The conference begins at 10 am and ends at 5 pm. Infos on the venue and about the tickets here.
PROGRAMME
Morning: Speakers
- Lili Blumers (arte.fr) – On „Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness“
“An immersive virtual reality (VR) project based on John’s sensory and psychological experience of blindness” – Link
- Michael Geidel @miriquidifilm – “Story development for VR”
Based on experiences gathered during the development of a photogrammetry-enhanced full VR game and while shooting a VR fiction film this summer, there will be insights offered and feedback gathered on ongoing productions. Also, there will be demos and trailers.
- Thomas Seymat @tseymat – “Euronews 360”
“Euronews is aiming to fully incorporate 360° journalism videos into its regular news production workflow. Thomas Seymat, who coordinates this immersive journalism project, will share euronews’ experience on how to adapt a news organisation to this medium, from shooting to publishing, including challenges and solutions to overcome them.”
- Maren Demant @maren_demant – “Immersive Theatre and Storytelling in VR”
Demant will talk about one of her current projects: a VR story on different identities. She will focus on storytelling aspects and offers insights for VR journalists
- Michael Stoll (Link) – “VR for journalistic information graphics”
Stoll intends to evaluate the potential of VR for journalistic information graphics against the most prominent methods used in static, interactive and explorable information graphics today.
- Lukas Ondreka @ondreka – 360 videos at Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Ondreka offers insights into 360 productions at Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Afternoon: HANDS-ON Sessions
– A100 VR – Link
A “walkable infographic” on a planned motorway in Berlin.
– CIR/VRagments
A 3 episodes VR mini-series on the Jehovah’s Witness community.
— RE’FLEKT
On interactivity in 360° Virtual Reality and what are its implication – Link
— VR Journalism Hackathon
Learnings from the Hackathon – Link
— IntoVR presents its works – Link
The conference begins at 10 am and ends at 5 pm. Infos on the venue and about the tickets here.
ABOUT THE ORGANISERS
Linda Rath-Wiggins (@Lynda420) is a media researcher and VR-enthusiast. She works for the Deutsche Welle Innovation team and is a co-founder of VR startup VRagments
Frédéric Dubois (@fredericdubois) is the founder of Reportero, a studio for interactive narratives. He is also editor of the Internet Policy Review.
Lorenz Matzat (@lorz) is the founder of the software company Lokaler Infosystems. He works in data journalism, VR and writes the blog vrjournalist.de
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The VR Conference for Journalism & Documentary is that one day in the year where narrative pioneers come together in Berlin. VR enthusiasts, journalists, interactive documentary makers, early technology adopters and other non-fiction storytellers meet to share experiences, seek inspiration and head back home feeling ‘virtually real’. The conference is self-organised and all costs are covered by ticket sales. The talks of the first conference in 2015 can be found here.