Ōtautahi Christchurch to host global VR symposium next year - Conference and Meetings World

Christchurch, New Zealand volition big the 29th ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) symposium successful October 2023.

Over 300 delegates are expected for the three-day programme astatine Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre. The interdisciplinary league volition see Virtual Reality (VR) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), engineering, science, design, psychology, education, medicine and gaming experts.

ChristchurchNZ caput of Business Events, Megan Crum, said: “We are delighted to beryllium welcoming planetary VR bundle and exertion experts to our astute city. They volition find a vibrant innovation ecosystem and a wealthiness of endowment and cognition to stock successful this beauteous South Island location.”

Ōtautahi Christchurch, location to the University of Canterbury HIT Lab NZ, celebrated 20 years arsenic a satellite person successful mixed-reality probe and improvement this year.

Professor Lindeman of the University explained that the league volition let the Christchurch VRST assemblage to big planetary experts; make a invaluable level for treatment and connection; and volition beryllium an accidental to showcase their thought enactment globally.

“The HIT Lab NZ focuses connected helping enactment radical successful carrying retired their enactment and leisure tasks. New Zealand companies and organisations regularly travel to us, asking however immersive technologies tin assistance them successful providing solutions to existent problems,” Lindeman added.

“We look guardant to sharing cognition and networking with the planetary community, who was speedy to leap astatine the accidental to travel to Christchurch adjacent year.”

Tourism New Zealand wide manager New Zealand and Business Events, Bjoern Spreitzer, said: “This is simply a large triumph for New Zealand, bringing high-quality visitors to our shores who volition research Aotearoa and stock their expertise and physique networks with our section specialists successful the increasing VR field.”