EARLY BIRD TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW$25 until the Sept 21st.$40 pre-sale after Sept 21st.$50 at the door, Limited capacity.Keyframe showcases the intersection of Electronic Dance Music and VR: Talks, demos, experiences, VR music projects, performers, influencers, VR DJs, and more:PRESENTERS:** Nathan Burba of Survios / ElectronautsNathan is the Co-Founder and President at Survios, a virtual reality company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company develops virtual reality software and games including the titles Raw Data, Sprint Vector, Electronauts and Creed: Rise To Glory. It also operates Survios branded Virtual Reality Arcades and a worldwide VR software distribution network operating in 36 countries.Since its inception in 2013, the company has raised over $54 million in venture funding led by Shasta Ventures, Lux Capital and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.Before founding Survios, Nathan was the Director of Product Holodeck, a joint research effort between the Mixed Reality Lab and the Advanced Games program at the University of Southern California.** The Virtual Rave (http://thevirtualrave.com/) is VR Producer / Director Fifer Garbesi's (fifergarbesi.com) side project, taking the viewer around the world to the best electronic music festivals and concerts. Come view ¡Viva la Evolución!, the 360 documentary exploring underground dance in Cuba that screened at Cannes NEXT, The World VR Forum, and Raindance or explore a myriad of festivals including Symbiosis, How Weird, Northern Nights, and Burning Man. https://medium.com/@Fifer/the-true-story-behind-viva-la-evoluci%C3%B3n-3b413f7a22c** Tribe XR makes it easy for people to learn real-world skills. Tribe's learning platform harnesses Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies to enable people to learn by doing. Their first vertical is music production. Tribe VR’s learning program is being developed in partnership with industry experts, electronic music schools and Top DJs. Beyond music, Tribe VR is developing the self-serve immersive learning platform and toolset, enabling any organization or individual to create and broadcast VR and AR lessons, and monetize through their platform. https://www.tribexr.com/** VISUAL REALITY (Los Angeles) is an immersive art collective bridging the gap between technology and consciousness. They produce events and design experiences that open hearts, lift spirits, and blow minds. Visual Reality is an immersive event production company and new media art collective with an eye on a positive future for humanity. We create environments that facilitate deep inner journeys, as well as community building social connections.Our pioneering multi-sensory events blending VR with psychedelicaugmented art, live audio/visual performances, and sound healingmeditations provide a unique perspective on conscious entertainmentand transformative technology, as well as an engaging resto rative experience. Your participation is vital. Let's create a new reality together! https://www.facebook.com/visualrealitymeditation/\Founders Torkom Ji and Michael Strauss will be speaking about their work, performing a live audio/visual set, and giving interactive demonstrations of their full spectrum of consciousness-expanding VR and AR experiences. Participants in the event will be invited into their pop-up Cyberdelic Salon to interact with a curated collection of visions that stimulate the mind and multi-sensory meditations that soothe the soul. Michael's augmented art gallery will be on display, along with a selection of his mindbending VR music videos for electronic music producers including David Starfire, Shaman's Dream, and Solar Theory. Torkom Ji's Quantum Harmonix sound healing lounge offers live electronic soundbath sessions on a vibrational speaker array powered by SUBPAC.Resident DJ and VRtist Liquid Light Project will be painting digitally live in Tiltbrush and offering guided tours of his stunning audio-reactive virtual worlds. A sneak preview of Visual Reality's "360 Visions" immersive visionary art voyage featuring a soundtrack by PhueZen will also be available for a special viewing, as well as several other projects currently in development by the Visual Realityteam.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PERFORMERS:** Torkom Ji (Quantumm Harmonix)Torkom is a sound designer and electronic music producer from Los Angeles. He has been facilitating group sound healing experiences since the summer of 2012, and has provided deep meditation and rejuvination for thousands of people using his unique and powerful modality. Birthed from his studies of music, vibration, energy and the practice of meditation and martial arts; Torkom has mastered and perfected a system that is known to put people in very deep states of consciousness, with little to no effort. His instrumentation is tuned to the 432Hz tuning which has been known to have profound effects of ones mind, and physiology. Through the natural movement of these sounds, deep rest is achieved and the bodies own intelligence facilitates an elevated level of healing, and negative waste removal. Noticable effects are said to have been felt for up to 5 days.