PARTNERS
Match XR is created in close partnership with representatives of the Finnish XR industry.
At Match XR you can enjoy our dear partners’ XR insights in presentations, hear what they have created and chat with them face-to-face afterwards.
Since in 2020 the event was held in Altspace and it supports community created environments, we decided to give our partners the opportunity to let their creativity flow and create their own VR worlds into Altspace, which will be linked into our main hub’s expo area via teleport. It’s an experimental take on virtual exhibitions, and all the worlds will remain linked to our venue and freely accessible for all Altspace users also after the event.
At the end of this page we have listed our dear partners of Match XR 2020 event and gathered a short bio of what they do and who they are. Take a look!
Do you want to be a partner for Match XR 2021?
Planning of our next year’s Match XR 2021 event is underway! We are already looking for sponsors and partners – send us a message to [email protected] if your company or organisation is interested to be a part of our event next year!
READ MORE ABOUT OUR LAST YEAR’S PARTNERS BY CLICKING ON THE LOGOS BELOW!
360Mediatalo
Aalto University
ALTER – Experience Ideas
Anarky Labs
Animaatiokilta
Arilyn
Augumenta
AXiiO Oy
CTRL Reality
Finnish Design Academy
Finnish National Opera and Ballet
Glue Collaboration
Lyfta Oy
MeKiwi
Nordic XR Startups
Pohjoisen Keski-Suomen Ammattiopisto
Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
Sense of Space
Stereoscape Oy
Teatime Research Ltd.
Turku University of Applied Sciences
Varjo
Virtual Dawn
Vive X
XRCube
XR Design Degree
(Metropolia UAS)
Yle – Finnish Broadcasting Company
Partner portals
At Match XR 2020 visitors got to experience 17 amazing virtual worlds created by our partners. Portals to these worlds were located in our VR Pavilion Finland venue’s ground floor, and in fact, they are still available and open for visitors!
VR Pavilion Finland is open for visitors in AltspaceVR. Please note that before you can step in, you have to download AltspaceVR from Steam or Microsoft store, and create an AltspaceVR account.
The following partners created virtual worlds for Match XR 2020:
Finnish National Opera and Ballet
The Finnish National Opera and Ballet is a national art institution, offering opera and ballet performances and other events to audiences of all ages. Guest performances, school operas, TV broadcasts and streaming bring the FNOB to everyone all over the country and even the globe.
OPERA BEYOND
The ground-breaking Opera Beyond project by the Finnish National Opera and Ballet is a unique collision between performing arts and emerging technologies. The project’s disruptive approach is raising an increasing amount of international interest. It has recently given rise to collaboration between the global research and development laboratory Nokia Bell Labs and the Finnish National Opera. The project culminates in the Opera Beyond Conference in May, which brings the world’s leading arts and technology professionals to Helsinki.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
03:00 pm – “Opera Beyond – Immersive technology in performing arts” by Annastina Haapasaari
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
ALTER – Experience Ideas
Alter provides interactive immersive Virtual Reality solutions and tailored digital experiences.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
Yle – Finnish Broadcasting Company
Yle – the Finnish Broadcasting Company is Finland’s national public service media company.
Yle produces content and services for audiences in equal conditions regardless of their residence status, wealth, age or gender.
PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
04:00 pm – “Scale Up Innovation With Yle” presentation by Jari Lahti
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
Varjo
Varjo makes human-eye resolution virtual and mixed reality products that help professionals in the most demanding industries push the limits of what’s ever been possible.
Ultimately Varjo is creating a new kind of immersive computing, where virtual, augmented and physical realities become one.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
(coming soon)
PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
09:15 am – Urho Konttori, Founder & Chief Product Officer of Varjo, participates in Good Morning From Helsinki panel discussion
01:00 pm – “Photorealistic Mixed Reality” presentation by Urho Konttori
Aalto University
Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. Aalto University builds a sustainable future by creating novel solutions to major global challenges. We value responsibility, courage, and collaboration.
By merging three leading Finnish universities in 2010, Aalto was founded to work as a societally embedded research university. In a short space of time, we have since become a forerunner in our key areas. We are renowned for our sense of community and culture of entrepreneurship and innovation.
