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XR Day
March 3, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Update Feb 24, 2020: Tickets for XR Day are sold out! If refunds for individual tickets are requested, we will notify people on the waitlist on a first-available basis. We will not have any tickets available for day-of purchase.
The UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering presents:
XR Day
Exploring the future of XR design and technology
Sponsored by STMicroelectronics
Featuring:
- Keynote presentations from XR industry leaders and top academics
- Demos of cutting edge equipment and new applications
- Break-out sessions to spark new ideas among practitioners and academics working in the XR space
- Networking with industry professionals, graduate students, and academic researchers
The development of extended reality hardware, devices, interactions, and apps is advancing at a rapid pace. The XR revolution spans augmented, virtual, and mixed realities (AR, VR, MR). Past all the hype, what are the capabilities now and in the future? What are the hurdles to broader adoption? How do we understand the user needs and applications to design for a better future? What are the career and research opportunities?
Join the UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and presenting sponsor STMicroelectronics for an interactive day exploring the long-term potential in XR design and technologies. We invite industry professionals, academics, alumni, and UW graduate students to come together for cross-disciplinary conversations, thought leadership, collaboration, and to learn together.
Join us and help shape the future of XR.
Presenters:
Vinay Narayan
Vice President, Platform Strategy & Developer Community, HTC Vive
Vinay Narayan serves as Vice President of Platform Strategy and Developer Community, overseeing the company’s platform approach to ensure VIVE is providing the best value to both consumer and commercial partners. In his role, he also manages and grows strategic relationships to bring best in class products and solutions to the market. Additionally, he leads efforts to create and foster a community of developer partners who are passionate about XR and strives to create a path of profitability for the entire industry.He is actively involved in the development and expansion of the XR ecosystem as both a frequent speaker and sounding board for the community. He is a Board Member and Adviser to a host of emerging technology companies, associations, and institutions. He is currently the VRARA Chapter President for Seattle, Mentor for Techstars, Adviser for Commotion Incubator, and serving Board of Advisors for Washington Technology Industry Association.
Bernard Kress
Partner Optical Architect at Microsoft / Hololens
Dr. Bernard Kress has made over the past two decades significant scientific contributions as an engineer, researcher, associate professor, consultant, instructor, and author. He has been instrumental in developing numerous optical sub-systems for consumer electronics and industrial products, generating IP, teaching and transferring technological solutions to industry. Application sectors include laser materials processing, optical anti-counterfeiting, biotech sensors, optical telecom devices, optical data storage, optical computing, optical motion sensors, digital image projection, displays, depth map sensors, and more recently head-up and head mounted displays (smart glasses, AR and VR). His is specifically involved in the field of micro-optics, wafer scale optics, holography and nanophotonics. Dr. Kress has published numerous books and book chapters on micro-optics and has more than 32 patents granted worldwide. He is an SPIE fellow and currently serves on the board of directors for SPIE.
Dr. Evie Powell
Virtual Reality Engineer, Proprio Vision & President/CEO, Verge of Brilliance, LLC
Dr. Evie Powell is a games researcher and developer specializing in immersive interactions and prototype design. She is the lead UI developer at Proprio Vision, a surgical imaging company fusing human and computer vision into a powerful new system for surgical performance and training. Previously she founded Verge of Brilliance LLC, an independent experimental games studio in Seattle, and worked at Microsoft on natural user interfaces and the Kinect technology at Xbox.
With a unique career bridging gaming and healthcare, Dr. Powell integrates game design and UX design to create meaningful experiences that help people learn, play, and work differently. At Proprio her focus is on anticipating how surgeons think and designing a suite of tools to empower them to think and perform optimally. Dr. Powell graduated from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte with her Ph.D in Computer Science. Her research centered on socially pervasive game experiences and context aware gaming using mobile technologies.
Dr. Walterio Mayol-Cuevas
Professor, University of Bristol
Professor Walterio Mayol-Cuevas is member of the Computer Science Department of the University of Bristol, UK and Principal Research Scientist at Amazon, Seattle, US. His Ph.D. from the University of Oxford developed some of the earliest wearable computing systems with cameras and jointly with collaborators at Oxford and Bristol, some of the earliest examples of 6D visual SLAM in real time and its application to Robotics and Augmented Reality. Most recent work includes novel concepts of human-robot interaction, Computer Vision methods for scene understanding and algorithms for novel visual sensors and machine learning applications to asses skill visually. General co-chair for BMVC2013 and General Chair for IEEE Int Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2016).
