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Copyright © 2016 Mirantis, Inc. All rights reserved www.mirantis.com OpenStack in 3D Nick Chase and John Jainschigg, Mirantis
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OpenStack in 3D
Nick Chase and John Jainschigg, Mirantis
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Who are Nick and John?
Nick Chase | Head of Technical and Marketing Content
Nick is the Editor-in-Chief of OpenStack:Unlocked and Head of Technical and Marketing Content
at Mirantis. With 20+ years' experience as a developer and author, Nick has written several books
and hundreds of articles as an IBM developerWorks Certified Master Author.
John Jainschigg | Technical Solutions Marketing, Partners
John Jainschigg is Technical Solutions Marketing Manager/Partners at Mirantis, where he works
with Mirantis broad partner ecosystem. Formerly a journalist, John was Online Editor in Chief of
Dr. Dobb's Journal.
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Virtual Reality - Where Social Engagement is Going
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Virtual Reality - Global Shared (Fictive) Experience
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Virtual Reality - Where DevOps is Going?
Lives in VR and augmented reality. Not allowed to telecommute.
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Virtual Reality as a Cloud Driver
● Yuge opportunities● Biggest-ever medium for engagement and interaction● Fuses cloud, social, NFV, IoT, Big Data● Relevant to most activities and metiers
● Insane challenges● Scale with headroom: scale out, scale up● Huge and dynamic consumer of compute, storage, network● Efficiency at war with QoE: no good architectures
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DevOps will help us reach the Matrix
Each server a special snowflake ...
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Immersive Virtual Reality as an Operations Tool
● Better use of human physiology in mindwork● Efficient presentation of data and interactivity● Easy to shift focus and viewpoint (camera view)● Provide differentiated views of data at zero overhead● Use topology to orient — way better than 2D● Natively social: Collaborate without the overheads
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Virtual Reality and OpenStack: The Challenge
● