We are thrilled to announce the HarvardXR 2024 Conference spearheaded by the Harvard GSD XR Club! Dive into the exhilarating world of AR/VR/MR, CG/VFX, Blockchain, and Spatial Computing at this revolutionary gathering. This year, the conference will take place on April 6, 2024, at Harvard University. This one-day event consists of three parallel sessions including panel discussions and solo speeches, where numerous industry experts are invited to discuss the intersection of XR (Extended Reality) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the field of Extended Intelligence. Get your ticket today!

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Meet VRARA Boston Chapter member, OVR Technology, and learn how it brings the dimension of smell to VR.

VRARA Boston Chapter member, OVR Technology combines our oldest, most primal sense with today’s most powerful technology to address urgent human needs. Our unique Architecture of Scent® platform consists of an interconnected software, hardware and scentware solution that marries our sense of smell with Virtual and Augmented Reality to help produce real world outcomes in the health, therapy, training, education and military markets.

Join OVR Technology CEO Aaron Wisniewski, who will provide a brief overview of the company and it’s olfaction based mission, an update on their recently introduced Architecture of Scent® Platform, an open dialog on the potential uses to help further unlock VR’s potential for increased immersion and presence and the potential impact on real-world outcomes.

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VRARA Boston Chapter January Event: Use Cases and Best Practices in Education and Training

Join the VRARA's Boston chapter for the first event of 2020! We have two terrific speakers lined up and tickets are limited to 50, so get yours TODAY.

Dr. Angelina Dayton shares best practices regarding design and deployment of virtual reality user experiences into complex organizations such as public schools. Her current projects involve large scale deployment within rural schools in the Cherokee Nation and Navajo Nation boundaries: over 50 schools with over 15,000 students piloting curated content based on state academic standards.

Biogen’s Kyle Lum discusses VR use cases in the pharmaceutical industry, such as training for procedures and reviews of architecture, and lesser-known uses, such as molecular modeling, scientific education, and education of mechanisms of action.

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00: Arrival. Food and drinks available.

7:00 - 8:00: Talks (with Q&A)

8:00 - 9:30: Networking

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Circuit Stream and VR/AR Association’s Boston chapter partner to introduce how to integrate Virtual Reality in your company’s training processes to Boston. How are companies using VR to train employees at scale? How do you integrate VR into existing training programs? If you’re curious about immersive technology, this session will give you the knowledge for systematically implementing virtual reality training in your organization and what you can expect from the technology in the future.

What will you learn?

In the session you’ll understand how top global 2000 companies are using VR training at scale to generate significant ROI and savings for their bottom line. You’ll learn how to integrate VR into existing training programs, set your baselines metrics, break down a plan to scale, and quantify training results, a process that has been traditionally extremely hard to measure.

Actionable Starting Points:

• Do you have an employee training problem on complex technical systems or operations?

• Are you not able to track your technical employee training?

• Is your technical employee training dangerous or expensive?

• Small steps for implementing VR today and how to measure success

• Why your company should look at VR today and AR in the future

VRARA Members get free VIP tickets! This is a $649 value. Email info@thevrara.com for your ticket!

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THE VISION for ARIA (AR in Action)

Augmented Reality is no longer just Science Fiction. Augmented Reality is for everyday people and businesses who need to excel in the real world. It presents enormous opportunities to improve performance and engagement, to accelerate complex processes, and to reduce risks. But, beware: adoption of AR is also facing some serious challenges. There’s a lot of hype and confusion about what’s real. Our one-day program and content will help those who are not up to speed get there quickly and those who are already running to get real traction with great partners. AR in Action participants are inventors, innovators, integrators, investors, and other executives--all experts in their fields. They will be coming from the boardrooms and the trenches, ready to focus on the next great leap in human performance. When we’re done, every human empowered with AR will be able to excel in the real world! ARIA convenes the top minds of the augmented reality ecosystem for two days of sharing insights with presentations and networking. The program is designed to help explore the challenges and opportunities that face inventors, innovators, integrators, investors, and other executives working to bring the benefits of AR to the world. The event will educate, encourage, and inspire technologists to bring augmented reality into reality.

AR in Action Goals

Provide unprecedented opportunities for learning from and networking with the greatest minds in AR and adjacent fields of technology in one of the world’s greatest institutions of learning. See, touch and hear about AR research and current state of the art in production settings today. Create new and lasting connections between the greatest minds in the field tackling the current and future obstacles facing AR’s widespread adoption. Capture over 30 hours of high-quality video content about AR to publish on the Internet for viewing by audiences worldwide.

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VRX 2018 is coming to Boston on June 26th and 27th bringing a top people making and using VR and AR for industrial uses. On the 26th, many of them will come to Wayfair for an afterparty to meet the local VR/AR community.

If you have a VR or AR demo you like to show off, please contact me or Mike Festa mikefesta@thevrara.com  . It's a great opportunity to get your tech in front of some serious people.

Doors open at 7:30, event is free and open to the public. This event is jointly sponsored by the Boston chapter of VRARA and BostonVR. Free soft drinks and beer!

DEMONSTRATIONS: 

1. ROAR AUGMENTED REALITY
2. VR RACING SIMULATOR 
3. THE TELEPOD
4. RELAXATRON™ 
5. AUTOMOTIVE DEMO
6. NICE SHOES 
7. NEW GENERATION VR HEADSET 
8. iMOTIONS 
9. AR FOR SUPERHEROS
10. IQ3CONNECT 
11. AR FOR CONSTRUCTION