Seattle VR

Monthly Meetup: October – Spooky Scary VR Skeletons & Halloween Party!

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We’re a week out from the event and thought we’d post an update on what we have planned and what you all can expect!

Demos 🤯:
🏰 “The Witching Tower” – Daily Magic Productions: Fight and puzzle your way through a foreboding fortress tower, unraveling each level’s mysteries. An unparalleled experience with breathtaking visuals and environments. The meetup also coincides with their official release on steam! Go check out this new title and a big thank you to Daily Magic for their sponsorship of our event!

🗺️ “Halloween Maze VR” – MyPad3D: Try out the super spooky Halloween Maze! Unique movement activated by motion e.g. running in place.

🧟 “Halloween in Sansar” – Linden lab: Check out creepy and scary worlds built on Sansar platform for Halloween fun.

☠️ “Carly and The Reaperman” – Odd Raven Studios: Master platforming to avoid dangers, solve puzzles and build your way through the Underworld in this unique asymmetrical cooperative game.

⚰️ “Haunted Graveyard” – Holospark: Meet the ghosts, explore their world, and learn their secrets. But you’d better keep moving — if you’re still in the Haunted Graveyard at midnight, you’ll be trapped here forever!

😈 “Takelings” – DimnHouse: A frantic and whimsical party game for VR. Takelings have invaded this quiet suburban home and it’s up to Hal and his family to exterminate these pests using whatever means necessary!

Food and Drink 🍽️ :
🥑 Chips and guacamole/salsa verde/pico de gallo
🥙 Hummus with Pita and Veggies
🍄 Spinach Dip Stuffed Mushrooms
🍔 An assortment of Sliders (vegetarian and gluten free options available)
🥤 Complimentary non-alcoholic beverages
🍺 Adult beverages available for purchase

Event photography provided by LEYEFE 📷

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🍂 It’s that time of year again. The leaves are falling, the weather is shifting, corny seasonal titles abound.

🎃 And Seattle VR is planning a Halloween party!!! 😱

A lot of decisions are still in flux, but we’re looking to throw down on a proper shindig as a thank you and a celebration of this amazing community. We’re aiming to have some complimentary food and non-alcoholic beverages available, along with adult beverages for purchase, for those who want to responsibly partake.

Most importantly, this party is for all of you. So we’re dropping our regular $5 cover, and are welcoming your ideas/suggestions. We need, and want, to gauge your interest and feedback! So please register early, comment what you’d be excited to see, help spread the word, and check back regularly for updates! We can’t promise anything, but please let us know what kinds of things you’d be excited to see/do, and we’ll see what our ghosts can get set up. 👻

And start planning your 👹 costumes 🧙 from now!*

* Author’s note – though costumes are not required they are encouraged, but please make them appropriate and avoid anything that involves heavy uses of makeup or face paint. Sugar skulls are awesome, but no one likes a gunky headset.

All ages are welcome up until 9pm but then the venue switches over to 21+.

We hope you’re as excited as we are, and Happy Halloween everybody!

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Seattle VR Code of Conduct:
https://github.com/seattle-imtech/seattle-vr/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md

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VENUE DETAILS:
Art Marble 21 (https://www.artmarble21.com/)

731 WESTLAKE AVE. N
SEATTLE, WA 98109

After 9pm all guests must be 21+ and be able to provide acceptable ID.

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Questions, suggestions, funny pictures of your cat?

Email us: general@seattle-vr.com

Stay up to date!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/seattlevr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/seattlevrar/
Slack: https://seattle-vr-slack.herokuapp.com/

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Parking Options:

Art Marble 21 (http://bit.ly/SVR-Halloween-Parking)

October 25, 2018

Art Marble 21

6:00 pm - 9:30 pm

November XR Design Salon – Adaptive Design in MR

Adaptive Design in MR: UX Problems and Solutions

How do you design the same app for both Hololens and VR? What do you do about the two different input systems? Do you stay consistent for design or for the platform? The Design Salon welcomes guest speaker Jada Williams, Microsoft Mixed Reality Studio Lead UX Designer, who will cover these questions and compare how 2D web/mobile designers have solved these problems with responsive/adaptive design and how to apply it to mixed reality. Jada will tell us how the Microsoft team considered adaptive design in MR while designing for Microsoft Layout, a mixed reality app that allows space planners to see their ideas in context.

As usual, we’ll have plenty of time for questions, discussion, and connections.

Join us on the Seattle VR slack #designsalon channel to discuss the format for the meetup and how you see design in VR/AR/MR/XR. If you’re new to Seattle VR go to https://seattle-vr-slack.herokuapp.com/ to join. Or comment at the blog. Please email us if you want to post a blog about your experiences at the salon or about design in XR.

DESIGN SALON DESCRIPTION
Seattle VR and PlutoVR are hosting the Design Salon monthly meeting to provide a forum for ux professionals, designers, researchers, students and VR/AR/XR/MR enthusiasts to deeply discuss current literature, practices, research and tech from a design perspective.

We’ll focus on a number of design issues which are unique to immersive environments, but look at each one in depth and leave time for discussion. Concepts central to UX design, user research, storytelling, collaboration, cognition and related disciplines will be applied to both the hottest and the most overlooked areas vital to designing usable immersive realities. Bring your curiosity!