*Michael's Strauss-NAGA 360 / THE BEING VR / ISTANBUL DUBPHONICSVR Music Videos by Michael Strauss (www.dprogrammers.com)Produced by Visual Reality, NAGA is a 360 degree audio/visualexperience created by Michael Strauss Visuals with soundtrack by David Starfire Music. Blast off into bass with this immersive VR music video with continuously evolving 3D fractal geometric designs. Recently chosen as an official selection of the FIRST Online VR Film Festival by Inception VR & Kaleidoscope! THE BEING is a visionary animated psychedelic journey from the mind to the heart with beautiful electronic music by Torkom Ji and Divasonic (aka Solar Theory). This transformational VR experience is exclusive to Visual Reality events. Be among the first to cross the bridge and explore a new reality. And for the first time ever - Michael's transcendent "Istanbul Dubphonics" video for Shaman's Dream will be available for viewing in 360 VR format.FEATURED EXPERIENCES:** Fantasynth: Chez Nous is an audio-reactive experience designed for Virtual Reality. Glide through a procedurally populated environment that comes alight with electronic music by French producer N'to. https://www.roadtovr.com/fantasynth-alpha-preview~ SIGGRAPH Animation Festival: Official Selection ~Webby Awards: Nominee ~UK Music Video: Awards Nominee ~Limina Creative: VR Award ~VR Days: Silver Halo Award** MIRAGE presented by NewPathVR https://www.newpathvr.com/Be immersed in a transcendental experience that brings your music to life. Use your own music and watch the environment react. Play music in any music player and MIRAGE will listen and respond. This is a world-class music visualizer. Witness the reflections of sound across a visual landscape. ~NewPath VR creates research-driven virtual reality experiences for emotional wellbeing. The company creates experiences using its proprietary Active Psychology™ platform which is based on psychological research with the goal of evoking positive change through transformative technology.http://newpathvr.com** Exit Reality https://exitrealityvr.comWe exist to deliver the ultimate VR experience!Opening the VR Channel by meeting the consumer where they are, and by empowering creators to reach a greater audience. We make VR accessible anywhere.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~EXHIBITORS: ** The Galactic Gallery is an award winning aesthetically driven interactive Virtual Reality Art Gallery which explores intersections between traditional art and new media. The experience allows you to interact and go inside of the art. It’s a fully immersive experience available on STEAM for the HTC VIVE, Oculus, and Microsoft Mixed reality platforms. ~~ The Galactic Gallery, the 2nd place winner of the Arts & Culture Viveport Developer Award.The experience takes you on a journey with art from the world’s top visionary artists featuring Android Jones, Chris Dyer, Mugwort, Xavi, Raul Casillas, Luke Brown, Amanda Sage, Hans Haveron, and Simon Haiduk. The art is processed with effects only possible in a virtual reality. New methods of creating and interacting with art are explored. The soundtrack features songs and remixes from David Starfire, CloZee, and Kalya Scintilla. The sound design and music production were created using the SUBPAC for a fully immersive experience. http://www.vrgalacticgallery.com/experienceHigh Fidelity's Rust VR nightclub: Rust is a virtual night club where real DJs come and perform their own sets live.~ High Fidelity has developed an open-source application for building and deploying virtual environments (domains) to desktop and server computers. The virtual domains are designed to be social and interactive, meaning they allow for the real-time addition, rearrangement, and gross modification of 3D assets simultaneously by multiple users. Our goal is to deploy an open, flexible platform for a variety of VR applications rather than a specific, narrow VR experience.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MEDIA SPONSOR:** Pyramind is San Francisco's leading institute for music production education and creative studio services. Their ground campus, online training programs and mentorship network provide an immersive learning experience that accelerate the careers of music producers, sound designers, composers, audio engineers, and electronic music artists. Pyramind's production team and studios serve the audio needs of today's gaming and interactive technology leaders. Our clients have included: Microsoft Studios, Ubisoft, Blizzard Entertainment, Disney Interactive, Zynga, Double Fine, Amazon, Nvidia, Samsung, and HP and many more! Pyramind has partnered up with Chronos Global Academy to offer VR classes in Unity starting Sept. 21st. More info here: https://signup.chronosglobalacademy.org/products/developing-for-vr-with-unity-san-francisco-course UNITY COURSE CURRICULUM COVERS: ~Exploring Unity and object manipulation. ~Physics, collision, rigid bodies, and force. ~Interaction using the HTC Vive. Particles and Audio. ~Game logic & in-game UI. ~Spatial sound, random spawning & basic dynamic interaction. ~Advanced dynamic interaction & terrain/world building.https://www.pyramind.com** VRARAThe VR/AR Association (VRARA) is an international organization designed to foster collaboration between innovative companies and people in the VR and AR ecosystem that accelerates growth, fosters research and education, helps develop industry standards, connects member organizations and promotes the services of member companies. http://www.thevrara.com/** Electronic Music AllianceEMA's vision is to advance communities through environmental-humanitarian activities and