TEDxManitoba 2012 Technical Report

I’ve been quite busy over the past few weeks wran­gling all the tech­ni­cal aspects of TEDx­Man­i­toba 2012, which took place this past Feb­ru­ary 9th. Being a part of the steer­ing com­mit­tee for the event was an incred­i­ble expe­ri­ence, as was work­ing with my crew in my posi­tion as tech­ni­cal lead. I was also for­tu­nate to make a num­ber of new con­nec­tions and friends through the expe­ri­ence — as well as, of course, hear­ing some fan­tas­tic ideas worth spread­ing. After the event went so well, I wanted to write up a quick overview of how we pulled off the day’s tech­ni­cal aspects so I could give credit where credit is due. (Lost? Read up on TEDx Events.)

Thinking Differently about the Virtual/Natural World Intersection (TED Talk by Pranav Mistry)

As good as most of them are it’s a rare TED video that makes you want to stand and applaud with the crowd even though you’re only stream­ing a record­ing of a past event. But this TED Talk by Pranav Mis­try has some truly jaw-dropping stuff, par­tic­u­larly for those who haven’t much con­sid­ered the extent to which we could be inter­fac­ing our dig­i­tal world our the nat­ural one. Some of this looks like gen­uine sci­ence fic­tion. Haven’t heard of him? I hadn’t either. “Pranav Mis­try is a PhD stu­dent in the Fluid Inter­faces Group at MIT’s Media Lab. Before his stud­ies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher; he’s a grad­u­ate of IIT. Mis­try is pas­sion­ate about inte­grat­ing the dig­i­tal infor­ma­tional expe­ri­ence with our real-world inter­ac­tions.” He is also the inven­tor of SixthSense.