Presentation at a social vr in digital construction workshop at Musiikkitalo, Helsinki 16.3.2018.

1. Social VR
Musiikkitalo, 16.03.2018
Kari Peltola
CEO, Leonidas Oy

2. Kari Peltola
CEO, Leonidas
Chairman, VR Finland
Kari is the CEO of Leonidas, a leading Finnish XR company. He is
also the founder of VR Finland association which develops and
supports the Finnish XR ecosystem. He has been working in the
high tech and software sector for over 10 years.
Twitter & Medium: @kapelto
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/karipeltola
Email: kari.peltola@leonidasoy.fi
Intro

3. ♦ Founded in 2008
♦ Based in Tampere
♦ Profitable, AAA status
♦ Employs 22 professionals
♦ One of the leading extended reality
companies in Finland (VR / AR / MR)
Leonidas
The Leading XR Company

4. XR = VR + AR + MR
Real
Environment
Virtual
Environment
Augmented
Reality (AR)
Augmented
Virtuality (AV)
Mixed Reality (MR)

5. VR
Takes you anywhere
AR
Brings anything to you

6. Value of VR

7. Fundamental Values of VR
Space & Time
Possibility to move and work
across space and time
Presence
Real feeling of
being there
Context
Enables expensive and
dangerous situations

8. Technology

9. Coming up: Standalone VR
♦ Wireless, optimized perf. vs. current mobile VR
♦ Inside out tracking coming enabling 6DOF—from
“room-scale” to “world-scale” (Santa Cruz & Focus)
♦ More usable and mobile HMDs—enable wider adoption
Oculus
Santa Cruz
Vive
Focus
Oculus Go

10. State of Social VR

11. Social VR enabling location
independent human connection
Facebook Spaces
Screenshot from Oculus

13. State of Social VR
♦ Major players betting on social in VR
(Facebook Spaces, Microsoft Altspace, etc.)
♦ Various multi-user VR applications are
emerging across various domains
♦ Industry is moving forward to reap the
benefits (e.g. Leonidas-Valmet collaboration)

14. Possibilities

15. Possibilities From the Business
Perspective
Cost
savings
Improved
productivity and
safety