I was lucky enough to go to Unite Australia today. I would highly recommend going if you get the chance in a city near you. The Unity talks I saw were well constructed and interesting. There was a great sense of community and a lot of friendly people.
On a personal I was very happy a few of the Unity people who I respect a lot came to see my talk and I hope they will invite me to speak again next year (hear that unity I want another one!) and the timing is perfect with the other conferences running this week in Melbourne. I hope it can grow a little next year. Some of the Unites overseas are impressive but it was a great start.
I actually feel guilty my tomorrow job is make contact with the people from unreal with how much everyone at Unity impressed me.
It has also left me feeling very inspired and I happily coding a prototype in my hotel room now!
Part of my work in the museum is running digital workshops for young learners(like 8-14 although I would love to expand to adults soon). We have run both unity and unreal classes in the past. Tomorrow I going to try and talk to the people at unreal see what opportunities there might be to help or be involved in that.
I have no plans to change from Unity for my development at work. I have used both and I have a strong preference to Unity.
I hope Unity posts videos for the Australia sessions soon. I want to check out the Voxiebox presentation. By any chance, did either of you attend that session?
At Unite in Seattle, Magic Leap gave a presentation that was more of just a teaser to get game devs interested. They said that they would give a presentation on the actual hardware details at the next Unite but I don’t see them on the schedule for Brazil or Australia. A week ago they announced that Google invested $500 million but there’s still no real info on what it is.
BTW, on the topic of Australia, my favorite TV Show of all time is MasterChef Australia. The British, American and Canadian versions of that show all pale in comparison.
I saw cameras in the theatre but not in any of the conference rooms so I don’t think mine was recorded. (i wasn’t asked if it could be so I assume it wasn’t)
I checked out the Voxiebox was cool, unfortunantly they didn’t have one at the conference, I think it has potential but has a long way to go before it’s a viable platform.
Voxiebox is a really cool demo tech. It worth googling it if you are interested.
For now it generally too expensive and small to really blow me away. I find it hard to see too many applications that would be improved enough from it. I really excited by illumi room/live room from xBox in that space. It isn’t the same but it certainly has the wow factor and is much cheaper to setup.
For that price you can get enough projectors and depth motion readers to setup a completely immersive room. That is what I meant by cool technology but too expensive at the moment. For it to even have a chance of mainstreaming they need to be 5-10% of the price IMO and even then it would still be pretty expensive.
After going to GCAP for the last 2 days, Unite impressed me even more. It was far better organised and a better spread of spaces.
GCAP was cool too and awesome to hear from makers of the room and monument valley. The makers of the room basically said Unity was the reason that game was possible for them.
I’ve never heard of GCAP. I checked out the schedule on their website and there are definitely some talks I would have liked to sit in on. Any idea if they will be posting the videos?
I didn’t see any cameras recording. The things I went too at GCAP were generally good but it was a real mess in between talks cause the space wasn’t as appropriate as it could of been.
Monument valley guy showed off some unused levels!
Do you have any photos you can share?
