Monthly Meetup: Azure Search, WebKitGTK application, and VR Development.

April showers may bring... another monthly meetup!

Join us at Simply Measured to see our three speakers as we discuss these exciting topics.

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Topic 1: Adding Azure Search to your App

by Evan Boyle

Github (https://github.com/EvanBoyle) | @_Evan_Boyle (https://twitter.com/_Evan_Boyle)

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abstract:: Many applications use search as the primary interaction pattern for their users. When it comes to search, user expectations are high. Users expect great relevance, suggestions, and solid linguistics that effortlessly handle spelling mistakes, near-instantaneous responses, multiple language, faceting, and more. During this presentation, Evan Boyle (Engineer on Azure Search) will take a mobile application with a SQL backend and show just how easy it is to add a rich full text search experience with Azure Search.

bio:: Evan Boyle is an Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Search. Evan has experience in a variety of fields including security research, data visualization, and predictive analytics. Evan is currently responsible for the management and monitoring experience in the new Azure portal.

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Topic 2: WebKit applications, custom JavaScript extensions, and your TV.

by Eric Stobbart

Github (https://github.com/estobbart)

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abstract:: A quick walk through of a WebKitGTK application, how JavaScript extensions work with JavaScriptCore, and what your TV is doing with all this.

bio:: I'm an engineer at Comcast VIPER working on the JavaScript player on the set top box.

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Topic 3: Viro Media: Enabling VR development for web and mobile developers using Javascript + React

by Vik Advani

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Github (https://github.com/VikAdvani) | @vikadvani (https://twitter.com/vikadvani?lang=en)| website (http://www.viromedia.com)

abstract:: The Viro platform enables developers to easily build immersive native VR experiences using familiar web and mobile technologies. If you are interested in building new VR applications or adding VR features into your existing mobile app, the Viro platform is perfect for you.

It’s as simple as coding

Some examples of experiences you can build using Viro include:

Interactive 360 photo tours for real estate and travelMedia players for video/360 video in an immersive VR environmentRich immersive storytelling in 3D

Viro modifies React Native native to work on mobile VR platforms, so you can create native VR applications using just Javascript with the React framework.

bio:: Vik Advani is the co-founder and CTO of Viro Media. Previously, he co-founded UpNext, a 3D mapping startup, that was acquired by Amazon in 2012. He spent 3 years at Amazon building out the Amazon Maps platform and the Amazon Local Search service. Prior to UpNext, Vik spent 5 years in the video game industry. His experience and personal interest in 3D and visualization, led him to start a VR company in Seattle with the goal of enabling VR development everywhere.

Viro Documentation: http://docs.viromedia.com/
Sample Viro VR App: https://github.com/viromedia/viro-code-samples

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If you're interested in presenting at a future Seattle JS meetup, feel free to submit a talk (https://github.com/seattlejs/seattlejs/blob/master/request-to-speak.md).