Cross-Platform WebGL at Amazon

The folks from Amazon Lab126 will be hosting our October meetup. Featured speaker will be Russell Beattie from Amazon. Should be fun! Please note that this is a South Bay location for a change of pace... maybe we'll get some of our more southbound members there for once :-)

Realistic 3D-spaces with WebGL

Haakon Erichsen, Matterport

Matterport is making capturing and sharing 3D models of spaces as ubiquitous and easy to use as a Youtube movie, and WebGL has quickly become one of our core technologies. We'll show you some awesome 3d models in WebGL, share our experience making WebGL embeddable and performant on all the major platforms, and talk about where we're heading with WebGL in the future.

Speaker Bios

Haakon Erichsen

Haakon attracted the attention of Silicon Valley 3D-camera startup Matterport when he reverse-engineered their Unity3D player to make a WebGL version of it for fun. He was quickly hired, and has since been Head of WebGL at Matterport, where he has made WebGL a critical piece of the architecture. In his free time he is figuring out the finer details of Javascript and Javascript performance by making WebGL games and languages that compile to Javascript.