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“After a great experience speaking at ITA’s meeting during GDC, I decided our new company, Vicarious, should join the ITA for the high quality connections and information it provides members.” – Alex Chu, Co-Founder of Vicarious

If Alex’s name sounds familiar, it should!  Prior to starting his own company, Alex was the former Head of Design at Samsung Research in Dallas where Alex helped create Gear VR and designed Milk VR.  He also spoke at the ITA’s annual meeting during GDC.  How cool is that?!?

According to Alex, “Vicarious is enabling everyone to create and enjoy virtual reality content through Vicarious, a VR magazine focused on immersive storytelling via new and legacy media formats. Our design-forward platform and tools put the spotlight on your content, allowing you to freely express yourself in VR, without worrying about the technical challenges of development.”

“VR is amazing in a lot of ways. To me, VR is the most powerful tool ever made to create empathy, and to be one of the precursors in this new way of storytelling. Trying to help create its grammar is one of the most exciting opportunities that I ever had. To make this journey, it’s essential to find people all around the world connected by the same purpose. The Immersive Technology Alliance is the best way to make this happen.” – Ricardo Laganaro, Director, O2 Filmes

The Immersive Technology Alliance is honored to welcome O2 Filmes to the fold. Recognized as the largest production company in Brazil, O2 Filmes’ owner is none other than Fernando Meirelles, the Oscar Academy Award nominated Director of City of God, Blindness, and The Constant Gardener. Read More

The Immersive Technology Alliance is proud to announce the preliminary speakers lineup for Immersed Europe taking place September 3-4 in Murcia, Spain.  Continually growing, the speakers list already includes the likes of AMD, Crytek, The Third Floor, nDreams, Starbreeze Studios, Agharta Studio, plus more and more on the way!

We are also excited to report that our official venue partner is the University of Murcia which will feature auditoriums that can hold as many as 800 people and about 5,000 square feet of exhibit space. Read More

“Very rarely do we get the chance to welcome into the world a new format – it is even rarer still that we are we given the opportunity to be part of its development.  Virtual Reality is such a unique opportunity. Amongst other applications, for us, it’s an exciting new way to tell stories. We are at the birth of its evolution and I’m personally very excited to see what its future holds.

The Immersive Technology Alliance and its Immersed Access program offers us, as developers, content creators and enthusiasts a forum to interact, discuss and present ideas to one another to help to secure an enduring, stable and enriching platform for VR.” – Duncan Burbidge, Executive Producer, The Third Floor London Inc. Read More

Just  a quick heads-up that we are doing some software updates, and this is preventing the ability to flip through the news stories from the front page.  This should be fixed soon and will not impact the Immersed Access service.  In the meantime, you can see the full news thread here.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

Each year, SIGGRAPH’s Computer Animation Festival wows crowds with the latest in computer animation and artistry.  Check out the trailer for SIGGRAPH 2015’s edition!