Fabien Benetou
WebXR specialist
VR and AR software development on the web, VR and AR professional workshops
Professional projects
European Parliament, September 2018 - on-going
UNICEF Innovation Fund , WebXR Technical Adviser, September 2018 - November 2021
Aquinas Training, October 2018
CTO for LucidWeb from September 2017 to June 2018
VR NDA, June 2018
AR NDA, May 2018
European Parliament, April 2018
AR NDA, January 2018
NDA, December 2017
NDA, December 2017
Aquinas Training, December 2017
Aquinas Training, October 2017
NDA, July 2017
European Parliament, July 2017
NDA, March 2017
Aquinas Training, February 2017
UCB, September 2016
Name Cimzia for UCB
Url https://vatelier.net/MyDemo/UCB/UCBPreview360s/
Logo Description Cimzia, an antibody molecule, invites you to travel through the human body. The installation ordered by UCB A week of Aframe . CallToAction Get injected in the human body!
DateStarted July 2016
DateEnded September 2016
Process
To maximize value for money it’s important to answer those questions in that order:
What’s my audience?
How are they going to interact with my VR content?
What are the specificity of the subset of audience who will be there?
What information do they expect to gain from it?
What Is currently preventing them from acquiring now ?
Then it’s possible to sketch a scenario on how an immersive experience will help that audience.
Once that’s done then the practical questions can be asked:
Is it feasible?
What’s the deadline?
What asssts and skills are missing?
Finally in term of budget:
This process is iterative but it’s a good approximation.
Recent publications
Interviews
Recurring
Upcoming
Past
Virtual worlds, but real risks: navigating metaverses as a next generation of digital platforms (TOPIC 03 Sub 01), EuroDIG, online June 2023
'How can WebXR help you run your own metaverse right there from the browser', OW2 Paris June 2023
"Can you host the Metaverse? How learned helplessness from Big Tech made you believe you can’t", RightsCon June 2023
EU Court of Justice (EU internal), Luxembourg, May 2023
Atelier Blue Hats, May 2023 https://code.gouv.fr/ateliers/metavers/
ToekomstATELIERdelAvenir workshop, Brussels, March 2023
AriB's Architecture Video Festival, March 2023
Helsinki XR Meetup (photos ), March 2023
jxr in /engine/ - coding in WebXR on a plane , JavaScript devroom, FOSDEM, Brussels, February 2023
ToekomstATELIERdelAvenir workshop, Brussels, December 2022
Empower the youth: Seize the potential of the digital economy , Panel at Meta Innovation House, Brussels, December 2022
ToekomstATELIERdelAvenir workshop, Brussels, December 2022
PeerTube in 360 and WebXR for the 360 Workshop, No Time To Wait Den Haag, 26 October 2022
WebXR, what's new since FOSSXR 2019, metaverse and more , FOSSXR, October 2022
Interfaces all the way down , Future of Text Symposium, London September 2022
Metaverse, OK but Why and How !? , BeJS, June 2022
EU Court of Justice (EU internal), Luxembourg, May 2022
Building a metaverse pannel at MozFest, March 2022
Atelier Innovation, VO Academy, February 2022
Muse-tech working group, February 2022
Building Human Rights Into the Metaverse organized by EFF and AccessNow, December 2021
WebXR Business Summit, September 2021
Singularity Watch S01 E17 : WebXR, the solution to the challenges of XR? , June 2021
JavaScript connecting exotic hardware , FOSDEM 2021
Openness as a strategical advantage : how WebXR and open-source sustainably push the boundaries of innovation, XR for causes at Stereopsia , December 2020
Fabien Bénétou invité de IDFX le podcast pour rêver, penser, entreprendre la société , November 2020
StockKnowledge hackathon in Philippines, November 2020
Bern GameJam, October 2020
Extending Hubs with Code : From the Console to the Custom Client , Hubs Creators Meetup October 2020
Carte blanche : Exploration d'un monde virtual , Tomorrow for Good, August 2020
XR ePitches 2020 at XR4All, speaker and judge, online June 2020
Extending Mozilla Hubs , in Hubs, AWE Berlin, May 2020
script for living presentation
Presentation for the Ethics of MR workshop , initially CHI 2020 but moved online, April 2020
VR 4 a cause, panel moderator at Laval Virtual 2020, APril 2020
UNICEF and WebXR for democratizing XR at VR 4 a cause, panel moderator at Laval Virtual 2020, April 2020
2020 Annual NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World speaker and judge, April 16-19, 2020
Réalité augmentée et réalité virtuelle sur le Web, état des lieux (in French) at Capitole du Libre , Toulouse, November 2019
WebAR GeoSpatial Hackathon , Toulouse, November 2019
WebXR, when VR and AR meet the web for FOSS XR, Amsterdam, October 2019
Past, present and future of VR for GDG Brussels, October 2019
XR and European Institutions , AWE Europe, Munich Germany, October 2019
VR, a tool for thinking beyond thought experiments , KUL international philosophy conference "Technology & Society"
Mozilla DevRoadShow , August 2019
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Nuremberg, Germany
Munich, Germany
Linz, Austria
Vienna , Austria
Merging Realities : Using the Web to Bring the Internet of Things to High End Augmented Reality with Philippe Coval (Samsung Research), FullStack London July 2019
