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.
The Secrets of the Stones was an excellent RTE documentary which concluded last night with an episode concentrating on early Irish Christianity and ’God architects’. The series was all the more satifying due to the wonderful animated sequences done for the programme by Gavin Duffy of RealSim. Gavin of course was a speaker at last year’s 3Dcamp and it was great to see his technology bringing Clonmacnoise, Mellifont Abbey and many more location back vividy to life. On his website Gavin writes -
“RealSim have recently completed a commission for RTE to bring them and their viewers back in time to various times in Irelands past. We created interactive 3d architectural and landscape models of 3 sites in Ireland pertaining to 3 different periods in Irelands Christian history, Caherlahillan in South Kerry (circa 450 AD), Clonmacnoise (800 – 1150 A.D.) and Mellifont Abbey in Louth (circa 1200 A.D.). Each location required close co-operation and consultation with expert archaeologists to help our graphic designers accurately model buildings and the environment. The modelling process proved to a be a very worthwhile exercise for archaeologists as it helped them formulate and work through different interpretations and scenarios that would have otherwise proved impossible without such an immersive and visual experience of their ancient environments. The earliest known church at Caherlahillan was modelled with associated dwellings and a grain store. At Clonmacnoise we re-created a large 400m ditch known to have existed around 800 AD. We re-created the dwellings, churches and the round tower which is thought to have been split in two into its current segments after collapsing in 1124. All that exists today at the old Cistercian Abbey at Mellifont are the ruins of the building foundations and the shell of the once acclaimed lavabo. This marvellous and complex building can now be seen again for the first time in 400 years.”
Last year, 3D camp received words of appreciation from the majority of participants. Good talks, a relaxed atmosphere, generous sponsors and an interested crowd. We even managed to have gorgeous weather! We missed only one small detail: 24 May 2008 was the day of the Heineken cup final, and Limerick became a sort of rugby Mecca…
This year we’ve picked up a date in June, to avoid competing with other events: 6th of June 2009.
Same venue: the Engineering Research Building at the University of Limerick.
Everybody is welcome, from users to entrepreneurs, developers, interaction designers, sociologists, artists and business people. More details to follow…
As there are only 5 weeks left until the event, we need all your support in getting the word out there!
Here is the link to the Virtual Worlds Research Forum which we briefy mentioned at the end of the Virtual Worlds panel. The forum was launched by Gary Leyden of Dublin based Vrising.
The following is a list of people attending 3Dcamp who will be speaking on the day, along with details of their talks (where available).
If you would like to give a talk, workshop or presentation on the day then don’t hesitate to register as a speaker. When filling out the form, please indicate whether you would like a morning or an afternoon slot. If you’re flexible, all the better again.
Talks And Details
Realtime 3d visualisation - the shape of things to come Gavin Duffy will speak on 3D urban visualisation and give some snapshots of what is coming soon with particular reference to an new online platform called Mycosm. He believes Mycosm will have all Second Lifers jumping ship for this new ultra-realistic, more powerful, pier to pier online world!
Culture, Content, and the Next Web
3D brings artistic culture back into the everyday business of computing and gadgets - Haydn Shaughnessy will look at ways of commercializing that.
Physical control of the virtual and vice versa Eoin Brazil from the Interaction Design Center at University of Limerick will discusses the bridging of realities between the virtual and real with examples highlighted using the Arduino platform. The availability of cheap and easy to program input boards such as the open hardware Arduino board and the increasing popularity of MMORPGS and other Virtual Worlds such as SecondLife and OpenSimulator has lead to an increasing blurring of the bounds of what is real and what is virtual. This talk will show how actions in one can easily be reflected in the other using inexpensive open source hardware and software.
Amazon AWS for Location Based Services Diarmuid Wrenne from Bluetooth marketing specialists BlueKulu will present a workshop on the use of Amazon AWS for map building using Open Street Map.
