XR DAY 2021 PRESENTATIONS
Tom Furness
The past, present, and future of VR
Marco Angelici
MEMS - Merging Life with Extended Reality
Babak Parviz
Consumer Deployment of XR
Shira Gordon
World Building in VR - Connecting in the Metaverse Across Realities
Martina Welkhoff
How the Pandemic has influenced XR across sectors
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
AMA panel with all keynote presenters
Featuring panelists Babak Parviz; Vice President, Amazon; Shira Gordon, Product Design Manager, Meta; and Marco Angelici, MEMS Micro Actuators Business Unit Director, STMicroelectronics. Moderated by Xuny Haley, HCDE MS student and Product Inclusion Intern at Epic Games.
Panel: Educational applications of XR
Featuring panelists:
Juan Rubio, Seattle Public Libraries; Marine Au Yeung, Artefact; Jared Canright, UW physics. Moderated by Elin Björling, HCDE Research Scientist
Panel: Medical applications of XR
Featuring panelists:
Hunter Hoffman, VR pioneer research scientist; Mark Brentnall, surgical sciences; Sophie Stellmach, Microsoft; Martine Stillman, Synapse. Moderated by Ivan Tarapov, Microsoft
PROJECT DEMO
UW Reality Lab & STMicroelectronics
The University of Washington's Reality Lab demonstrates how wearable motion tracking systems from STMicroelectronics can be used to enhance augmented reality for training and fitness applications. John Akers, UW, and Mahesh Chowdhary, STMicroelectronics, present a proof-of-concept AR application utilizing prior research into human pose estimation, specifically from professional basketball players, in conjunction with a wearable sensor to provide feedback for practicing basketball free throws.