BCS animation and games development SG AGM presentation. Links to youtube videos but includes some speaker notes though I would have said more things :)
Play Squash with Ruby, OpenGL, and a Wiimote - ShRUG Feb 2011Jan Wedekind
Using the Ruby programming language, the CWiid library, and the Ruby bindings for OpenGL, it is possible to develop a 3D game which is controlled using a Nintendo Wii Remote. By furthermore invoking RMagick and the ALSA library, one can add textures and sound to the game. Note that the library for accessing the Wii Remote (CWiid) and the sound library (ALSA) require Linux. However it is conceivable to do a similar project with alternate libraries on another operating system.
Also see http://www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk/shrug15.html
Paweł Ruszlewski - First steps in Mixed Reality designPaweł Ruszlewski
Extended slides for my talk that I gave during Element Talks 2019. In this presentation I'd like to show what are some first challenges for designers when transitioning from 2D UX design to 3D UX design.
Play Squash with Ruby, OpenGL, and a Wiimote - ShRUG Feb 2011Jan Wedekind
Using the Ruby programming language, the CWiid library, and the Ruby bindings for OpenGL, it is possible to develop a 3D game which is controlled using a Nintendo Wii Remote. By furthermore invoking RMagick and the ALSA library, one can add textures and sound to the game. Note that the library for accessing the Wii Remote (CWiid) and the sound library (ALSA) require Linux. However it is conceivable to do a similar project with alternate libraries on another operating system.
Also see http://www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk/shrug15.html
Paweł Ruszlewski - First steps in Mixed Reality designPaweł Ruszlewski
Extended slides for my talk that I gave during Element Talks 2019. In this presentation I'd like to show what are some first challenges for designers when transitioning from 2D UX design to 3D UX design.
Application code, file data, network protocol packets are often formatted as binary information. This is to protect intellectual property and make it difficult for attackers and competitors.
This does not, however, stop security professionals, researchers andhobbysts to inspect and reverse the binary blobs. Either for understanding their internals, or for finding flaws, people do reversing on binary blobs and extract a human-friendly format. Andrew Tridgell famously reversed the CIFS/SMB protocol from Microsoft to create the
Samba software.
In this talk I will highlight the mindset for doing reversing, based on my own experience with reversint the Apple iOS sandbox. The talk is not meant to be very technical rather what it takes and what it means to do reversing and why you should do it as a learning and fun experience.
The Wonderful-Amazing-Orientation-Motion-Sensormatic MachineAndrew Fisher
Mobile devices are magical things and the device API makes them even more magical. Being able to determine the orientation or acceleration of a device in space from a web browser affords a new set of interactions for developers and designers to play with.
This presentation shows how to use the device API properly and some applications of it.
IMS Traffic Intelligence through Crowdsourcing phone signalsBlair Currie
This presentation is how IMS crowdsources cell phone signals to provide real-time traffic patterns. We help individuals, businesses and governments deal with congestion.
Spirituality in Business
This change is the distinctive element in the construction of a new way of looking at the organizations of the third millennium.
Infos. in : www.dharmamarketing.org
Application code, file data, network protocol packets are often formatted as binary information. This is to protect intellectual property and make it difficult for attackers and competitors.
This does not, however, stop security professionals, researchers andhobbysts to inspect and reverse the binary blobs. Either for understanding their internals, or for finding flaws, people do reversing on binary blobs and extract a human-friendly format. Andrew Tridgell famously reversed the CIFS/SMB protocol from Microsoft to create the
Samba software.
In this talk I will highlight the mindset for doing reversing, based on my own experience with reversint the Apple iOS sandbox. The talk is not meant to be very technical rather what it takes and what it means to do reversing and why you should do it as a learning and fun experience.
The Wonderful-Amazing-Orientation-Motion-Sensormatic MachineAndrew Fisher
Mobile devices are magical things and the device API makes them even more magical. Being able to determine the orientation or acceleration of a device in space from a web browser affords a new set of interactions for developers and designers to play with.
This presentation shows how to use the device API properly and some applications of it.
IMS Traffic Intelligence through Crowdsourcing phone signalsBlair Currie
This presentation is how IMS crowdsources cell phone signals to provide real-time traffic patterns. We help individuals, businesses and governments deal with congestion.
Spirituality in Business
This change is the distinctive element in the construction of a new way of looking at the organizations of the third millennium.
Infos. in : www.dharmamarketing.org
Updated version of presentation with some Blended Learning elements in too.
Updated URLs and product names.
First show BCS Birmingham March 2013 Video removed and replaced with stills
It's Gonna Be The Future Soon: Science Fiction, Video Games, and the Future ...Lucas Gillispie
What if science fiction were a reality? What if the way we interact in games were the way we interacted in real life? Soon, these things will be a reality and they'll impact learning! It's going to be exciting!
