Augmented World Expo (AWE) isn’t simply one of many longest-running conferences targeted on immersive tech, it’s additionally turn out to be crucial annual XR convention on our calendar.
Within the early days there have been many trade conferences that had a major draw for the pioneers of XR’s trendy epoch. There have been XR pockets inside large tech conferences like CES, GDC, and E3. There have been company-specific occasions like Oculus Join and Unity’s Imaginative and prescient Summit. And there have been early grass-roots occasions like SVVR, VRLA, and a number of native meetups throughout the globe that constructed lasting networks of XR believers.
Whereas many of those occasions have since pale, the connections they fostered haven’t. Greater than another XR convention that I’ve attended, AWE USA feels just like the occasion that has absorbed the spirit of these early conferences.
Since I began attending AWE USA in 2018, the convention has solely grown and provided more and more extra attention-grabbing and useful classes, exhibitors, and networking. It has steadily developed into what I think about the must-go occasion for the XR trade. Regardless of its scale, it carries the torch of ardour that ignited the XR house again when it was little greater than kickstarters, meetups, and people loopy sufficient to consider that immersive tech was not solely doable to construct, however value constructing.
That’s why I’m proud to announce that Street to VR is becoming a member of AWE USA 2025 because the occasion’s Premiere Media Companion.
Along with our regular reporting from the occasion, we’ll be highlighting essentially the most attention-grabbing classes and exhibitors forward of the present, facilitating giveaways from AWE companions, and providing an unique 20% low cost on tickets to AWE USA 2025. Tremendous Early Chicken All Entry passes can be found now for a restricted time—there gained’t be a greater deal!
AWE USA 2025 can be held in Lengthy Seaside, California from June tenth to twelfth, and it’s anticipated to be the largest but, with greater than 6,000 attendees, 300 exhibitors, 400 audio system, and a 150,000 Sqft expo flooring.
Whereas the occasion has lengthy hosted intriguing classes and a variety of exhibitors from the largest XR firms to the scrappiest startups, the ‘Playground’ part of the expo flooring has turn out to be a singular place for builders and creators to premiere immersive experiences of every kind—from video games to artwork and all of the artistic locations in between.
AWE USA’s annual afterparty can be a spot the place I’m at all times excited to see acquainted faces from throughout the trade, whereas making new connections on this ever-growing trade.
If we may solely attend a single convention in 2025, AWE USA could be our alternative. And we expect it must be yours too!
