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Join us! NWAXR – Northwest Arkansas' Immersive Technology Community will no longer be using meetup.com to organize events. Sign up here and stay up to date with our monthly events and opportunities. Your membership will help sustain our sponsorship from The Collaborative who provide our venue, food, and drinks. Speak, volunteer, refer speakers, or simply network. Your free membership powers our community.
Our Members
Aaren Warr
Student , University of Arkansas
I believe that VR is changing the way we communicate with each other, and eventually will shift the cultural zeitgeist of what it means to be a part of a community. I'm excited to see where this new path will take us.
Alejandro Martin Gomez
Assistant Professor , University of Arkansas
As a researcher, I am interested in understanding the properties of human sensory and cognitive systems to create efficient, intuitive, and transferable XR experiences. I have a particular interest in integrating XR and robotics for their use in interventional medicine and surgical procedures.
Andrew Fano
Sales Director , Slalom
Interested in the intercection of phyical and digital transformation.
Andy Trainor
CEO , Trainor Enterprises
Utilized it at Walmart for training and was CEO for SkillsVR, at VR training company.
Chris Lynch
Director of Advanced Technology , NorthWest Arkansas Community College
Design, programming, upskilling training, integrations with Artificial Intelligence, Science applications, remote actuation, automation, robotics, entertainment
Jonathan Yen
Analyst 3 - Technical Operations , Walmart
I really enjoy AR and VR. It is incredible technology. I'm interested in discovering more use cases that I can apply to my work in corporate IT
Ken Lyon
Founder , Public.Place/
I view extended reality as the future of interfaces, and am doing my best to accelerate proving that.
Luis A Martinez
CEO , Genesis Economic Development
AI newest developments.
Mark Sisson
Software Engineer , Self
Building new user experiences using XR.
Nathaniel H.
Controls Engineer , ActionPaq
Digital twin technology is the future of industry
Qamar K Gebarin
Privacy Architect , Globe Life
Getting to know more people in the area and keep up with technological advances.
Thom Strimbu
Host , NWA XR
I am particularly excited about the potential of XR to change the current paradigm of hand-held mobile to digest information. I believe that we should contextualize information to the world it belongs in.
Tyrel Denison
Co-Founder , Akra
I'm passionate about helping people and businesses prepare for the coming AI revolution.
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