I was asked to present a “NeRFs 101” talk at the CG Pro Summit this past weekend. This is a charity event that raises money for CG Empowers – all the money raised during the event went directly to create initiatives to train talented artists from diverse backgrounds who might otherwise not be able to…
I was invited to Mundos Digitales to give a presentation on NeRFs, join a panel on AI in the arts, and was honored to present a lifetime achievement award to Juan Cañada for his immense contributions to the Media and Entertainment industry. This was the first time I attended this conference in gorgeous A Coruña,…
I was a featured speaker in April at FMX 2023 in Stuttgart – in a presentation about NeRFs and on a panel about AI in the arts with Scott Broock, Sam Hodge, and Dave McKean. Both talks went extremely well, and while the videos from the event were not posted publicly, they were recorded and…
Andrew Shulkind and I are going to be on SMPTE’s monthly tech webcast in a few weeks talking about VR, AR, MR, XR, RR… all of the alternatives to reality. We’ll be covering the state of the industry and talking about our feelings on how it’s all going so far, and discussing where and when we see things going next.
I’m going to France in less than two weeks to be a judge for the 2018 edition of the Marseille Web Fest, where I will also be doing a fireside chat on VR (and probably other immersive and interactive mediums). This is my first time going to this festival – being asked to judge the web series in competition has been an honor, and watching the entries has been an interesting experience.
FMX 2016 has come and gone and left us completely jetlagged (but inspired). This is the first time that I have made it to FMX, and after years of hearing great things from those who have gone I can say first-hand that it is a great conference and you should put it on your radar!
FMX 2016 has been officially announced, as well as the initial lineup of speakers/panelists and screenings that will take place throughout the week of April 26-29 in Stuttgart Germany. Mirada will be participating in the VR demo area, and I will be on at least one panel and giving a presentation on storytelling in VR.
In early February, Unity held an AR/VR summit in Hollywood to bring together the developers and creatives that use Unity to create groundbreaking experiences for these two emerging mediums. I was asked to do a presentation about how we have added interactivity to immersive cinema in some of our VR projects at Mirada, and it is now live!
Next week I will be continuing my ‘Virtual and Augmented reality evangelism tour’ by doing a presentation at the Unity Vision Summit 2016. It will be a presentation of a series of case studies on Mirada’s work to add interactivity to 360º video, specifically focusing on how and why we chose Unity to create three of our recent…
Andrew has been asked to present an overview of the VR ecosystem for a webinar run by Cynopsis Media. The session is called “Virtual Reality: What Programmers Need to Know Now to Lure Viewers and Advertisers” and is tailored towards traditional media folks who are looking to better understand the space so that they can…
Andrew Ashton and Andrew Cochrane were invited to speak at The Foundry’s NAB booth about Mirada’s VR workflow, and their experiences working on The Google Shop VR Tour. The above video is of the first day’s presentation, which Cochrane was unable to attend due to a conflict with another project, but later sessions involved both Andrews presenting…
Here is the full-length video of Andrew’s 2015 SXSW session on digital storytelling. This session covered VR, AR, web, mobile, tablet, and live/experiential projects from Mirada and other companies working in these mediums. This panel was selected as one of AdAge’s “Ten Best Events at SXSW”: “With interactive platforms, storytelling is still critical but is…