IVRPA International Virtual Reality Professionals Association

The potential for VR for Africa is just huge. All VR players wishing to expand and reach new markets are welcome to join us in the initiative to reach Africa. You will discover how the strategic location of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean can serve as your regional headquarters. Leveraging technological development, Mauritius has clearly… Read More …

What kinds of post-process transformations make sense for immersive photographs and video? We can rotate the sphere, but is there an analog to zoom in flat video? It turns out that there is a not-so-obvious, but mathematically natural way to zoom. As an application, we use this to create looping worlds. Other functions can “unwrap”… Read More …

Virtual Reality is much older than one might think — it actually began with the stereoscope, back in the 1850s, when stereoscopy became a craze and millions of cards were produced over a relatively short period. Stereo cards allowed the Victorians to discover a world few had actually seen for real but that they could… Read More …

Joshua Krook will present a behind the scenes look at the storytelling of The Cinema Rosa: PC Game a story-driven narrative adventure game set in an abandoned art deco cinema that’s filled with dark mysteries, puzzles and ghosts. Can you bring peace to these haunted hallways and bring back the Golden Age of Hollywood, or… Read More …

VR is not mainstream… and that’s a problem for all of us! For our industry to survive and grow, we need to build our audience. To do that, we must provide engaging content to attract more viewers into headsets. Rachel and Brad, 360/VR filmmakers, will explain how 360 documentary storytelling is the perfect entry point… Read More …

Photographic virtual reality is going to get a lot more realistic. Stereoscopic 360 is just the beginning. Soon it will be normal to display 3D VR photos and videos in 6 degrees-of-freedom, that is, with real parallax shifts in response to head motion, like immersive versions of the popular Facebook 3D images. This will not… Read More …

Innovations in immersive interactive technologies are changing the way we explore the evolution of our planet, its environments, and its species. Combining 360° photographic and simulated spherical environments, gamification, and adaptive learning design triggers a user’s curiosity, resulting in heightened motivation and a richer, more unique personalized experience. This talk will focus on the benefits… Read More …

Since I discovered 360 interactive photography in 1995, I haven’t stopped to work and investigate every related technology. Co-founder in 1998 of Abaco Digital, I have worked on hundreds of VR projects from 360 photography to stereo 360 video now. Among them I have worked on National Geographic, UNICEF, World Bank, and MSF; collaborating with some… Read More …

  Jeremiah Scott will present several case studies in Virtual Tour applications at Boeing. Sharing an overview of the APEX team’s proven processes and several key components that have been critical to leveraging the traditional idea of a virtual tour as a vital tool instead of a “nice to have” item. Jeremiah will also share… Read More …

Using Drones at a height of 60m -120m to take 360 aerial panoramas for a variety of exciting emerging commercial uses. First emerging commercial use covered is countryside and coastal stewardship These linked 360 aerial landscape panoramas allow the user to moves through an area covering up to 2.5 kilometers. These include areas that are… Read More …