Robot-inspired art installations are exploring new frontiers: and in the process, influencing innovations in communications, control, security, safety and other domains. Robotics and automation are changing the way that things get made, transform the objects and spaces where we live, and altering how we interact over distances. Ultimately, they will extend our senses and even transforming our notions of self and what it means to be human. These slides were delivered at SXSW on March 14, 2011.
Game Design & the City @ Best Scene in TownKars Alfrink
This presentation was part of my contribution to the Best Scene in Town workshop on 14 April 2010 at the Waag Society. In it, I describe three scenarios for the development of games into the near future. I also briefly discuss some key concepts in the field of game design. The goal of this presentation was to inspire and to provoke, as well as provide some handholds for participants to use in their own subsequent work.
World Wide Web by Ross McKegney (Verold) at mesh14mesh group
The world is 3D so why not the web? Imagine an online world that allows you to see products, environments and really anything from all angles in all of its glory.
The Ultimate Potential of VR: Promises & Perils - Kent Bye SXSWKent Bye
Bye, K. (2023, March 12). The Ultimate Potential of VR: Promises & Perils. [Featured Session Presentation]. South by Southwest Festival, Austin, Texas, United States; Austin Convention Center, Room 16AB
Voices of VR podcast host Kent Bye has been asking thousands of virtual reality creators "What is the ultimate potential of VR?" for over 8 years now, and he will be sharing some of the best answers that map out the future of spatial computing, immersive storytelling, and experiential design. He will also share how VR is catalyzing an interdisciplinary fusion of design processes from video games, filmmaking, HCI, social media, theatre, architecture, and new modes of multi-sensory design. VR also presents unique tech ethics challenges around privacy, accessibility, conduct moderation, etc., that will potentially require new laws or tech architectures. This session will set a broad context for some of the promises and perils of this new medium while also providing a glimmer for what's to come.
Virtual Reality, a simulated environment in three dimensions, is not new but emerging technologies and companies like Facebook and Microsoft have recently pushed it back into the spotlight. There is a huge future in VR and meaningful experiences are being developed for it. In this webinar,
~ Discover what Virtual Reality is and gain a brief historical summary of it
~ Understand how VR will change everything ranging from gaming to education
~ Learn about the various products coming out in 2015
~ See how libraries and makerspaces are making use of VR
“What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” ~ Morpheus
Why Second Life should not be confused with Unity3d as a development platform. You can do more with Unity3d but you have to do more to support it. Plus some other common slides of, Flush the fashion, oculus, drivatars and project spark
BCS Bristol presentation on Guitars and games, changing people lives with martial arts
http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2014/02/13/bcs-bristol-guitars-and-games-changing-people-lives-with-martial-arts/
A presentation on some journeys with physical and virtual interaction. How the combination can make a great impact on learning and on ways we can interact and live.
Including Skylanders, Rocksmith, Kinect and Choi Kwang Do all mixed up with virtual world communication.
Looking at how anyone can create on any platform and distribute digitally, but now also create physically with 3d printing, which can then potentially be input back into the digital.
A virtuous loop of opportunity but that anyone can do now with the attitude of Maker Culture and the power of creative tools.
A version of washing away cave paintings presented to the BCS
A live opensim and a live demo of Unity3d was also part of this.
http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog
Updated and mashed together longer version of metameets and cave paintings v2.
Includes unity3d and opensim
Premise is still don't get stuck on "thats the way we do things" there is an explosion in both thought and technology out there
Are you stuck in thinking virtual worlds are just avatars and islands. What will push all this forward? Are you scared of change, just like the people scared of the current wave?
A presentation at metameets 2010.
Threw in an adlib on 3d printing a penny whistle to join in a RL band in a pub which may then be streamed back into SL at the blarney stone.
Not all about being a puppet in a box you know.
The presentation I gave at the Derry Awakening Creative Entreprenuership 25th March as the keynote.
Its the first physical presentation as feedingedge.
The session was recorded, will add the link when its live on Ace website
I used slides 1-16 for global entrepreneurship. Reiterating the sroty of eightbar, entrepreneurial behaviour powered by social media, aswell as expliaining metaverses and how we can use 3d printer developments to help developing, under developed areas survive and flourish
http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/11/18/inspired-by-the-social-entrepreneurs-3d-printing-for-the-world/
Delivered using a stage, rear projection and freedom tp move around with a hand mic avoiding the lecturn.
All things metaverse and virtual world related. An evolved presentation delivered to lots of people in 06/07/08
Mostly the slides are talking points.
Elements refer to my presence as epredator online in a web 2.0 world
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
From Siloed Products to Connected Ecosystem: Building a Sustainable and Scala...
Are we any closer to a holodeck?
