Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology for XR

Oct 22 - Oct 22, 2018 · Portland, OR United States
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With Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies prices booming this past winter, and then crashing once again since, Blockchain technology has exploded into the mainstream. From projects promising to revolutionize the financial world, to meme currencies like Dodge Coin, this techs rapid growth has been a wild ride. But how is it going to effect or be used in the AR/VR space. Projects like Decentraland offered visions of digital real-estate for the meta-verse, while social apps like High Fidelity are using it to create an online exchange for digital assets.

This month’s event will be diving into Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, what it is, how it may be used within XR, and some examples of current projects combining these technologies.

Speakers:

David M. Daniels
Spatial Imagination Artist / CCO of YOUAR
OPEN REALITY – DLT and Crypto for the Spatial Web

Distributed ledgers and a spatial DNS (domain name service) – can help people own and control private ego-motion AR data events across the planet. This is a killer use case for decentral tech. An ‘Open Reality’ can protect our common future for both AR Clouds and shared AR Content. Together, let’s build an exciting new human language in the emerging six-dimensional (6D) media space all around us.

Since 2014: Co-founder, thought leader & Chief Creative Officer of YOUAR. David has decades of award-winning music videos and television commercial work. He is an early pioneer of both CGI and Camera Robotics for production. He invented a time-shape programming animation technique known as “Strata Cut” before co-founding Bent Image Lab with Ray Di Carlo in 2003. By working on YOUAR’s Spatial OS and Dynamic Asset Browser platform strategy, he now approaches augmented reality systems as a practical method for a world of “everyday magic.” It is a far-reaching near-future social platform that will reinvent how society manifests our collective imagination. 1984 M.F.A. in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of Arts.

Ryan Atkins
Space and Time – Converging XR and Blockchain to build a decentralized metaverse.

Ryan has a passion for understanding the ways in which society uses emerging technology to continually reinvent its relationship with reality. He believes that this process is inherently artistic and uniquely human, for better and worse and is primarily interested in the “why” & “how” that explains the “what” of technical innovation.

Agenda

  • 5:30pm – Doors Open / Food / Drinks / Demos / Networking
  • 6:30pm – Event/Talks Begin!
  • 8:00pm – Networking
  • 8:30pm – Event Ends and After Party at Portland City Grill

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Details

Date:
October 22, 2018
Time:
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://impactflow.com/event/cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-technology-for-xr-9400

Venue

New Relic
111 SW 5th Ave #2700
Portland, OR 97204 United States
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Phone:
+1 888-643-8776
Website:
https://newrelic.com/