NYVR - December 2025

I am pleased to announce the upcoming December 10th NYVR event. Below please find the lineup of amazing presenters and here is a link to the live stream of the event.
https://youtube.com/live/blJisf7z7yQ?feature=share

Kiira Benz - Founder of Double Eye Studios, will be announcing a recent Impact Campaign targeted for XR creators that focuses on Accessibility

Kevin Gordan - Is a Environment Artist, Technical Artist, and XR developer that has been worked on various projects over the past 10 years. He's also the founder of Gx Studio Labs, an Ed-Tech company that specializes in teaching game design, engineering, art, and animation skills to K-12 students. During this event, he will be presenting and demo'ing his new XR experience called Flipmation Go, an immersive educational XR experience designed to teach users how to make traditional animation.

Zihao Zhang - Founder of WanderLens Lab and Conference Lead of HarvardXR 2025; Chinatown ARcade is New York's first outdoor AR scavenger hunt—a gamified cultural adventure powered by AR and AI technology, created in partnership with the Snap Spectacles team.
The demo phase will be assisted by Annie Hu.
For more details about Chinatown ARcade, visit:
https://dirt-goldenrod-a85.notion.site/Chinatown-ARcade-Introduction-2b6d888c93418037ac10ecb18664deeb

Brian Cortes - An indie game developer who has been publishing on mobile and VR for the past five years. His latest project - Lobster Roller - lets players race through dynamic tracks using wheel-hands to accelerate, drift, and boost. By pressing their wheels against surfaces, players generate forward speed. Whether racing the clock or opponents, players must balance mastery of the movement system with the shifting hazards of each course. Lobster Roller grew out of a desire to expand on hand-based locomotion in VR—systems popularized by Echo VR/Arena and Gorilla Tag—by imagining what would happen if your hands became wheels.

Yiting Liu is the founder of Vibes, an AI-powered music visualization platform for live events, brand activations, and immersive experiences. Starting as a passion project to make visual production accessible for live music, Vibes now creates real-time music-reactive environments for festivals, agencies, and musicians. With a roadmap toward spatial computing, Yiting is exploring the future of immersive music experiences while building her first creative tech company. Previously worked on creative tech projects for Disney, ESPN, Comcast, and more.

Ralph Roma - XR Design Consultant and 3D generalist will be presenting several of his high-profile XR projects including collaborations with industry giants such Meta, Disney and Pixar, Dubai 2020 Expo and a collaboration with the Philippine Consulate of NYC.

Alex Coulombe and the Agile Lens Team will be presenting "Productions, Prototypes, & Pitfalls". What we learned building XR this year (without pretending everything went perfectly). Not a portfolio showcase—this is a therapy session level breakdown of what we built at Agile Lens in 2025, from Stage Presence and the Royal Shakespeare Company Virtual Rehearsal Room to the latest iteration of A Christmas Carol VR and BuildFinal_FINAL. We’ll cover client projects, research studies—plus the ones that slipped away. Expect candid takeaways about budget, timing, positioning, scope creep and client expectations, from people who live in the XR trenches and still love doing it.