AltspaceVR

Share a room and the web with anyone in the world! Attend or create events, share web content with others in real time, browse the web, and play web powered 3D apps. AltspaceVR is a shared VR experience - a communication platform focused on natural communication, intuitive UI, and real-time sharing of web content. Users in AltspaceVR can watch Netflix or YouTube, play tabletop games, or give a presentation - together and entirely inside of VR. Developers can use the AltspaceVR SDK to easily build VR apps and experiences. AltspaceVR has raised $15.5M in funding from investors including Tencent and Google Ventures.

Bruce Wooden, Head of Developer Relations at AltspaceVR, will be giving an overview of some of the newest features of AltspaceVR along with a live coding demonstration of the AltspaceVR SDK. The AltspaceVR SDK enables developers to rapidly build contained VR experiences and apps using the power of three.js and web code.

Bruce is known in VR circles as Cymatic Bruce (http://cymaticbruce.com/), an active industry evangelist since 2013. He has participated in more than 700 VR experiences and accrued millions of views on video and live-streamed content. Bruce co-founded Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR (http://svvr.com/)) in May 2013, which has grown to 3,000 members and hosts an annual conference.

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Schedule

6 - Doors open, demos begin, pizza is served thanks to AltspaceVR

7:00 - 7:30 Lightning Talks

7:30 - 8 - AltspaceVR Presentation

8 - 8:15 - Demo intros & announcements

8:15 - 9:45 Demofest!!

9:45pm - Come with us to the afterparty at Firebrand Saints (http://firebrandsaints.com) (it's right downstairs!!)

Lightning Talks

Scott Evernden - Infinite Stores is social shopping entertainment designed for people who love browsing and exploring. The first VR shopping world will be built by an army of Etsy sellers, each eager for increased exposure and traffic.

Mike "Dr.Claw" Piantedosi - @party is a computer art festival focusing on real-time rendered computer graphics productions called "demos". Various "demo" techniques translate well into VR experiences. This year's @party
will feature a VR competition and will take place June 3-5 at
Artisan's Asylum in Somerville MA, http://atparty-demoscene.net . Come listen to my talk for more information!

Jono Forbes - level design in room-scale VR.

Demos

Black Hat Cooperative (http://www.blackhatoculus.com/) - multi-player co-op Oculus game - Richard Cody & Nick Garza

Intern Astronaut (http://internastronaut.space/) - - GearVR chaotic spaceship piloting game - Broken Door Studio

Lost Loot (http://pixelatedramblings.com/lost-loot-download) - treasure hunting game - Michael Schenck

Archean (http://www.archean.io) - VR world building - Jono Forbes

Perception Neuron (https://neuronmocap.com/) - full body motion tracking - Paul Umbro.

VRDoodler - an online 3D drawing tool that's open source - Cindy

360Heros (http://360Heros.com) - Gear VR based 360 video - Matt Sheils

Parking

If you're coming to the afterparty, Firebrand Saints offers free validated parking for entry after 5pm. If you enter through the garage keep going into the parking lot so you don't have to go through security again after the garage closes. Please note that the validation is temporary; once they swipe your ticket you should exit the lot immediately.