IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Commercial Applications of Mixed and Virtual Reality

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday March 2, 2017 - Friday March 3, 2017
      4:00 pm - 4:59 pm
  • Location: Institute for People and Technology, 75 5th Street NW Suite 600, Atlanta, GA 30308
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Summary Sentence: The Thursday Think Tank is a weekly gathering of the IPaT community to brainstorm about research and stay informed about the work that everyone is doing.

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Moderator: Ian Nott, CTO and Co-Founder, Aetho

At this week's Thursday Think Tank, Ian Nott of tech company Aetho will moderate a discussion about how to take mixed reality (MR) and virtual reality (VR) out of the lab and into commercial territory. He'll focus on building an ultra high level of engagement centered on business and enterprise needs.

Bio: Ian Nott has been CTO and Co-Founder since it's inception three years ago. He led a product design and engineering teams to take a robotic gimbal stabilizer from napkin sketch, to mass production. Overseeing all phases of development, to shipping product. He is now leading the product team on Thrive, a communication focused enterprise platform for VR/MR with a set of APIs.

The Thursday Think Tank is a weekly gathering of the IPaT community to brainstorm about research and stay informed about the work that everyone is doing. This is an informal gathering where the moderator kicks off the weekly topic, but everyone is encouraged to join the discussion.

Ideas for future Thursday Think Tanks? Send comments or suggestions to Russ Clark (russ.clark@gatech.edu) or Maribeth Gandy (maribeth@imtc.gatech.edu)

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_Center for Urban Innovation, IPaT, Tennenbaum Institute

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Public, Undergraduate students, Graduate students
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Other/Miscellaneous
Keywords
vr, MR, virtual reality, mixed reality, Ian Nott, Aetho
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  • Created By: Alyson Key
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Feb 23, 2017 - 2:45pm
  • Last Updated: Apr 13, 2017 - 5:12pm