Life stories from the XR industry to inspire and empower others
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"In the coming decade, mainstream BCI technologies will become seamlessly woven into our daily routines; blurring the lines between physical reality and digital experiences."
Michele Romani
PhD Student in Brain-Computer Interfaces
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"AR shouldn't be our escape, it should be our upgrade. Time to build an operating system for the real world, not just virtual ones."
Dr. Damien Rompapas
Founder, Director & CTO at B.E.E.R Labs & CEO at ARUX Inc.
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"XR technology revitalizes museum and gallery experiences, blending art and innovation to create immersive, engaging narratives that connect visitors to our heritage."
Mennat Allah Salama
Multidisciplinary Designer & Educator
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"When you have a presence within a virtual environment, you gain the ability to explore difficult concepts in profoundly deeper ways."
Juan Manuel Codó
Interactive Creative Director & Producer at Studio Soup
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"Creativity knows no bounds in the vast landscapes of virtual reality, where minds sculpt worlds and souls paint dreams."
Eugy Han
Ph.D. Candidate at Stanford VR
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"AI and user-generated content are the driving force behind the metaverse, a world of endless immersive experiences"
Julian Reyes
CMVO AT Founders Workshop
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"Design is not just about aesthetics, it's about solving problems and creating meaningful experiences for users. In VR, this becomes even more important as we're dealing with a completely new and immersive environment."
Michael Markman
XR PRODUCT DESIGN AT SHAPES XR
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"Emerging technologies are exciting. People sometimes fall in love with just the technology. But if you can bring something to the technology that drives you, you'll have something that will sustain you and take you on the long road."
Tristan Elizabeth Gribbin
CEO & Founder of FLOW
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"The key is to use technology to empower students, to give them the tools they need to take control of their own learning and to explore the world in new and exciting ways."
Adam Mangana, M.Ed.
cpo & Founder of Optima Ed
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"I encourage you to look for technological communities, it is here where you will learn a lot and have the opportunity to be mentored."
Miguel Torres Vargas
VR Developer at BSG Institute
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"By designing VR interfaces that can monitor the physiological states of the user and adapt to the user's needs in real-time, we can make VR interfaces more accessible, helpful, and enjoyable to every user."
Dr. Arindam Dey
Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland
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"For VR to truly make an impact (and one that is equitable) we need to ensure that these communities are heard and supported at the beginning of the XR design process." Aviv Elor
Co-Founder & Principal Investigator/ Immergo Labs
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"Are you pushing boundaries? Are you making something different, something new that no one's ever done?"
Ana Ribeiro
Creative Director/ Pixel Ripped, Inc.
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"If you could go into virtual reality and all of a sudden, movement is now an expression of self that is much more exciting and tantalizing, then you can get people to exercise who otherwise wouldn't."
Cix Liv
Fighting for the future of XR. 3X VR Founder.
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"Virtual Reality, the gateway to the future of uncharted possibilities in Nigeria."
Okoro Onyekachi Emmanuel
Program Coordinator/ Media Awareness Justice I
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"We are still learning not only the storytelling language and technical challenges for virtual reality but also how to produce it as we go."
Ricardo Laganaro
Partner, Chief Storytelling Officer/ ARVORE
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"How can we use that property of immersion in ways that you can't do with other mediums?"
Nanea Reeves
CEO, Co-Founder/ TRIPP, Inc.
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"Immersive technology will become part of our everyday lives just as much as our phones."
Veronica Flint
Creative Director/ Quixotical
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"This is the true superpower of VR, it can enhance our cognition and used right, it can make us better humans."
Ylva Hansdotter
Founder/ Director XR Impact
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