Workshop on Augmented and Mixed Reality: Program

Workshop on Augmented and Mixed Reality: Program

May 11, 2017

Tressider Union at Stanford University

TimeTopicSpeaker(s)
8:00 - 8:45 a.m.Registration
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.WelcomeJoyce Farrell, Executive Director, SCIEN
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.The most important challenge facing augmented realityRon Azuma Principal Engineer, Intel Labs
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.Thought on the bumpy journey ahead toward ARJohnny Lee, Project Tango Lead at Google
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.Spatial Design in AR: A new era in interface designMeron Gribetz, Founder and CEO at Meta
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.(Computer) Vision for Mixed RealityMarc Pollefeys, Partner Director of Science, Microsoft and Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
11:15 - 12:15 a.m.Towards the ultimate AR/MR experience: optical hardware challengesA panel discussion moderated by Bernard Kress, Partner Optical Architect at Microsoft
Panelists include
Jim Dunphy, Optics Hardware Engineering Lead at Google
Hong Hua, Professor at University of Arizona/ College of Optical Sciences
Doug Lanman, Computational Imaging Lead at Oculus Research
Ed Tang, Founder and CTO of Avegant
Gordon Wetzstein, Professor in EE at Stanford
12:15 - 1:15 a.m.Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:15 a.m.Computer Vision for ARPanel discussion moderated by Kari Pulli, CTO of Meta
Panelists include
Selim BenHimane, Principle Engineer, Intel
Gary Bradski, CTO of Arraiy
Richard Newcombe, Co Founder at Surreal Vision Ltd and now at Oculus
Gerhard Reitmayr, Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm
Renato Salas-Moreno, Founder, Vtrus
2:15 - 2:30 a.m.Coffee Break
2:30 - 3:30 a.m.Silicon platform for augmented and mixed realityPanel discussion moderated by Chris Rowen, CEO of Cognite Ventures
Panelists include
Ian Bratt, Distinguished Engineer at ARM
Michael Kass, Senior Principal Engineer, New Technologies Group, Intel
David Luebke, Vice President of Graphics Research at NVIDIA
Liang Peng, Sr. Director at Huawei Technologies
Hugh Swart, Sr Director, Head IoT-Consumer Electronics (VR, AR, TV, Drones, Robotics) at Qualcomm
3:30 - 4:00 a.m.Preview of the interactive demo sessionDave Singhal, Fellow and Strategic Advisor at SCIEN
4:00 - 6:30 a.m.Interactive demo sessionCurated by Lily Achatz, Executive Producer at Light Field Interactive