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Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/turn-your-living-room-into-a-mixed-reality-experience-with-meta-tickets-780767666107?aff=meetup

Are you keen to expand your skillset to include Meta’s Presence Platform features so you can create engaging MR games and experiences? Want to make Mixed Reality games and apps in Unity? Then this open lecture is for you! ​

Lecture Overview & Takeaways

In this session, Meta Engineers will share their perspectives on the most successful MR Games and creator Stephen Rogers will explain how he built the game GorillaZilla (free on App Lab) with Meta’s Presence Platform using:

• Passthrough
• Scene Understanding
• Smart Object Positioning
• Hand Tracking
• Controller Support
• Interactions
• Movement
• Body Tracking
• Eye Tracking
• Face Tracking
• Voice and Audio Detection

to create successful, engaging, and immersive MR experiences.

Speakers

Winston Esposito Winston Esposito is a Product Manager at Meta Reality Labs, specializing in XR Tech and Presence Platform. His expertise extends to VR/AR platforms and Experiences. Winston also served as the Product Strategy Lead at Reality Labs (AR/VR). Before this, Winston worked in Strategy & Business Development for Health, focusing on AppleWatch. Additionally, he played a key role in Business Planning and operations for EDU and Carrier at Apple. Winson spent his career in product, strategy and op roles for leading consumer technology companies, mainly focusing on new/emerging products.

Steve Rogers Stephen Rogers is a developer & innovator in the VR/AR space, with a passion for creating fun and exciting XR prototypes. Stephen stands out as a winner of the Meta Presence Platform Hackathon with his title “Submersed” and has earned recognition as one of the Top XR Enablers. As the founder of 4th Wall Breakers, his self-owned video game studio is dedicated to creating unique VR and AR titles that push the cutting edge. He has worked on titles such as Brushwork VR, with over 900k+ users, and Pillow, nominated as one of the Most Innovative Apps on the Meta Quest store. He is currently working on CoasterMania, a Mixed Reality game where you design roller coasters in your room, which has become a viral sensation all over social media. In his spare time, he is devoting himself to crazy MR experiments you may have already heard like "Shared-Wall", Goo in MR, and many more. He is part of the XR Pro Collective and the creator of GorillaZilla, a game for the udemy course by XR Bootcamp in collaboration with Meta engineers.

About XR Bootcamp:

XR Bootcamp is a global online academy, offering skill-to-job beginner and advanced XR development courses. Curricula are developed and taught by award-winning VR, AR, and MR professionals. XR Bootcamp's cutting-edge courses are for designers, game developers, managers, and coders who want to learn how to prototype XR Applications and learn AR, VR, and MR development. XR Bootcamp further supports the XR Creators community with free and open access to knowledge, peer-to-peer learning, and networking opportunities. XR Bootcamp is proud that alumni leave outstanding reviews and work at companies like HP, Autodesk, Accenture, Samsung, Snap, Lockheed Martin, Harvard, USC and Carnegie Mellon University. https://xrbootcamp.com/