Insertable technology, Web VR, HTC Vive Demos, and Geek Pop!

Join us on 27th April for an evening of presentations about emerging technologies, VR demos, live music, and socialising with top techies in Melbourne.

This session is packed with interesting topics - Web VR, Insertables, an HTC Vive multi-user demonstration, and live music from Geek Pop singer-songwriter Meri Amber

If you want a little taste of what the BuzzConf festival is all about, this event is a great place to start. You can also see videos from many of our events on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9P7DbwEV5et5vF3GvPQrQw).

Held in The Loop Bar in Melbourne, there will be plenty of options to eat and drink late into the night!

Agenda

6pm - Drinks and socialising
7pm - Presentations
8pm until late - Demos, Music, drinks, and party

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Insertables - Kayla Heffernan

Over the last century the body has emerged as a platform for devices, including internal medical devices and wearable fitness monitors. Within the last decade individuals have begun voluntarily inserting non-medical devices into their bodies. What are people putting in their bodies and why? Are insertables the next thing?

Kayla J Heffernan is a UX designer at SEEK who is also undertaking her PhD in interaction design at The University of Melbourne exploring a new category of device: insertables – devices that go in, through and underneath the skin.

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Web VR - Making VR magic with JavaScript - Patrick Catanzariti

WebVR is gaining some serious momentum as a viable way of building and delivering VR experiences. It might seem like an odd pairing, bringing the web, browsers and JavaScript together with VR, but it really does make more sense than people initially think. PatCat will look at the advantages of WebVR and how anyone can easily get started making WebVR applications today. You can do some really cool stuff with it already! He'll be bringing a live demo or two!

PatCat is the founder of Dev Diner (https://devdiner.com/), a site that helps developers navigate the world of emerging tech such as virtual and augmented reality, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and wearables. He is a SitePoint contributing editor for emerging tech, an instructor at SitePoint Premium and O'Reilly, a VR/AR mentor at the University of New South Wales, a Meta Pioneer and freelance developer who loves every opportunity to tinker with something new in a tech demo.

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Live music with Meri Amber

Meri Amber is a geek pop singer-songwriter. Think lasers, kazoos and ninja style world domination. Her sound can be likened to a mesh of bright pop with a smidgen of 90s punk rock stirred in, topped off with a generous sprinkling of pop culture samples and computer game synths.

She’s performed at events as varied as comic conventions, to shows alongside puppets, magicians and medieval swordsmen, doing pre-show foyer entertainment for acts like the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular and Flight of The Conchords.

“Like nothing we at OpJam have heard before! Meri Amber is like a comic book Taylor Swift, writing sassy tunes that stay in your head” - OPJAM

Here's one of our favourite songs about VR from Meri: Headboxes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4un0HkgxnsQ

Have Something to Say?

We're always on the look out for presentations, discussions and demonstrations for BuzzConf Nights. If you have something you'd like to share, please get in touch (https://buzzconf.io/contact-us/). You don't need to have a tonne of experience, just a willingness to share your passion.

Have Something to Show?

You'll occasionally see a robot spider body, or LED list helmet at BuzzConf events. If you have some exciting tech that you'd like to bring, please do! There'll be plenty of time during before and after the talks to show it off.

See you in the future!