The Future of Experience? A Virtual Reality Pop-Up From Future Tense
- In-Person
- New York University Constance Milstein and Family Academic Center
1307 L St NW
Washington, D.C. 20005 - 6PM – 8:30PM EDT
Virtual reality seems to be everywhere right now, but is it more than a passing fad? Will VR change the way we experience nearly every aspect of life, including entertainment, education, and medicine? Join Future Tense for a show-and-tell about the potential of VR featuring scientists, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who are using the platform to transform their fields. Then stick around for hands-on demonstrations in our VR pop-up.
Featuring: Nonny de la Peña (CEO, Emblematic Group; New Arizona Fellow, New America; Yale Poynter Fellow), Laura Wexler (co-creator of DINNER PARTY, a Sundance Institute 2017 New Frontier Lab selection), Kristian Bouw, (CEO, NotionTheory) PLUS an interview about VR in VR with Jeremy Bailenson, (Founding Director, Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab; author of Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do), and more.
Follow the conversation online using #FutureTenseVR and following @FutureTenseNow.