Ronan Skehill from Cauwill Technologies presented on location-based services at #3Dcamp11. His slides include some worrying statistics for Foursquare -

Gavin Duffy from RealSim gave a talk at #3Dcamp11 entitled “A geo-referenced 3D reconstruction of an ancient environment on a smartphone”. You can now view the slide deck for that talk below -

If you’d like to follow progress on the project you can follow Aonghus MacOg and/or RealSimGames on Facebook.

The schedule for 3Dcamp 2011 can be found here.

Please note that changes might still occur.

If you haven’t yet followed us on Twitter please do @3Dcamp. The official hashtag for the conference is #3Dcamp11 and we plan to have projectors in the lobby area and auditorium to provide a backchannel.

Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content, such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. In this workshop, Pat O’Hora will explore many of the features in this tool by creating a very simple Marble Madness clone game.

The workshop will be light on theory, but heavy on the practical building of a Unity game.Previous programming experience will be useful, but not necessary. All you need on the day will be a bit of enthusiasm!

This workshop will take place in a computer lab and the number of places is limited. Please leave a comment if you’d like to participate!

Stephen Howell, a Computer Science Lecturer at I.T. Tallaght, will lead a workshop entitled ‘Kinect Hackables’. You can get an idea of what to expect by watching this video.

Please leave a comment here if you’d like to participate!

Miriam Lohan, the facilitator of this game/workshop, unveils her intention:

“To see how the bartering of work -skills, labour, knowledge, time - might work online, I invite you to share how you interact with others through games and ratings. Pitched somewhere between speed-dating and a county fair, the workshop will involve live play-bartering in a room mapped to the first draft of a site design. How it plays out will shape the future design, so the more - and the more diverse the participants - the merrier. As online, you can share personal details or adopt a persona - all you need to bring are your social and bargaining skills. All are welcome.”

Please leave a comment if you intend to join! Also, if you have ideas for Miriam, let her know in a comment!