Even Though I've lived in Portland area for 2.5 years, this is my first time attending an event at Nike, the 2nd largest private company in the area. Today's Tech Talk is held at Nike's Decathlon Club Cafe (15350 SW Koll Parkway, Beaverton, OR 97006). You register online, and receive a confirmation and later a reminder email with driving and Max/walking direction.
4:00pm Check-In. Drinks: beer (IPA and Pilsner), cider, diet coke, water with lemon. Appetizer includes arugula salad with cherry tomato and mushroom, bread and cheese with almond slices, raisin and salami, celery and bell pepper with hummus, yellow and blue corn chips, potato chips.
4:40-5:30pm Tech Talk #1. How Augmented Reality Will Change Your Life, Relationships, and the Planet - Todd Revolt (Director of Strategic Alliances, Meta)
A promotional talk about Meta1 development kit and the apps people have developed. It's a tethered bulky gear worn as glasses, with projections on current background and stereo speaker, understand a few hand gestures. All computing is done on the tethered CPU and PGU.
5:40pm Tech Talk #2. The Virtual Reality Revolution: The Future of Immersive Technology - Kent Bye (Host, Voices of VR Podcast)
The leading players are Oculus Rift, Mobile VR is Samsung (tracks head movement), hTc's Vive with laser controller, Google's Cardboard. Potential danger of VR was raised during Q&A.
Cafe remains open till 7:30pm.
