Saturday, May 16, 2026, 12:45 – 2:15 pm, Blue Heron

Organizers: Matthias Pusch, WorldViz VR and Sado Rabaudi, WorldViz VR
Speakers: Sado Rabaudi, Product Manager, Solutions Architect, WorldViz VR;
Dan Tinkham, Head Of Sales, Americas, WorldViz VR
Andrew Beall, Co-Founder, WorldViz VR
Kenneth Karthik, Technical Development, WorldViz VR

WorldViz VR will lead an educational seminar and hands-on demonstration showing how modern virtual- and mixed-reality headsets with built-in eye tracking can be used for vision research. We’ll cover core concepts such as calibration and validation, stimulus presentation, response capture, and synchronized data logging, along with how to leverage AI in VR research studies.

The session will include a demonstration of SightLab VR Pro’s drag-and-drop tools for building VR and eye-tracking studies, showing how researchers can quickly create immersive experiments without extensive programming. We’ll also preview a new experiment blueprint format—a structured, machine-checkable study definition designed to make experiments easier to reuse, verify, and reproduce across labs and hardware, while supporting transparent LLM-assisted experiment workflows. We’ll close by running the same blueprint on both a desktop-tethered and a standalone VR/AR headset.

Participants will walk away with a better understanding of currently available immersive technology and how they can use it in their own research – they may be surprised how easy it is.