Day 3 – 2025 XR Speaker Series Presented by UW XRA

​Come join UW’s Extended Reality Association (XRA) for Day 3 of the 2025 XR Speaker Series on Wednesday, 3/5/2025, 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm in CSE2 G20!

​Our XR Speaker Series brings you direct access to industry and academic XR professionals. Come hear their stories, insights, advice, and predictions about how the field is taking off. Learn, laugh, network, and find out how XRA can help you develop your career in XR by checking out XRA’s Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 headsets! 🥽 Free snacks and cold refreshments will be provided.

​📋 Day 3 Speakers:

​🗣 Alvin Wang Graylin – HTC, Virtual World Society
💻 The Reality of our Next Reality

​https://www.linkedin.com/in/agraylin/

​Alvin highly recommends reading his book, “Our Next Reality,” before his talk for better context. Hardback, e-book, and audiobook formats available at:
https://ournextreality.com/

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​🗣 Daniel Robbins – Adobe, Meta, HTC, Visual Vocal, Microsoft

​💻 Specific Design Challenges for XR
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dancrobbins/

​https://sites.google.com/view/danielrobbins

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​🗣 Dre Smith – Deepbit Labs

​💻 How I Built MysticMarbles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drenerdo/

​https://drenerdo.com/

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📆 Time:
Wednesday, 3/5/2025 🕧 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

🏢 Building:

​CSE2 (Bill and Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science and Engineering)

​3800 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195

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​🧱 Room:
Amazon Auditorium

​Room G20
Located on ground floor, below main atrium
360 Photo: https://www.washington.edu/classroom/CSE2+G20

UW XRA Links:

​Linktree:
linktr.ee/uwxra

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LinkedIn Page:

​linkedin.com/company/extended-reality-association-uw/

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​Instagram:

​instagram.com/uw_xra/

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​UW RSO page:

​huskylink.washington.edu/organization/xra

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​Discord Server:

​See Discord Link in Linktree ^ above for up-to-date server invite