Social Video in XR
Jasmine Lehman, VR Content Creator & Product Manager, LIV
Dani Bittman, VR Creative Director
Pearly Chen, VP, HTC
Jullian Slater, Public Figure, TechMan Technologies
Since the earliest days of AR and VR, video has played a crucial role in how the public understands these technologies. In particular, social video—produced by individual creators rather than corporations—has been pivotal in providing context and insights in the years that the technologies remained prohibitively expensive or otherwise inaccessible. This panel brings together leading experts to discuss how the social video format—from mixed reality playthrough videos to industry news coverage—has played a critical role in the XR community. And now that we’re at the doorstep of adoption outside niche communities, what is its role looking to the future?