Laval Virtual 2024 wrapped up for another year. The event always wows spectators with a rich lineup of technology vendors and innovations. XR took centre stage, with many firms highlighting major products, addressing industry concerns, and presenting innovations. In 2024, many major technology firms like Apple, LG, and Samsung are debuting XR devices, and events like Laval Virtual will provide crucial insight into the growing industry.
At the Espace Mayenne in Laval, France, organisers hosted the event from April 10-12, providing insights into the AR/VR/MR industry and the future of digital engagement and work – including keynotes from XR/spatial computing vendors and other firms with a presence in the XR space, both as end-users and solution providers.
Attendees learned from industry leaders about the transformative potential of the XR for business and society. Laval Virtual 2024 also featured showcases and hands-on demonstrations of the latest enterprise-ready XR technologies, such as industrial metaverse, digital twin, and spatial computing solutions.
Speakers from this year’s event discussed emerging XR technologies and the role AR/VR/MR may play in everyday work and home life. This year’s speakers included Amone Gbedemah, the Head of B2B Sales at Reality Labs EMEA, Meta, Diana Ravelomanantsoa, a Converged Communications Go-To-Market Manager at Microsoft, and Gabriel Vincent, an Omniverse & Digital twins sales specialist at Nvidia France.
XR is facing a growth period thanks to solutions like Vision Pro and Omniverse, which bring investment to the space. This comes following the Metaverse lull, which lost the faith of some audiences; however, Laval Virtual 2024 highlights a year of industry-wide success.
What the Industry Thinks
Events like Laval Virtual 2024 are a great space to network and incubate ideas. Businesses can potentially meet with a solutions provider that revolutionizes a chosen workspace.
At Laval Virtual 2024, the event’s expo hall was filled with the usual XR suspects and a lineup of innovative start-ups that the event also recognised via a series of awards.
Laval Virtual 2024 is an “international hub” for the XR community. One can look at online social media channels to prove this; leading firms showed up and impressed attendees with solutions from immersive CADS to getting hands-on with XR headsets.
Networking and exhibitions are effective ways to connect with people in your industry, but listening to experts speak about the transformative potential of XR while having a cup of coffee can be invaluable when implementing XR in your chosen use cases. Additionally, leading industry players often host keynotes that inspire the next generation of enterprise adopters and XR engineers. By bringing all these elements together, XR events help to build a foundation of knowledge and understanding that can contribute to the broader adoption of XR technology.
Moreover, industry events are a crucial learning space. Despite having its veterans, the XR industry is still very young. XR leaders are still chipping away at the tip of the iceberg in terms of XR use cases, and by experiencing industry events like Laval Virtual 2024, attendees can remove themselves from a silo and engage with different technologies – driving hardware/software cross-pollination, collaboration, and innovation.
2024 is only just kicking off. With the increasing understanding of the value of workplace spatial data and new vendors entering the hardware marketplace, XR industry events will grow exponentially; staying at the forefront and carefully considering what XR solutions fit you is vital – and you can find this out at an event.
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