What's neXt?

As rarely before in recent history, our present is characterized by imponderables, uncertainties and upheavals. No matter how long this journey lasts and what we experience along the way, it will permanently change us and our perspectives. For those responsible in companies and organizations, the question already arises: What’s next? What discoveries have we made off the beaten path and what opportunities do they open up for us? Which outdated habits are we leaving behind in the ordinary world? Will there be something like a new normal, and if so, what might it look like?

Save the Date!

IMMERSIVE X is going into the next round: On November 4/5, 2021, the conference will let its participants dive deep again into the (future) possibilities of brand storytelling. More information about speakers and tickets will follow soon!

IMMERSIVE X 2021 will take place on

4 and 5 November

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The Key Questions

  • What are the challenges for brands in a (post-)pandemic world and how to detect and use situation potential?
  • What new creative forms of storytelling have emerged during the crisis and how can they be used sustainably?
  • What does the next reality look like and what role do immersive technologies like VR, AR and XR play?

The X stands for ...

  • ... an innovative conference format that aspires to go beyond ordinary screen events.
  • ... the unknown, surprising and inspiring that you will encounter in the interactive sessions.
  • ... an extraordinary experience that we will create together with you and the other participants.

About IMMERSIVE X

IMMERSIVE X is a hybrid conference that invites decision-makers in marketing, media and communications on an interactive journey of discovery. At the event, which premiered in 2020 you will gain insights into how new digital technologies are changing the cultural technique of storytelling and how you can use innovative forms of storytelling in challenging times for your brand.

Tracks

Xpertise:
In enlightning 45-minute sessions, you will learn how to design immersive brand experiences.

Xperience:
Take a deep dive and immerse yourself in interactive storyworlds – on screen, via headphones or with a VR headset.

Xchange:
Join Campfire Meet-ups and discover the opportunities of random encounters and networking in virtual reality.

Hybrid Platform Concept

You can follow all sessions via a livestream from the comfort of your screen.

Individual sessions will simultaneously take place in VR. We will provide you with the headset on a rental basis.

Additional variety is provided by auditory content that you can experience via headphones.

Review of the IMMERSIVE X 2020

On November 6, 2020, 80 people came together to explore the future of digital storytelling. Following the principle of experiential learning, participants from the fields of marketing, media and communication had the opportunity to experience interactive, immersive technologies in a playful way for a whole day and thus get inspired for their everyday professional life.

Social VR as a New Dimension of Experience for Events

A good half of all sessions, the welcome and the after-show party took place in the „AREA X“, a virtual venue created especially for the conference, located in the social VR application AltspaceVR. Access to the virtual areas of IMMERSIVE X was provided via a VR headset, which was made available to participants on a loan basis in advance of the conference.

Press Release for IMMERSIVE X 2020
Program and Speakers 2020

Have you heard about our Monthly Event Series?

X-NIGHTS on AltspaceVR

On every second Thursday of the month, we invite you to a Social VR Experience: X-NIGHT is a virtual reality event series where you can participate in a guided tour of the social VR community AltspaceVR (X-TOURS), experience expert talks on new, digital forms of storytelling (X-TALKS), and attend parties with live DJ sets (X-BEATS).

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X-HOUR

MAR 8, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST

VR for Social Change

The Africa VR Campus and Center is a grassroots tech organization dedicated to empowering the underprivileged and nurturing talent in remote areas, fostering Metaverse growth across Africa. The organization introduces learners of all ages to emerging technologies, providing VR/XR/AR devices to promote diverse African Metaverse participation. The initiative includes weekly events from an African perspective and a development project aimed at creating an open-source VR OS and apps, ensuring free access for Africans to express themselves.

 

In this session, Paul shares his story and offers insights into Africa’s role in the future of immersive tech and beyond. You will also have the opportunity to meet some of his students and talk about the learner’s perspective.

Format

Panel and Presentation

Platform

Location

REMIO | AREA X

Speaker:

Paul Simon Waiyaki
CEO and Founder at Africa VR Campus and Center

Paul Simon Waiyaki’s journey began with VOFCIN in 2012, addressing challenges for African children. In 2014, he entered real estate to boost African growth. In 2016 he became the first African in VR and pioneered the technology by founding the The Africa VR Campus and Center. In 2019, he hosted mainstream MetaVerse event hosted live from Africa. In 2022, he launched VR & Space programs customized for the African Learner.

