June (and May) had a huge number of conferences with VR and HCI content. We’ll devote 10-20 minutes to discussing news and highlights from each conference. For each conference, a MC (who hopefully attended) will seed the discussion with ~5 of their favorite web pages or short videos.

Preliminary agenda:

E3

• Oculus Rift
  • DK2 shipping update, prototypes, Alien Isolation, other demos/news
• Sony Morpheus demos
• Survios (Project Holodeck) demos
• GameFace Mark 5 - demos, specs, news
• Control VR (hand tracking) demos at E3, kickstarter

Eyeo

• Digital Emulsion workshop - Gray Code 3D scanning, per-pixel projection mapping
• Cod.Act - insane kinectic sculpture / music (pictured)
• Ardent Mobile Digital Cloud Platform

Northern Spark

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SVVR (Silicon Valley VR Conference)

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Computex / misc

• Sixense STEM (wireless mag tracking) updates / design changes (formerly steam) boxes
  • Alienware Alpha
  • Cyberpower Syber
• Kindle Fire phone (face tracking hw)
• Intel RealSense (SDK and ToF depth-cam in bezels)
• Google Project Tango

AWE (Augmented World Expo)

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NeruoGaming

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