LUUG3: Or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Third Dimension

We're back, and we're in the same place as last time. As with previous meetups, LSBU will be hosting us.

We always aim to provide content for both the new and experienced Unity user, and this month we've managed to secure two great speakers.

We're also proudly sponsored by the great Packt Publishing who are giving away their two amazing Unity books "Unity Game Development Essentials" by Willl Goldstone and "Unity 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide" by Ryan Henson Creighton. We'll have a fun and exciting raffle at the end of speaking sessions.

Sessions

Rapid AR development with String Augmented Reality for IOS.

Mike Renwick will demonstrate how to use String's Augmented Reality plugin to set up a simple scene in Unity3d, and show some of the ways that it could be used for interactive applications and games for iPhone and iPad2. Augmented reality is essentially overlaying 3d objects on a real-world view, in this case, the device's camera, making the object appear to be part of the scene. String is a lightning-fast, lean plugin that can be tightly integrated with Unity3d for quite spectacular results.

Mike worked with String to help produce an interactive AR toy for their initial application showcase, available free on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/string-augmented-reality-showcase/id417606536?mt=8 ,

Follow Mike on twitter @runonthespot (http://twitter.com/#!/runonthespot)

Check out his blog here >> http://www.darkquadrant.co.uk/

Preloaded

Preloaded is an independent games studio that makes casual and social games on all platforms. They have worked with some of the brightest and best people in the industry, ranging from broadcasters and production companies, to galleries, museums, educators and enlightened brands.

Preloaded will talk about the challenges of getting paid to create Unity games and showing us 'under the bonnet' of their forthcoming Unity project, which is being developed for a major UK broadcaster.

Follow Preloaded on twitter @preloaded (http://twitter.com/#!/preloaded)

Visit the Preloaded website (http://preloaded.com/)

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We're super excited about each of these talks, as they represent two areas that we haven't yet covered in our London Unity3D user groups.

Once sessions have finished we'll head to The Ship on Borough Road, as usual.

Look forward to seeing you there.