6th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 16–17, 2017 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Igor Fritzsch

General Manager

BitTubes

Igor Fritzsch studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). He received his Bachelor’s degree with the completion of his thesis “Robust synchronization and streaming data transmission in a wireless body area network (WBAN) on the basis of the Bluetooth specification” in 2014. In parallel to his studies, he worked 6 years in the packaging industry as a developer for industrial automation software especially for low level integration of programmable logic controllers (PLC). He worked as a Fraunhofer FOKUS employee since 2014, focusing on web technologies before he became the general manager of the BitTubes GmbH in 2016.

  • 13:00 - 14:20 Content driving VR

    VR – reshaping TV

    Jan Thiel

    Co-founder and Managing Director

    A4VR

    ZDF and VR, first Experiences and future Prospects

    Rainer Kirchknopf

    Distribution and New Technologies

    ZDF

    Development of VR/360° live sport service

    Thomas Buchholz

    Senior Expert New Media

    Deutsche Telekom

    360&VR@mediaset.it Project

    Maria Laura Simonetti

    Head of Knowledge and Innovation Projects

    Mediaset

    14:20 - 14:50 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    14:50 - 16:10 VR tech and standardization

    Mobile-powered Virtual Reality: Standards and Technologies

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    Update on the W3C WebVR activities

    François Daoust

    Media Specialist

    W3C

    Web-based Signage in W3C

    Kiyoshi Tanaka

    Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor, 2020 Epoch Making Project

    NTT Service Evolution Laboratories

    5G – the VR use case

    Christian Nord

    Head of Standardization

    Sony Mobile Communications

    DASH VR streaming

    Cyril Concolato

    Associate Professor

    Telecom ParisTech

    16:10 - 16:40 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    16:40 - 18:00 Delivering VR

    Challenges of Encoding 360°, AR, & VR Content

    Reinhard Grandl

    rincipal Solutions Architect

    Bitmovin

    Efficient streaming of VR360 content: TiledVR and the impact of network latency

    Ray van Brandenburg

    CTO and Founder

    tiledmedia

    Becoming part of the Story: Interactions within 360° Videos

    Igor Fritzsch

    General Manager

    BitTubes

    VR beyond 360°

    Thomas Bedenk

    VR Consultant

    Exozet