Second Story Interactive Studios

Location as an invisible interface

Amber will be presenting an information-packed speech on her experiences with geolocation, GPS, location triggers, and non-visual augmented reality. Amber will cover the current players in the geolocation market, the location market itself, and why location is such a big deal. Topics such as real-time location sharing, geolocation triggers, geonotes, proximal notification and automatic checkins, and privacy and security will be discussed.

About the Speaker Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist and user experience designer who focuses on mobile software, augmented reality and data visualization, and reducing the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect. Amber has been featured in Forbes, WIRED, and Time, and also founded Geoloqi.com, a private location sharing application, out of a frustration with existing social protocols around text messaging and wayfinding. Amber has spoken at conferences all around the world, including TED, and was featured in Fast Company 2010 as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology.

Second Story is hosting the first Volumetric Society meetup in Portland.

Anybody interested or working Kinect based experience is invited to attend. The majority of the evening is open for attendees to share their experiences with Kinect

Second Story will share our approach to many of the Kinect and Xtion powered interactives at the World of Coca Cola (http://vimeo.com/34592058) including: multiple (depth camera) sensor fusion, camera calibration techniques, real time point cloud meshing etc...

This event is hosted in the Second Story medialab, during this event we will have multiple Kinect based experience running and will also be showing a 3D volumetric display courtesy of our friends at Juliet Zulu.

This session will take an in-depth look at hardware acceleration in Flash. We'll go over when and how to apply it to speed up your Flash Player 9 and 10 projects, and what you'll be able to do with it in Flash Player 11 with the "Molehill" SDK, Pixel Bender 3D, and Away3D 4.

Doors open at 6:30. Presentation will start at 7pm.

Stephen Schieberl is Senior Developer at Fashionbuddha. His web and exhibit work has been featured and recognized by Communication Arts, HOW Magazine, CreativeApplications.net, WebVisions, and more.

http://bandtherewind.com/ http://fashionbuddha.com/

Second Story is hosting the February meeting of the Flash Usergroup

Learning How to Use OSMF, Strobe Media Playback, and Flash Media Playback for Your Video Projects

http://groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=33923

Address: Second Story 714 N Fremont St # 200 Portland, OR 97227 http://secondstory.com

Second Story is hosting a program of short films made by designers, collaborative teams and design studios. Defined by non-commercial or self-initiated work, the collection features experimental films, music videos, interstitials, non-fiction pieces, autobiographies, trailers, PSAs, and motion-based infographics. This is a bright, kaleidoscopic, inspiring collection of short films and—while a myriad of techniques are employed—each and every selection exudes a love for creativity and design.

The program features work by: MK12, Jeff Scher, Tomorrow Partners, Mark Owens, Everynone, Secondary School, Jiaren Hui, Bran Dougherty-Johnson, PSST! Pass It On, Chris Lael Larson, goodfocus, Alex Cornell, 3 Legged Legs, Nadia Tzuo, Joe Hollier, Andrew Sloat, Rob Tyler, Feel Good Anyway…plus a few surprises!

Program curated by Second Story Interactive Studios in collaboration with AIGA.