events. We provide a platform for the Electronic Music community to connect and give back. Connecting people in the electronic music community who want to Play it Forward: superstar music and event producers, DJ's, production crew, performers, artists, industry vets, and fans from every walk of life are welcome. https://www.ema-global.org~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~VR RIG SPONSOR:Announcement soon~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~HOST:Announcement soon~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~VR DJ:Announcement soon~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PRODUCTION TEAM:** Keyframe Entertainment: http://keyframe-entertainment.com/about-usKeyframe-Entertainment produces, supports, and distributes cutting-edge projects. Keyframe aspires to create global positive change through film, books, events, electronic music, VR, visionary art, community building, and Festival culture. Keyframe-Entertainment and its team have been selected as finalists for the 2018 Mars City Design VR project. Along with Fifer Garbesi, Keyframe has published the 'Con Te Damanhur' VR 360-Degree App Experience in the Oculus store. Keyframe is also the Executive Producer of “ReInhabiting the Village,” “The Bloom Series” Episode 3, and “Electronic Awakening,” as well as the Associate Producer of The Polish Ambassador’s Permaculture Action Tour film, and the DnB film, “The American Jungle."** ImagineX Productions: http://www.imaginexproductions.comImagineX Productions inspires positive global impact by creating innovative experiences. ImagineX Productions design and curate unique experiences that inspire community, connection, and creativity. Collectively, their team has decades of experience ranging from Corporate Conferences to Music Festivals, from Hackathons to Fundraisers, and Hiring Mixers to Fashion Shows. ImagineX has worked with clients such as Twitter, Dev: Network, HardwareCon3, Developer Week, Symbiosis, Northern Nights and many more. ** ARTandVR was birthed from the belief that bridging the growing chasm between the art and tech communities could catalyze the dialogue needed to work towards a progressive, humanist society. Bringing together the best in underground art and indie coding, the results are multi-layered, sensorial, and groundbreaking. ARTandVR connect indie content creators to a support ecosystem and the public to the incredible work they produce. Technologists will be inspired by these innovative applications of virtual and augmented reality, projection mapping, and interactive art. http://artandvr.com/https://vrscout.com/news/artandvr-vibrant-vision-exponential-future/
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EARLY BIRD TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW$25 until the Sept 21st.$40 pre-sale after Sept 21st.$50 at the door, Limited capacity.Keyframe showcases the intersection of Electronic Dance Music and VR: Talks, demos, experiences, VR music projects, performers, influencers, VR DJs, and more:PRESENTERS:** Nathan Burba of Survios / ElectronautsNathan is the Co-Founder and President at Survios, a virtual reality company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company develops virtual reality software and games including the titles Raw Data, Sprint Vector, Electronauts and Creed: Rise To Glory. It also operates Survios branded Virtual Reality Arcades and a worldwide VR software distribution network operating in 36 countries.Since its inception in 2013, the company has raised over $54 million in venture funding led by Shasta Ventures, Lux Capital and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.Before founding Survios, Nathan was the Director of Product Holodeck, a joint research effort between the Mixed Reality Lab and the Advanced Games program at the University of Southern California.** The Virtual Rave (http://thevirtualrave.com/) is VR Producer / Director Fifer Garbesi's (fifergarbesi.com) side project, taking the viewer around the world to the best electronic music festivals and concerts. Come view ¡Viva la Evolución!, the 360 documentary exploring underground dance in Cuba that screened at Cannes NEXT, The World VR Forum, and Raindance or explore a myriad of festivals including Symbiosis, How Weird, Northern Nights, and Burning Man. https://medium.com/@Fifer/the-true-story-behind-viva-la-evoluci%C3%B3n-3b413f7a22c** Tribe XR makes it easy for people to learn real-world skills. Tribe's learning platform harnesses Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies to enable people to learn by doing. Their first vertical is music production. Tribe VR’s learning program is being developed in partnership with industry experts, electronic music schools and Top DJs. Beyond music, Tribe VR is developing the self-serve immersive learning platform and toolset, enabling any organization or individual to create and broadcast VR and AR lessons, and monetize through their platform. https://www.tribexr.com/** VISUAL REALITY (Los Angeles) is an immersive art collective bridging the gap between technology and consciousness. They produce events and design experiences that open hearts, lift spirits, and blow minds. Visual Reality is an immersive event production company and new media art collective with an eye on a positive future for humanity. We create environments that facilitate deep inner journeys, as well as community building social connections.Our