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CeBIT
In the first week of March the VRBASE (Amsterdam/Berlin) sent out a collective call for VR companies that would like to exhibit their work at CeBIT. Even though it was very last minute it seemed like a great chance and DutchVR decided to attend the trade show.
We attended CeBIT all 5 days from the 20th till the 24th of March. The first thing that popped up in my head while walking around the fair grounds was: It’s huge. The Hannover Messe has an amazing amount of different exhibition halls and CeBIT used around 15 of them. CeBIT spanned such a huge area that we only saw a very small part of the event.
Of course what we did experience at the event was very significant since it was mostly the VR/AR area which is of course very relevant to us.
VR Days
The 4th and 5th of November I attended the VR Days as part of DutchVR which was held in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark. We decided to work on a new experience to showcase the importance of multiplayer in Virtual Reality. Prior to the event we dabbled in multiplayer code with UNet to create a small escape room, however we decided to switch to Photon to hopefully speed up the development. Time was limited therefore we decided to start with very simple elements like networked player characters where you could see each others head move and picking up boxes.
During the event we saw people enjoy the fruits of our effort! It was very easy for people to identify the other player inside the game because the head and body moved similarly to the way they moved in real life thanks to the rotation of the GearVR headset.
Graduation Day!
After 6 years and a little more I closed a chapter in my life. From today onwards I can call myself a Bachelor of Science!
Although I officially finished everything last year, there was no earlier date at which I could formally recieve my degree.
Last days at Axendo
After half a year of commuting to Amersfoort/Leusden, my internship at Axendo came to an end. This past year I worked on the Kinect game “Schatteneiland” for their platform Kinemoto. I had a lot of fun engaging with my colleagues at Axendo and I will definitely use the experience I gained there in the future!
Congrestival 2015
For my internship at Axendo I attended the event Congrestival . We demonstrated a new Kinemoto application where visitors could create a digital postcard. The postcard is created by cutting out the user like with a greenscreen and adding various visual elements to it.
Came back from Xiamen
An amazing half year passed by in the blink of an eye, but alas I am back in the Netherlands once again.
This past half year I spent my days doing a project for Check-IT together with Chinese students from Xiamen University. My group worked on a game called Garden Escape. Garden Escape is a game developed for the Kinect, where players have to use their body to match certain poses.
It was amazing to see Xiamen University her campus and to spend my days with Dutch and Chinese students.
My certificate:
Going to China
On the 21th of February I will throw myself in the deep, and take the plane to Xiamen! Xiamen is a small place near the sea in China’s Fujian province. From then on I will spend a whole semester doing a project with students from Xiamen University.
At the information days we got a few examples of projects that we could be working on. Currently I still have no idea what kind of project I will work on. As a Game Development student I would of course love to work on a game! However the most important thing is learning to work together with Chinese students, and of course experiencing life in China.