1. Are we about to get one step closer to
a Holodeck?
Ian Hughes/epredator
Metaverse Evangelist
Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t
have to
www.feedingedge.co.uk
BCS Animation And Games Development
Thursday, 21 March 13
Are we about to get a step closer to a holodeck.
2. epredator’s workplace
Thursday, 21 March 13
Me, I live and work online in all sorts of virtual places. I would love to be able to interact with
a lot more than screen and keyboard. Not everything I do is virtual I am an Assistant
Instructor in the martial art Choi Kwang Do.
3. http://issuu.com/flushthefashion
Thursday, 21 March 13
I write a regular tech column in Flush Magazine. Recently I wrote one on how close we are to
a real holodeck. Other features have been virtual worlds, 3d printing, sports training with
game tech and electric superbikes.
4. What is a holodeck?
The holodeck is depicted as an enclosed room in which objects and people are simulated by
a combination of transported matter, replicated matter, tractor beams, and shaped force fields
onto which holographic images are projected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodeck
Who Invented it?
Thursday, 21 March 13
The Holodeck is great piece of science fiction. It provides plot narrative opportunities in what
goes on and also what goes wrong with it. It is apparently really the idea from Gene Dolgoff a
holographic expert and and inventor who also invented digital projection (which becomes
relevant later on) He had a chat with Gene Rodenberry the creator of Star Trek and the
holdeck was born.
5. CAVEs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_laZUrA04
Thursday, 21 March 13
CAVE - Cave automatic virtual environment has generally been a cube of rear project
screens that help immerse the user in an experience. This video is CAVE2 where many
more screens and some 3d positioning has been used. Again a Star Trek influence :)
6. Haptic feedback and walking
http://virtusphere.com/index.html
Thursday, 21 March 13
Being stuck in a cube means we don’t get to walk around very much, but there are potential
solutions to that. This is one bit of game tech that puts the player in a “hamster ball”
7. Gadget show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8Bh5iI2WY
Thursday, 21 March 13
The Gadget show built a high end simulator for battlefield 3. It has surround vision, detects
the player and the gun and has a rolling floor to enable walking in all directions. It had the
added fun of haptic feedback with high velocity paint ball guns actually shooting at the
player. 9:49 into the video is best
8. Digital projection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4anRxHHP2k
Thursday, 21 March 13
With a normal light projection if the surface being projected on is shaped and not smooth the
image gets distorted. Understanding and 3d scanning the surface then using digital
projection the image can be adjusted to deal with the surface. So we get lots of very large
projections and animations on buildings, such as during the Royal Jubilee on Buckingham
palace. This video though shows the effect on a persons face. It is very cool.
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmwIXpgTadI&feature=share&list=UUzggIACzASKJWRqd-gbqnXA
Kinect and Choi Kwang-Do
http://code.google.com/p/tryplex/
Thursday, 21 March 13
Know and understanding where a human is is important for a Holodeck. As you can see here
there is information being captured as Choi Kwang Do movements are made, importantly it
knows what is background and has removed it.
10. Digital removal
Thursday, 21 March 13
This can be used the other way around though. If it knows where someone is, then is can also
potentially ignore that person. Kinect Party/Happy Action Theatre on xbox plays with this
effect. Predlet 1.0 gets to see herself dissapear on screen. She is stood in the same place on
both screens.
11. Digital removal
Thursday, 21 March 13
A similar effect but this time not just overlaying onto a human AR style, but actually removing
them and drawing something else.
12. http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120223885
Thursday, 21 March 13
This patent application from Microsoft appeared published september 2012. It describes a
potential system where you entire play space is projected into. It needs to scan the room,
understand where the player is and project accordingly. As with Kinect Party knowing where
the person is means it doesn’t have to project onto them, but instead around them.
Understanding the surface shapes and also the reflectivity of each surface is also described.
All possible with the Kinect today as we have seen.
13. Illumiroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re1EatGRV0w
Thursday, 21 March 13
Here is their concept video. Notice it keeps the screen as the highrez focus but uses the walls
for atmosphere
14. Lots of questions still before we get to Star Trek’s time
Can we 3d print/feel virtual things around us?
Do we skip this for direct brain interface?
We will get there before that I am sure!
Photo from Helen Storey
http://www.southcoastckd.co.uk
Thursday, 21 March 13
Pil Seung! Means Certain Victory. Whilst I look forward to Choi Kwang-Do training on a
holodeck with force feedback. But we can simulate with real things ? Will it ever beat being in
RedMan body armour? as I am in in this photo :)
15. Are we about to get one step closer to
a Holodeck?
Ian Hughes/epredator
Metaverse Evangelist
Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t
have to
www.feedingedge.co.uk
BCS Animation And Games Development
Thursday, 21 March 13