Workshop: Creating Full-Body Experiences in VR

Evening Workshop: Creating Full Body Experiences in VR Calling all Software Developers! Especially those of you in town for Developer Week. Join our evening workshop to explore an alternative to controller inputs in VR: Full Body Motion Capture Clothing. Full Body Motion Capture provides an intuitive method of interaction that complements the immersive nature of VR for games, tools, and entertainment products. This workshop overviews basic input concepts in VR and focuses on a breakout session for developers to experiment with Enflux full body clothing products. Who Should Sign Up: Intermediate level Unity developers interested in developing applications with full body motion. The class will focus on experience design and programming with Enflux clothing rather than instructing Unity fundamentals. Participants are expected already be comfortable/experienced with Unity. What You Will Learn: A solid framework of different types of input in VR and advantages/disadvantages How to get started using a full body motion capture device (Enflux clothing) How to implement basic experiences in VR using a full body motion capture device (Enflux clothing) Session Led by Expert Instructor Russell Jahn is an interaction engineer whose work intersects programming with animation, art, and user-centric design. Currently VP of Software Experience at Enflux Smart Clothing, Russell has a diverse background of rapidly creating film and game software and tools. He programmed interactive software and props used hands-on by actors in Denis Villeneuve's critically acclaimed film Arrival (2016), Brian Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and the ABC television hit Quantico (2015). Russell has recently created customized VR experiences for set pre-production used in Darren Aronofsky's upcoming film Mother and for gags on Jimmy Kimmel Live! This workshop will be hosted at Upload by Enflux About Enflux Enflux (www.getenflux.com) makes Motion Capture Clothing for animation, sports, healthcare, and virtual reality. The Enflux developer kit costs only $349 (includes shirt, pants, and free SDK access), compared to professional motion capture systems, which cost up to $100,000. Enflux clothing is fashionable, simple, affordable, and mobile. This workshop is ideal for developers interested in creating VR sports applications for “The Future of Sports Technology” Hackathon at the Microsoft Reactor for Developer Week. More info available at https://www.getenflux.com/pages/events