Watch early sessions from virtual reality conference

The presentationsÂ start at the 42 minute mark with opening remarks by “Cymatic” Bruce Wooden of AltSpaceVRÂ and conference organizer Karl Krantz, who is also the founder of the escVR virtual reality development firm.

Fast-forward to the 48 minute mark forÂ keynote presentation byÂ Matt Apfel, vice president of strategy and creative content at Samsung, maker of the Gear VR headset.

The “Rise of the consumer VR” panel starts at the 1:19 mark, with Palmer Luckey of Oculus VR, Amir Rubin of Sixense, Clay Bavor ofÂ Google, and Nicholas DiCarloÂ ofÂ Samsung. Ben Lang of Road to VR is the moderator.

Ebbe Altbert, CEO of Linden Lab spoke in the afternoon — that session is still live streaming on the SVVR YouTube channel. Expect that video to be posted shortly.

Hypergrid Business is a media partner of this year’s conference, and OpenSimulator.org and Women in Virtual Reality are community partners and have a table at the event.

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Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.