For ARVR Women and Allies 2018 was all about NEXUS. No matter what acronyms, or M, X, R, V’s we use to convey reality as a medium, immersion is at the center of what brings ARVR Women together, connecting us to a global network of dreamers, builders and leaders who are creating the future.

1. 2018
2018

2. No matter what acronyms, or M, X, R, V’s we use to convey reality as a medium,
immersion is at the center of what brings ARVR Women together, connecting us to
a global network of dreamers, builders and leaders who are creating the future.
In between the frames of our yearbook, for every smile and victory, there’s a story
of defeat. If you’re barely holding on in this risky, glitchy, terrain, you’re succeeding.
We hope these pages give you a moment to reflect and celebrate your persistence.
From the Latin, nectere, to bind, Nexus is our link to survival: each other. Everyday our community members
inspire and motivate us to help level the playing field, expand opportunities for underrepresented voices and
tackle the challenges of an imbalanced industry.
Among our successes this year, ARVR Women Co-Founder Iva Leon designed our new logo that appears on
the cover, we started Breakfast Fight Club, our unplugged morning meetup, and we created our Futurist in
Residence program, that puts state of the art augmented reality headsets Magic Leap One and HoloLens 2
into the hands of four African-American women artists to gauge the headset’s impact on their work and the future.
We received funding for the program through the Investing in Tomorrow Grant from the Center for Cultural
Innovation with support from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
We’re grateful for our community. Thanks to their ongoing support, ARVR Women has a deeper sense of purpose
and drive to be a light at the edge of the metaverse - deep in the heart of Nexus.
2018 was all about NEXUS.
Wishing you a prosperous and adventurous New Year,
Iva Leon, Siciliana Trevino, Naomi Assaraf,
ARVR Women and Allies

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Better World Museum
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4,825 Facebook Group Members4,825 Facebook Group Members
1,765 Meetup Members1,765 Meetup Members

4. How can VR companies
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In June we asked our Facebook group:
Put women and POC in leadership positions
Have a fair and consistent interview process
Hire for age diversity
Fair pay
Maternity and paternity leave
Flexible work hours
Empower female and POC employees to shape company culture
Work remotely
Add more women and POC on industry panels
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Invest in women and POC owned companies
Increase diversity on company board of directors

5. SELECETED ARTISTS:
A.M. Darke, Game Designer
Clorama Dorvilias, Founder, Debias VR
Charity Everett, Founder, Go Back, Fetch It AR clothing
Kristina Williams, Artist/Educator/Entrepreneur
FUTURISTS will receive an honorarium, and guest moderate our Facebook group of
+4,800 members. They’ll publish up to two headset reviews or photo essays.
Our goals are to increase Multicultural Leadership in immersive media and
change the face of futurists to include WOC by providing marginalized creators
access to expensive hardware they’ll use to generate content, advance their skills,
authority and visibility in a deeply imbalanced industry.
The program is made possible by the Investing in Tomorrow Grant From the
Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) with support from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
ARVRWomenischangingthefaceoffuturistsby providing
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insightsonhowaugmentedrealityimpactstheirworkand
thefuture.
Siciliana Trevino,
Futurists Director
Ty Musgrave,
Futurists Co-Chair
Iva Leon
Futurists Co-Chair
Founder, ARVR Women and Allies
A.M. DARKE CLORAMA DORVILIAS CHARITY EVERETT KRISTINA WILLIAMS

6. The first
rule of Fight Club is
you do not talk about Fight Club.
All we ask at Breakfast Fight Club is
that you do not chew with your mouth
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Breakfast Fight Club is ARVR Women’s unplugged
morning meetup for non-morning people inspired
by David Fincher’s 1997 cult-classic starring Brad
Pitt and Edward Norton.
We’ve had twelve rounds of breakfast since our first
event in April at Au Coquelet in Berkeley. Two were in
the U.K. and thanks to Alina Kadlubsky, an intrepid
effort at AWE in Munich.
Our club doesn’t actually fight. We drink coffee, talk
about immersive design and hardware and have a soap
raffle. Bring your business cards for a chance to win.
Admission is the cost of a cup of coffee (or tea) and
maybe a doughnut.
Demos welcome but not required.