X-HOUR

MAR 9, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST

Art and Science in the Metaverse: Unleashing the Power of the VR Experience

This is the story of a team of passionate artists and developers who decided to bring a whole new value to the Metaverse, where visual art and science converge to create a transcendental experience.

The audience will be exposed to stunning artworks created by VR artist ShuShu VR and 3D artist Niko Lang, two of the most talented creators currently developing concepts in social VR platforms.

The Overview Effect Experience is an immersive cinematic simulation of the phenomenon defined by space philosopher Professor Frank White in his work “The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution“.
Here we take the position of humankind as we try to understand the precious value of our planet and how we can help Earth and ourselves survive in a better way.

The project was awarded the Honorable Mentions at the Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles.

We are delighted to welcome our honorable guests to the Virtual Reality event: Professor Frank White, Tom Nickel and Jeremy Nickel.

Credits:
Design concept: VRium Creative Team
Producer: Nanea Reeves and TRIPP
Sound Design: David Starfire
Narrator: Space philosopher Frank White
Creative Director: Jeremy Nickel
VR Stream Filmmaker: Carlos Austin

Nymphs is an epic theatrical artwork performed by monumental art dolls. A holodramatic theater of love and death, submerged in an amorous yet lethal underwater dream.

The project was awarded Best Virtual Reality Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival and the Discovery Award at the Raindance Immersive Festival.

Format

Experience

Platform

Location

VRChat | Theatrum Anatomicum

Speaker:

ShuShuVR
VR Theatre Artist

ShuShu’s greatest passion is art and the emotional experience it brings to our life. Throughout his career, he has gained professional experience in various fields of the arts. He decided to “immerse” himself in the Metaverse, where all the disciplines he has mastered come together in harmony. His vision is to create a new Akropolis of the Arts in the Metaverse. He has founded a team of artists – the VRium Creative Team. So far, his team has created VR experiences that have won awards at several film festivals.

Niko Lang
IT-Consultant and 3D-Artist

Niko Lang is an IT consultant, 3D artist and a long-time wanderer between different realities. The worlds he creates shape our understanding of the sphere that may one day make the metaverse a reality. 

X-HOUR

MAR 10, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST

Dragon Magic: Freedom Giants

Juliana Loh and Mada de Leeuw cordially invite you to embark on a journey of awe and wonder into the jaws of a dragon within their award-winning VR project, Dragon Magic: Freedom Giants. Meticulously hand-painted and optimized on the EngageXR platform, each facet of the world offers a truly distinctive perspective on VR design possibilities. Like layers of an onion, the story unfolds, celebrating diverse cultures and inspiring you to dream bigger.

Featured on prestigious platforms such as Raindance Immersive, Fivars, and Viff Signals, including the 2023 Passive Immersive Prize at AUSTXR Festival, their creations aim to mesmerize and inspire. Join this session and immerse yourself in our visionary world.

Format

Experience

Platform

Location

Engage

Speaker:

Juliana Loh
Creative Technologist

Juliana is a creative technologist who is passionate about imagining meaningful and playful scenarios. Since 2020, she has been recognized for vision, excellence in creativity and design as a nominee in various global XR Film Festivals and XR Creator Lists. In 2023, she was honored to have been awarded the Passive Immersive Award granted by AUSTXR Festival for her team’s 2023 VR experience entitled: Dragon Magic, Freedom Giants. Her works have also been included in various performances including live painting at the The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Science World Vancouver (Creative Technology Gallery) and public art exhibitions. She has been a member of the Siggraph jury since 2022 and is currently experimenting with AI as an agent of positive change as well as embarking on experiential projects such as Spark and Sound 2024 XR choreographed performance.

Mada de Leeuw
Production and Development

Innovative Digital Artist and VR World Creator harnessing the fusion of creativity and cutting-edge technology, Mada is a digital artist specializing in the creation of immersive 3D models for digital experiences and interactive virtual worlds. With over a decade of expertise acquired at Daz3D, she excels in producing top-tier 3D models, a skill that is very valuable in designing and optimizing captivating VR environments and interactive experiences. In addition to artistic talents, she possesses a wealth of experience in project management and art direction within the publishing industry, allowing her to effectively oversee and guide creative endeavors.

