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AFrame, New HTC Vive Demo, Ready Player One Prizes!

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AFrame, New HTC Vive Demo, Ready Player One Prizes!

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This month's meetup is another combo with Marcelo Lewin of http://www.howtocreatevr.com/ in Fullerton, CA.

Thanks to HowTo Create VR, we'll time to try out and play with the new Vive Pro from HTC, thanks to Steven Xu, HTC evangelist.

WebVR Meetup Founder Pete Markeiwicz will give an intro to the newest features of the new WebVR/WebXR, along with the expanding ecosystems of interconnections to Unity and Unreal VR builds. Pete will also lead a basic coding session using A-Frame and a WebVR framework.

Finally, and throughout the night, we'll be having a trivia challenge all about Ready Player One, both the book and the movie! So make sure you either read the book or go watch the movie!

We'll have some really cool prizes for the "High Five". We'll even have a "final challenge" where you'll play Space Invaders on an actual Atari 2600 where the top winner will win the grand prize! Oh yeah, and we'll play some 80s music too, just to round out the night!

As always, thanks to Samantha and her team at Pro Desk Space for letting us host our meetup in their awesome location. Please go check out their site (http://www.prodeskspace.com/) and send them an email thanking them!

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WHAT WE'LL DO

6:30pm to 6:45pm - Network and/or play with the Vive Pro!
6:45pm to 7:00pm - Welcome and Trivia Challenge overview!
7:00pm to 8:00pm - Intro to A-Frame and WebXR / WebVR
8:00pm to 8:30pm - Trivia Challenge + Play Vive Pro + Network
8:30pm to 9:00pm - Atari 2600 Space Invaders Final Challenge + Prize giveaways

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VIVE PRO VR STATION!!!

Steven Xu, VR Evangelist for HTC Vive, will bring one HTC Vive Pro for you to try out various VR experiences! Thank you Steve and HTC!!!

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WHAT TO BRING

Make sure you bring business cards for the networking opportunities. If you have a laptop bring it to practice along with the presenter!

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GIVEAWAYS

We'll be giving away some cool prizes to the "High Five" of the Ready Player One trivia challenge and the Space Invaders final challenge winner.

Cool prizes include:

  • One Saturday Pass to the VRLA Expo.
  • One Day Pass to Pro Desk Space.
  • One Ready Player One Movie Ticket by Fandango.
  • One Ready Player One Poster.
  • One Merge Cube Hologram In Your Hand.
  • Two Vive T-Shirts.
  • Seven Vive Lanyards.
    Plus more coming soon!

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MORE DETAILS

Parking
Parking is free. They have signs for 2 to 3 hour parking. So look around.

Food
We'll have some light snacks, so if you get hungry around the time of the meetup, I'd recommend you eat prior!

Cost
This meetup is free! As in nothing, nada, zero. You're welcome! :-)

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PRESENTATION DETAILS

Learn How to Put VR onto the Web via AFrame and WebXR
Presented by Dr. Pete Markiewicz of Plyojump
In this presentation, you'll learn about the emerging JavaScript API WebXR, which allows creating full Virtual and Augmented Reality projects on standard web browsers using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After discussing the new features of the WebVR API, Pete will introduce A-Frame, a library that allows 3D WebXR scenes to be created with HTML-like markup tags.

Presentation Link: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fehF4fMlM2eYTu19FmepmQdnmtN25lPBkK6YjNIamn8/edit?usp=sharing.

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PRESENTER BIO

Dr. Pete Markiewicz, founder of Plyojump
Dr. Pete Markiewicz has a background in science and has been designing and developing for the web since 1994. He has been teaching Web, Graphic and UX design to students since 2001, authored 3 books on Web Development and is an expert on the Millennial generation. He has been working with WebVR since November 2015.

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