@party

We are pleased to announce that James Susinno will be speaking at the party on behalf of the Khronos Group this coming Saturday.

The Khronos Group (www.khronos.org) is a not-for-profit industry consortium creating open standards for the authoring and acceleration of parallel computing, graphics, dynamic media, computer vision and sensor processing on a wide variety of platforms and devices.

Khronos APIs include Vulkan, StreamInput, SPIR, SPIR-V, SYCL, WebGL, WebCL, COLLADA, OpenKODE, OpenVG, OpenVX, EGL, glTF, OpenSL ES, OpenMAX, OpenCL, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenGL SC and so on.

Khronos Chapters are local groups of Khronos API users who get together on a regular basis (virtually and/or in person) to expand their understanding of Khronos APIs, share their technical achievements (and get help with challenges), and socialize with like-minded colleagues.

If you are from Boston, please stop by and say hi to the Boston Chapter leader Jim Susinno. If you are from outside of Boston and interested in setting up a local chapter, please visit http://chapters.khronos.org or stop by their chapter-leader party at SIGGRAPH 2015 in LA this August: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/create-and-lead-a-local-khronos-chapter-tickets-17309591454.

See the schedule page.

Here’s a list of the speakers for @party 2015. All presentations will take place on June 20th 2015, the party schedule will be posted shortly!

Brian Peiris
RiftSketch – An HTML5 live-coding environment for the Oculus Rift

Etienne Caron
A development framework for Google Cardboard
Etienne apologizes that due to work and family commitments he will most likely be unable to attend.

Amedeo Mapelli
Simmetri virtual playground and interactive art builder

Jeffrey Jacobson
Large scale immersive imagery

Registration is now live. $20 general admission ($10 for students & the MIT community) until June 1st, when admission goes up to $40.

We’ll be announcing more speakers soon.

The next @party will take place June 20-21 2015.

We will be bringing Brian Peiris, a developer from Toronto who has been working on a livecoding framework for the Oculus Rift called RiftSketch, to Boston, with support from Google.

More news, and more speakers, to come, as well as an update on our 2014 videos.

Hi folks. So @party 2015 will be at MIT again, in June. We’re still ironing out the dates, but we’ll likely keep our weekend.

We’re working on getting the videos of 2014 online, and looking forward to welcoming you all to Cambridge again with your prods.

I’m happy to have started a new chapter myself, as I am now a demomaker as well as a party organizer, having released my first demo, made with BoyC’s tool Apex, at Function 2014 in Hungary.

We still have all our venerable (oldschool) hardware, including Babe the Blue Ox (the oscilloscope being resuscitated in the photoset from 2014 with the aid of Micksam and his butane soldering iron), and hope that may help to inspire you . . .

We are pleased to be joined by a new North American party, the LayerOne demoparty, associated with the LayerOne security conference in California in May 2015.

Shoutouts to Demosplash, who had their fourth event, chock-a-block with delicious and lovingly maintained venerable hardware, this past weekend in Pittsburgh, and and NVScene, returning for the second year in a row (third year total) at NVidia’s Graphics Technology Conference next March in San Jose.

Here’s hoping our sister party Récursion (which I organized for the last time this past November) continues under new leadership this year in Montréal.

This is a good time to be in the demoscene.