X-HOUR

MAR 11, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST

Unlock Our Potential: PlayRoomSX and the VR Somatic Experience

Mystery and magic call to you. Can you follow this song? Drop your mind into your body and become more aware of your dreams and desires.

The Metaverse offers entirely new modes of creative expression and interactivity and as we enter the age of digital relationships – PlayRoomSX is the new erotic playground – where we unlock our potential as multi-dimensional human beings living in a magnificently sensual body.

VenusSX is a VR somatic educator and coach providing pathways to freedom from social and cultural conditioning through educational events, workshops and parties in sensational virtual fantasy worlds.

In the first part of our event, we dive into the enchanted beauty and sensuality of Elysium, a Tantric Meditation Space.

Discover underwater secrets, gigantic glowing flowers in the moonlight, at the Lake of the Goddess, the Home of Peace.

Breathe, fly and play in this magical world of freedom.

During the second part of our event, you witness Elysium pulsating with love as we reveal the empowerment of somatic experiential learning in a facilitated environment.

Do not miss the mind-blowing surprise and our VR dance party experience!

World Design by VRium Creative Team

Custom Avatar by WingZeroCreations

Format

Experience

Platform

Location

VRChat | Elysium

Speaker:

VenusSX
Virtual Sensory Designer

Meet VenusSX, she who comes from the Empire of Love. Venus is excited to be discovering the potential of VR to gain somatic awareness and to improve communications in all our relationships.

She is the founder of PlayRoomSX, a digital community of real adults providing a safe space to meet and share with each other. A pleasure advocate and a sexuality therapist and coach, she is on a mission to unlock human potential with simple conversations and events that stimulate and invigorate us, so that we are enlightened about what connects us and pleasures us.

X-HOUR

MAR 7, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST

How XR is Transforming the Concert and Entertainment Industry

The future of live concerts, sport events, and conferences will be shaped by advancements in Web3, XR technology, 5G, and bold entrepreneurs who understand how to use them. At the same time, technologies such as spatial computing, AR glasses, volumetric and motion capture, holograms, AI, digital twins, VR, avatars, blockchain, and crypto will revolutionize entertainment. Artists can extend their live performances, venues and promoters can expand ticket sales and marketing opportunities, and attendees can experience concerts in revolutionary ways.

In a conversation with XR pioneer Celeste Lear, we will explore the immersive future of the entertainment industry, followed by a live DJ performance in the VR venue Club Violet, hosted by VenusSX.

Format

Talk & Live-DJ-Set

Platform

Location

VRChat | CLUB VIOLET

Speaker:

Celeste Lear
Immersive Tech Specialist in Entertainment & Concerts

Celeste Lear is a Los Angeles based professional with two decades of discipline in the digital entertainment, XR tech and audio/visual world. She has led and worked with world-renowned production teams to consistently deliver well planned and executed futuristic events, including high-tech multimedia installation experiences, video mapping, conferences, immersive festivals, red carpet events and concerts – both physically and in VR in the “metaverse”.

Founder of Boutique Electronique Music and partner with DreamlandXR & Metacities, her work also focuses on the most current technologies and trends in VR, AR, hologram, holoportation, AV, sound engineering, spatial audio, performance, music curation, music direction and live video/audio broadcasting for concerts and entertainment.

Also experienced in virtual filmmaking, Celeste has worked on various LED stage and MoCap projects as production manager and coordinator.

She has a particular passion for projects around environmental sustainability, human connection and the arts, and has worked on exciting projects for the UN, including serving as executive producer on the ActnowXR campaign for the SDGs.

AFTER SHOW

NOV 30, 2023
08:30 PM – 10:00 PM CET

Tantric Whispers in VR Heaven

Be guided on a relaxing sensory journey with VenusSX through Elysium, the only VR tantric meditation space. The mystery and the magick calls to you. Do you want to discover the hidden treasures in VR Heaven?

Dive into a world that transcends physical reality as we explore how the sacred tantric union illuminated in Elysium affords the positive grounded emotional mood.

Drop your mind into your body. This is a somatic experience, becoming aware of your breath and the subtle sensations inside your body.

Enter PlayRoomSX, the next digital erotic playground where we learn to engage in this Metaverse of freedom of self-expression

Addendum
I am able to provide specialized experiences in VRChat.