pioneering multi-sensory events blending VR with psychedelicaugmented art, live audio/visual performances, and sound healingmeditations provide a unique perspective on conscious entertainmentand transformative technology, as well as an engaging resto rative experience. Your participation is vital. Let's create a new reality together! https://www.facebook.com/visualrealitymeditation/\Founders Torkom Ji and Michael Strauss will be speaking about their work, performing a live audio/visual set, and giving interactive demonstrations of their full spectrum of consciousness-expanding VR and AR experiences. Participants in the event will be invited into their pop-up Cyberdelic Salon to interact with a curated collection of visions that stimulate the mind and multi-sensory meditations that soothe the soul. Michael's augmented art gallery will be on display, along with a selection of his mindbending VR music videos for electronic music producers including David Starfire, Shaman's Dream, and Solar Theory. Torkom Ji's Quantum Harmonix sound healing lounge offers live electronic soundbath sessions on a vibrational speaker array powered by SUBPAC.Resident DJ and VRtist Liquid Light Project will be painting digitally live in Tiltbrush and offering guided tours of his stunning audio-reactive virtual worlds. A sneak preview of Visual Reality's "360 Visions" immersive visionary art voyage featuring a soundtrack by PhueZen will also be available for a special viewing, as well as several other projects currently in development by the Visual Realityteam.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PERFORMERS:** Torkom Ji (Quantumm Harmonix)Torkom is a sound designer and electronic music producer from Los Angeles. He has been facilitating group sound healing experiences since the summer of 2012, and has provided deep meditation and rejuvination for thousands of people using his unique and powerful modality. Birthed from his studies of music, vibration, energy and the practice of meditation and martial arts; Torkom has mastered and perfected a system that is known to put people in very deep states of consciousness, with little to no effort. His instrumentation is tuned to the 432Hz tuning which has been known to have profound effects of ones mind, and physiology. Through the natural movement of these sounds, deep rest is achieved and the bodies own intelligence facilitates an elevated level of healing, and negative waste removal. Noticable effects are said to have been felt for up to 5 days.*Michael's Strauss-NAGA 360 / THE BEING VR / ISTANBUL DUBPHONICSVR Music Videos by Michael Strauss (www.dprogrammers.com)Produced by Visual Reality, NAGA is a 360 degree audio/visualexperience created by Michael Strauss Visuals with soundtrack by David Starfire Music. Blast off into bass with this immersive VR music video with continuously evolving 3D fractal geometric designs. Recently chosen as an official selection of the FIRST Online VR Film Festival by Inception VR & Kaleidoscope! THE BEING is a visionary animated psychedelic journey from the mind to the heart with beautiful electronic music by Torkom Ji and Divasonic (aka Solar Theory). This transformational VR experience is exclusive to Visual Reality events. Be among the first to cross the bridge and explore a new reality. And for the first time ever - Michael's transcendent "Istanbul Dubphonics" video for Shaman's Dream will be available for viewing in 360 VR format.FEATURED EXPERIENCES:** Fantasynth: Chez Nous is an audio-reactive experience designed for Virtual Reality. Glide through a procedurally populated environment that comes alight with electronic music by French producer N'to. https://www.roadtovr.com/fantasynth-alpha-preview~ SIGGRAPH Animation Festival: Official Selection ~Webby Awards: Nominee ~UK Music Video: Awards Nominee ~Limina Creative: VR Award ~VR Days: Silver Halo Award** MIRAGE presented by NewPathVR https://www.newpathvr.com/Be immersed in a transcendental experience that brings your music to life. Use your own music and watch the environment react. Play music in any music player and MIRAGE will listen and respond. This is a world-class music visualizer. Witness the reflections of sound across a visual landscape. ~NewPath VR creates research-driven virtual reality experiences for emotional wellbeing. The company creates experiences using its proprietary Active Psychology™ platform which is based on psychological research with the goal of evoking positive change through transformative technology.http://newpathvr.com** Exit Reality https://exitrealityvr.comWe exist to deliver the ultimate VR experience!Opening the VR Channel by meeting the consumer where they are, and by empowering creators to reach a greater audience. We make VR accessible anywhere.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~EXHIBITORS: ** The Galactic Gallery is an award winning aesthetically driven interactive Virtual Reality Art Gallery which explores intersections between traditional art and new media. The experience allows you to interact and go inside of the art. It’s a fully immersive experience available on STEAM for the HTC VIVE, Oculus, and Microsoft Mixed reality platforms. ~~ The Galactic Gallery, the 2nd place winner of the Arts & Culture Viveport Developer Award.The experience takes you on a journey with art from the world’s top visionary artists featuring Android Jones, Chris Dyer, Mugwort, Xavi, Raul Casillas, Luke Brown, Amanda Sage, Hans Haveron, and Simon Haiduk. The art is processed with effects only possible in a virtual reality. New methods of creating and interacting with art are explored. The soundtrack features songs and remixes from David Starfire, CloZee, and Kalya Scintilla. The sound design and music production were created using the SUBPAC for a fully immersive experience. http://www.vrgalacticgallery.com/experienceHigh Fidelity's Rust VR nightclub: Rust is a virtual night club where real DJs come and perform their own sets live.