Building the Oasis on the blockchain: the decentralized Future of VR & AR

1. Inside the Oasis - blockchain’s
ultimate use case.
SXSW 2019 Panel

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Inside the Oasis - blockchain’s ultimate use case.SXSW 2019
In an immersive future where people, places and things are projected into our
brains, trust in identity, payments and freedom of expression will become the
cornerstones of the Oasis.
That trust will be built using Blockchain technology - a revolution in systems of
record enabling the crowd to create and sell in the new virtual economy with
ease.
In a decentralized future, the people gain charge over both the content and the
profits.
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Questions
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Who should retain creative control over the
virtual metaverse?
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Questions
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How can a decentralized ledger based on
complex cryptographic algorithms merge with
immersive entertainment or gaming?
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Is crowdsourcing the future of VR and AR?
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Will immersive applications be the ultimate
application of blockchain?
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Who should retain editorial control over the
objects and environment that AR recognizes?
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Questions
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What new monetization models are coming to
support economies in AR and VR?
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Inside the Oasis - blockchain’s ultimate use case.SXSW 2019
Three leaders in the field on the vanguard of combining blockchain with Virtual
and Augmented Reality will discuss the issues, concerns and considerations
around the combination of these two technologies on the frontier of a new
reality that may well give rise to “the Oasis” including representatives from:
● Decentraland a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain
where Users can create, experience, and monetize content and applications.
● Lampix an AR tabletop computer powered by PIX, a decentralized object recognition
platform that crowdsources object training reference images for AR apps giving
editorial control of what computers “see” to the crowd.
● ARA a community-driven platform and developer SDKs leverage distributed
computing, blockchain, and the sharing economy to make the delivery and sale of
VR assets quick, cost-effective, and secure.
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Moderator
CINDY MALLORY (Moderator)
MARKETING + EMERGENT TECH STRATEGIST,
JAKT CO-CHAIR VR/AR ASSOCIATION
Cindy is the former CMO of VR game studio DreamSail
Games. She built her first international research
committee on location based VR entertainment while
establishing a network of over 35 arcades in 7 countries
to play her studio's mecha game.
A 2x founding co-chair of VR/AR Association, Cindy built
the location based entertainment committee and is
co-chair for the VRARA blockchain committee.
Cindy spoke on VR monetization models in Russia and
VR real estate use cases at NYC Television week in
2017. She's now proud to support JAKT on their mission
to use technology to create solutions that will positively
impact 100 million lives by 2027.
CINDYMALLORY
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Panelist
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ARI MEILICH
PROJECT LEAD: DECENTRALAND
Ari is the Project Lead at Decentraland, the first
decentralized VR platform. He has worked as an Analyst
at Charles River Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley
venture fund, and as the founder and CEO of Benchrise,
a big-data company. Before entering the world of tech,
he spent two years as a National Institute of Health
fellow, performing neuroscience research on human
decision-making, while running a BPO agency that
catered to clients such as Amazon and General Electric.
ARIMEILICH

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Panelist
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Gordon is VP Marketing for Lampix, an award winning
Augmented Reality technology company that combines their
proprietary object-sensing software platform with an
advanced smart projector and camera system. Lampix was
named winner of Highway 1 (2016), the AR/VR category in
the Accelerator Pitch event at SXSW (2017), and was named
Best Augmented Reality Display by Next Reality (2017).
Gordon has worked extensively in VR and widely appeared
with his partner at the International Rescue Committee on
their project depicting the lives of refugees in Jordan with
360 degree media.
Gordon has been featured on NPR’s All Tech Considered, as
well as publications such as INC Magazine, Chicago Tribune,
Skift and Brandchannel among others. In 2015 Gordon was
named “Top 40 under 40 Brand Marketers” by Brand
Innovators a premier Marketing industry think tank. Gordon
currently sits on the Board of Advisors for BWG Strategy an
invite-only network for senior executives across technology,
media and telecom.
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Panelist
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Vanessa is the Chief Brand Officer at Littlstar and Co-Creator
of ARA Blocks, a new platform that leverages distributed
computing, blockchain, and the sharing economy to make
the delivery and sale of assets quick, cost-effective, and
secure.
Littlstar is a premium Virtual Reality platform putting viewers
at the center of experiences using immersive technologies.
Littlstar has the largest VR content in the world from
companies like Disney, ABC, NBC, Showtime, A+E Networks,
Syfy Network, Sony, DiscoveryVR, National Geographic and
more. Prior to building Littlstar, Vanessa was the Design
Director at DKNY and Partner at Basta Studio – a New York
based design studio & consultancy firm.
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14. LAMPIX
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