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New York, NY – The recently formed Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences, in partnership with Metaverse Standards Forum, is bringing a special edition of the MetaTr@versal series on interoperability to Infinity Festival Hollywood, November 7, 2024 from 12:20-1pm.
MetaTr@versal: The Immersive Interoperability Movement, live at Infinity FestivalScaling immersive media to mainstream adoption requires seamless interoperability between tools, platforms, and hardware. For production professionals, this means greater efficiency, flexibility, and reliability across immersive content creation pipelines. Standards are essential in ensuring that production workflows—from pre-visualization to final output—are future-proofed, cost-effective, and adaptable across various industrial and consumer applications. This panel will explore how interoperability drives innovation and excellence in immersive production, addressing the challenges and opportunities for content creators in a rapidly evolving landscape.
MetaTr@versal, co-founded by Ben Erwin, Neil Trevett, and others in 2021, was created to advocate for interoperability. This effort inspired Trevett to establish the Metaverse Standards Forum. The event series has provided a platform for industry leaders to collaborate on advancing the immersive ecosystem. The missions of the Academy and the Forum are aligned on the importance of interoperability. Now an official program of the Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences, MetaTr@versal will make its Academy debut live and in-person at Infinity Festival, featuring insights from Daisy Leak, VP of Studio at LA-based Immersive specialist Magnopus, and Elena Piech, Producer at the Brooklyn-based production facility ZeroSpace.
The Panelists
Neil Trevett is the Vice President of Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA, President of The Khronos Group and Metaverse Standards Forum President. Ben Erwin, president and co-founder of the Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences, is also the creator of The Poly Awards and serves on the Metaverse Standards Forum Board of Directors. Daisy Leak, VP of Studio at Magnopus is a board member of the Academy. Elena Piech is Real-time Producer at ZeroSpace. Magnopus and ZeroSpace are implementing interoperable immersive innovations for clients in real-time production environments.
About MetaTr@versal
MetaTr@versal is a dynamic, multi-format series that brings together industry leaders and stakeholders to drive collaboration on standards and interoperability. Its mission is to accelerate the growth of the immersive media ecosystem through cross-sector cooperation. In 2023, MetaTr@versal: Accelerating Volumetric united 17 CEOs for a landmark discussion. MetaTr@versal: A Day in the Life took the Main Stage at AWE with an innovative 3-act play about interoperability, featuring live XR casting as part of the performance. MetaTr@versal also hosts live Portal Crawls and organizes panels at premier industry conferences, including AWE, CES, and Infinity Festival.
About Infinity Festival
Infinity Festival Hollywood is a multi-day event held each November in Los Angeles that brings together creative talent from Hollywood and Silicon Valley to celebrate “Story Enabled by Technology.” Together with leading Hollywood studios and tech companies, IF Hollywood 2024 will be held at The Aster and the historic Avalon Hollywood nightclub and event space on November 6-9.
About Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences is committed to advancing the immersive medium by fostering collaboration with organizations to promote responsible and unified growth across the immersive media industry. Through recognizing groundbreaking contributions and innovations, the Academy aims to educate and inspire, elevating creative and technical excellence in the field.
About the Metaverse Standards Forum
The Metaverse Standards Forum is a non-profit, member-funded consortium of standards-related organizations, companies, and institutions that are cooperating to foster interoperability for an open and inclusive metaverse. Its mission is to enable and promote broad cooperation and coordination over metaverse-related standards activities.
About Magnopus
Founded in 2013 by Oscar-winning visual effects artists, Magnopus creates experiences engineered with technologies that unite the physical and digital worlds. The world-class designers, artists, and engineers work from the company’s flagship studios in Los Angeles and London. Magnopus is renowned for its ongoing innovations in the XR space for global brands including Disney, HBO, Verizon, Amazon Prime, and Sony Music. After a decade of groundbreaking projects, the Magnopus team has developed technologies that streamline the creation and sharing of cross-reality experiences, making the process faster and more accessible for everyone.
About ZeroSpace
ZeroSpace is a next-gen production & creative studio in Brooklyn, NY specializing in the integration of digital, virtual, and live content, featuring a fixed-install LED ICVFX stage, Vicon motion capture stage, head and full-body photogrammetry, and volumetric capture stage, with a 40,000 sqft. warehouse and a world-class team of artists, developers, technicians, and innovators.
CONTACT:
Academy of Immersive Arts and SciencesKaren Alexander, Executive Director[email protected]
Metaverse Standards ForumAlexandra Crabb, Caster Communications[email protected]
