Sony and Bossa Studios will join Channel 4, Pinewood, The Imaginarium, Unity 3D and Alchemy VR at the SouthWest VR Conference on 24 February – an event showcasing the amazing advances in the world of virtual reality tech.
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The conference is designed to unveil innovations in the fields of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and to examine the new opportunities these technologies are presenting to film, games, TV and animation industries.
Get your hands on brand new VR products
Attendees will be able to get their hands on loads of virtual-reality tech and the event will feature the launch of several new VR products with the potential to shake up the gaming industry, as well as many non-gaming spheres.
“It’s incredibly exciting that so many producers, developers and engineers are choosing to come together in Bristol at the SouthWest VR conference”
The first new addition to the speakers line-up is Henrique Olifiers, gamer-in-chief of award-winning Bossa Studios, whose first game, Monstermind, was launched at the Eurogamer Expo 2011 and has since been nominated for two BAFTAs.
Other new speakers include Duncan Burbidge, executive producer of pre-visualisation studio The Third Floor Inc; and Mark Washbrook and Paul Colls, of game-development studio Fierce Kaiju.
Exciting time for VR
Ben Trewhella, managing director at Opposable Games, said: “Right now we’re at the beginning of a hugely exciting time in technology – virtual reality and augmented reality games, experiences and applications are about to explode like the web, social and mobile before them.
“It’s incredibly exciting that so many producers, developers and engineers are choosing to come together in Bristol at the SouthWest VR conference.”
“I’m really looking forward to SouthWest VR – I think it’s going to be great to see different perspectives of people working in VR”
Dave Ranyard, studio director at Sony Computer Entertainment, London, has worked on some of Sony’s VR projects such as The Deep and VR Luge for the firm’s closely guarded Project Morpheus virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD).
He said of the event: “I’m really looking forward to SouthWest VR – I think it’s going to be great to see different perspectives of people working in VR – and it really feels like a fantastic, grass roots event.”
The SWVR conference is being held on Tuesday 24 February. See the SouthWestVR website for more information and tickets (which have almost sold out). You can follow more announcements about the event on their Twitter feed: @SouthWestVR .
