Plan the perfect Meta Connect experience.
Meta Connect 2022 is just days yonder and excitement is building. According to Meta, this year’s event will focus on the company’s XR goals and how inclusivity through user experiences and avatars will play a major role moving forward.
Along with a keynote led by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Connect 2022 will moreover full-length three key speakers for the Developer State of the Union, 30 variegated developer sessions, and an unscripted conversation with John Carmack well-nigh the future of technology.
This year the yearly event will be hosted by Emmy-award winner Melinda Davenport, Director of Internal Communications for Meta, and well-known Instagrammer Karen X Cheng, who has been named Inc 30 and Adweek’s Creative 100 for her work in AI and AR.
To help you plan the perfect event, Meta has put together a list of some of the can’t-miss sessions that will be featured at Connect 2022. Of course, you can go through the schedule yourself by clicking here and see what sessions resonate with you.
Developer State of the Union
Anand Dass, Chris Pruett, and Yardley Pohl will focus on the latest developments in Meta’s VR ecosystem and how they can help you build and manage your business. They’ll moreover talk well-nigh the various tools and programs that Reality Labs has misogynist to help bring those ideas into your workflow with the least value of disruption.
Carmack Unscripted
Whatever you do. Do not miss this one. Reality Labs Consulting CTO John Carmack will take the stage for an unfiltered, unscripted conversation on technology. Carmack joined Oculus in 2013 and worked with Palmer Luckey to develop and launch the original Oculus Rift.
He stepped lanugo as CTO in 2019, saying, “I’m going to work on strained unstipulated intelligence (AGI). I think it is possible, enormously valuable, and that I have a non-negligible endangerment of making a difference there. So by a Pascal’s Mugging sort of logic, I should be working on it. For the time stuff at least, I am going to be going well-nigh it “Victorian Gentleman Scientist” style, pursuing my inquiries from home, and drafting my son into the work.”
Building Bridges to the Metaverse
In this talk, Alex Hopmann, the software engineer for Meta Software, and Andy Shenton, the throne of studio at Unit 2 Games, will talk well-nigh how it’s possible for you to create compelling and meaningful connections between the user-generated content megacosm platforms Horizon Worlds and Crayta.
Designing VR for Women
Ellen Utrecht, the founder of MikeTeevee, Meta Content Launch Manager Richard Duck, and Ting Wang, the throne of shared production at Resolution Games, will discuss what features and systems weightier engage and retain female-identifying audiences wideness a variety of genres. They’ll moreover talk to the developers of Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pig, The Last Clockwinder, and The Shores of Loci.
Growing Communities in VR with Integrity and Trust
In this talk, John Connell, throne of merchantry minutiae for Modulate, will be joined by WebPurify Founder Joshua Buxbaum, Meta Games Producer Mari Kyle, and Hive Sales and Merchantry Minutiae Director Simon Lebsekal, to talk well-nigh how VR developers can build and manage thriving online communities.
Inclusive Diamond and Towers for Diverse Audiences
Attendees will walk yonder with a deeper understanding of how to diamond applications that are inclusive and how to use feedback from players to modernize their games.
Mari Kyle, a producer at Meta Games, will talk well-nigh the various considerations that go into making a game increasingly welcoming to diverse audiences. Tom Ivey, the Executive Producer of Resident Evil 4, will moreover join the conversation to talk well-nigh the various mechanics and features that are designed to make the game increasingly inclusive.
The Creator Journey—Bridging to the Metaverse
Meta Director of AR Partnerships, Chris Barbour, will introduce attendees to variegated skills they can learn to grow their merchantry while standing to develop their technical knowledge. In addition, Metaverse Artist Denis Rossiev, Dude Studios Tech Artist and Founder Eugene Soh, VMLY&R Spatial Designer, Speaker, AR Consultant Luke Hurd; and Seeds Creative Director Mitsuko Ono, will moreover be on-hand to add to the dialog.
Use Spatial Audio to Build Increasingly Immersive Experiences with Presence Platform
Through the Meta Platform, developers can now create increasingly immersive and engaging experiences by leveraging spatial audio capabilities. In this talk, Brett Gildersleeve, product manager at Meta, and Henry Halvorson, sound designer of Meta, will be talking well-nigh the various features and capabilities that are misogynist to help them build increasingly constructive and engaging experiences.
Other sessions to mention here are:
- Creativity, Collaboration, and Community with Aaron Sorrels, Daniel Martín García, and Natalie Griffith
- Embracing a New Identity: Integrating Meta Avatars in Already Established Product with Jolyon Webb
- Inclusive Diamond and Towers for Diverse Audiences with Mari Kyle and Tom Ivey
You can trammels out the unshortened Meta Connect schedule here. To watch Meta Connect 2022 in VR, register here and then log into Horizon Worlds on October 11. You can moreover watch the event on the Reality Labs Facebook page.
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