GDC Update: Oculus Lightning Talks Schedule Revealed

GDC kicks off next week, and we can’t wait to join the VR developer community at the Moscone Center in San Francisco! Last week, we highlighted two must-see sessions featured in the main GDC program. Today, we’re excited to reveal our current lineup of in-booth lightning talks.

Join us on the expo floor at booth #401 (South Hall) to check out the following programming. Can’t make it in person? Select talks will be livestreamed.

• Developing Brass Tactics from the Ground Up
  Hidden Path Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Michael Austin, Art Director Patrick Moynihan, Technical Director Steve Messick, and CEO Jeff Pobst
  11:00 – 11:30 am PT
• An Authoritative Client-Server Workflow for Small Teams
  OZWE Games CEO Stephane Intissar
  11:30 am – 12:00 pm PT
• Performance Features on Oculus Go: Mobile Power Management
  Oculus Software Engineer Rémi Palandri
  12:00 – 12:30 pm PT
  *Talk will be livestreamed
• Developing for Project Santa Cruz
  Oculus Developer Relations Engineer Gabor Szauer, Head of Content Strategy Rade Stojsavljevic, and Software Engineer Ryan Rutherford
  12:30 – 1:30 pm PT
• Relationships Matter: Maximizing Retention in VR Games
  Oculus Developer Relations Specialist Isabel Tewes
  1:30 – 2:00 pm PT
• No More Stalled Submissions: Virtual Reality Checks Guidelines and Developer Tools
  Oculus Software Engineer Leon Liu
  2:00 – 2:30 pm PT
  *Talk will be livestreamed
• Release Channels: Feedback to Help Refine Your Application from Start to Finish
  Oculus Community Support Engineer Patrick Flautt
  2:30 – 3:00 pm PT
• Aim to Win: Common Success Secrets of VR
  Oculus Developer Strategist Deborah Guzman Barrios
  3:30 – 4:00 pm PT
  *Talk will be livestreamed
• Ready for Takeoff!
  Oculus Developer Strategist Phil Greenspan
  4:00 – 4:30 pm PT

• Designing Social Play in Virtual Reality: Catan VR
  Experiment 7 Co-Founder & Creative Director Geoffrey Zatkin
  10:30 – 11:00 am PT
• New Oculus Avatars: Under the Hood
  Oculus Platform Engineering Manager John Bartkiw
  11:00 – 11:30 am PT
• Profiling and Optimizing for Mobile
  Oculus Developer Relations Engineer Gabor Szauer
  11:30 am – 12:00 pm PT
• Live AMA with Chris Pruett
  Oculus Head of Development Relations Engineering Chris Pruett
  12:00 – 1:00 pm PT
  *Talk will be livestreamed
• Getting the Most out of the Rift SDK
  Oculus Software Engineer Volga Aksoy
  1:00 – 1:30 pm PT
• Locomotion Samples and Best Practices
  Oculus Software Engineer Tom Heath
  1:30 – 2:00 pm PT
• Aim to Win: Common Success Secrets of VR
  Oculus Developer Strategist Deborah Guzman Barrios
  2:00 – 2:30 pm PT
• Unity Scriptable Render Pipeline: Our Future for Rendering
  Unity XR Graphics Lead Dave Shreiner
  2:30 – 3:00 pm PT
• VR Storytelling: Learnings from the Frontlines
  Oculus Producer Dorian Dargan
  3:00 – 3:30 pm PT
• Behind the Scenes of Coatsink’s Upcoming Title
  Coatsink Narrative Designer Jon Davies
  3:30 – 4:00 pm PT
  *Talk will be livestreamed
• Only the Essentials: Optimizing with Unreal’s Profiler
  Epic Games Senior Technical Writer Sam Deiter
  4:00 – 4:30 pm PT

If you have a conference pass, you can also hear from Oculus during VRDC and GDC:

• Explorations in XR Creation Tools
  Featuring Oculus Systems Product Designer Agatha Yu
  10:00 – 11:00 am PT
  Location: Room 25, North Hall

• Producer Bootcamp: Be the Best Producer for Your Team
  Oculus Technical Program Manager >Ruth Tomandl
  10:00 – 11:00 am PT
  Location: Room 2010, West Hall
• Audio Bootcamp XVII: Lunchtime Surgeries
  Featuring Oculus Audio Experiences Lead Scott Selfon
  12:20 – 1:50 pm PT
  Location: Room 3004, West Hall

• Inside Oculus 2018
  Oculus VP on Content Jason Rubin, Director of Engineering Ross O’Dwyer, Head of Development Relations Engineering Chris Pruett, and Studios Producer Ruth Bram
  9:30 – 10:30 am PT
  Location: Room 3001, West Hall
• What’s Next? A Game Audio Microtalk Series
  Featuring Oculus Audio Experiences Lead Scott Selfon
  9:30 – 10:30 am PT
  Location: Room 3006, West Hall

• Embodying Identity Through Immersive Design
  Featuring Oculus Studios Producer Ruth Bram
  11:30 am – 12:30 pm PT
  Location: Room 3014, West Hall

• Indie After College: Surviving the Transition
  Featuring Oculus Development Engineer Ted DiNola
  1:30 – 2:00 pm PT
  Location: Room 3007, West Hall

Visit the Oculus Developer Blog for more details, and join the Oculus Developer community on Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates. Check back on the blog next week for news from the show floor, including new game announcements and never-before-seen demos.

See you at GDC!

— The Oculus Team