Boston Virtual Reality

Name: Boston VR Devs March Hackathon
Start: 2016-03-26T14:00:00Z
Location: Tufts Halligan Hall (Computer Science building), Rooms 102 & 108

Boston VR Devs March Hackathon

Mar 26, 2016 · 10:00 AM
Tufts Halligan Hall (Computer Science building), Rooms 102 & 108

VR devs, assemble! Our next hack-day will be at Tufts' computer science building on Saturday, March 26th. We'll get together for a day of building VR, spitballing new ideas, sharing code, swapping feedback, and generally making cool stuff. Anybody ready to write code, craft environments, explore VR art, hack on hardware, or otherwise build VR is invited to come!

Bring your own laptop & gear! We'll have a few Vives set up on dedicated PCs available for people to develop with, but otherwise you'll want to bring a machine to work on.

There'll be a Unity/Cardboard/Vive workshop in the morning, mainly intended for Tufts students who join us and want to get up to speed on VR dev.

The RSVP cost of the event covers a big pizza order for lunch.

DIRECTIONS:
By T: Take the Red Line to Davis Square, and then the 94 or 96 bus to Tufts.
By car: GPS your way to 161 College Ave, Medford, then the Cousens lot, directly across from Halligan hall, is free!
Once you're there: Rooms 102 & 108 are to left when you enter the building.

Henry Zhou is hosting us at Tufts -- many thanks to Henry!!

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Jeffrey J.

Mark your calendars! The next BostonVR hack day will be on July 9th at Wayfair near Copley square. Details will be posted shortly.

2 · June 25, 2016
Henry Z.

Hey all, we found a black North Face jacket in room 102 which had a set of Honda Car Keys, a BSC card, and a Hubway keychain in the pocket. There was also a receipt from Dunkin donuts for 12 donuts and an iced coffee. Let me know if it's you! I'll be holding onto to it in the meantime.

Thanks again to everyone for coming! :)

0 · March 27, 2016
- Henry Z.
  
  ps email me at [masked]
  
  0 · March 27, 2016
Miles E.

I will definitely make the next one

0 · March 26, 2016
Alistair S.

The Hackathon today was awesome. Really impressed by what VR can do and the passion and ideas of everyone today. Bravo. Perfect event.

3 · March 26, 2016
Jono F.

Code examples for Vive, Cardboard, and GearVR!
https://github.com/jonomf/vrstarter

3 · March 26, 2016
Nathan M.

Sorry folks, while I'd love to go, I'll have to drop out today. Schedule conflict prevents the person I was supposed to be working with from attending. And I'm swamped with things to do myself.

0 · March 26, 2016
Miguel M.

I want to get my hands on vive! Actually try to do something with it....are there pcs there for developing or just for demos?

0 · March 25, 2016
- Jono F.
  
  Excellent! There'll be at least a Vive or two (+PCs) there, and the idea is to build stuff on them! But still bring your own laptop, so we can share the Vive PCs for anyone to test their stuff (using USB drives).
  
  0 · March 26, 2016
Jono F.

Parking update: it's free! Henry confirmed that Cousens lot, directly across from Halligan hall, is open and free for the weekend.

2 · March 25, 2016
Preetish K.

Hello,

Is it possible to attend morning session to learn and get speed up on VR development. I am not a Tufts student. Please let me know.

0 · March 8, 2016
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- Jono F.
  
  Hey Preetish, that's totally fine, but you should know that we're planning on that workshop being pretty informal and Q&A based, as opposed to being a proper 'class'. We'll show the basics of using the Cardboard and Vive SDKs, and then just open it up to people to ask "How do I ____". The idea is that we want people to be able to get down to building stuff as soon as possible, so are erring on the side of speed over thoroughness.
  
  1 · March 9, 2016
- Preetish K.
  
  Hi Jono, Thanks. Appreciate your reply, can you tell me what time would the workshop start at, the one which is planned for Tufts students?
  
  0 · March 21, 2016
- Jono F.
  
  We'll probably start the workshop between 10:15 and 10:30. See you tomorrow!
  
  0 · March 25, 2016
- Ankit J.
  
  I'll be there for the workshop too!
  
  0 · March 25, 2016
Jeffrey J.

Don't forget our big regular meeting this Wednesday! http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Virtual-Reality/events/229122433/

If you are new to VR, and never did a hackathon, you might find the general meeting better for you. Or just come to both!

1 · March 25, 2016
Jeffrey J.

Awesome to see so many people ready to hack! I'm planning to bring one a vive to practice on, as well.

1 · March 25, 2016
Dheera V

Does anyone have access to a Hololens I can try for an hour? The dev kit is $3K and I just want to see if the hardware is worth playing with or not.

0 · March 25, 2016
Evan F.

Wish I could be there unfortunately School work has piled up this week. Hope to be at the next one.

0 · March 25, 2016
Matt S.

For those of you who would like to integrate 360 video into your projects, I will have demo footage available for your immediate use. Video specs are currently 4096x2048 at 30 frames per second. We can create other dimensions and framerates on the fly if needed. You will be able to copy and take this footage with you to experiment with as well. I will have my cameras and software with me if anyone has questions about how you would create your own, specific 360 video for future projects. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

2 · March 25, 2016
Emily

Hi there -
I am more of a VR/AR designer than a developer (working with several organizations on VR solutions but don't have many developers on board yet and plan to learn Unreal Engine myself). Could I come to the hackathom to sit in/listen and network? Thanks!

0 · March 21, 2016
- Jono F.
  
  Hey Emily, absolutely! We tend to be pretty laid back and do a mix of building things and also just talking shop.
  
  0 · March 21, 2016
robert r.

would like to be there, but have a conference that day

0 · March 8, 2016