Techies have converged upon Las Vegas this week to attend CES 2019 (our own Editor-At-Large Robert Hernandez will be there tomorrow).
If you could not attend, or you are attending and looking for more events to connect with VR/AR/MR enthusiasts IRL, here’s a rundown of some of the best extended-reality-related events in 2019.
Editor’s Note: The dates (or even existence) of some of the events below have yet to be announced. We’re including them here under the month they are usually held so they’re at least on the radar!
January
CES (Consumer Electronics Show)
January 8-11
Las Vegas, Nevada
https://www.ces.tech
VR Fest
January 8-12
Las Vegas, Nevada
https://virtualrealityfestival.com/
Sundance Film Festival
January 24-February 3
Park City, Utah
https://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival
February
Mobile World Congress
February 28-28
Barcelona, Spain
https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/
March
SXSW (South by Southwest)
March 8-17
Austin, Texas
https://www.sxsw.com/
VRDC (Virtual Reality Developers Conference)
March 18-22
San Francisco, California
https://www.gdconf.com/vrdc
GDC (Game Developers Conference)
March 18-22
San Francisco, California
https://www.gdconf.com/
IEEE Virtual Reality
March 23-27
Osaka, Japan
http://ieeevr.org/
April
NAB Show
April 6-11
Las Vegas, Nevada
https://www.nabshow.com/
VRX Europe
April 11-12
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://events.vr-intelligence.com/europe/
Tribeca Film Festival
April 24-May 5
New York, New York
https://www.tribecafilm.com/
F8 (Facebook Developer Conference)
April 30-May 1
San Jose, California
https://www.f8.com/
May
Vive Ecosystem Conference
Dates TBD
Shenzhen, China
Google I/O
Dates TBD
Mountain View, California
https://events.google.com/io/
VRLA
May 4-6
Los Angeles, California
https://virtualrealityla.com/
Photokina
May 8-11
Cologne, Germany
http://www.photokina.com/fair/photokina/photokina.php
ARVR Innovate Conference
May 10
Dublin, Ireland
http://arvrinnovate.com/
Cannes Film Festival
May 13-25
Cannes, France
https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/
Digital Transformation Conference
May 15-16
London, UK
http://www.digitaltransformationconf.co.uk/
Digital Hollywood Spring
May 21-23
Los Angeles, California
http://www.digitalhollywood.com/
Augmented World Expo
May 29-31
Santa Clara, California
https://augmentedworldexpo.com/
Cinegear Expo
May 30-June 2
Los Angeles, California
http://www.cinegearexpo.com/
June
World VR Forum
Dates TBD
Geneva, Switzerland
https://wvrf18.worldvrforum.com/en/home/
WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference)
Dates TBD
San Jose, California
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/
VRTO
June 1-3
Toronto, Canada
https://conference.virtualreality.to/
Mojofest
June 6-9
Galway, Ireland
https://ti.to/mojofest/mojofest-2019-galway/en
Digital Transformation Conference
June 10-13
Boston, Massachusetts
http://digitaltransformationconf.com/
IVRPA (International Conference for Virtual Reality Professionals)
June 10-13
Belfast, Ireland
http://ivrpa.org/
VR & AR World
June 11-13
London, UK
https://www.excel.london/whats-on/ar-vr-world-2018
E3
June 11-13
Los Angeles, California
https://www.e3expo.com/
CES Asia
June 11-13
Shanghai, China
http://www.cesasia.cn/
Mobile World Congress Shanghai
June 26-28
Shanghai, China
https://www.mwcshanghai.com/
July
Journalism 360 Unconference
Dates TBD
New York, New York
https://medium.com/journalism360/journalism-360-unconference-2018-challenge-498b333c98b9
SIGGRAPH
July 28-August 1
Los Angeles, California
https://www.siggraph.org/
August
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September
FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality)
Dates TBD
Toronto, Canada
https://fivars.net/
IFA
September 6-11
Berlin, Germany
https://www.ifa-berlin.com/
Online News Association Conference
September 12-14
New Orleans, Louisiana
https://journalists.org/conference/
IBC (International Broadcasting Conference)
September 12-17
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://show.ibc.org
The Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit
September 17-19
Dallas, Texas
https://brainxchange.com/events/ewts-2019/
Oculus Connect 5
September 26-27
San Jose, California
https://www.oculusconnect.com/
Photokina
September 26-29
Cologne, Germany
http://www.photokina.com/fair/photokina/photokina.php
October
Unity Unite Los Angeles
Dates TBD
Los Angeles, California
https://unite.unity.com/
VR On the Lot
Dates TBD
Los Angeles, California
https://www.vr.org/tag/vr-on-the-lot/
Cinegear Expo
Dates TBD
Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.cinegearexpo.com/
FoST (Future of Storytelling)
October 2-3
New York, New York
https://futureofstorytelling.org/summit
VR World
October 22-23
London, UK
http://www.vrworldevent.com/
New York Virtual Reality Expo
October 25-27
New York, New York
https://www.nyvrexpo.com
XRDC
October 29-30
San Francisco, California
https://www.xrdconf.com
November
Samsung Developer Conference
Dates TBD
San Francisco, California
https://www.samsungdeveloperconference.com
VR/AR Global Summit
November 1-2
Vancouver, Canada
https://www.thevrara.com/events/2019/9/27/vrar-global-summit-2019
Adobe MAX
November 2-6
Los Angeles, California
https://max.adobe.com/
SIGGRAPH Asia
November 17-20
Brisbane, Australia
https://sa2018.siggraph.org/en/about-us/sa2019
AVRA Days–Moscow
November 26-27
Moscow, Russia
https://avradays.com/2019en
December
VRX Conference & Expo 2019
December 12 -13
San Francisco, California
https://events.vr-
AWS re:Invent
December 2-6
Las Vegas, Nevada
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Here is a list of additional film festivals featuring a VR section, put together by VeeR: https://veer.tv/blog/top-vr-film-festivals-to-attend/
Additional festivals (and submission deadlines) are available in this Medium post from Georgy Molodtsov.
Have an event to add to the list? Email Sarah at sarah@immersiveshooter.com.
