FIVR & Helsinki XR Center Meetup: WebXR

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Info on the Meetup:
Time to turn our gaze towards the WWW!
WebXR – browser-based VR, AR and virtual worlds – has taken significant steps forward in recent years and brought immersive interactive experiences closer to mass audiences than ever before with easy accessibility and wide device support.
WebXR has many advantages, but also shortcomings when compared to solutions made with Unity or Unreal, which are the more popular choices among XR developers. Let’s use this opportunity to hear about WebXR from experts and advocates, refresh our understanding of where the tech stands today, what kind of solutions are made with it and what the future of it looks like, as we are moving towards a powerful new standard that utilises modern hardware more efficiently: WebGPU.
We are lucky to have two speakers on the subject:

• Fabien Benetou, prototypist and European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant: Giving your virtual world a URL, advantages and pitfalls in early 2023.
• Tommi Merelin, Chief Product Officer, Virtual Art Gallery: Democratising the global art market with online art exhibitions unlimited by reality and accessible for all.

After presentations, there's food, drinks and mingling. As the FIVR tradition dictates and will never change, you are very welcome to bring your VR/AR demo to the event and show what you have made! Let’s keep the threshold as low as possible and encourage everyone to showcase their creations. If you need some hardware on the house, please fill this form: https://hw7z3ijhse3.typeform.com/to/seSRcPgb
This event is made in collaboration between FIVR and Helsinki XR Center. Our sponsor for drinks and food is the AXE4 project of Metropolia.