This Immersive Globe: A Virtual Gathering for the Global Immersive Industry
The Global Immersive Industry Comes Together this August! You're Invited to an International Speakers Series and Networking Spectacular...
The Global Immersive Industry Comes Together this August!
You're Invited to an International Speakers Series and Networking Spectacular!
You are invited to a one-of-a-kind event, taking place every Sunday in August.
Leading artists and producers from projects like London and Shanghai's Alice's Adventures Underground, Los Angeles' Delusion, London's The Great Gatsby, Baobab Studios, New York's Queen of the Night, Chicago's Nevermore Park, New York's Sweeney Todd, Denver's David Byrne's Theater of the Mind, Los Angeles' Mycotoo and Giant Spoon, Germany's The Room, Paris' Helsingor, India's The Crow Experience, and more are all gathering together on a special new platform this August.
Guests will navigate a virtual hall with an avatar, alternating between talks, panels, structured networking, and unstructured networking, as the RPG-like platform allows for the serendipitous side conversations that make conferences fun and electric. Speakers stretch from Los Angeles to New York to London to Paris to Berlin to South Korea to India to China, and encompass the world's leading immersive theatre, escape rooms, and mixed reality experiences. You won't just listen; you'll have your own voice, as you participate in structured networking, town hall discussions, and our virtual bar.
Plus, the event kicks off with a COVID update from scientist Jacob Glanville, the Gates-funded star of Netflix's Pandemic, who has just cured the coronavirus in hamsters. Over the course of five action-packed weeks, we'll look at the world we're facing now, what opening up looks like across the world, and how to take the globe by storm when a vaccine arrives. Along the way, we'll forge connections among artists and fans of immersive experiences from across the entire world.
This one-of-a-kind event takes place every Sunday in August, from 12p to 3p Pacific, enabling the Americas and Europe to comfortably join. One of either 8/16 or 8/23 will be from 5p to 8p Pacific, enabling the Americas and East Asia to join. Individual programming will be announced over the coming days, and you can view speakers to date at ThisImmersiveGlobe.com, with many more being added from all continents!
Tickets are limited! Tickets for a 5-Session Pass are now on sale for $49. Tickets for BIPOC creators are free (registration is required). Individual Day Passes ($16+) are expected to go on sale next week, pending availability. Ticket sales go to paying the cost of putting the event on, and every dollar above the costs of the event will go to micro-grants to immersive artists from underrepresented backgrounds. We are committed to giving at least $1,000 in micro-grants. Info on applying for micro-grants will be available in the coming weeks!
So grab a drink, and join us! We'll see you -- and the rest of the Globe -- in August!
* Schedule subject to change. Speakers may move to different dates and new speakers may be added.
Week One (Aug 2nd) features a COVID-19 update from scientist Jacob Glanville (star of Netflix's Pandemic) and presentations by London's The Great Gatsby, Baobab Studios, scholar on immersive theatre and trauma Nandita Dinesh, Singapore's ANDSOFORTH, Oklahoma City's Factory Obscura, and Nick Moran. the escape room designer of Sherlock: The Game is Now.
Week Two (Aug 9th) features an address by Punchdrunk International and Sleep No More's Colin Nightingale, a presentation by Les Enfants Terribles, the creators of Alice's Adventures Underground in London Shanghai, and more from Bangalore's Aruna Ganesh Ram, Optika Moderna's David Reynoso, producer Niyia Mack (whose credits span Meow Wolf, Delusion, The Speakeasy Society, Safehouse '77 and more), and San Jose Taiko.
Week Three (Aug 16th) features Mycotoo and Giant Spoon, the companies behind Westworld and Game of Thrones at SXSW, as well as Delusion creator Jon Braver, Paris' Leonard Matton, Nayantara Kotian of New Delhi's Crow, Andressa Furletti and Debora Balardini of New York's Brazilian theatre company Group .BR, and more to be announced!