Format

Experience

Platform

Location

VRChat | Elysium

Speaker:

VenusSX
Virtual Sensory Designer

Meet VenusSX, she who comes from the Empire of Love. Venus is excited to be discovering the potential of VR to gain somatic awareness and to improve communications in all our relationships.

She is the founder of PlayRoomSX, a digital community of real adults providing a safe space to meet and share with each other. A pleasure advocate and a sexuality therapist and coach, she is on a mission to unlock human potential with simple conversations and events that stimulate and invigorate us, so that we are enlightened about what connects us and pleasures us.

AFTER SHOW

NOV 30, 2023
10:00 PM – 00:00 AM CET

BRATWURST PARTY – THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE

Whether fine or coarse, whether from Nuremberg or Thuringia, bratwursts from Germany are a hit in their own right. But that’s nothing compared to the Bratwurst Parties, a legendary series of events organised by our dear friends Mel and Klaus. Pimp your avatar, dip it in delicious ketchup or mustard and become part of the Bratwurst crowd!

Format

Experience

Platform

Location

VRChat

KEYNOTE

NOV 29, 2023
06:00 PM – 06:30 PM CET

The Future is Spatial

After reports of mass layoffs and billion-dollar losses at Meta and Microsoft’s decision to shut down the social #VR community Altspace, there was a general sense of gloom in the spiral arms and spheres of what is often abbreviated as the #Metaverse in early 2023. However, with the introduction of Apple ‘s Vision Pro and the launch of the Quest 3, the mood seems to have changed. Is the three-dimensional, walkable Internet coming, and if so, when? In a conversation with Anne Seubert, journalist and podcaster Thomas Riedel takes an inspiring look at our spatial future.

Format

Conversation

Platform

Location

REMIO | AREA X

Speaker:

Thomas Riedel
Journalist & Podcaster at Spatial Realities

Thomas Riedel is a freelance tech journalist, podcast producer, father and moderator based in Cologne, Germany. He has worked for deutsche-startups.de, Digitale Leute and Mediencluster NRW as communications officer and event manager for Gamescom and DMEXCO. He currently produces and hosts Germany’s largest Metaverse and XR podcast “Spatial Realities”, the Apple Vision Pro podcast “Beyond Reality” and the largest XR meetup in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the podcast “FutureFuture” he discusses future stories with experts from all fields. As a speaker on the topics of Metaverse, startups and digitalization, Riedel appears regularly on podcasts, meetups, conferences and as a tech expert on live TV.

Anne Seubert
Managing Director at Brands & Places

Anne Seubert is founder of the strategy consultancy Brands & Places, mentor, moderator and since 2020 Program Director at the non-profit Common Purpose Deutschland GmbH. As an experienced leader, passionate incubator and accomplished process facilitator, Anne Seubert shapes change and builds communities. For 15 years, she has been supporting companies, organizations and networks to redefine their role in people’s lives in a new and relevant way, both digitally and analogously, and develops strategies, formats and platforms for this purpose – preferably immersive, participative and transformative.

ENTERTAINMENT

NOV 30, 2023
05:00 PM – 05:30 PM CET

How immersive are virtual concerts?

As bitter as the experience of the pandemic has been, it has also unleashed creative forces in the concert business: many artists have discovered the virtual stage for themselves to be close to their audience. Memorable examples include Travis Scott’s show in Fortnite, the New Year’s concert by electro pioneer Jean Michel Jarre and the Foo Fighters’ performance in Horizon Worlds. But what effect do such digital live events have on the audience and what role do they play in a future that will be increasingly characterized by immersive technologies? In this session we take a look into the crystal ball, together with Lukas Haack, who has conducted research into this topic.

Format

Presentation

Platform

Location

REMIO | AREA X

Speaker:

Foto: FAZ BM / Marco Urban

Lukas Haack
Sustainable Futurist

Lukas studied Media Computer Science in Dresden (DE), Linköping (SE) and Amsterdam (NL) and graduated with his master-thesis on “Virtual Immersive Concerts”. While also working as a trainer for public speaking, value-based leadership, and intercultural group dynamics, he navigated the nuances of effective communication and received a Diplomacy Award from Harvard. To Lukas, it is most important to combine diverse strengths and interests to challenge the status quo and think outside of the box.

