Bmore VR Summer Meetup

Buckle up for one of the best Bmore VR Meetups to date! This time we'll be having it at City Garage in Port Covington. Betamore has graciously let us use their GIANT office space, so we can all VIVE out.

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We are continuing with our open "Science Fair" layout, meaning we will have demos from great local companies. Come try out the latest VR/AR experiences and hardware!

If you'd like to show off a VR/AR project, please contact zoe@baltivirtual.com

Demos:

StemBright: College students that made a music game for kids in the spring 2017 semester called Vibrato. The games has music theory min games as well as an AR mini game that teaches kids to play the piano.

Marcellus Wilson: Demoing a recently created video game in called Weapons of Ra. It was originally developed for iOS, but has now been converted to a VR experience!

VisiSonics: Either will demo four different rooms with different audio reflections and the user can interact with different objects emitting audio and hear 3D audio with different reverb reflections based off the materials of the walls OR will demo "Fixing Incus" which is a VR experience running on Oculus Rift that demonstrates a rail demo where the user is a robot on a space station being repaired.

MageWorks: Experience journey about "crafting reality using virtual reality". Players wield a spell-book in one hand and a staff in the other while traveling to different lands. Along their adventure, they will fight against different foes, discover new spells, and collect resources - all to create their personal staff. Saw wood, learn to lathe shapes, mill flowers into ink, grind crystals, and transform drawings into manufactured designs, all of which are then 3D printed in reality.

Space Telescope Science Center: Showcasing their VR “classroom” that was designed to help bring public attention to the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope.

LookOnMedia: Plans on demoing the Virtual Reality Museum that was shown at Light City Baltimore 2017 for anyone who missed it.

Nick Clinkscales, Julien Van Putten and J.S. Gleason: These three MICA students will be showing Talewinds, a prototype VR airship game, and KRAZAM!, a VR physics based puzzle game that's currently in development.

Balti Virtual: Showcasing new designs for their Augmented Reality Temporary Tattoos for kids called "HoloTats" and other augmented reality applications.

Virtual Reality Cam Studios: Demoing immersive virtual reality showcases of commercial and residential real estate. Learn how they use a hybrid of VR / AR, aerial drone capture and 4k cinematography to produce Luxury Lifestyle movies.

Ben Kolarik will be demonstrating techniques for displaying massive quantities of geometry in VR while maintaining framerate using Unity with the Vive platform. This is accomplished by doing dynamic occlusion testing.

Lee Butler will be showing an augmented reality experience with the Microsoft Hololens of a military ballistic test. He will be discussing the issues of human-interface design for Hololens applications and demonstrations.

Also, featuring live painting on Tilt Brush!

Other demos to be announced!

6:00: Doors open / networking

6:30: Intro and quick updates from all presenters

7:00: Demos

9:00: Event closes

See you all there!

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