Kinect | Escape Theory

5Jun/110

Microsoft Premix/Remix 2011

This year, Felthy and I went to Microsoft Premix/Remix 2011 to check out some keynotes and announcements from the team who are bringing out Kinect SDK, Windows 7 Phones and Windows 8.

If you follow @garry_law, you can re-live the event tweet-by-tweet, but here's a chronologically-ordered summary of the tweets over the two days. Will post more in-depth articles on some highlights soon!

Premix 1/Jun

cannot wait to see web tech keynotes @REMIXAU (and #premixau drinks tonight of course ) #remixau #RIA
Mini hotdogs ftw @remixau #premixau
Awesome! Mr percival live jam @remixau
Michael (guitar) Cordahil takin the floor to introduce Dan Ilic, proves all cool people wear dark clothes @remixau
Dan ilic believes #tv is killed by #internet . Netflix takes 20% of usa bandwidth. Farmville 70%, planking 10%
@danilic great insight into building brands @remixau funny guy!
#ie9 speed test on windows phone 7 mango. Deeplinking into apps looks so useful
Music played by human body via #kinect sensor #remixau so much cooler than interpretive dance
Good to see oldmate #microsoft researcher give insight into the future of lifeblogging for pensioners #remixau
#kinect interface may be cool, but wont stop you from looking like a weirdo yet #remixau

Remix 2/Jun

Will continue tweeting the #remixau conference today... after i sleep off the #premixau drinks from last night
Just saw glasses-free 3D monitor in action. Effect works well in discreet viewing angles #remixau neet one for my portal 2 gaming
Cordahil discusses midern web devs with aaron powell. 'Supporting lowest denominator is actually targeting a minority' #remixau
Vaughan knight intro- wearing a portal 2 shirt, disappointed with lack of portal love in audience. Will talk about html5 gaming l8r #remixau
Intro of dan beaty (he built the mr percival music app from last nite.) Will talk about SVG tech l8r #remixau
Dan beaty wantd to build mrpercival app in html5, but it cannot support sounds. Needed sulverlight plugin #remixau . #flash also gets a nod
Aaron powell takes the stage #html5 #remixau . html5 Boilerplate demo. Conveniently sets up your html5 project via template
Aaron powell introduces modernizr and yepnope.js to simplify browser feature detection #remixau
Vaughan knight takes the stage on #html5 games #remixau . Why? Ubiquity, broad reach, instant on, distribution, amazing community
Impact JS demo- the html5 game framework looks like a great entry point for #flash devs to start building #html5 games #remixau
if(zombies) { run(); } #remixau great advice
Shane morris and nick randolph talking about 'inspirational' #windows 7 phone (mango). Qantas smart boarding pass app #remixau
Nick randolph vs shane morris typify conflict between dsignr and coder: one hates version control, other ends copy with semicolons @remixau
@soapcreative talkin abt worlds biggest pac man #html5 game, wont need worlds biggest monitor to play @remixau
EaselJS allowed similar coding style as #actionscript. Mootools n modernizr also helped @soapcreative build pacman #html5 #remixau
@jakkaj smashup presso, explains that consumer experience is of utmost importance, not bells n whistles @remixau
Final #remixau presso by dan beaty on canvas n html5- points out #silverlight is used to get around #html5 audio limitations.
Just saw #windows8 preview @remixau thx for following my live tweets on #remixau