Interaction in Place: blurring the boundaries between physical and digital worlds
Recent developments in Ubiquitous Computing have made it possible to develop technologically-enhanced physical environments, where the technology is diffused and distributed in the space and in the artefacts that populate it. Therefore, it is important to investigate novel approaches which will allow interaction designers to consider people’s activities and experiences in the physical world when designing this novel type of interactive systems. In this talk, Luigina Ciolfi and Nora O Murchu present examples of recent design work aimed at augmenting physical environment with new possibilities for interaction, discussing a place-centred conceptual approach to design and a variety of methodologies that support it. Case studies are based on a series of research projects on the topics of museum technologies, interactive media in public spaces and mobile work.
Pinpoint Location Services Ronan Skehill will be talking on how the convergence of technologies, such as cellular networks and GPS, brings a new platform to deliver location services.
2008 All island Seedcorn Business Competition
With a cash prize of €280,000 to give away to start up companies on the island, Gráinne Lennon of Intertrade Ireland will talk about the benefits of entering the competition. They are looking for start up companies in high growth sectors with investment potential.
The culture of World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is an online 3D game that contains a complete social world and an equally engaging set of culturally conditioned practices. When a player first enter the world, players encounter both nonplaying characters and other players. Interactions among players constitute a significant part of the experience of playing the game. They team up to fight together or fight with one another. They form frienships, cliques (Guilds), trade insults, flirt, conduct business, and tease one another. In a similar manner to the real world these relationships and interactions are often based on many attributes including a players personal, cultural, and national differences. In this talk Chris Exton from University of Limerick will attempt to observe some of these various interactions in realtime.
How to make money on Second Life [tentative title] Sabrina Dent will deliver this talk. More details shortly…
Cyberpsychology: An Emerging Discipline
Cyberpsychology studies human interactions with other emerging technologies, including the internet, mobile phones, games consoles, virtual reality, digital media and any other technology which has demonstrated an ability to alter human behaviours. It considers the impact of evolving trends, such as technological convergence, on individuals. Cyberpsychology also examines human interactions with less ubiquitous technologies, such as cyborgs and artificial intelligence. In this talk Grainne Kirwan gives a brief overview of some of the current research in the field of cyberpsychology, and the MSc in Cyberpsychology which is currently accepting applications in IADT
All-Island Digital Media Network Project: Goals, Plans, Value and how to shorten the name?
In this talk Anton Mannering will describe the project, it’s goals and plans and how it aims to give value to startups.
A Second Life in the real life built environment
In this talk Martin Brown will give an overview of Second Life / real life ‘built environmnet’ related projects, including the joint UK, Chicago and Texas project using second life for real life education and development, based on the Public Works Island within Second Life. Also spin off projects such as in world meetings as a run up to facilities management and sustainability conferences, in world research meetings and in world construction education /discussion group meetings.
Augmenting the Senses
What will computer user interfaces look like 10 years from now? It is easy to image a proliferation of high resolution displays, ranging from small handheld devices to large displays integrated into our everyday environment. However there is another kind of interface known as augmented reality that will have a more profound effect on the way in which we develop and interact with computers in the future. In the research community there already exists technology that can enhance a person’s sensory perception. These technologies will therefore be the basis of this talk by Paul Gallagher.
The story of the two remarkable videos presenting UL on YouTube: Pedestrian Living Bridge and Irish World Academy of Music and Dance told by Padraic O’Reilly from Shannon Images. The different expertises, materials, tools and formats that gave birth to a few minutes of enchanting video - probably one of the most efficient ways of making UL better known worldwide.
Location based services & WiFi hotspots.
A talk by Evert Bopp.
The following is a list of people attending 3Dcamp. To add your name, you can fill out the attendance form found here. 3Dcamp is free to register and free to attend with the venue, catering and other goodies kindly provided by our sponsors. While nobody can force you to participate, we would (and so would others!) love if you have an interesting story to share, lessons or advice to divulge, a talk a presentation you would like to give - we’d love to hear from you.
3Dcamp will be an unconference. In other words: if you are interested in attending you should understand that it may not happen without your active participation. Everything about an unconference comes from the participants. That includes the topics which will be discussed, the time and place, and even the decision as to whether to hold such an event at all.
Register For 3Dcamp 2008
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The 2nd edition of the 3Dcamp takes place at the University of Limerick on Saturday June 6th 2009 and runs from 10am to 6pm. Click here to find out more.
