September 2016
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Over the last few days we've held Autodesk's first internal, global Hackathon. I started off by not wanting to join a team – I did sign up as an "evangelist", which it turns out means I'm also a judge – but in the end I decided to create a simple HoloLens application. And then Jeremy Tammik suggested we join forces, so we actually were a team, all of a sudden. From my side I focused on creating the HoloLens application – which receives path information from somewhere and displays that to the user – as well as the 2D AutoCAD…
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As mentioned yesterday, on Saturday my second son and I got up at the crack of dawn to drive across to the Alpine town of Grindelwald. It's the third time I've made this particular pilgrimage in the last four years (last year I had a conflicting event in the UK) and it's become something of a rite of passage for my kids: as they turn 10 they come with their Dad and his silly car to meet lots of other people with silly cars. The event is the M3W Jungfrau Treffen, organised by Laurens and Rineke, a Dutch couple based…
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I've been working with a number of local organisations to help prepare the 25th anniversary party we're holding for Autodesk Switzerland in October. One of them is Robosphère, an association in La Chaux de Fonds focused on increasing awareness of the field of robotics. When I was there chatting with Serge Bringolf – the chairman of Robosphère– a few weeks ago, I showed Serge the HoloLens demo I'd been working on. It included a robot, after all. This was Serge's first exposure to mixed reality and he thought it'd be a good topic for a presentation at one of the…