Week Four (Aug 23rd) features a special discussion with directors and producers from China, plus Whisperlodge's Melinda Lauw, actor Dasha Kittredge of Delusion and The Under Presents, and the creator of Seoul's Scarecrow VR.
Week Five (Aug 30th) features the team behind The Room Berlin, the Top Escape Room Project's top escape room company of the 2019, as well as ARG pioneer Sean Stewart, touring solo artist Siobhan O'Loughlin, and creator Sara Beil.
Speakers Include:
Debora Balardini of Group .BR
Michael Beneville of Area 15
Amber Rae Black of Factory Obscura
Jon Braver of Delusion
Lindsey Cox of Factory Obscura
Nandita Dinesh, Scholar
Winston Fisher of Area 15
Andressa Furletti of Group .BR
Felix Gaedtke of NowHere Media
Jacob Glanville of Distributed Bio
Brian Hook of The Great Gatsby
Patrick Jong of Giant Spoon
Kelsey Karper of Factory Obscura
Nate Koch of Enveekay
Nayantara Kotian of Crow
Chris Lattner of The Room Berlin
Oliver Lansley of Les Enfants Terribles
Melinda Lauw of Whisperlodge
Kane Lee of Baobab Studios
Sngmoo Lee of Scarecrow
Eddie Lou of Sandman VR
Leonard Matton of Helsingor
Zoey Martinson of Smoke and Mirrors Collaborative
Gayatri Parameswaran of NowHere Media
Emily Png of And So Forth
Prashant Prakash of Crow
Aruna Ganesh Ram of Visual Respiration
David Israel Reynoso of Optika Moderna
James Seager of Les Enfants Terribles
Sean Stewart, ARG Pioneer
David Wally of Mycotoo
Stuart Wee of And So Forth
...with more on the way, from around the world!
The Global Immersive Industry Comes Together this August! You're Invited to an International Speakers Series and Networking Spectacular...
The Global Immersive Industry Comes Together this August!
You're Invited to an International Speakers Series and Networking Spectacular!
You are invited to a one-of-a-kind event, taking place every Sunday in August.
Leading artists and producers from projects like London and Shanghai's Alice's Adventures Underground, Los Angeles' Delusion, London's The Great Gatsby, Baobab Studios, New York's Queen of the Night, Chicago's Nevermore Park, New York's Sweeney Todd, Denver's David Byrne's Theater of the Mind, Los Angeles' Mycotoo and Giant Spoon, Germany's The Room, Paris' Helsingor, India's The Crow Experience, and more are all gathering together on a special new platform this August.
Guests will navigate a virtual hall with an avatar, alternating between talks, panels, structured networking, and unstructured networking, as the RPG-like platform allows for the serendipitous side conversations that make conferences fun and electric. Speakers stretch from Los Angeles to New York to London to Paris to Berlin to South Korea to India to China, and encompass the world's leading immersive theatre, escape rooms, and mixed reality experiences. You won't just listen; you'll have your own voice, as you participate in structured networking, town hall discussions, and our virtual bar.
Plus, the event kicks off with a COVID update from scientist Jacob Glanville, the Gates-funded star of Netflix's Pandemic, who has just cured the coronavirus in hamsters. Over the course of five action-packed weeks, we'll look at the world we're facing now, what opening up looks like across the world, and how to take the globe by storm when a vaccine arrives. Along the way, we'll forge connections among artists and fans of immersive experiences from across the entire world.
This one-of-a-kind event takes place every Sunday in August, from 12p to 3p Pacific, enabling the Americas and Europe to comfortably join. One of either 8/16 or 8/23 will be from 5p to 8p Pacific, enabling the Americas and East Asia to join. Individual programming will be announced over the coming days, and you can view speakers to date at ThisImmersiveGlobe.com, with many more being added from all continents!