WebXR, how AR gets best delivered on the web at AWE, Santa Clara, USA May 2019
Showcasing WebXR for Mozilla at Beyond Tellerrand , Dusseldorf, Germany May 2019
WebVR mentor for the 2019 cohort of the UNICEF Innovation Fund, New-York April 2019
A web page doesn't have to be flat for Creative Frontend Belgium, Brussels March 2019
Live coding WebVR session for Girleek, Brussels, February 2019
Virtual reality and philosophy, is VR a radically novel tool for thinking? , KUL Philosophy Lecture, February 2019
High end augmented reality using Javascript , FOSDEM, Brussels, February 2019
Workshop lead at WebXR Meetup in Accra, Ghana, January 2019
Workshop lead at WebXR Meetup in Lagos, Nigeria, January 2019
Coding in VR, first building blocks, 35C3, Leipzig, Germany December 2018
Why big players are choosing WebXR, NYVRexpo, October 2018
WebXR panel with Tony Parisi and all, NYVRexpo, October 2018
Mauritius Institute of Health, October 2018
AUF 4 days introduction to WebXR workshop, Recif campus, Mauritius, October 2018
Presentating XR for the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC) Alumni webinar, September 2018
WebXR week, Microsoft Innovation Center, Brussels July 2018
VR mentor for the 2018 cohort of the UNICEF Innovation Fund, New-York June 2018
Immersive data visualization workshop for OpenVis Conference, May 2018
Beyond the screen : WebXR, when immersive content enters the Web , FOSDEM February 2018
Tech Briefing: Mixed Reality 2018, AirMozilla February 2018
Mozilla All Hands, Austin December 2017
Austin WebVR Meetup, Austin December 2017
W3C Workshop on WebVR Content Authoring, Brussels December 2017
Codiax , Romania, November 2017
WebAR using Tango and ARCore, GDG DevFest, Brussels November 2017
WebVR - NYVR Expo, October 2017
WebAR, making augmented reality pervasive, NYVR Expo 2017
European Maker Week opening at the European Parliament, Brussels October2017
European Maker Week at Bozar, Brussels October2017
WebAR, making augmented reality pervasive, Brussels October2017
Mozilla Dev Roadshow Asia 2017
Introducing Chromium-WebAR at WebVX Paris 2nd Meetup, Numa Paris July 2017
Mozilla Developer Roadshow at Frontend United Athens , June 2017
Inside the immersive web: pioneers of WebVR , panel, VR World Congress April 2017, Bristol UK
Hack Belgium Tech Experience Zone Workshop and Expert on WebVR, April 2017 Brussels, Belgium
Summit WVRF17, Workshop Web VR , 11-14 May 2017 Crans-Montana, Switzerland
Mozilla Dev Road Show, Amaze Berlin April 2017
Introducing AFrame at WebVR Paris 1st Meetup, Mozilla Paris April 2017
MozAloha, a brief summary : WebVR NYC Hackathon, December 2016
Live coding introduction to Aframe: WebVR NYC Hackathon, December 2016
Lessons from the W3C workshop and more : Be.VR December 2016
Utrecth Hackathon, May 2016
WebVR & 3D: JSLab, April 2016
Proof of concepts (more than ~150)
LucidWeb (demo available on request) June 2017
Proctor&Gamble workshop, Romania March 2017
private project (NDA)
VR Painting Jam: Artists & Hackers , January 2017
Mozilla All Hands in Hawaii, December 2016
Workshop during Women in VR and 360 Film, November 2016
W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality, San Jose October 2016
proposed the link transversal round table
VRInceptionSchool winner of the Best Serious VR Experience during the VR hackathon in Utrecht, May 2016
Bobsleigh winner in the webVR category during the VR hackathon in Brussels, January 2016
Workshop ICON September 2016
Workshop ICON July 2016 October 10 CodingBattle webVR at MIC Brussels
October 8&9 at Creative District
August 1 VR & eletronics at F/LAT
June 30 Hacking the Theta S at FABLab Brussels
June 25 Project Tango (AR) at F/LAT
June 21 Be.VR at The Egg
June 20 Cinematics VR at F/LAT
Saturday June 4 for the European Maker Week
Wednesday June 1 for CafeNumeriqueBXL
Tuesday May 31 for EMW at the EU Parliement
Thursday May 2 workshop at the VR Hackathon, Utrecht
Friday 20 May at F/LAT
with Google IO live broadcast and follow the last workshop materials
Thursday 14 April at Microsoft Innovation Centre Brussels http://vrlab-brussels.info/wiki/Fifth Workshop Quest/
Wednesday March 30 at ICAB for JavaScript Lab Brussels
Thursday 17 March at FABLab Brussels http://vrlab-brussels.info/wiki/Fourth Workshop Quest/
FABLab Brussels, Quai de l'Industrie 170, 1070 Anderlecht
Wednesday March 2 at F/LAT http://vrlab-brussels.info/wiki/ThirdWorkshopQuest/
VR.Lab Brussels, 28-30 boulevard Albert II, World-Trade-Center Tour I, 25th floor
Friday February 19 at Impulse Brussels http://vrlab-brussels.info/wiki/SecondWorkshopQuest/
co-hosted with EUVR.org-Brussels Meetup (BEVR)#7
Wednesday 13 January 2016 http://vrlab-brussels.info/wiki/FirstWorkshopQuest/
VRHackathon Brussels warm-up introduction to webVR
WebXR (VR/AR) explorations in videos
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Note that you can walk around using the WASD keys of your keyboard. It also works, obviously, in VR.
VR research
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Fabien Benetou's PIM
was featured for 3 days in a pharmaceutical conference in Belgium in September 2016 using 2 top of the line virtual reality headsets by HTC Vive. The experience was also showcased on A week of Aframe.
