Colorado Selected for United States Immersive Education Summit

BOSTON, MA — April 11, 2016

World's experts in immersion and immersive technologies convene in Colorado USA this August

The Immersive Education Initiative today announced that Colorado has been selected as the official site for the organization's next United States conference. The conference will address the personal, cultural and educational impact of immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), telepresence, simulations, learning games, immersive teaching and immersive learning systems, and fully immersive environments such as caves, domes and planetariums.

IMMERSIVE COLORADO will run from August 23 through August 26 in collaboration with the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the USA National Park Service (NPS). The conference features a unique format that spans two locations in Colorado, Denver and La Junta, with the hosts for each location expected to be announced next week along with the official Call for Participation (CfP).

The event, which is open to the public, includes a series of hands-on Virtual Reality (VR) workshops during which attendees will create their very own VR experiences while touring stunning Colorado landmarks such as Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak mountain and historic Bent's Old Fort.

Speakers at previous events have included United Nations, NASA, Harvard University, Smithsonian Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Walt Disney Animation Studios, Google, Microsoft, Intel, United States Department of the Interior (DOI) National Park Service, Stanford University, USC, UCLA, and other world-class organizations and academic institutions.

Call for Participation (CfP)

Building on the success of the previous 10 years of Immersive Education (iED) conferences, IMMERSIVE COLORADO will feature a unique modular format that premiered at IMMERSION 2014 in Los Angeles, California, and IMMERSION 2015 at Paris-Sorbonne University ("the Sorbonne") in Paris, France.

Speakers, exhibitors and researchers are encouraged to review the IMMERSION 2015 program in anticipation of the forthcoming Call for Participation (CfP). Additional details are available at http://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org

World-renowned Speakers

Speakers at Immersive Education events have included faculty, researchers, staff, administrators and professionals from Harvard University (Harvard Graduate School of Education, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Media Lab, The Smithsonian Institution, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Federation of American Scientists (FAS), United States Department of Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States Department of the Interior (DOI) National Park Service, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Stanford University, Cornell University, Duke University, UCLA, USC, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Halliburton Company, Turner Broadcasting, Gates Planetarium, Computerworld, Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel), The MOFET Institute (Israel), Keio University (Japan), Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company (Japan), Nikko Telecommunications Company (Japan), National University of Singapore (NUS), University of St Andrews (UK), University of Glasgow (UK), Coventry University (UK), Giunti Labs (Italy) and European Learning Industry Group, Open University (UK), University of Oulu (Finland), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD; France), Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel), Graz University of Technology (Austria), University of West of Scotland (UK), University of Barcelona (Spain), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), University of Vienna (Austria), Government of New South Wales (Australia), Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (Hungary), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS; Brazil), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India), and many more world-class organizations detailed at http://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org

 

Press Contact

Annelise Martson
Immersive Education Initiative
http://ImmersiveEducation.org
annelise.martson@ImmersiveEducation.org

 

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Millions of Learners Worldwide

Immersive Education Initiative, the world's foremost experts in immersion and immersive technology, is a non-profit international collaboration of educational institutions, research institutes, museums, consortia and companies. The Initiative was established in 2005 with the mission to define and develop standards, best practices, technology platforms, training and education programs, and communities of support for virtual worlds, virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality, simulations, game-based learning and training systems, immersive teaching and immersive learning platforms, and fully immersive environments such as caves and domes.

Thousands of faculty, researchers, staff and administrators are members of the Immersive Education Initiative, who together service millions of academic and corporate learners worldwide.

Collaborators and Summit speakers include faculty, researchers, graduate students, and executives from the world's leading academic and cultural organizations, universities, and companies, such as United States Department of Education, United Nations, NASA, Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Media Lab, Stanford University, UCLA, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Disney, Gates Planetarium, United States Department of the Interior (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Italian Ministry of Education, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Sorbonne University (France), Keio University (Japan), Nippon TV (Japan), National University of Singapore (NUS), University of Glasgow (UK), European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua, Italy), University of Barcelona (Spain), Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) and many more world-class organizations.

To learn more visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org


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