Oceans XR in the Delegate Lounge
Sunday only 11:30am - 7:30pm
Our Blue Planet VR | BBC Earth
BBC Earth, VRTUL, Nicola Brown, Danny Copeland, Jeff Hester, Casey Sapp, Erick Higuera, Tiare Boyes
BBC Earth, VRTUL, Nicola Brown, Danny Copeland, Jeff Hester, Casey Sapp, Erick Higuera, Tiare Boyes

Dive with Giant Manta Rays in Mexico in 3D 360 | Our Blue Planet VR | BBC Earth
What’s it like to dive alongside ocean giants? Adventure under the waves with marine biologist Erick Higuera and find yourself face to face with some of our oceans most curious and majestic creatures. This dive experience was filmed in 3D 3D 360 and utilizes spatial sound. Turn up the volume and take a deep breath. Our Blue Planet VR is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production.
What’s it like to dive alongside ocean giants? Adventure under the waves with marine biologist Erick Higuera and find yourself face to face with some of our oceans most curious and majestic creatures. This dive experience was filmed in 3D 3D 360 and utilizes spatial sound. Turn up the volume and take a deep breath. Our Blue Planet VR is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production.

Dive with a Giant Pacific Octopus and Wolf Eel in 3D 360 | Our Blue Planet VR | BBC Earth
Canada’s green seas are home to some surprising creatures. From fascinating wolf eels to the largest known octopus in our oceans. Take a deep breath and join diver Tiare Boyes on an adventure into an underwater forest. This dive experience was filmed in 3D 360 and utilizes spatial sound. Turn up the volume and take a deep breath. Our Blue Planet VR is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production.
Canada’s green seas are home to some surprising creatures. From fascinating wolf eels to the largest known octopus in our oceans. Take a deep breath and join diver Tiare Boyes on an adventure into an underwater forest. This dive experience was filmed in 3D 360 and utilizes spatial sound. Turn up the volume and take a deep breath. Our Blue Planet VR is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production.
Sanctuaries 360 VR series
Produced by Kate Thompson, Directed, Stitched, and Edited by Nick Zachar, and Edited by Shannon Shikles for NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
Produced by Kate Thompson, Directed, Stitched, and Edited by Nick Zachar, and Edited by Shannon Shikles for NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

Dive in without getting wet! Explore your National Marine Sanctuaries, a network of underwater parks encompassing more than 600,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters. From the thriving kelp forests of Channel Islands to the vulnerable coral reefs of the Florida Keys, and from the shipwrecks of Lake Huron to turtle cleaning stations in Hawai'i, few places on the planet can compete with the diversity of the National Marine Sanctuary System. Come along as we experience these underwater treasures through virtual reality.
Sanctuaries 360 Titles:
Explore the Blue: 360 Sea Lion EncounterExplore the Blue: 360 Hawaiian Adventure
Explore the Blue: 360 Shipwreck Alley
Explore the Blue: 360 Coral Restoration
Sanctuaries 360 Titles:
Explore the Blue: 360 Sea Lion EncounterExplore the Blue: 360 Hawaiian Adventure
Explore the Blue: 360 Shipwreck Alley
Explore the Blue: 360 Coral Restoration
Operation Apex - C.U.R.I.O: Citizens Underwater Research and Investigation Operation
Developed by Curiscope, a startup founded by Ed Barton and Ben Kidd
Developed by Curiscope, a startup founded by Ed Barton and Ben Kidd

Enter the deep and discover the most expansive, fascinating and diverse places on Earth. Using virtual reality, put on your diving gear and explore the underwater world. Venture through reefs scanning for marine creatures and hidden discoveries. Operation Apex is designed for room-scale and seated modes you’re able to explore no matter the size of your playspace. Dive with the world’s leading marine scientists and take on the role of research assistant with no diving experience needed. Your mission is clear, take your research rig out into the open sea in search of the largest great white shark ever seen. Assist on scientific expeditions to collect data from the marine life around you and learn about the ocean’s precious ecosystem and our individual impact on it.
About the development team:Operation Apex is developed by Curiscope, a startup founded by Ed Barton and Ben Kidd. Curiscope’s mission is to help people understand the real world in a new way. Our award winning experiences take curious minds on wild adventures that inform, inspire and drive enthusiasm for learning. We previously created the most viewed marine VR experience in the world, now with over 26m views on Youtube 360 Great White Shark 360 Encounter
About the development team:Operation Apex is developed by Curiscope, a startup founded by Ed Barton and Ben Kidd. Curiscope’s mission is to help people understand the real world in a new way. Our award winning experiences take curious minds on wild adventures that inform, inspire and drive enthusiasm for learning. We previously created the most viewed marine VR experience in the world, now with over 26m views on Youtube 360 Great White Shark 360 Encounter
SeaPORTAL – Sea of Cortez
Developed by cWave, a start-up founded by Martha Aimé Cardona “mac”, John Reaves and Adriz Cardona
Developed by cWave, a start-up founded by Martha Aimé Cardona “mac”, John Reaves and Adriz Cardona

