VR Education Holdings PLC ENGAGE to host 2020 HTC Vive Ecosystem Conference
09 Marzo 2020 - 08:00AM
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VR Education Holdings PLC
09 March 2020
For immediate release 9 March 2020
VR Education Holdings plc
('VR Education' or the 'Group')
ENGAGE to host 2020 HTC Vive Ecosystem Conference
First global conference to be hosted entirely via VR
VR Education (AIM: VRE; Euronext Growth: 6VR), a leading virtual
reality ('VR') technology company focused on the education and
enterprise training space, is pleased to announce that it will
host, via its ENGAGE platform, the 2020 HTC Vive Ecosystem
Conference ('HTC 2020 VEC'), due to be held on 19 March 2020. This
conference has historically been held by HTC Corporation ('HTC') in
Shenzhen in China, however, due to the Coronavirus and the
subsequent shutdown and travel restrictions imposed across the
country, the event in its physical format has been cancelled.
HTC approached VRE to virtually host HTC 2020 VEC, thereby
allowing the free event to run as planned, albeit virtually.
Working closely with HTC, the Group has moved quickly to facilitate
the event. VR Education believes will be the first conference ever
to be transferred into virtual reality, enabling a global audience
without travel. The conference will also be attended by the teams
from other events which are either cancelled, postponed or taking
on new digital formats such as GSMA (Global System for Mobile
Communications), GDC (Game Developers Conference), ESL (English as
a Second Language) and GTC (GPU Technology Conference).
The HTC 2020 VEC speakers will be located in China, Taiwan,
France, the UK and the US and will communicate their various
presentations as avatars in virtual reality via the ENGAGE
platform. The panel includes several members of HTC senior
management including the CEO, Yves Maitre, and HTC's China
President, Alvin Graylin. In addition, external speakers include
Tom Furness, a pioneer of VR; Peter Diamandis, founder and Chairman
of The X PRIZE Foundation; and Hugo Swart, QUALCOMM's VP and
General Manager of XR.
David Whelan, CEO of VR Education, said: "We have a close
working relationship with HTC and so when they asked if we could
assist in hosting HTC 2020 VEC via ENGAGE, we were delighted to
help out. Coronavirus continues to impact us all and we feel that
by hosting this conference virtually we can mitigate some of the
disruption that it has and continues to cause businesses
globally.
Whilst there is no monetary value to this agreement, we believe
that it marks the first time an official physical industry event is
fully replaced by VR. It also provides us with an excellent
opportunity to showcase the exciting capabilities of our ENGAGE
platform to a truly global technology-led audience. We hope that
this might, in turn, lead to further commercial opportunities for
the Group going forward."
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For further information, please contact:
VR Education Holdings plc Tel: +353 87 665 6708
David Whelan, CEO contact@vreducationholdings.com
Sandra Whelan, COO
Cairn Financial Advisers LLP (Nominated Tel: +44 (0) 20 7213
Adviser) 0880
James Caithie / Liam Murray / Ludovico
Lazzaretti
Shore Capital (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 7408
Toby Gibbs / Anita Ghanekar 4090
Fiona Conroy
Davy (Joint Broker & Euronext Growth Tel: +353 1 679 6363
Advisor)
Fergal Meegan / Ronan Veale / Barry
Murphy
Buchanan (Financial PR) Tel: +44 (0)20 7466 5000
Henry Harrison-Topham / Chris Lane VRE@buchanan.uk.com
/ Tilly Abraham
Notes to Editors
VR Education, together with its wholly owned subsidiary, is an
early stage VR software and technology group based in Waterford,
Ireland, dedicated to transforming the delivery methods of
education and corporate training by utilising VR technologies to
deliver fully immersive virtual learning experiences. The Group's
core focus is the development and commercialisation of its online
virtual social learning and presentation platform called ENGAGE,
which provides a platform for creating, sharing and delivering
proprietary and third-party VR content for educational and
corporate training purposes.
In addition to the ongoing development of the ENGAGE platform,
the Group has also built two downloadable showcase VR experiences,
being the award-winning Apollo 11 VR experience and the Titanic VR
experience.
On 12 March 2018, VR Education listed on the AIM market of the
London Stock Exchange and on the Enterprise Securities Market, a
market regulated by Euronext Dublin. For further information,
please visit www.vreducationholdings.com .
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