Mixed Reality with WebVR, Unity and Live Coding

Two motion-tracking handheld controllers, one headset and a fascinating journey filled with endless possibilities - this is where we are heading tonight! We will explore the Windows Mixed Reality platform, get a glimpse of the built-in experience, and then jump straight into some live-coding and write some fun games. 🎮

Big thank you to Microsoft for hosting our meetup this time! 🙏

Note: Please use your full name when registering for the event, as Microsoft will print name tags for you and check your names at the door. Registration will close on Wednesday at 4pm Israel time.

Event Agenda:

18:30 - Meet, and have some snacks 🍕
19:00 - Windows Mixed Reality - What does it feel like?
19:20 - Meet WebVR and A-Frame & Let's build a VR game together
20:00 - From monitor to VR in Unity
20:30 - You get to play with the devices we brought! Enjoy :)

👓 Windows Mixed Reality, what does it feel like? - Jonathan Schipper 👓
When the first VR devices emerged, the obvious target audience was gamers. Next, we have seen some very impressive use cases for education, such as virtual guided tours. But how do our every-day apps such as email, web browser, calendar, etc. translate to VR? What does a VR "Desktop" feel like?

In this short session, you will get a glimpse to see Microsoft's take on this. we'll analyze how Windows Mixed Reality experience world was architected, trying to bring our desktop and traditional apps to life in the 3-dimensional world of Virtual Reality.

👾 Meet WebVR and A-Frame & Let's build a VR game together - Adi Polak and Uri Shaked 👾
WebVR is an emerging standard that enables web developers building Virtual Reality experiences using the familiar technologies we all love - HTML and JavaScript. We will show you how you can create a fun VR game, from scratch, that will run on multiple platforms - Oculus Rift, Google Daydream, Windows Mixed Reality and even on standard phones.

We will live-code everything (with some help from the audience), and then call some brave volunteers to play the game we just created and compete against each other. Who wins?

🦄 From monitor to VR in Unity - Oren De-Panther Weizman 🦄
In this session, we'll show how you can take existing desktop game and adjust it to VR.
We'll also talk about key differences between those experiences.

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Jonathan Schipper (A.K.A Virtual Johnny) is Chief Experience Officer @ Virtual Johnny an innovation powerhouse for mixed reality & smart things, creating experiences with natural interfaces.
Fascinated with exploring the limits between body, tech and our surroundings johnny likes to make people happy using tech.
Previous VP of products @ RideOn which making AR tech for outdoor use, he recently launched the MOHAWK Smart AR Ski Helmet.
He also previously founded 2 startups and leads Nextech Israel and Wearable Tech Israel communities, a really fast swimmer and he knows Kung-fu.

Oren De-Panther Weizman is Co-Admin at Israeli Unity3D Developers Facebook and Meetup groups. Use Unity for about 10 years. In the last few years worked on some VR/AR games and demos

Adi Polak is a Sr. Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. She gets to play with all Azure new features. Master them and packages them in a way that enables developers to understand them faster and use them in a more efficient way. Her expertise is Data at scale, Distributed systems, and Web Security.

Uri Shaked is a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies. He regularly writes about Web and IoT related technologies in his blog, and speaks about these topics in conferences and meetup around the world. Among his interests are virtual/augmented reality, hardware hacking, neuroscience, building 3D-printed robots and games, playing music and Salsa dancing.

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