London Unity3D user group 3

I feel bad, really bad. There’s two reasons for feeling like this. The first is that I haven’t had time to blog about anything (despite there actually be really cool things to talk about lately) and secondly for not posting about the previous London unity3d users group event. It was another great evening, with some interesting talks from the guest speakers, and some lively discussion over a few pints afterwards.

The success of the first two meetings has convinced us that there are many, many people based in and around London to jusify holding an event, and even at the early stages of these events we’re already queuing people up for future talks.

This month the London unity3d user group event takes place on the 23rd June at London south bank university.

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We’re back, and we’re in the same place as last time. As with previous meetups, LSBU will be hosting us.

We always aim to provide content for both the new and experienced Unity user, and this month we’ve managed to secure two great speakers. 

Sessions

Rapid AR development with String Augmented Reality for IOS.  

Mike Renwick will demonstrate how to use String’s Augmented Reality plugin to set up a simple scene in Unity3d, and show some of the ways that it could be used for interactive applications and games for iPhone and iPad2.  Augmented reality is essentially overlaying 3d objects on a real-world view, in this case, the device’s camera, making the object appear to be part of the scene. String is a lightning-fast, lean plugin that can be tightly integrated with Unity3d for quite spectacular results.

Mike worked with String to help produce an interactive AR toy for their initial application showcase, available free on iTunes  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/string-augmented-reality-showcase/id417606536?mt=8 ,

Follow Mike on twitter @runonthespot

Check out his blog here »  http://www.darkquadrant.co.uk/

Preloaded

Preloaded is an independent games studio that makes casual and social games on all platforms. They have worked with some of the brightest and best people in the industry, ranging from broadcasters and production companies, to galleries, museums, educators and enlightened brands.

Preloaded will talk about the challenges of getting paid to create Unity games and showing us ‘under the bonnet’ of their forthcoming Unity project, which is being developed for a major UK broadcaster.

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We’re super excited about each of these talks, as they represent two areas that we haven’t yet covered in our London Unity3D user groups.

Once sessions have finished we’ll head to The Ship on Borough Road, as usual.

Look forward to seeing you there.