Welcome 

NOV 29, 2023
03:00 PM – 03:30 PM CET

Onboarding, Overview and Orientation 

Make sure you got your headset fully charged and let’s head to AREA X, the main conference venue of IMMERSIVE X. At the beginning of the first day, we will guide you through the program, point out the specifics of a conference in VR and answer your questions. This session is especially recommended for newbies to social virtual reality and includes a short introduction to the equipment to ensure a comfortable and enjoyable conference experience.

Format

Experience

Platform

Location

REMIO | AREA X

Warm-up

NOV 28, 2023
07:00 PM – 08:00 PM CET

Meet the Curators and the Conference Crowd

Dress up your avatar and get ready for IMMERSIVE X! Before the conference opens its virtual gates, we want to give you a chance to get a taste of the conference atmosphere. Get to know some of the conference venues and network with other attendees over a drink in our X-Bar. We look forward to meeting you! This session is especially recommended for newbies to social virtual reality and includes a short introduction to the equipment to ensure a comfortable and enjoyable conference experience.

Format

Experience

Platform

Location

REMIO | Area X

ARTS

NOV 30, 2023
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CET

Beyond the Physical Space: Potentials of Future Designs in Virtual Architecture

Virtual reality experiences often aim to replicate physical spaces, striving to create a sense of realism that can, however, sometimes feel deceptive and unauthentic. Abstract designs, on the other hand, are easily identifiable as virtual and can therefore be appreciated for their inherent qualities. This workshop will introduce you to the art of envisioning VR native environments that transcend physical representation. After an introduction via Zoom, participants will be able to join a tour through VRChat worlds, that propose alternative design elements. After the tour, the workshop members will collaborate to define new design archetypes of virtual architecture.

 

Schedule:

  • Introduction (Screen presentation via Zoom)
  • World Hopping (inside VRChat, parallel to Zoom call)
  • Brainstorming session (via Browser/ Miro board)
  • Wrap-up

 

Requirements:

Preferred: Meta Quest 2 or 3 Headset + VRChat App installed + VRChat Account
Alternative: VRChat via PC + VRChat Account

Format

Workshop

Platform

Location

Zoom + VRChat

Speaker:

Simon Husslein
Co-Founder & Creative Director at Beyond.Place

Simon Husslein combines more than twenty years of experience in design, scenography and interior architecture, merging physical and digital worlds. He has worked in Zurich, London, Tokyo and Shanghai for various international clients, receiving numerous international awards. Since 2017, he has been a Professor of Interior Architecture at the Geneva University of Art and Design, HEAD – Genève.

ENTERPRISE

NOV 30, 2023
01:30 PM – 02:00 PM CET

Open USD as the possible Future of the Metaverse?

Pixar, Apple, Nvidia, Autodesk, Blender… more than 2.800 partners worldwide support now the “metaverse standards forum”. In this session Gerd Schröder will give a short history of Open USD: “IRONMAN” in 2008, Pixar & SIGGRAPH, Apple & Nvidia, Location Anchors and the -maybe- interoperable Metaverse based on Open USD.

Format

Presentation

Platform

Location

REMIO | AREA X

Speaker:

Gerhard Schröder
Founder and CEO at K3

Gerhard Schröder started 2012 with first immersive experience (360° video) and leads now a visual- / AR-agency focused on B2B and sales. Self-proclaimed OpenUSD ambassador in Germany since 2019.

CLOSING NOTE

NOV 30, 2023
06:30 PM – 07:00 PM CET

“Like tears in Rain …”

In the METAVERSE we can fly.
In beautiful sceneries, as if we were living in a dream.
It is not only our AVATAR who flies, but our MIND.
Our SOUL.
We are the souls of the Metaverse.

What is “real”?
Is the Metaverse nothing but a virtual fake, or is there something there that is deeper than anything else we have known so far?

I have dedicated my entire life to the art of THEATRE.
This “Other Space” beyond our reality, the art that can touch our heart in its deepest places.
I realised that VR is the new incarnation of the theatre.
Together with extraordinary artists, with a great passion, we created a VR theatre and lost it.
I flew up in the skies and fell down to the abyss.

Were my tears real?

Format

Experience

Platform

Location

VRChat| NYMPHS