IMPORTANT NOTE:
We are now hosting the meetup in the Rice NEXUS space in The ION, next door to the Prototyping Lab where we've held it for the past couple of years. Also: to align with increasing trends towards Augmented and Mixed Reality, we are in the process of rebranding from HoustonVR to HoustonXR. Stay tuned for more!
Join Austin Beaulier for a behind-the-scenes look at the cutting-edge of immersive world-building. He'll touch on his background in photogrammetry, including some of the techniques he used on projects like The Mandalorian, and showcase how technologies like Gaussian splatting are pushing the boundaries of realism. He’ll also dive into the potential of AI in immersive creative workflows, showing how to leverage AI for everything from concepting in Blender to building fully-realized interactive worlds in Unreal Engine, as demonstrated by his recent viral D&D and Matrix VR experiments.
As always, we will discuss the latest AR and VR news, and demo the latest hardware and software. Members are welcome to share hardware and software they're developing, give reviews, or speak on topics. If you have something you'd like to present, reach out to us to let us know!
