1. Building Community
with Social VR

2. Hi 👋 I’m Iva!
Co-founder, ARVR Women

3. 2018 ARVR women Yearbook by Siciliana Trevino

4. Originally from
Yugoslavia
Mom- Artist "
Dad- Psychatrist #
They Taught me ✅ :
1. Self Expression
2. Compassion
Entrepreneurial Spirit 💫
The seed was plated 🌱

5. I studied apparel 👗 design
No wonder my first VR 😎
project combined
Fashion and Tech!
VR retail storefront WCL San Francisco 2014 RISD 2005

6. First VR experiences:
• Google Cardboard
• Oculus DK2 at SVVR
• Hosting VRLab
meetups

7. Not so fun fact: I was 1 of 3 women 😲

8. A field of entrepreneurs
Tiltbrush, Looksery sprouting from the community

9. VR pop-up store 2014-2016
Union Square San Francisco
Selling products built by community

10. **Women 👧 = 1. Top buyers in households
2. Most Underserved

11. We need to develop our own community!

13. This is how ARVR women was born—It was through a
garden of many plants 🌱 and flowers where I
discovered a new community! 💐

14. 🌸 🌺 🌹 🌸 🌺 🌹 🌸

15. ARVR Women
An online network and real world meetup
for women and allies in the immersive tech
industry that supports:
1. Community 👭👫
2. Connection 🌈
3. Professional Growth 🌟
💐 💐

16. I started making new VR
friends!

17. Who became Admins of ARVR Women!

18. Goal: A platform for she/he/they
entering the space to share what they
are working on and who they are. We
wanted our community to have a
voice.

19. Getting to know our
community 🦋
Normally community is in a 2D
newsfeed- with tools like Facebook
Spaces we knew that feeling of
presence and connecting virtually
with others would allow us to truly get
to know our community! 🎉

20. Paige posts to
ARVR Women
• Social VR garden 🌱 via
Tiltbrush 🎨
• Invites members to
contribute virtual drawings
• We connect and start
meeting in social VR
regularly! 😃
FB Spaces VR

21. Virtual Community Garden🦋
Connecting through social VR and Art

22. VR enabled us to connect and share a space no matter
what the distance. We met IRL and felt like we already
knew each other!

23. Change the way we
communicate

24. Image created by Navah Berg

25. • Live in VR
• Featuring new members from the group
• Headset required
• Non- VR friends to participate
Our Feature Fridays
show is born!

27. Getting Set Up 🔌
• Create your Avatar 🌟
• You have your own private dock 👍
• Saved content (photos, videos) 📷
• Timeline content 👁
• 360 photos/videos 🎥

28. “By using facebook spaces we discovered a
powerful tool to engage with our community
and showcase the creative work of our
members.”
–Iva Leon
FB spaces interview 2018

29. Best way to feel Presence 🧘
Is to go LIVE! 🎙
• Personal FB page
• Facebook groups ⭐ (We use this feature!)
• Facebook spaces Community Group
✅ TIP: Create an event for more engagement

30. MeetinVR
• Work together anytime from anywhere
• We wanted to host a bigger meetup
• Virtual collaborative workspaces

31. Tip:
Search your existing network and find a
niche specific similarities over which you
can bond.

32. Real World Events
• Interviewing superheroes
• Creating Livestreams with celebs
• Broadcasting Live on Comic-Con Fb page
Comic- Con Palm Springs

33. Breakfast 🥞 Fight Club 🥊

34. From 3 women to over 4,000
The power of VR + Community

36. From VR 😎

37. To IRL 🤓

38. ☮ 💗 VR
Join ARVR women and Allies on FB
Twitter: @ar_vr_women