Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival - Virtual Reality & Future Technology Talks: Day 2

Day 2 of talks on VR and Future Tech below.



Today's speakers and talks include:
11:00 – Joe Stevens (Whispering Gibbon) – To Reality and Beyond: Turning Virtual Worlds into Physical Models through 3D Printing Technology

12:00 – Paul Long, Co-Artistic Director - Metro Boulot Dodo HACT: The Art of Keeping Tech Simple

14:00 – Panel - An introduction to music in virtual reality with MelodyVR
Chair: Anthony Matchett, Founder MelodyVR
Steven Hancock, Founder MelodyVR
Mark Newton, Director of Hideout Festival, Snowbombing
Rosie Foster, 100 Management (Zane Lowe, Netsky and more)
Katie Ray, Method Music (Disclosure, Sam Smith and more)

15:00 – Panel – The New State of Storytelling: The Importance of Empathy in VR Narratives
Chair: Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Assistant Editor, WIRED
Dan Efergan, Digital Group Creative Director at Aardman Animation Studios
Jane Gauntlett, Artist and Producer, Founder of In My Shoes project
Toby Coffey, Head of Digital Development – National Theatre

16:00 – Vicky Roberts (Head of Communications at Starship Group) – How to Turn Social Networks into Sociable networks

17:00 – Peggy Wu (Senior Researcher at Smart Information Flow Technologies) – ANSIBLE: Virtual Reality for Supporting Future Mars Astronauts