Fooh … Past few days I was in a big soup, beating deadlines. Finally everything is set n sent. After I finished those projects, as usual I was somehow pulled back to my long drawn interests in coding a game AI, programming a game engine. Jus a few days back while surfing I caught hold of a few engines which can be worked upon. Its always better to work n improve an existing piece of software than reinventing the wheel. Still, sometimes I do stick to the idea of coding one from scratch. Anyway I found Irrlicht, a 3D engine which is really good one to start with. It is opensource n comes with no cost, not even if u commericially use it. Best of all, it is cross platform the code doesn’t break when switch os. Impressive is all I can say to describe that.
It can come up miraculous if integrated with any available Physics engine like ODE , Physx, Tokamak or Newton. I plan to build on Newton’s Physics Engine.
Ogre, Object Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine is another 3D engine cruising n competing with Irrlicht. I tried both. Compared to Irrlicht, Ogre is a bit bulky but has lot other features which Irrlicht has still to build on.
A good match of any of these 3D engine and Physics Engine will work out as a good game engine for starters. I ll test in all of them before going any further, as of right now am not sure of what is going to be my pick, what am sure of is that, its gonna be fun whatever it is.
After the presentations were over an expert panel discussion took over which was a very good experience. The expert team(comprising mostly of VC’s) are veterans in their respective field.
Mr. Alok Mittal, Cannan Partners, Band of Angels
Mr. Vish Bajaj, CEO ValueFirst
Mr. Chirag Jain, Webaroo, VP India Operations, Delhi
Mr. Karanbir Nag, Silicon Valley Bank India Advisors Pvt Limited
Mr. Arvind Jha, VP Monsoon Multimedia
Mr. Manoj Dawane, COO, Airtel
Finally its time to wrap up but before we moved out we chatted for a while of how to take this platform further to a good focus oriented community building. We plan to meet once a month. This meet will be an informal one which will last for two hours (say). A lot more things still needs to be discussed before it really kicks off.
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Carpool using sms based services is first of its kind in the whole world. They call it KoolPool. Its a Cool revolutionary idea for sure but how cool can it really get ?
Is there a need for something like this !
Rapidly growing number of vehicles on road do add to roaring ask for the solution to traffic nuisance n accidents caused. It ll surely cut down the cost of consumption of fuel as well as the travelling time. Needless to say the size of roads still remain the same unlike the consumer in car industry which has risen significantly due to the economy rise.
Usually people dont opt for public transport bcoz with a wheel they are free n independent to reach anywhere n everywhere, anytime, but when it comes to fun and uncertainty, hooking yourself with a complete stranger can be fun but as of security n trust … mmm am not sure, how much that ll succeed but this is a practical solution to too-many-vehicles (10 lac cars in mumbai, according to their figures) on road. They are targeting just 6500 right now. Quiete achievable figure.
How does it work …
You ll have to register at their site and you ll be given a registered photo id card with full Ridetime (say for a period of 3 months). A ride giver gets points while a ride taker spends it. This concept is welcomed by corporates as they say. Airtel mobile phone users will be the quality testers kinda for them. Already 3000 users have registered. ICICI Bank, HPCL and Radio City have opted to join the revolution.
I must say its a great idea when it comes to Scial networking, reducing Traffic on road,cutting the cost of consumption of fuel, but the constraints n the uncertainty that comes along will be the deciding factor.
Mobile 2.0 being the centric topic discussed. Points put up to define it were user generated content, paradigm shift, major feature upgrades, demand supply curve, connectivity as commodity and mediated transactions.
Sunil Goyal pointed out correctly what we really need is a User 2.0 which really appeals to me. Ultimately the User Experience cashes it all.However very well pointed out by Vish Bajaj (CEO ValueFirst) that deployment of 2.0 is not uniform due to the economy constraints accross the globe.
MoMo Delhi’s structure is somewhat similar to the unconference funda of BarCamp. Infact the BarCamp in India kicked off at Adobe office at Noida/Delhi which again happens to be the meeting point of fellow techkrats, enterpreneurs, developers, and Venture Capitalists.
For a couple of weeks I was totally cut off from the internet in the sense to social networking due to shitload of work on my head.Anyways .. I was lucky enough since Prashant Singh (Founder of Mobile Monday) from Monsoon Multimedia invited me to drop in, n all I can say is “Thank you Prashant.”
Anyway I am not much into mobile techno shit, n i was afraid of being lost but the gathering was kind of enterpreneur bunch. Hopefully in our next meet we can get in, with a more technical bent on mind.
The event was sponsered by Adobe India and Value First. Adobe’s hospitality is commendable. Am really thankful to them for helping in organizing events like barcamp and mobile monday. The facility it provided with wifi, snacks, lunch. Everything was turning out to be great n the overwhelming response we got was applaudable. An audience which was there to interact, ponder, and propose solutions to question posed in almost all domains in concern with Mobile 2.0. Hats off Guys …
We better it call it MMS (Mobile Monday on Saturday) as suggested by one of the attendees.