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8. LIVE IN VR
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game with her dev partner in November.
Kai M. Frazier, winner,
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Kapor Center’s Tech Done
Right - bringing 10K for
Curated x Kai.
Maud Clavier directed Filamu,
her first 360 feature, that has
been accepted to three festivals,
since its completion in September.
Dr. Sana Farid featured on Al Arabiya
TV in a discussion about applications
of AI and VR in Healthcare.
Amy Alison’s viral
Halloween costume:
Ruth Vader-Ginsberg.
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Carol Keum and co-founder
Brandon Biggs launched AR/VR
gaming company, Calvin Labs.
Their first AR game BOT-NET
received an Unreal Dev Grant.
Evo Heyning, Tiger Moon
are quarter finalists for
“Fire Circle”.
Daniela Capistrano learned how to make
her avatar and take a selfie in Facebook
Spaces, from Navah Berg at Mixed Reality
Marketing Summit in NYC.
Nicole Lazarro spoke at
numerous events and created
Aladdin’s Cave on Magic Leap
Arjita Alka Sethi became part of
WXRfund, launched her product,
DaVinci Club AR, gaining 500
users. Raised first VC round and
got product certified by Finnish
Education Standards.
Jasmine Roberts and Ty Musgrave
received honorable mention for “Ms.
Dewy 2.0” at Microsoft Reactor’s Women
in AI & Mixed Reality Hackathon.
2018 was the year everything changed for
Tanya Laird due to a cancer diagnosis and
finding out she’ll be on chemotherapy for the
rest of her life. She says, “I am more than my
diagnosis and despite the treatments and side
effect roulette, managed to be inducted into
the Women in Games Hall of Fame, included in
the Facebook women of gaming campaign,
named within the top 100 Asians in Tech and
shortlisted for the National Diversity Awards.
I also managed to speak at IBC in Amsterdam
and at the GeekGirl annual conference to
name a few. I’m scheduled to speak at Berklee
and UCLA in January 2019. Cancer doesn’t
define me.”
Diane Accetta created
ImmersED XR conference.
Nonny de la Peña on the cover
of The Wall Street Journal's
Innovators Issue.
Cathy Hackl, #4 on
LinkedIn's Top voices
in technology 2018.
Naomi Assaraf Keynote, Diversity
and Inclusion: The key to VR adoption
and growth. South Korea.
WHAT ARE YOU PROUD OF IN 2018?
Amanda Fox Keynote,
Blending Realities:
Ready educator one.
Emily Olman launched
SpacialFirst, developing
a spacialized browser.
Incarna Opening in Paris,
Alyssa Landry
Paige Dansigner, A Better
World Museum, was a part
of the Facebook Community
Leadership Program.
Iva Leon, ARVR Women
Co-Founder, designed
the group’s new logo.

10. Nathalie Mathe spoke
at IVRPA Tokyo on the
Future of 360 video.
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WHAT ARE YOU PROUD OF IN 2018?
Azine Davoudzadeh produced the XR EDU hackathon,
July 27th-29th at Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco.
Ahmed Loqman Yousify
started the Art of 360,
capturing 360 photos
and video of public and
historic places.
Stanley Bishop-Rosal says. ”Through Iva Leon
and the ARVR Women's network, our company
Spacepost had the honor of providing host
sponsorship to an incredible VR experience
produced by Kristian Bouw. The experience
was for the ACLU, and explored the historical
experience of immigrants coming to America.
It was a total honor!”
Sabby Lighf painted “Davinci Paints The
Mona Lisa" in Tilt Brush, in front of a live
audience for 3 months. She said, “I'm shy
so this was a major task for me, but now
I am more comfortable streaming and
interacting with my audience as I paint
in VR.”
Ana Ribeiro worked over 4 years on Pixel Ripped which
she released in July. She said, “It started as my graduation
project and is now finally going to be released on PlaystionVR,
Oculus and Steam. It has been a long journey and I'm super
excited to be able to share with you girls.”
Eliza McNitt’s SPHERES, an immersive
Virtual Reality journey through the songs
of the Universe, made history as the first VR
experience to debut at the Telluride Film Festival
and was world's first ever acquisition of a VR
experience out of the Sundance Film Festival.
Fifer Garbesi launched
NeuroExplorer on the
Oculus Store and Co-
Directed, The View
From the Mountain,
about combating child
marriage.
Charity Everett launched
her AR enabled clothing
line, Go Back Fetch It. She’s
using XR to tell the epic
story of the human race.
Clorama Dorvilias and Jessica Outlaw
launched their anti-bias training for the
classroom, Teacher's Lens Beta, on the
Oculus Store.
Gabby La La released We Love, her first 360
music video, funded with Kickstarter and
directed by ARVR Women’s Siciliana Trevino.
Brielle Garcia had
the priviledge of
speaking at AWE
and built a Snapchat
AR lens for
The Chainsmokers.
Dulce Baerga’s team
took 1st place at the
first AT&T Magic Leap
Hackathon in
San Francisco.
Shuang van Reizen (SwanVR)
LIV Beat Saber video is up to
5,297,906 views.
Nathalie Mathe spoke at IVRPA
Tokyo on the Future of 360 video.

11. OC5OC5
Thanks to generous support from Oculus, ARVR Women was able to provide
tickets for selected members to their 5th annual developer conference in
San Jose, September 26th and 27th, 2018.
We’re grateful for the incredible opportunity to meet the
makers and connect with our group members in the real world!
We got to play with the new Oculus Quest, formerly known as
project Santa Cruz, launching in 2019. And Cecile Eskenazi, recognized
our Feature Friday’s Spaces Live in her VR for Everyone talk.
Plus, OC5 inspired NEXUS, we peeked the event’s immaculate shoe
game and we had our biggest Fight Club of the year. Thanks Oculus!

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13. thanks for the memories.
Twitter: @ar_vr_women
Yearbook written and designed by Siciliana Trevino
Special thanks: Iva Leon, Naomi Assaraf, Emily Olman,
Rebecca Evans and Navah Berg.
Facebook: ARVR Women and Allies
Instagram: @arvrwomen