~ High Fidelity has developed an open-source application for building and deploying virtual environments (domains) to desktop and server computers. The virtual domains are designed to be social and interactive, meaning they allow for the real-time addition, rearrangement, and gross modification of 3D assets simultaneously by multiple users. Our goal is to deploy an open, flexible platform for a variety of VR applications rather than a specific, narrow VR experience.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MEDIA SPONSOR:** Pyramind is San Francisco's leading institute for music production education and creative studio services. Their ground campus, online training programs and mentorship network provide an immersive learning experience that accelerate the careers of music producers, sound designers, composers, audio engineers, and electronic music artists. Pyramind's production team and studios serve the audio needs of today's gaming and interactive technology leaders. Our clients have included: Microsoft Studios, Ubisoft, Blizzard Entertainment, Disney Interactive, Zynga, Double Fine, Amazon, Nvidia, Samsung, and HP and many more! Pyramind has partnered up with Chronos Global Academy to offer VR classes in Unity starting Sept. 21st. More info here: https://signup.chronosglobalacademy.org/products/developing-for-vr-with-unity-san-francisco-course UNITY COURSE CURRICULUM COVERS: ~Exploring Unity and object manipulation. ~Physics, collision, rigid bodies, and force. ~Interaction using the HTC Vive. Particles and Audio. ~Game logic & in-game UI. ~Spatial sound, random spawning & basic dynamic interaction. ~Advanced dynamic interaction & terrain/world building.https://www.pyramind.com** VRARAThe VR/AR Association (VRARA) is an international organization designed to foster collaboration between innovative companies and people in the VR and AR ecosystem that accelerates growth, fosters research and education, helps develop industry standards, connects member organizations and promotes the services of member companies. http://www.thevrara.com/** Electronic Music AllianceEMA's vision is to advance communities through environmental-humanitarian activities and events. We provide a platform for the Electronic Music community to connect and give back. Connecting people in the electronic music community who want to Play it Forward: superstar music and event producers, DJ's, production crew, performers, artists, industry vets, and fans from every walk of life are welcome. https://www.ema-global.org~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~VR RIG SPONSOR:Announcement soon~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~HOST:Announcement soon~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~VR DJ:Announcement soon~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PRODUCTION TEAM:** Keyframe Entertainment: http://keyframe-entertainment.com/about-usKeyframe-Entertainment produces, supports, and distributes cutting-edge projects. Keyframe aspires to create global positive change through film, books, events, electronic music, VR, visionary art, community building, and Festival culture. Keyframe-Entertainment and its team have been selected as finalists for the 2018 Mars City Design VR project. Along with Fifer Garbesi, Keyframe has published the 'Con Te Damanhur' VR 360-Degree App Experience in the Oculus store. Keyframe is also the Executive Producer of “ReInhabiting the Village,” “The Bloom Series” Episode 3, and “Electronic Awakening,” as well as the Associate Producer of The Polish Ambassador’s Permaculture Action Tour film, and the DnB film, “The American Jungle."** ImagineX Productions: http://www.imaginexproductions.comImagineX Productions inspires positive global impact by creating innovative experiences. ImagineX Productions design and curate unique experiences that inspire community, connection, and creativity. Collectively, their team has decades of experience ranging from Corporate Conferences to Music Festivals, from Hackathons to Fundraisers, and Hiring Mixers to Fashion Shows. ImagineX has worked with clients such as Twitter, Dev: Network, HardwareCon3, Developer Week, Symbiosis, Northern Nights and many more. ** ARTandVR was birthed from the belief that bridging the growing chasm between the art and tech communities could catalyze the dialogue needed to work towards a progressive, humanist society. Bringing together the best in underground art and indie coding, the results are multi-layered, sensorial, and groundbreaking. ARTandVR connect indie content creators to a support ecosystem and the public to the incredible work they produce. Technologists will be inspired by these innovative applications of virtual and augmented reality, projection mapping, and interactive art. http://artandvr.com/https://vrscout.com/news/artandvr-vibrant-vision-exponential-future/
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