March Mixed Reality Meetup
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Greetings everyone!
This month's meetup theme is storytelling. We're following February's format with two great talks and related demos. First, the producers of mixed reality film ARnold will explore telling a story with the Hololens. Next, developer Aaron Pulkka will share his experience building the Ghostly Mansion experience and compare it with Hololens development.
If you couldn't make it to our first mixed reality meetup in February, here's a video recap:
Please send all questions, ideas, or media requests to the organizer, Melissa. Thanks! Looking forward to seeing everyone again soon!
More about our presenters
ARnold
The story of a dog in the Hololens
Kacey and Greg will be discussing the dos and don'ts of AR storytelling, what stories should be told using AR, and overall storytelling techniques they have discovered while working with this technology.
Greg Feingold is the lead producer of ARnold, heading creative direction and organizational management. Greg is a senior studying Business and Film at USC. He is currently the secretary of VRSC, USC’s VR club, and works at IMAX VR. Greg aspires to continue producing mixed reality content after graduation.
Kacey Weiniger is the associate producer of ARnold, working with user experience and PR/communications. She is a sophomore Communications major at USC, minoring in Computer Programming and the Entertainment Industry. She is the executive producer of Soundstage, USC's weekly music show, and produces for USC Annenberg's JOVRNALISM. Kacey aspires to continue producing and innovating content and experiences with technology, hoping to one day create for the masses.
Chinmay Chinara and Aakash Shanbhag are the lead software engineers of ARnold. They are both first year graduate students at USC studying electrical engineering. They are additionally working on a holoportation of 3D human brain MRIs for USC's biomedical engineering department using the Hololens. They both aspire to continue application development in AR.
Building Ghostly Mansion for Tango Lenovo Phab 2 with Aaron Pulkka
Last year marked the launch of the first mixed reality-capable consumer device, the Tango powered Lenovo Phab 2 Pro. VR developer Aaron Pulkka will discuss the ups and downs of developing Ghostly Mansion, a room-scale hidden object game, as a Tango launch title and compare/contrast to HoloLens development.
Aaron started developing VR experiences 25 years ago at the University of Washington HITLab, followed by working in the Walt Disney Imagineering VR Studio and the Sony Development Entertainment Technology Group. Currently, he consults on VR and mixed reality projects through Rabbx Inc in Los Angeles, which he founded in 2011.
Demos:
ARnold
ARnold is the story of a dog as he grows up and tries to escape the confines of your living space. Taking advantage of the Microsoft Hololens' spatial mapping technology, Arnold will sit on your couch, scratch on your door, and bark out your window. It is immersive and personalized, and the storyline will change based on your environment. We are working to rewrite the rules of storytelling in mixed reality and elicit emotion using this emerging technology. https://www.facebook.com/ARnold.Short.Film/
Behemoth
Behemoth is an epic monster battle game prototype which won the Best Spatial Mapping prize at the SFVR/Microsoft HoloLens hackathon at UploadVR last year.
March Mixed Reality Meetup