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The first-ever standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference draws nigh, and today organizers are pleased to highlight another one of the great cutting-edge talks taking place at the November conference!

Omer Shapira is a lead technical artist with Nvidia, and at VRDC he'll be sharing some lessons learned about solving complicated mixed-reality development problems in his "Thinking with Your Body: Fast Iteration for Mixed Reality Design" talk.

It promises to be a fascinating presentation, as Shapira will discuss proprioception, human motion planning, LOD in UX design, cues for spatial reckoning, measuring tool effectiveness, and personal space. He'll also share key practical learnings from NVIDIA, Fake Love, Framestore and other experienced studios to examine ways of tending to the granularity of our bodies, exploiting our perceptual blindspots, and describe ways of implementing those into the experience.

Google has been one of the leading explorers of virtual reality, especially on mobile devices, and at the inaugural standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference this November it will share lessons learned from its time in the field.

Over the last year, small teams at Google have built more than 75 VR experiments. In his rapid-fire VRDC talk on "Lessons Learned from VR Prototyping," Rob Jagnow -- a developer with Google's Daydream Labs -- will give a quick review of some of Google's top lessons and cover the freshest ideas to emerge from their rapid prototyping team.

It promises to be a useful talk, as attendees can expect to learn about some of the most promising VR use cases that Google is looking at and check out how they continue to explore new ideas, week after week.

Now that registration is open for the 2017 Game Developers Conference, the largest event for game industry professionals in the world, organizers would like to let you know about some of the very first cutting-edge talks that have been lined up for the big show!

After a panoply of hype, 2016 was the year high-quality consumer VR became a reality. Soon, in his GDC talk "VR Market 2017: Data and Insights," EEDAR VP Patrick Walker will present data and insights from the first 12 months of consumer VR and the launch of multiple major VR platforms.

What's worked and what hasn't worked in the first 12 months for Oculus, the Vive, and the soon-to-launch PlayStation VR? What are the attitudes, opinions, and behaviors of both early adopters and gamers who are still on the fence? What do these answers tell them about the path to mainstream VR? These questions will be explored through consumer and sales data from a variety of sources, including EEDAR's monthly global consumer tracker, PlayerPulse, and the EEDAR game database.

November will see the debut of the first-ever standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference, and today conference organizers are excited to highlight one of the many exciting sessions talking place during the show.

This one's all about outer space. VR developers have long recognized VR's power to take people to other worlds, and now NASA's own Matthew Noyes is coming to VRDC to talk about how the space agency is investigating the many possibilities Hybrid Reality holds to support space exploration.

In their VRDC talk on "Hybrid Reality: A New Paradigm for Astronaut Training" the pair will run down how, with the advent of private sector innovations in consumer VR, rendering technology, and additive manufacturing techniques, there is a paradigm shift in astronaut training on the horizon combining immersive visuals reinforced by extremely realistic haptic feedback, as well as promising new augmentations to engineering workflow.

They'll offer rare insight into NASA's history of VR usage, and explore examples of modern-day astronaut VR training -- including a simulation of the International Space Station where users can interact with handrails and tracked physical objects in the real world while inside VR, and an instance of how NASA is using one type of virtual reality technology (a consumer headset) to completely simulate and develop another type of virtual environment (a reconfigurable CAVE).

The inaugural standalone edition of the Virtual Reality Developers Conference is kicking off in November, so today we'd like to highlight a few more of the cutting-edge tech companies who have already signed on to sponsor the show.

Notably, tech giants Intel and Google are sponsoring the conference, which seeks to explore and understand the fields of virtual- and augmented-reality experience design.

Great news: Game Developers Conference 2017 is now open for registration!

This will be the 31st edition of GDC, the world's largest and longest-running event for game developers, and you can register right now by visiting the official GDC 2017 website!

And you should register now, because Early Bird pricing -- with discounts up to 30 percent -- will remain in effect for a limited time. Also some passes, including the popular Indie Games Summit pass, have limited amounts -- so if you’re interested, don't delay!

The 2017 GDC runs from February 27th through March 3rd, 2017 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. This year GDC will once again host seven high-quality Summits as well as VRDC @ GDC, a sort of sister conference focused on virtual reality game dev. Plus, there will be lots of tutorials, bootcamps, and Main Conference tracks spanning all major facets of game development - from in-depth business strategy to hardcore design and programming sessions.

November will see the debut of the first-ever standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference, and conference organizers are working hard to line up great sessions, exhibitors and sponsors for the cutting-edge event.

The best way to understand the power of VR is to experience it for yourself, so today we're excited to reveal some of the great VR demos that VRDC sponsors plan to make available for all VRDC attendees to check out as they're making the most of their time at the conference.

Japanese VR pioneer Colopl Ni will have a booth at the show where visitors can play demos of their popular VR games Cyberpong and Slot Tub Party, as well as an as-yet unannounced VR game that's expected to debut later this year.

Plus, sponsor MyDream Interactive is expected to bring playable versions of both its VR tower defense game Siege Hammer and its innovative LightVR room simulator, which allows anyone to build the room of their dreams.