ACOUSTICS LAB
The Aalto Acoustics Lab is a multidisciplinary research center of the Aalto University.
The Acoustics Lab gathers professors and research teams from three different units: Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Department of Computer Science, and Department of Media. Our research and teaching focus on audio processing and spatial sound technologies.
More about Aalto Acoustics Lab
MEDIA LAB
The mission of Aalto Media Lab is to explore, discover and comprehend the new digital technology and its impact in society; to find and exploit the possibilities it opens to communication, interaction and expression and to evaluate, understand and deal with the challenges it poses to design and creative production.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
02:00 pm – “Virtual acoustics in 6-degrees-of-freedom” presentation by Sebastian Schlecht
Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences is a multidisciplinary institution of higher education and an efficient actor in education and research, development and innovation (RDI) in the region of South Ostrobothnia in West Finland.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
JANNE KAPELA
ANTTI KUUSISTO
MATTI MÄKELÄ
PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
AXiiO Oy
AXiiO VR Studio is a new VR production focused on creating narrative and storytelling in virtual reality with live actors.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
01:30 pm – “Narrative and storytelling VR content with live actors” presentation by Oleg Nikolaenko
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
Lyfta Oy
Lyfta is a multiple award-winning global learning platform where teachers and pupils can access stunning immersive storyworlds with short non-fiction films at their core.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
11:00 am – “Lyfta: Impactful immersive storytelling in education” presentation by Sami Jahnukainen and Meri Miettinen
Nordic XR Startups
Nordic XR Startups is an early stage investment company and accelerator.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
11:30 am – “Why I’m excited about XR” presentation by Petri Rajahalme
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
360Mediatalo
360Mediatalo produces a cloud-based content publishing system that offers professional media production tools for virtual reality. The publishing system includes live sessions, gamification and interactive VR- experiences, as well as virtual seminar tools. Features can be used as a package of service solutions, suitable for different industries.
360Editor publishing system (web), 360Mediaplayer (Oculus, Android, WebGL), and 360Livesessions (Oculus, Android, WebGL) are constantly evolving and adding new features.
LINKS:
Website (EN) – Website (FIN) – Facebook – LinkedIn – Instagram – Vimeo
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
Teatime Research Ltd.
Teatime Research is a technology company specialized in XR software development and experiences.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
ALEKSIS KARME
PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
12:30 pm – “VRIFIER Co-created” presentation by Aleksis Karme
Anarky Labs
Anarky Labs is bringing unprecedented situational awareness for professional drone pilots with augmented reality, enabling new operations, dropping the extra spotter person. We are disrupting the whole UX paradigm of drone control, releasing the gaze of the pilot back to the skies, where the drone is.
Using Hololens 2 augmented reality spatial interfaces, we will be lifting and opening the data currently crammed into tiny displays in controllers to whole world embracing data visualizations and UX elements. We are building a fighter pilot Heads-Up-Display experience for the professional drone pilots in various industry fields like inspection, security, fire and rescue departments, police, military etc.
The concept of raising the pilot’s gaze back to the sky, where it belongs, has brought immediate relieved, astonished feedback from the pilots, them going so far as to say: “This is how it should have been done from the beginning.”
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
02:30 pm – “MR as a disruptor in drones industry” presentation by Hannu Lesonen
Stereoscape Oy
Whether you are supporting your remote workers, training your staff or presenting your products to prospective customers, our interactive 3D and extended reality (XR) solutions inspire people and help make complex information more understandable. We design and build AR applications, VR training solutions, interactive product experiences, virtual showrooms and more.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
10:30 am – “How to utilize XR in communication situations” presentation by Jaakko Mattila
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
Glue Collaboration
Glue Collaboration (Helsinki, Finland) helps teams around the world to collaborate remotely in more productive and sustainable ways using a cloud-based virtual collaboration platform. Glue provides a true feeling of presence and access to a full set of tools for effective live collaboration in persistent, real-time and fully-customizable virtual environments complete with 3D spatialized-audio.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
09:15 am – CEO of Glue Collaboration, Jussi Havu, participates in Good Morning From Helsinki: Panel Discussion
Augumenta
Augumenta is Oulu based software company focusing on industrial augmented reality solutions. We help our customers improve their productivity with AR solutions that make data usable by the people who need it on the factory shop floor or in the field. We help enterprises make their data work for them.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
05:00 pm – “How to deploy augmented reality interfaces in the industry” presentation by Peter Antoniac
Turku University of Applied Sciences
FIT Turku – a center of excellence – has just renewed laboratory facilities with around 0.5M€ investment program. Its massive up-to-date collection of hardware and software is now available for partners both from public and private sector.
