Qualcomm & DigitalLife

UPDATE: Due to unfortunate circumstance Michelle Osorio will not be in attendance

Come see our excellent presenters, Nigel Williams from Qualcomm, and Duncan Irschick from Digital Life co-inventor of two technologies – GeckskinTM, a bioinspired superadhesive, and BeastcamTM. No cover charge for this one, free snacks will be provided, and excellent food and drinks are available for purchase. We will also have an array of VR and AR demonstrations with devices like the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™, HTC Vive, the MS Hololens, and more.

The event is at Laugh Boston (http://laughboston.com/), hosted by Asylum Gaming and Esports (AGE).

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Qualcomm Speaker Nigel Williams Presents: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™

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Qualcomm Developer Network (QDN) is our global community of coders, makers, engineers and thought-leaders at the center of mobile, IoT and VR advancement. By using our innovative software and hardware solutions, developers can optimize their apps and create transformative end-user experiences on more than 1 billion devices worldwide powered by Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processors. Whatever developers are building, whether it’s high-performance apps, smart IoT devices, VR experiences or artificial intelligence, QDN helps accelerate innovation by providing tools and resources to integrate Qualcomm technologies into their own unique concepts and cutting-edge designs.

The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ system on chip (SoC) is used currently in both the GearVR and Daydream virtual reality headsets. Qualcomm® has been a leading innovator in the field of virtual reality on mobile.

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Recently, Qualcomm® announced a reference design for a standalone untethered VR head mounted display to demonstrate next generation VR technology, the Snapdragon™ VR820.

Detailed information on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ VR820 can be found below.

• General Specs (https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2016/09/01/qualcomm-unveils-snapdragon-virtual-reality-reference-platform-immersive)

• Press Release (https://www.qualcomm.com/news/snapdragon/2016/09/01/new-era-virtual-reality-snapdragon-vr820-reference-platform)

Come check out an early prototype demonstrating a component of the reference design, and also learn about all the individual processing units inside the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ SoC.

Digital Life Speaker Duncan Irschick

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Presents: Digital Life 3D

Duncan J Irschick is an integrative biologist and innovator interested in the evolution and ecology of animal athletics, and how biological form informs synthetic design. His research on gecko adhesion, 3D-imaging, animal movement, and bioinspiration has garnered international acclaim and awards. He is a co-inventor of two technologies – GeckskinTM, a bioinspired superadhesive, and BeastcamTM, a portable multi-camera technology that can create high-resolution 3D models of living creatures. He is also the co-founder and director of Digital Life (www.digitallife3d.com), a non-profit imitative to create and distribute high-resolution 3D models of life on earth, and the Center for Evolutionary Materials at UMASS Amherst. Duncan has published 137 papers on animal function and evolution, and has been a co-inventor on several patents. He has received generous funding from NIH, NSF, and private foundations, and media attention from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNET.org, and CNN. Irschick has been invited to 76 talks for Universities and organizations all over the world. He has been a Keynote and plenary speaker for many different organizations and Universities. In 2014 and 2016, he was honored with the Outstanding Research Award, the Chancellors Medal, and the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Award from the University of Massachusetts.

SCHEDULE

6:00pm - Doors open, demos begin, snacks are served.

7:00 - 7:30 Duncan Irschick presentation

7:30 - 8:00 Qualcomm's presentation

8:15 - 9:45 Demofest!! Also, order food and drink as you like.

9:45 - Afterparty right next door at MJ O'Connors

T-Shirts

We will be selling some nifty Boston VR unisex t-shirts! They sell out quickly so bring cash if you are interested. All proceeds go towards future events like this one.

BostonVR is a 501c3 certified non-profit and any proceeds will go towards funding more VR events and making Boston into a VR hub!

DEMOS(more to come):

Scott W. Greenwald from MIT Media Lab will be demoing CoCoVerse.

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CocoVerse is a room-scale virtual reality playground for co-creation and communication. The system can be used by collaborators in a remote or same-time, same place setting, where the virtual and physical worlds align. Accurate spatial avatar movements give collaborators a strong sense of copresence. Users use direct 3D interaction to manipulate the shared environment and navigate within it. They can draw in 3D space, place and modify 3D object models, and use their 3D avatars to communicate with spatial and emotive gestures. This set of affordances provides a playground which is valuable not only for creative expression, but also for teaching and learning. Furthermore, the tool itself is open source and can be extended by others.

John Mikhail participated in the reality virtuality hackathon and has a creative solution for the VR locotion problem using the htc vive.

Lore Books returns again with a new update for the hololens.

Digital Life 3D :

Digital Life aims to preserve the heritage of life on Earth through creating and sharing high-quality and accurate 3D models of living organisms. We aim to spur scientific discovery, support wildlife conservation and create educational opportunities.