Salon Goal: To examine how design choices affect the user experience in VR/AR/MR/XR.

“What are the boundaries of Design?”
“What are the boundaries of problems?” – Charles Eames

Light refreshments will be available.

TRANSPORTATION
Parking at Pluto VR is free. Be sure to park in a spot labeled “Pluto”!
Bus routes nearby include 40 and 44.

Our meetup is safe and welcoming. Anyone and everyone is invited! Are you interested in sponsoring, demoing, or volunteering? Then email general@seattle-vr.com to learn more about opportunities.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/seattlevrar/
Join Seattle VR Slack: https://seattle-vr-slack.herokuapp.com/
http://xrdesignsalon.blogspot.com
https://twitter.com/xrdesignsalon
#seattlevr #xrdesignsalon @seattlevr
Contact Susan at xrdesignsalon@gmail.com.

November 12, 2018

Pluto VR

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Monthly Meetup: November – Demo Night

In the spirit of the upcoming holiday season, we’re headed back home to the Pacific Science Center where we’ll be showcasing projects and experiences that make for good primers when introducing your loved ones to immersive technology. Come join us, talk shop, try out some locally grown projects, and burn off that last slice of pie that we all know needed to be eaten anyway.

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Demos:

🎉 “Giant Celebration” – Giant Cranium will be testing their new VR hidden object puzzle adventure game, Giant Celebration! https://www.giantcranium.com/

🤖 “VR Robot Designer” – This is the next iteration of our asymmetric robot design game, where players collaborate to design and interact with a social robot in VR.
https://twitter.com/ProjectEMAR

🚀 “MarsVR Phase 1” – A Virtual Reality version of the Mars Desert Research Station facilities to help train the crew members that go out there, as well as tell the story of what we’re doing to the general public. MarsVR is the Mars Society’s long-term program to support the exploration of Mars using VR technologies.
https://www.facebook.com/TheMarsSociety/

🌌 “You Are Here” – Find your place in the cosmos as you scale the universe to see the planets, stars, and galaxies in all their cosmic glory!
http://www.tesseractsoftware.net/projects/you-are-here

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Seattle VR’s is committed to providing a welcoming and safe environment regardless of gender, gender identity/expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices; especially technology choices.

Find our full code of conduct here:
https://www.bit.ly/SeattleVRCodeofConduct

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Questions, suggestions, funny pictures of your cat?

Email us: general@seattle-vr.com

Stay up to date:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/seattlevr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/seattlevrar/
Slack: http://bit.ly/SeattleVRSlackSubscribe

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Getting There:

Attendees need to enter through the gates on the Seattle Center (north) side and look for the Seattle VR signage. A various combination of signs and people will guide you to the space from there.

Transit Options:

Bus lines: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 13, 24 and D Line.
Monorail from Westlake Center
Bike Racks on site.

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Parking:

Parking guide: https://www.pacificsciencecenter.org/plan-your-visit/parking-transportation/

There is street parking available. As a tip, the closer you park to Queen Anne hill the freer the parking gets. Though you will have to walk a bit.

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Where does the $5 go?

Your $5 admission fee goes towards snacks, water, and future events.

November 29, 2018

Pacific Science Center

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

December XR Design Salon – UX for XR Group Activity & Discussion

UX for XR Group Activity & Discussion

The goal is to have an activity to stimulate and brainstorm then break up into groups and develop ideas for XR projects. Please comment below or contact us at xrdesignsalon@gmail.com if you have a particular XR idea or app you’d like us to focus on.

Agenda
7:00-7:15 pm Hangout and chat
7:15-7:30pm Salon announcements and activity
7:30-7:45pm Group forming (3-4 people max per group)
7:45-8:30pm Group discussions on XR ideas
8:30-9:00pm Share your ideas with salon

As usual, we’ll have plenty of time for questions, discussion, and connections.

Join us on the Seattle VR Slack #designsalon channel to discuss the format for the meetup and how you see design in VR/AR/MR/XR. If you’re new to Seattle VR Slack go to https://seattle-vr-slack.herokuapp.com/ to join. Or comment at the blog. Please email us if you want to post a blog about your experiences at the salon or about design in XR.

DESIGN SALON DESCRIPTION
Seattle VR and PlutoVR are hosting the Design Salon monthly meeting to provide a forum for UX professionals, designers, researchers, students and VR/AR/XR/MR enthusiasts to deeply discuss current literature, practices, research and tech from a design perspective.

We’ll focus on a number of design issues which are unique to immersive environments, but look at each one in depth and leave time for discussion. Concepts central to UX design, user research, storytelling, collaboration, cognition and related disciplines will be applied to both the hottest and the most overlooked areas vital to designing usable immersive realities. Bring your curiosity!

Salon Goal: To examine how design choices affect the user experience in VR/AR/MR/XR.

“What are the boundaries of Design?”
“What are the boundaries of problems?” – Charles Eames

Light refreshments will be available.

TRANSPORTATION
Parking at Pluto VR is free. Be sure to park in a spot labeled “Pluto”!
Bus routes nearby include 40 and 44.

Our meetup is safe and welcoming. Anyone and everyone is invited! Are you interested in sponsoring, demoing, or volunteering for Seattle VR/AR? Then email general@seattle-vr.com to learn more about opportunities.