Simulation Annex Planning (XR Infrastructure) - Members Only
- Date
- 2025-08-27
- Host
- Frontier Tower SF
About this event
If you care about the infrastructure that makes serious simulation and XR work possible, this session is where the planning gets real. Simulation Annex Planning (XR Infrastructure) - Members Only is an in-person working event for people who want to help shape the physical, technical, and operational foundations needed to support simulation, autonomy, and manufacturing use cases. This is not a generic meetup or a high-level trend talk. It is a focused planning session built for members who are ready to think concretely about space, systems, requirements, and how an XR-enabled simulation environment should actually function in practice. About the Event This event is centered on planning the next phase of a simulation annex with an emphasis on XR infrastructure. The goal is to bring together members who understand the demands of simulation-heavy workflows and need an environment that supports meaningful testing, iteration, and collaboration. Expect a practical conversation about infrastructure rather than a broad conceptual discussion. That includes the kinds of questions that matter when building capability: what the space should enable, what technical dependencies need to be considered early, how simulation and autonomy workflows intersect, and what will make the annex genuinely useful for teams working in advanced manufacturing and related fields. Because this is a members-only gathering, the format can be more direct and working-session oriented. Attendees should expect a room of peers who are invested in the outcome and prepared to discuss tradeoffs, priorities, and implementation constraints with specificity. The in-person setting matters here. Planning infrastructure is easier when people can read the room, compare assumptions quickly, sketch through ideas, and pressure-test concepts together without the drag of a purely remote format. What to Expect The evening will likely center on structured discussion, shared context-setting, and working conversations around needs and priorities for the simulation annex. Rather than passive listening, attendees should expect to contribute perspective, ask questions, and help clarify where the greatest infrastructure needs are. You can expect the session to focus on topics such as: XR infrastructure requirements for simulation-driven work Operational needs for teams working in autonomy and manufacturing contexts Space planning considerations for an annex designed to support technical experimentation Workflow support across prototyping, testing, review, and iteration Constraints and dependencies that should shape planning decisions early There may also be time spent aligning on terminology, assumptions, and intended use cases. That kind of alignment is often what separates an ambitious infrastructure plan from one that people can actually build against and use effectively. This event is especially valuable if you have first-hand experience with simulation environments, technical facilities, or XR systems and can bring grounded input. The most useful contributions in a planning session tend to be concrete: what breaks, what bottlenecks appear, what equipment or conditions are non-negotiable, and what makes a space flexible enough to serve multiple teams over time. Why Attend If your work touches simulation, autonomy, infrastructure, or manufacturing, this is a chance to influence the environment those efforts depend on. Instead of reacting later to decisions already made, you can help shape requirements while the planning is still open enough to benefit from informed input. You should attend if you care about turning XR from an abstract capability into something operationally useful. Good infrastructure decisions affect everything downstream: how efficiently teams can test, how reliably they can reproduce scenarios, how well collaborators can work together, and how quickly ideas move from concept to validation. This session is also a strong fit for members who want to understand how different technical priorities interact. Simulation annex planning sits at the intersection of physical space, hardware needs, software workflows, user experience, and operational reality. Being part of that conversation gives you a clearer view of what is feasible, what is missing, and where your own work may connect. You will leave with more than a vague sense of direction. A good planning session helps attendees sharpen requirements, surface unanswered questions, identify points of agreement, and build shared understanding around what the annex needs to support in the near term and over time. Practical Details Location: In person Date: Tuesday, August 26 Time: 6:00 PM PDT Because this is an in-person, members-only event, it is best approached as a focused working session rather than a casual drop-in. Arrive ready to engage, listen closely, and contribute ideas that are specific enough to be useful in planning. Given the topic, it may help to come prepared with examples from your own work. If you have experience with XR environments, simulation pipelines, autonomy testing, facility constraints, or manufacturing workflows, think in advance about the requirements, pain points, and opportunities you would want reflected in a well-designed annex. The audience is likely to include people who care about infrastructure at a practical level, so specificity will be an asset. Clear examples, concrete needs, and thoughtful tradeoff discussions will make the session more productive for everyone in the room. If this is your area, this event offers a rare opportunity to help define not just what gets discussed, but what gets built.
Who should attend
This is for you if you want to help shape the infrastructure behind serious simulation and XR work, not just hear about it after decisions are made. - You work in **XR, simulation, autonomy, or technical infrastructure** and want to contribute practical input on what a simulation annex needs to support. - You are involved in **manufacturing or operational workflows** where testing environments, spatial setup, and technical reliability directly affect outcomes. - You have experience with **facility planning, lab environments, hardware requirements, or systems integration** and can speak to constraints, dependencies, and tradeoffs. - You care about turning broad ideas into **usable, well-scoped infrastructure** that supports real workflows rather than theoretical capabilities. - You are a member who wants to collaborate with peers on **requirements, priorities, and implementation considerations** in a focused in-person setting. - You are most likely to get value from this if you are comfortable contributing concrete examples, asking detailed questions, and helping refine how the annex should function in practice.