Shanghai Virtual Reality Meetup #2
Details
Join us for a day of virtual reality awesomeness. Everyone is welcome, from curious newbies to veterans hacking together their own DK2 from ski goggles and duct tape.
Agenda - it's simple. VR talks, VR demos, networking
2:00pm - Event Begins
2:00pm - 7:00pm - Speakers and Demos
7:00pm - Event Ends
We will be running TONS of VR battle-stations
• Racing Simulator
• Rollercoaster (with 6 degree-of-freedom chair)
• Positional tracking tech demo
• Pano video
• Flight simulator
• IronMan simulator
• HD VR glasses prototype, by professor Yang Bo from University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
• Multiple VR demos from developers and the VR Community!
Speakers and Topics
Welcome and Introduction to VR (Ben Rudick)
Virtual Reality Hardware Revolution - Real Opportunities for Developers (Christian Grewell)
VR began in the 1980s, but the past two years have seen return of VR in a big way. Oculus Rift’s successful kickstarter campaign and a 2 billion USD Facebook acquisition, Sony’s Morpheus headset for the PS4, Microsoft’s augmented-reality Hololens and recently Valve’s announcement of a high-performance head-mounted display and tracking tech are just a few. VR is evolving at a blistering pace, how can developers position themselves?
The Future of Meetings - Can VR replace the meeting? (Florian Brutsche)
The VR Industry in China, an Introduction (Chen Sheng)
VR and it's applications for Life-Assisting Technology (Leigh-Anne)
The VR Startups in China, an Introduction (Chen Sheng 陈晟)
Follow me to the Astonishing VR Worlds (Fang Shun 方顺)
VR for industrial solutions (Zu Hou Chao 祖厚超)
VR Interviews (Xu Chen Liang 徐辰亮)
We are always looking for people to give talks, share their experience or show demos or projects they are working on. If you would to present, you are very welcome to - just email ben@transi.st and florian.brutsche@gmail.com.
The event is free, but space is limited so RSVP now!!
See you in March,
-The SHVR Team
欢迎加入我们，无论你是菜鸟还是技术老手。让我们一同来感受虚拟现实的精彩世界！
我们会准备多个VR的demo（演示）供大家尝试。同时，我们还会邀请相关领域的专业人士为我们带来精彩的演讲。如果可能，我们还会在现场提供小食点心。
如果你有任何VR相关的想法、经验、demo或者项目，都可以在这里和我们尽情分享，只要提前电邮至ben@transi.st和florian.brutsche@gmail.com。
我们的活动是免费的，但场地有限。欲报从速哦！！
三月见～
-The SHVR Team
Location of the event: Transist Impact Labs
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Transist is an impact lab based in Shanghai. Our mission is to create, find, and scale companies at the intersection between technology and social innovation. We invest up to US$500,000 in young, growing companies. We also nurture entrepreneurs, technology and ideas from the earliest stages of research and development in customer discovery, product-market fit, and market entry.
创思实验室致力于发现和培育解决社会发展问题的早期科技型企业。我们为初创团队提供上至50万美金的早期投资，从客户开发、产品市场匹配等最早阶段开始孵化项目，并为大中华的创业者打造跨界的优质社区。
Primary Media Sponsor 首席媒体合作
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