Tickets are limited! Tickets for a 5-Session Pass are now on sale for $49. Tickets for BIPOC creators are free (registration is required). Individual Day Passes ($16+) are expected to go on sale next week, pending availability. Ticket sales go to paying the cost of putting the event on, and every dollar above the costs of the event will go to micro-grants to immersive artists from underrepresented backgrounds. We are committed to giving at least $1,000 in micro-grants. Info on applying for micro-grants will be available in the coming weeks!
So grab a drink, and join us! We'll see you -- and the rest of the Globe -- in August!
* Schedule subject to change. Speakers may move to different dates and new speakers may be added.
Week One (Aug 2nd) features a COVID-19 update from scientist Jacob Glanville (star of Netflix's Pandemic) and presentations by London's The Great Gatsby, Baobab Studios, scholar on immersive theatre and trauma Nandita Dinesh, Singapore's ANDSOFORTH, Oklahoma City's Factory Obscura, and Nick Moran. the escape room designer of Sherlock: The Game is Now.
Week Two (Aug 9th) features an address by Punchdrunk International and Sleep No More's Colin Nightingale, a presentation by Les Enfants Terribles, the creators of Alice's Adventures Underground in London Shanghai, and more from Bangalore's Aruna Ganesh Ram, Optika Moderna's David Reynoso, producer Niyia Mack (whose credits span Meow Wolf, Delusion, The Speakeasy Society, Safehouse '77 and more), and San Jose Taiko.
Week Three (Aug 16th) features Mycotoo and Giant Spoon, the companies behind Westworld and Game of Thrones at SXSW, as well as Delusion creator Jon Braver, Paris' Leonard Matton, Nayantara Kotian of New Delhi's Crow, Andressa Furletti and Debora Balardini of New York's Brazilian theatre company Group .BR, and more to be announced!
Week Four (Aug 23rd) features a special discussion with directors and producers from China, plus Whisperlodge's Melinda Lauw, actor Dasha Kittredge of Delusion and The Under Presents, and the creator of Seoul's Scarecrow VR.
Week Five (Aug 30th) features the team behind The Room Berlin, the Top Escape Room Project's top escape room company of the 2019, as well as ARG pioneer Sean Stewart, touring solo artist Siobhan O'Loughlin, and creator Sara Beil.
Speakers Include:
Debora Balardini of Group .BR
Michael Beneville of Area 15
Amber Rae Black of Factory Obscura
Jon Braver of Delusion
Lindsey Cox of Factory Obscura
Nandita Dinesh, Scholar
Winston Fisher of Area 15
Andressa Furletti of Group .BR
Felix Gaedtke of NowHere Media
Jacob Glanville of Distributed Bio
Brian Hook of The Great Gatsby
Patrick Jong of Giant Spoon
Kelsey Karper of Factory Obscura
Nate Koch of Enveekay
Nayantara Kotian of Crow
Chris Lattner of The Room Berlin
Oliver Lansley of Les Enfants Terribles
Melinda Lauw of Whisperlodge
Kane Lee of Baobab Studios
Sngmoo Lee of Scarecrow
Eddie Lou of Sandman VR
Leonard Matton of Helsingor
Zoey Martinson of Smoke and Mirrors Collaborative
Gayatri Parameswaran of NowHere Media
Emily Png of And So Forth
Prashant Prakash of Crow
Aruna Ganesh Ram of Visual Respiration
David Israel Reynoso of Optika Moderna
James Seager of Les Enfants Terribles
Sean Stewart, ARG Pioneer
David Wally of Mycotoo
Stuart Wee of And So Forth
...with more on the way, from around the world!
Alice's Adventures Underground in Shanghai, created by Les Enfants Terribles.
Los Angeles' Delusion
Oklahoma City's Factory Obscura
London's The Great Gatsby
Scarecrow, an XR experience by South Korea's Sngmoo Lee.
SXSWestworld, created by Los Angeles' Giant Spoon and Mycotoo for SXSW.