Explore, interact, and learn about the biodiversity of the Sea of Cortez. Watch the residents come to life and swim around you. Through Augmented Reality, cWave’s SeaPORTALs merge the everyday world with the world below the surface, reminding us that we share our planet with amazing marine creatures. The Sea of Cortez portal introduces us to unique residents of a fascinating ecosystem. The vaquita (Phocoena sinus), in particular is a critical conservation issue, on the verge of extinction with few individuals left in our world.
Special thanks to Dr. Barbara Taylor (NOAA), Dr. Thomas A. Jefferson (VIVA Vaquita), Museo de la ballena, Vaquita CPR, and National Marine Mammal Foundation.
About the developers:
cWave is a creative media development group driven by strategy and innovation. Scientist-led, science communications-focused. The cWave team is passionate about connecting people with science and conservation topics by disrupting the current molds to drive impact. They specialize in blending multiple disciplines and technologies to help connect and engage diverse communities.
Special thanks to Dr. Barbara Taylor (NOAA), Dr. Thomas A. Jefferson (VIVA Vaquita), Museo de la ballena, Vaquita CPR, and National Marine Mammal Foundation.
About the developers:
cWave is a creative media development group driven by strategy and innovation. Scientist-led, science communications-focused. The cWave team is passionate about connecting people with science and conservation topics by disrupting the current molds to drive impact. They specialize in blending multiple disciplines and technologies to help connect and engage diverse communities.
XR On the Exhibitor Floor
Monday - Thursday 9:00-6:00:

Experience the ocean from an entirely new perspective in this social VR adventure. Shrunk down to 2 inches tall, you’ll hitch a ride on a jellyfish and encounter the mysteries of the deep -- and team up to restore this natural wonderland.
Produced by Conservation International and Vision3, in association with Vulcan Productions and made possible by SC Johnson.
(You will be able to experience Drop in the Ocean starting on Sunday)
Produced by Conservation International and Vision3, in association with Vulcan Productions and made possible by SC Johnson.
(You will be able to experience Drop in the Ocean starting on Sunday)

Join legendary Polar explorer and National Geographic photographer PAUL NICKLEN on an epic adventure to Antarctica, across raging seas and into a dreamlike land…to come face to face with one of Antarctica’s most iconic creatures: a giant leopard seal. Larger than a Grizzly Bear and intently curious, these apex predators have never seen humans in their hunting grounds. This is the first time such an encounter has ever been filmed in cinematic VR. Harnessing the true power of this new first-person immersive medium – you’ll experience that transformative moment of connection between man and beast - for yourself.
Produced by Black Dot Films VR for National Geographic
(You will be able to experience Polar Obesession in the Delegate Lounge on Sunday also)
Produced by Black Dot Films VR for National Geographic
(You will be able to experience Polar Obesession in the Delegate Lounge on Sunday also)

Narrated by Academy Award-winning and Kenyan-raised actress Lupita Nyong'o, “My Africa,” transports viewers to the untamed rangelands of Northern Kenya, where a community is reknitting the bonds that have long enabled people and wildlife to coexist. The story follows the journey of a young Samburu woman named Naltwasha Leripe as she takes viewers through her community’s daily life, tending livestock, digging “singing” wells deep into dry riverbanks and rescuing a baby elephant orphaned by a poacher’s gun.
Credits: A Passion Planet Production in association with Vision 3 for Conservation International
Credits: A Passion Planet Production in association with Vision 3 for Conservation International

Greenland’s glaciers are melting faster and faster. To understand why, and what this might mean for the rest of the world, FRONTLINE and NOVA —two of PBS’s flagship series based at WGBH —teamed up with Emblematic Group, X-Rez Studio and Realtra to bring this story to life as never before.
Greenland Melting provides a rare, up-close view of icy Arctic scenery that’s disappearing faster than predicted. The team gained unique access to NASA scientists as they conducted groundbreaking research into a transforming landscape with ramifications for the entire world.
Credits: FRONTLINE, Emblematic Group, NOVA, xRez Studio, Realtra
Greenland Melting provides a rare, up-close view of icy Arctic scenery that’s disappearing faster than predicted. The team gained unique access to NASA scientists as they conducted groundbreaking research into a transforming landscape with ramifications for the entire world.
Credits: FRONTLINE, Emblematic Group, NOVA, xRez Studio, Realtra
Everest VR: The Movie Experience

Walk alongside two of the planet’s best climbers as they attempt to summit Mt. Everest and neighboring Mt. Lhotse without supplemental oxygen. Travel with them through Everest’s grueling, oxygen-depleted “death zone” to experience elation at the awe-inspiring vistas at the summit - and glimpse danger and fear as the climbers experience the raw power of an avalanche. Only 175 people have climbed Everest without supplementary oxygen – fewer than have reached space. Do you have what it takes to reach the top?
Credit: Jonathan Griffith Productions, Legend 3D, Vulcan Productions
Credit: Jonathan Griffith Productions, Legend 3D, Vulcan Productions