UC Berkeley AR/VR Pitch Competition

UC Berkeley

AR/VR Pitch

Competition

April 25, 2017

6:00PM - 10PM

SkyDeck East Overlook

We invite all UC Berkeley affiliates and friends to join us at SkyDeck on Tuesday, April 25, for an evening of demonstrations, networking, and a pitch competition.

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Agenda

6:00PM-7:30PM - Pitches begin

7:30PM-8:30PM - Demos begin

8:45PM - Winners announced

9:00PM - Reception & networking

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Meet the Finalists

Bloom Education: STEM focused VR Studio, by Brian Aronowitz.

Pengram: Cross-platform technical assistance solution, by Will Huang et al.

Project Aether: First-of-its-kind competitive multiplayer VR game, by Charles Niu et al.

TACTO: Making the virtual feel real, by Diego Costante et al.

Virtual Salesperson within an AR headset, by Aldre Jota and Christian Garaza.

ZipInside VR: Using iPhone to share virtual tours of properties, by Ruslan Gurvits et al.

Prizes

First prize will be $10K and a guaranteed acceptance to the SkyDeck hot-desking program; runner-ups may also receive invitations. Prizes may also include in-kind legal and marketing services. Angel investors and venture capitalists will also be invited and looking for investment opportunities.

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Judge Panel

Brian Coleman

Partner,

Perkins Coie LLP

Achin Bhowmik

Vice President & General Manager,

Perceptual Computing Group,

Intel Corporation

Caroline Winnett

Executive Director,

SkyDeck

Allen Yang

Executive Director,

Center for Augmented Cognition, UC Berkeley

Chief Scientist, Coleman Fung Institute

Chuck Ng

General Partner,

PreAngel Partners

Han Jin

Founder and CEO,

Lucid VR

Jack McCauley

Co-founder,

Oculus

Lee Fleming

Director,

Coleman Fung Institute

Praveen Gupta

VP Corporate Investments and Development,

HTC

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Sponsors

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Organizers

Questions? Feel free to contact us!

Allen Y. Yang,

Executive Director,

Center for Augmented Cognition

yang@eecs.berkeley.edu

Lee Fleming,

Director,

Fung Institute and CoE and Haas professor

lfleming@berkeley.edu