PROGRAM
Words of welcome: Linda Rath-Wiggins, Vragments
TALKS
1. VR research & development
Overview of what BBC R&D is currently doing on the VR front and reflexions on what the state of play of VR journalism will in the medium term.
Speaker: Zillah Watson, BBC R&D
2. ‘Carte blanche’
VR examples from the worlds of animation, art,design and fiction curated in a ‘carte blanche’ session.
Speaker: Charles Ayats, UX designer
3. Digging up history
Working with audio and text archives is challenging and often limiting. But VR can also be liberating, as this session suggests.
Speaker: Jana Wuttke, Deutschlandradio
MINI-WORKSHOPS/HANDS-ON
1. Mini-workshop: Web technologies and VR (from webVR to social VR), curated by the Netzdoku network
2. Hands-on: Stasi interrogation (Deutschlandradio)
3. Hands-on: We Wait (BBC)
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
9:00 am: Doors open
9:30 am: Words of welcome
09:45 am: Three talks (20 min + 10 min Q&A each)
11:15 am: Break
11:30 am: Two talks (20 min + 10 min Q&A each)
12:30 pm: Lunch break
13:30 pm: Hands-on/Mini-Workshops
16:30 pm: Words of goodbye