During 2019-2020 our experts have achieved various awards in conferences and events (such as Best Applied Games Award at Finnish Game Awards Gala 2019).
We have specialized in the applied research of interactive technologies (especially AR and VR) in areas of technology industry, education, healthcare and tourism. Both in our RDI and service operations we utilize the principles of user-centric design and rapid prototyping. Artifacts implemented in a close cooperation with our partners are typically evaluated using usability, user experience, and effectiveness metrics.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
12:00 pm – “Next generation learning – Utilizing interactive technologies to tackle COVID-19″ presentation by Mika Luimula
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
CTRL Reality
We at CTRL Reality are an augmented and virtual reality solution provider with a desire to exceed our customers’ needs.
We are a proud university spin-off using research-proven methods and the latest technology. We create virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences/solutions that leave an indelible imprint in the customer’s processes in engineering, training and marketing.
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ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
MeKiwi
MeKiwi Oy is a versatile digital agency based in Oulu, Finland that offers e.g. software development, new applications, AR / VR solutions and graphic design for the needs of business customers. MeKiwi is an expert in gamficiation and thereby involving the user in the use of the service, through an immersive VR experience or an AR solution.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
Sense of Space
Sense of Space is a startup building tools to give everyone the power to create next-to-reality volumetric storytelling. Creators of Sense XR Studio: the world’s first volumetric video content creation tool for AR, VR and Web platforms – developed with creatives in mind.
For more information visit: https://senseofspace.io
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
05:30 pm – “Sense of Space: Making volumetric holograms accessible for everyone” presentation by Victor Pardinho
Virtual Dawn
Virtual Reality simulations for schools and businesses.
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ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
XR Design Degree (Metropolia UAS)
XR Design is one of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences’ Bachelor’s Degree Programmes in Design.
XR Design students study interactive AR and VR application design and production using 3D graphics and game engines. Both XR technology and XR content creation are taught. Courses on photography, 2D graphics, traditional art and visual design are also included in curriculum.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
ALE TORKKEL
Senior Lecturer
ale.torkkel(at)metropolia.fi
PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
XR Design degree students are volunteering in Match XR 2020 production team.
Pohjoisen Keski-Suomen Ammattiopisto
Pohjoisen Keski-Suomen Ammattiopisto is a Vocational School that uses VR simulations in education, and has a Digilab offering education in various forms of new technology, including XR, drones, AI etc.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
JUKKA SEPPÄNEN
TONI MIKKONEN
PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
Arilyn
Arilyn is one of the global AR pioneers and has a special focus on emotionally engaging XR Experiences.
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
04:30 pm – “Entering the Holodeck” presentation by Emmi Jouslehto
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
Animaatiokilta
The VR-project Animaatiokilta (Finnish Animation Guild) is the largest national association for animation.
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ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
XRCube
XRCube is baseproject for all kinds of XR solutions (VR and AR). It is foundation and main menu to other realities. (Morpheus might call it “Construct”. ;D)
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PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors
Finnish Design Academy
Finnish Design Academy is a collaboration network of the Finnish university level design schools. The aim is to develop design education to better answer to the changing needs of the working life.
Finnish Design Academy is coordinated by Lahti University of Applied Sciences, and, among others, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences is heavily involved in the project.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
MERJA KOSONEN
PROGRAM DURING THE MATCH XR 2020 EVENT:
ALL DAY – Virtual space open for visitors