{"id":545,"date":"2009-05-25T19:34:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T03:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2013-06-09T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:37:37","slug":"i-got-punkd-at-360flex-in-my-own-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/25\/i-got-punkd-at-360flex-in-my-own-session\/","title":{"rendered":"I got punk’d at 360|Flex (in my own session!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So there I was at 360|Flex<\/a> giving my presentation. I guess when you call your session “Cool Shit” you’re just asking for people to fuck with you \ud83d\ude42 So I’m going through some example applications and I’m near the end of the session and I get to the grand finale. The demo I was about to show was an augmented reality demo, combined with some head tracking stuff too. And I figured since it’s called “augmented” reality I’d do a demo that really captures that word, so while standing there in front of a packed room of developers I take off my shirt to reveal an augmented reality marker on my chest. When I step in front of the webcam the video detects the marker and shows a big muscular chest instead of my wimpy geek body. As I was doing body builder poses and taking silly pictures, suddenly *whack*<\/strong> – I get hit in the face with a flying object. Not quite sure what the fuck just happened, so I keep going on with the presentation like normal (for some reason the fact that someone threw something that hit me in my face didn’t seem all that abnormal). Then suddenly there’s a massive barrage of projectiles raining down on me. It takes me a while to figure out what’s going on, and then finally I understand: the audience is pelting me with little bouncy balls. What the fuck?<\/p>\n

This video of part of my session has been floating around a bit, and if you don’t know this back story you probably have no idea what the hell is going on. But check out the video, and when you see me posing with my muscles and then suddenly recoiling in pain, and then you hear everyone laugh, that’s when I start getting hit with a shitload of bouncy balls.<\/p>\n

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So it turns out that some devious developers (I believe led by Nate Beck<\/a>) were out drinking at some place where you play games and get tickets that you can redeem for prizes (aren’t you boys a bit old to be at Chuck E Cheese?). So they get a bunch of tickets and what do they decide to cash in for? Bouncy balls. All bouncy balls. Then the next day they come in to my session, and I have no idea how they pulled this off without me noticing, but they hand out these little bouncy balls to everyone in the first few rows of the room. Apparently the instructions were: when Doug takes off his shirt, let the balls fly. Awesome. I guess word had gotten out enough that I was doing something that involved getting partially naked (either from my tweet<\/a> or just from me spilling some details when I was out drinking). And you gotta admire the guy who threw the first one (and hit me right in the face no less), that takes balls (pun obviously intended).<\/p>\n

So that’s the story behind that video for anyone who saw that and had no idea what the hell was going on. Nate, I admire your creativity, you got me good. But you better watch your back, I’m going to be sure to be in the front row of any presentation you might be doing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

P.S. I’m working on posting all my slides and code from my session, hopefully I’ll get all that up tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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