Neil Schneider

Half the Immersed Europe Exhibit Hall

The Immersive Technology Alliance is pleased to report that Immersed Europe exceeded all our expectations.  The world’s best joined forces to show that Europe is a vibrant marketplace for immersive technologies like virtual and augmented reality.

Resulting from the original success of Immersed 2014, the world’s best flew in from all over the world to learn and share with one another on European soil. Entrepreneurs, professionals, journalists and enthusiasts all played their part to make this a memorable and positive event for all.  Even the staunchest of competitors seemed to be the closest of friends working together to help build an industry by filling each other’s knowledge gaps. Even days after Immersed Europe, meetings continued, relationships were built, and new friendships were formed because of this wonderful catalyst.  This was magic that we look forward to seeing year after year and event after event. Read More

L-R: InnerSpace’s Ajay Fry and The ITA’s Neil Schneider

A few weeks ago, The Immersive Technology Alliance was interviewed by Ajay Fry from InnerSpace. This is the Space Channel’s flagship program with over six million subscribers and a million television viewers each week. The segment airs Monday night at 6PM EST (3PM PST). In other words, TODAY! Read More

We gave up one, and got three more in return.  It turns out AWE Company is launching their Fort York project the same week as Immersed Europe, so everyone will just have to benefit from their valuable insights at Immersed 2015 taking place this coming October 4-6 at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto.  Tickets for Immersed 2015 are on sale, by the way!

No problem!  Immersed Europe attendees have even more to look forward to with three new speakers. Read More

Neil Schneider, ITA Executive Director, at Starbreeze Studios’ Walking Dead in VR Exhibit

Immersed Europe has two big announcements today. First, we were receiving feedback that some people planning to attend the public exhibit on the Friday night wanted to see more, but couldn’t get enough time off work to participate with both days. We created a special one day pass for 199€ that is ordered through Eventbrite.  This can’t be combined with other discount offers, but this is a very affordable way to see part of the conference and also enjoy the public exhibit.  If you use a 100€ discount code (easily found through our media partners), it’s only a little bit more to enjoy two full days of immersive goodness in Murcia, Spain! Read More

Immersed 2015 is going to be hosted at the Ontario Science Centre from October 4-6, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario.  The Sunday is a free public access day with private technical workshops for registered delegates.  This is the perfect venue that features lots of exhibit space, a polished lecture hall, and very easy access for the general public to see what all the excitement is about (just an escalator away from the front lobby!). Read More

This is just ONE of the exhibits we are looking forward to seeing on the show room floor at Immersed Europe.  Mission Impossible?  HAH!  We’re on the case!  We are equally excited about additional speakers flying in from all over the world.  Most recently, Srinivis Krishna, CEO of AWE Company, and Kirill Pokutnyy, Author of Chornobyl360 are each going to talk about the use of augmented and virtual reality to teach history. Read More

Hosted on Meant to be Seen, Vireio Perception are free and open source virtual reality drivers that make it possible to play existing games in VR even if they weren’t designed for that process.  While native VR support has several advantages, Vireio Perception continually impresses games with surprise enhancements and abilities that were deemed impossible long ago.  Features like direct game camera control, positional tracking, enhanced field of view (e.g. having a 100 degrees or more FOV when a game was designed for 60), etc. Read More