THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY EXPLORES THE FUTURE OF IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES AT 2022 DISNEY ACCELERATOR DEMO DAY - Yahoo Finance

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Six Participant Companies and Disney Executives Discuss Exciting Technologies and Innovative Collaborations

, /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Walt Disney Company hosted its 2022 Disney Accelerator Demo Day, showcasing the six companies successful this year's Disney Accelerator programme that are focused connected helping physique the aboriginal of immersive experiences. The Demo Day presumption featured much than 15 elder executives from The Walt Disney Company successful speech with the founders of the six maturation signifier companies, arsenic they discussed innovation and caller technologies, and the interaction they mightiness person crossed Disney.

Demo Day is simply a solemnisation of the yearly Disney Accelerator, a concern improvement programme designed to accelerate the maturation of innovative companies from astir the world. Since launching the Accelerator successful 2014, Disney continues to collaborate with galore of the Disney Accelerator subordinate companies to bring breathtaking products and caller technologies to market. The companies successful this year's programme absorption connected a scope of technologies successful areas specified arsenic augmented world (AR), non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and artificial quality (AI) virtual characters.

Disney has ever utilized caller exertion to alteration world-class storytelling and to assistance redefine and beforehand entertainment. As the institution focuses connected its next-generation storytelling efforts, Disney volition proceed to research however these types of caller canvasses and techniques tin assistance make connected experiences crossed physical, integer and virtual worlds.

"For astir 1 100 years, Disney has embraced cutting borderline exertion to stay astatine the forefront of originative storytelling and present the astir innovative amusement experiences for audiences and guests astir the world," said Bonnie Rosen, General Manager of the Disney Accelerator program. "This committedness to advancement is besides an integral portion of the Disney Accelerator, which allows america to collaborate with outstanding maturation signifier companies similar those successful this year's people that stock our tendency to redefine the media landscape. We anticipation that Demo Day is conscionable the opening of our narration with these companies, and we can't hold to spot the astonishing things we could physique unneurotic for Disney fans."

The 2022 Disney Accelerator companies include:

Flickplay: Flickplay is simply a Web3 societal app that enables users to discover digital collectibles tied to real-world locations that they tin acquisition and stock via AR. Flickplay is successful conversations with Disney Consumer Products, Games and Publishing (CPGP) to create and present integer collectible activations wrong carnal locations crossed the Unites States.

Inworld AI: Inworld allows users to make interactive, AI-driven characters for immersive experiences. Today, Inworld announced that it is successful conversations with ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm's immersive storytelling studio, to physique developer tools for creating characters astatine standard successful immersive worlds. Additionally, Inworld is exploring the improvement of an AI property for Disney Star's DisneyStarverse platform. At today's Demo Day, Inworld demonstrated a 'Droid Maker' prototype that the institution created successful collaboration with ILMxLAB.

Lockerverse: Lockerverse is simply a assemblage level that empowers creators and brands to archer culture-defining stories and present unsocial entree and experiences. Lockerverse is moving with ESPN to motorboat a escaped NFT of the Celebration Bowl Trophy, to beryllium exclusively archetypal offered astatine the Celebration Bowl connected December 17 successful Atlanta.

Obsess: Obsess is an experiential e-commerce level that enables brands to make immersive 3D virtual stores connected their websites and connected Web3 platforms. In aboriginal October, Obsess launched the Disney Music Emporium virtual experience, an immersive online store celebrating the wonderment of Disney music. Obsess is besides successful conversations with Disneyland Resort and shopDisney to make a peculiar retail experience.

Polygon: Polygon is simply a concern furniture for blockchain exertion that allows developers and enterprises to physique Web3 experiences. Polygon is moving with Disney on processing a impervious of conception for exclusive integer collectibles to admit Disney employees during peculiar occasions.

Red 6: Red 6 is an AR institution that has created a patented headset and interface that works outdoors successful dynamic, high-performance environments. Walt Disney Imagineering and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) are exploring opportunities to bring this exertion into our story-driven environments for adjacent procreation experiences of the future.

Following today's presentations, the Disney Accelerator brought Web3 to beingness connected the Walt Disney Studios batch for attendees by showcasing exclusive demonstrations from the 2021 and 2022 Disney Accelerator companies, including life-sized versions of Disney's astir fashionable NFTs and a peculiar Flickplay scavenger hunt that allowed attendees to find and interact with Disney integer collectibles.

For the archetypal time, the erstwhile year's Disney Accelerator companies attended Demo Day and showcased their technologies and caller collaborations with The Walt Disney Company for guests. Those companies included:

Attentive: Attentive is simply a broad mobile messaging level that allows retail and e-commerce brands to link straight with consumers done personalized connection experiences. This summer, Attentive launched an opt-in acquisition to supply Disney guests a seamless accidental to pass with Disney Theatrical Productions via SMS and email through www.aladdinthemusical.com.

CAMP: CAMP creates experiential retail stores and online media destinations for the full family. CAMP launched 2 collaborations with Disney this year, "Disney's Mickey and Friends x CAMP: An Extra Big Adventure", present successful Dallas, portion New York City families are enjoying the magical "Disney Encanto x CAMP" astatine its flagship store this vacation season. These immersive and interactive collaborations question to different CAMP locations each fewer months.

Miko: Miko creates adorable robots that are playful learning companions for children crossed 140+ countries and utilized by parents, educators and technologists. Earlier this year, Miko collaborated with Disney Publishing to motorboat animated storybooks featuring characters from the worlds of Disney and Pixar connected its Miko 3 robot.

For much accusation connected the Disney Accelerator, visit: www.DisneyAccelerator.com.

Contacts:

Kirsten Underwood
Disney Accelerator Communications
kirsten.underwood@disney.com

Colby Colodner
Corporate Communications
colby.b.colodner@disney.com