Augmented World Expo (AWE) isn’t simply one of many longest-running conferences centered on immersive tech, it’s additionally change into an important annual XR convention on our calendar.
Within the early days there have been many business conferences that had a major draw for the pioneers of XR’s fashionable epoch. There have been XR pockets inside huge 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 bunch 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 every other 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 supplied more and more extra attention-grabbing and helpful classes, exhibitors, and networking. It has steadily advanced into what I contemplate the must-go occasion for the XR business. Regardless of its scale, it carries the torch of ardour that ignited the XR area again when it was little greater than kickstarters, meetups, and people loopy sufficient to imagine that immersive tech was not solely potential to construct, however price 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 Associate.
Along with our normal reporting from the occasion, we’ll be highlighting probably 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 received’t be a greater deal!
AWE USA 2025 might be held in Lengthy Seaside, California from June tenth to twelfth, and it’s anticipated to be the most important but, with greater than 6,000 attendees, 300 exhibitors, 400 audio system, and a 150,000 Sqft expo ground.
Whereas the occasion has lengthy hosted intriguing classes and a variety of exhibitors from the most important XR corporations to the scrappiest startups, the ‘Playground’ part of the expo ground has change into a singular place for builders and creators to premiere immersive experiences of every kind—from video games to artwork and all of the inventive locations in between.
AWE USA’s annual afterparty can be a spot the place I’m all the time excited to see acquainted faces from throughout the business, whereas making new connections on this ever-growing business.
If we might solely attend a single convention in 2025, AWE USA can be our selection. And we predict it needs to be yours too!
