also be plenty of AR and VR demos on hand to give you a good idea of what to expect: tiltbrush, Metaverse's "Shamanic Awakening Experience", and many more.

Panelists:

Dustin Wish

From working with startups big brands and world governments, Dustin has been pushing out immersive products for 20 years. He is an engineer, film maker, designer, developer, entrepreneur and speaker spreading the passion of technology to change mankind.

Tamiyka White:

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Tamiyka White is a native of Houston, Texas. She was the Co-Founder and was Managing Director of Renaissance Performing Arts Center, a non-profit arts organization founded in 1991, which she ran for 10 years in her hometown of Houston, Texas. Her performances and film credits include: When Stars Align at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, The Boots (short film), White Rabbit, The Saint (short film) and Fifth Ward and many more. In 2011, she wrote a short film called NO MERCY. Recently, she wrapped the music video, “Over My Head” by Jade Hendrix, a commercial for StubHub and a radio drama, called Maintenance Man. She is currently working on her second project with Hosea Simmons, a web series, and a feature film trailer to go towards their Crowdfunding efforts. She is also in early development of her solo show in which she and fellow cast member, Nic Few, are collaborating. Tamiyka is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA Ms. White is looking to the future and diving into the world of AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality), working towards incorporating both in her upcoming projects for both stage and film/tv. She is excited to merge the older mediums with the new as she sees it as the way to innovate the storytelling of the future and discover new realms for creativity.

Wylie Herman:

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After training at the Groundlings in Los Angeles, Wylie moved to San Francisco and has been writing, acting and teaching improv for over a decade. He has worked extensively as a writer, director and performer with San Francisco's premier sketch comedy troupe Killing My Lobster, along with teaching at Leela Improv. Wylie’s first full length play, Better Homes and Ammo, was produced at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco in 2009. He's currently in post production for The Toll, a WWII sci-fi short film he wrote and executive produced, as well as The Esquire, his first feature film, recently nominated as IndieWire.com (http://indiewire.com/)'s project of the week.

AR/VR GOALS

A lifelong gamer, storyteller, and father of two, Wylie is excited at the potential of new technology to immerse people into wild adventures in a way no prior medium has ever been able to accomplish. He hopes to help create a profitable corner of the gaming market where the paradigm can gracefully shift from thrilling, well programmed games with light storytelling elements, to thrilling, well written stories with light gaming elements. His latest foray: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-kTeavB3IGg

Angela Haddad

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Angela Haddad is a VR artist and producer who got her start in the industry by producing story-like animated 360 videos out of hand-painted art under the handle One Third Blue. The studio creates original VR art productions for fashion brands and magazines, including Marie Claire. Angela has most recently joined as VR Producer at SilVR Thread, which creates first-person POV stereoscopic VR experiences that inclusively capture the human body, for moments that replicate the in-body human experience in its truest form. At SilVR Thread, Angela has co-produced VR experiences for Lionsgate’s movie Nerve, where three stunts from the film were recreated to be experienced by fans in POV VR, allowing for transformative, total human body presence. Angela has judged and spoken at 2016 LA Hacks, has been featured at SXSW, in WGSN, at VRLA, and is an active member of the SH//FT and Women in VR community.

Brett Leonard (on Skype from Europe):

For over 25 years, Brett Leonard has been at the forefront of the digital media revolution - whether it be as Director/Writer of the groundbreaking cult-classic film Lawnmower Man, which introduced the concept of Virtual Reality to popular culture - or being the first to pioneer modern

stereoscopic techniques and photo-realistic CGI in his hit IMAX 3D film “T-Rex” - or introducing American audiences to Russell Crowe and many other talents both in front of and behind the camera - Brett’s work as a visionary Director/Producer/Futurist has always pushed the edge of

innovation in the entertainment industry. Brett is now co-founder of Virtuosity Entertainment, a next-generation studio focused on defining and creating truly interactive narrative entertainment for the emerging mediums of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR).

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