We’re delighted to announce that 3Dcamp is returning for it’s 3rd year on May 29th 2010. And for the first time we’re moving out of Limerick to hold this year’s event in the Institute of Technology Tallaght.

Stay tuned for more…

First of all we’d like to say thanks to all who came along and participated in 3Dcamp last Saturday. Even if we do say so ourselves it was a great day and we thoroughly enjoyed meeting and talking to all of you.

A special note of thanks must go to our speakers as the feedback on the talks was really quite excellent. We have created an open file drop to which a number of presentations and media have already been submitted. And we’d like to encourage all the rest of our speakers to submit their material too, in their own time.

During the closing session we heard some great suggestions for how to make next year’s event even better but if your voice wasn’t heard at the time please submit your comments here. All advice is greatly appreciated and will certainly be taken on board.

See you all again in 2010.

Thanks to Joe Garde at onlinemeetingrooms, there will be a live feed tomorrow from 3Dcamp.

In order to join us online, go to  http://meeting.onlinemeetingrooms.com .

The meeting name is 3dcamp. There is no password required. Onlinemeetingrooms can support 14 participants at any given time, so if you’re joining us online, make sure you stay connected only for the time you’re following us. This will allow more people to participate!

We’re starting at 10am and will go on until 5pm, with a lunch break from 12:45 to 2 pm.

Looking forward to the 3Dcamp tomorrow!

We have now published the draft schedule of talks to our file drop and invite you to print it out and bring it with you (just click on the download link below the file name). Please note the schedule is subject to change but it should help you plan your day.

Please visit our Location page for detailed location and access maps.

More details on 3 new talks for 3Dcamp -

11. Stephen Howell - Developing Interactive Art with Processing

Processing is an high level graphics programming language based on Java. Designed to be used by novice programmers and artists wishing to create interactive art installations, it is a simple but powerful tool. This talk will describe how to dive into processing with minimal coding experience, and how your processing based interactive art can be deployed on the web and in physical locations.

12. Brett Lawless - DIY Multi-Touch Haptic Interfaces

Brett Lawless, a student in ITT Dublin describes a project to build and deploy a multi-touch screen at minimal cost. Covering the difficulties of construction and input device issues using both wiimotes and webcams, Brett will showcase his home made multi-touch interface on the day. Brett will also discuss the various programming approaches currently available such as WiimoteLib, Bespoke Software Multitouch Framework and TUIO & Tbeta.

13. David Higgins - Teaching with Lego Robotics

David Higgins, a student from ITT Dublin talks about teaching engineering and programming concepts with Lego Robotics. David will describe a prototype instructive scripting interface for controlling Lego robots. David is also an experienced Scratch instructor, and will discuss teaching programming concepts using modular tools such as Scratch and Lego.

Visit our Speakers page for more details

Gabriela has news of another great talk for 3Dcamp -

“At the end of April, I attended an event organised by the IBM Ireland Innovation Centre in Dublin… This is when I first heard about INNOV8 - “an interactive, 3-D business simulator designed to teach the fundamentals of business process management and bridge the gap in understanding between business leaders and IT teams in an organization. I invited Joanne Stanley from the Dublin IBM Innovation Centre to give a presentation on it at 3Dcamp, and I got a positive answer yesterday.”

Keep an eye on the Speakers page for the full list of talks. Here are our latest additions -

– Gavin Duffy - TBD:

Gavin is founder and Managing Director of Realsim, a Galway based company which specializes in realtime 3D simulation. The Realsim solution enables users to build and simulate any real or conceptual world environment on a desktop PC or laptop assembled from aerial and ground survey data and CAD models, textured with detailed ground photography. Realsim’s breathtaking imagery was recently featured on RTE’s Secrets of the Stones but, as much as we saw, there’s a lot more which didn’t make the cut. And Gavin will be showcasing this and the story behind it at 3Dcamp.

–  Alan O’Brien - “Google Sketchup”

Alan O’Brien of Viewsion - Irelands first Google Accredited Training centre for SketchUp - will give an overview of the product and talk about the exciting things happening in the sketchup field and some special projects to get the public involved.

– David McKeown - “Wiimote interfacing and looking stupid while controlling a robot”.

Founder of Robots.ie and with a background in Mechanical Engineering David will speak about controlling Google Earth, CAD software, e.t.c., with a wiimote wand.

– Stephen Howell - various talks and workshops

Stephen Howell is a Lecturer in Computing at I.T. Tallaght and he, and a few of his students, will deliver talks and workshops on topics such as programming inProcessing, thematic cartography development, wiimote hacks, DIY touch screen hacks, lego programming, XNA development and camera based game interactions.

• Mark Campbell is Creative Director at eMedia. eMedia is a Galway-based, award-winning, 3D multimedia production company specialising in 3D Medical animations and eLearning for Life Science Organisations.In his presentation - 3D: Learning for Life Sciences - Mark will showcase examples of their work to date as well as talk a little about the current R&D activities in eMedia. The talk should be last approx. 20 mins with 10 mins for Q&A afterwards. You can follow Mark on Twitter here.
• Ronan Skehill is the founder of YourPinPoints.com. Launched in 2008, YourPinPoints is an online service that looks up a business name, address or place and sends the location to a smartphone on any network.Location Based Services today represent only the beginning of a series of technological innovations that can potentially impact society in many ways at various scales, ranging from new modes of business operations to the possible invasion of personal privacy. In his talk - The Consequences of Locating Stuff - Ronan will discuss these issues. You can follow Ronan on Twitter here.

Photosynth is a service offered by Microsoft Live Labs meant “to transform regular digital photos into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience”. By analysing each photo for similarities to the others, and using that data to build a model of where the photos were taken, the application creates a “new visual medium”.

Here’s a 2007 TED Talk by Blaise Aguera y Arcas presenting a demo:

Blaise Aguera y Arcas is working as an architect at Microsoft Live Labs and is the co-creator of Photosynth. The visualization technology Photosynth is based on was originally created by Seadragon - a company he worked for and which was acquired by Microsoft in 2006.

According to Wikipedia, Photosynth was officially released to the public on August 20 2008, when the users were allowed for the first time to upload their images and generate their own Photosynth models.