Nordic VR Forum 2022

Last week, The Nordic VR Forum was held for the sixth time in Hamar in Norway.
At the Nordic VR Forum, everything revolves around immersive learning technologies: More precisely, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) and their use of it within health care, learning, training, gaming, city planning, metaverse, web3, and storytelling.

As a gold partner we were of course present with both a large stand and a contributor to the presentations and talks from the stage. Tuesday was health day for VR. Within health, VR is pioneering for training and lifelike exercises in virtual environments, we showed both the welfare apartment and the virtual medicine room, in addition to the Innlandet University of Applied science showing our solution for dialogue simulation.

How do you succeed on implementing VR?

On Tuesday, we held a workshop together with Making View where we gave four specific pieces of advice on how to get started with VR. Our ambassador, Lucie Furulund from Innlandet University of Applied Sciences also shared her experiences on how to get started in the best possible way. The session was interactive where the audience participated in Menti, who gave us insights into what understanding they had about getting started with VR in their company.

So why should we care about The Metaverse?

Day 2 started of with some top class speakers representing the businesses and the researchers in VR and AR technologies today. The main purpose was to present the development, possibilities, results and future visions of learning & Training, gaming, city Planinng, Metaverse, web3, culture & storytelling, and virtual productions in VR an AR. Several of the large companies such as Meta, Microsoft and Capgemini were present to give their perspectives and their visions for Metaverse, alongside Fynd Reality.

We contributed to several of the sessions on day 2, including: 

• On the edge of The Metaverse: Haptics, weddings and funerals in Japan with XR 
  Kristine Kvam / CTO at Fynd Reality and Bjørne Hoff / CTO at AVR Japan
  
• Protection of civilians with immersive learning
  Stian Kjeksrud and Petter HF Linquist / Norwegian Defence College
  
• Panel Metaverse - Why should you care about the Metaverse and what are the challenges? Marianne Neraal / Meta, Nitin Dhemre / Capgemini, Jon Jahren / Microsoft, Andrea Bravo / Metaverse Data & Ethics and Bjørn Morten Steimler / Fynd Reality

A successful event

The Nordic VR Forum is a yearly VR/AR/XR conference organized by the regional business development institution Business Hamar Region and the business cluster “VRINN”. This year, the conference had a record attendance and was able to offer a broad and exciting programme. So with that we cant wait to see what unfolds next year, see you at Nordic VR Forum 2023!