Stefan Alexander
VP Engineering, North
Stefan Alexander is North’s Vice President of Advanced R&D. Notably, Stefan was the first to work on North’s nascent smart glasses project in 2014. Since then, he has led a team in the development of Focals, overcoming countless obstacles to bring the device from prototype to consumer-ready product. Today, Stefan is one of North’s most visionary team members, paving the way for the future of the smart glasses category. Prior to joining the team at North, Stefan led the creation of state-of-the-art display prototypes at IGNIS Innovation. Stefan’s proclivity for research follows him outside of work as well. He is a published boardgame designer, and experiments with coffee brewing and roasting techniques.
Chelsea Klukas
Product Design Manager, Oculus
Chelsea Klukas is a product design manager at Oculus / Facebook AR/VR leading the design team defining the future of work and productivity including training and collaboration.
Klukas is also a founder of MakeFashion and Lumen Couture, wearable technology startups that brings high tech and high fashion to the runway. Her “Lumen Couture” projector hat, a hat that includes real-time projection mapping and visual inputs to display video on a dress, has gained international attention as the first of its kind. Prior to Facebook, Klukas was a UX design manager at Amazon focused on social consumer innovation products including Amazon Spark and Echo Look. Before Amazon she was the creative director of BeauCoo, a social shopping startup that used technology to helped women find clothes that fit.
Breakout session topics and hosts:
SESSION 1
Did we really need VR for that? And other challenges of using VR in schools
Todd Little, Fair Worlds
The Emerging smARt Community: Mobile Augmented Reality Workshop
Julia Beabout & Susan Oldham, Novaby
Discussion on Optical and Experience Design Considerations for Mixed Reality HMDs
Ishan Chatterjee, Microsoft, UW
Design Principles for Educational XR Experiences: Bridging the Gap Between Teachers and Developers
Jared Canright, UW Physics Department
SESSION 2
The Good, Bad, and Rising Future of XR in K12 Education Setting
Jessica Pilsner, St. Thomas School
3D Audio in VR/AR/XR: The Reality and not-so-Reality
Prototyping Mixed Reality with Microsoft Maquette
Perspective-Taking in VR: Best Practices for Empathy Experiences
Agenda:
9 – 9:30 a.m.
Doors open, coffee and conversations
9:30 – 9:45 a.m.
Welcome remarks
9:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Keynote presentations
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Networking lunch and hands-on demos
1:30 – 3 p.m.
Breakout session #1
3 – 3:30 p.m.
Break, hands-on demos
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Breakout session #2
4:30 – 5 p.m.
Closing presentation
5 – 5:30 p.m.
Reception
Getting here:
XR day is held in the University of Washington’s Husky Union Building (HUB), in the Lyceum.
Bus Service to the HUB
When using Metro Transit, please use “UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HUB” as the destination. There are a number of bus routes that stop at the Husky Union Building. Review Metro’s Schedules & Maps webpage and select “University District” for details.
Parking near the HUB
Padelford Parking Garage is the nearest parking lot to the HUB. Current parking rates and all parking related information can be found on the UW Transportation website.
Biking to the HUB
The UW campus is very bicycle friendly and the HUB offers bike racks for cyclists to secure their bikes. Bikes are not allowed inside the HUB. Bike racks can be found:
- HUB North Entrance: 2 Racks – By ASUW Bike Shop and between North Entrance and N-22
- HUB Southwest Entrance: 1 Rack – Between HUB and Sieg Hall
- HUB South: 1 Rack by Bus Stop
About STMicroelectronics, presenting sponsor
STMicroelectronics is a semiconductor leader delivering Life.Augmented with intelligent and energy-efficient solutions that power the electronics at the heart of everyday life. ST’s products are enabling smarter driving and smarter factories, cities and homes, along with the next generation of mobile and Internet of Things devices. Learn more at www.st.com.
