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Conference: Nov 5-7, 2018
Workshops: Nov 8–9, 2018

Speaker: Kieran Farr

Senior Director @Brightcove

Kieran Farr is a recovering technical co-founder of an online video startup that grew during the emerging standard of HTML5 video on the web. He now works in emerging technology at Brightcove, a market leader in online video, helping to advocate for web-based delivery of 360º video, VR and AR experiences. In his spare time he is a community advocate for Web-based VR and AR, the organizer of SF WebVR/AR meetup, teaches WebVR to middle and high school students, and mentors startup founders for 500 Startups and the European Innovation Academy.

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Talk: Go Beyond Native With Web-Based VR and AR

Track: Web as Platform
Location: Pacific LMNO
Day of week: Wednesday
Duration: 5:25pm - 6:15pm

The use of virtual and augmented reality hardware and software has exploded in the past few years thanks to products like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, and recent releases of Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore SDKs. But most of this growth is fueled by native applications in a highly fragmented ecosystem requiring developers to target specific hardware with proprietary SDKs.
Meanwhile delivering 3D experiences on the web has been improving at a rapid pace thanks to WebGL, libraries like Three.js, and the prevalence of high performance 3D hardware acceleration on mobile devices. The groundwork has now been placed to create compelling and performant VR and AR experiences delivered entirely through the browser.
But how does web-based VR and AR compare to native applications? Can they really exceed native experiences? How does a web developer without 3D experience get started on this seemingly complicated work? Is VR or AR even relevant for my application? Are there enough users out there to take advantage of this tech?
Join this session for answers to these questions and more!

Other talks from track Web as Platform

Gaining Control with the Web Animations API
Web Engineer @MutualMobile
Dan Wilson
Streamlining Online Checkout Using Web Standards
Software Engineer @Airbnb
Michel Weksler
Solving HTTP Problems With Code and Protocols
W3C Advisory Board, Stack Evolution Board IETA, & Engineering Director @GSMA
Natasha Rooney
The WebAssembly Revolution Has Begun
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Jay Phelps

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Tracks

  • Architectures You've Always Wondered About

    Architectural practices from the world's most well-known properties, featuring startups, massive scale, evolving architectures, and software tools used by nearly all of us.

  • Going Serverless

    Learn about the state of Serverless & how to successfully leverage it! Lessons learned in the track hit on security, scalability, IoT, and offer warnings to watch out for.

  • Microservices: Patterns and Practices

    Stories of success and failure building modern Microservices, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.

  • DevOps: You Build It, You Run It

    Pushing DevOps beyond adoption into cultural change. Hear about designing resilience, managing alerting, CI/CD lessons, & security. Features lessons from open source, Linkedin, Netflix, Financial Times, & more. 

  • The Art of Chaos Engineering

    Failure is going to happen - Are you ready? Chaos engineering is an emerging discipline - What is the state of the art?

  • The Whole Engineer

    Success as an engineer is more than writing code. Hear inward looking thoughts on inclusion, attitude, leadership, remote working, and not becoming the brilliant jerk.

  • Evolving Java

    Java continues to evolve & change. Track covers Spring 5, async, Kotlin, serverless, the 6-month cadence plans, & AI/ML use cases.

  • Security: Attacking and Defending

    Offense and defensive security evolution that application developers should know about including SGX Enclaves, effects of AI, software exploitation techniques, & crowd defense

  • The Practice & Frontiers of AI

    Learn about machine learning in practice and on the horizon. Learn about ML at Quora, Uber's Michelangelo, ML workflow with Netflix Meson and topics on Bots, Conversational interfaces, automation, and deployment practices in the space.

  • 21st Century Languages

    Compile to Native, Microservices, Machine learning... tailor-made languages solving modern challenges, featuring use cases around Go, Rust, C#, and Elm.

  • Modern CS in the Real World

    Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today. Topics include category theory, crypto, CRDT's, logic-based automated reasoning, and more.

  • Stream Processing In The Modern Age

    Compelling applications of stream processing using Flink, Beam, Spark, Strymon & recent advances in the field, including Custom Windowing, Stateful Streaming, SQL over Streams.  

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