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15 worthwhile conferences for women in tech

CIO

Whether you already have a strong network of women colleagues in your industry or if you’re looking to expand your community, there are several conferences designed for women in IT. Here are 15 tech conferences that aim to connect women and other underrepresented groups in technology to build a more diverse community in the tech industry.

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Holoride’s in-car VR tech is coming to Audi this summer

TechCrunch

Holoride announced Saturday at the SXSW tech, music and film conference in Austin that its headset-based virtual-reality entertainment system will debut in June in certain Audi models with the latest MIB 3 software. Terranet’s VoxelFlow system calculates VR movement based on data points received from the car.

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Power Immersive, Engaging, Impactful Learning Experiences with AR/VR

Trigent

But with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) coming into the picture, things have changed radically for the education sector. We are treading into an era of experiential learning driven by AR/VR. Propelling-immersive-learning-with-AR-VR. from USD 85,818 million in 2020 to USD 181,265 million by 2025.

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Transfr raises $12M Series A to bring virtual reality to manufacturing-plant floors

TechCrunch

Transfr started as a mentor-based VR training programming play. He first saw virtual reality when he attended a gaming conference in San Francisco in 2017. “I Labster, which offers schools VR simulations of science class, had product usage grow 15 times since March.

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The Battle For Your Head Is Underway: VR from Oculus, Sony, HTC/Valve competing at GDC2016

CTOvision

GDC2016 is the largest game developer conference in the globe. It has become so huge a sub-conference has been organized called the Virtual Reality Developers Conference ( VRDC ). Note, Samsung's GearVR is powered by Oculus software and will very likely be able to run VR software the CV1 does. Bob Gourley.

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Daily Crunch: In layoff update, Amazon CEO tells workers ‘we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 roles’

TechCrunch

VR isn’t just for the youngins : Rendever, a big startup in the virtual reality space, acquired Alcove from AARP , showing “VR comes of age,” Ingrid reports. Brian introduces CES and how you can get all.the.juicy details for the rest of the conference. Sarah has more. Neighbors don’t shake hands; neighbors gotta hug!

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AI creative platform D-ID, the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, raises $25M

TechCrunch

It has partnered with VR/AR platform maker The Glimpse Group to help develop AI, AR and VR applications for the metaverse. . “We’re in advanced stages with strategic players — leading tech giants from the phone manufacturers, cameras, social networks, music industry video conferences, and such,” Perry hinted.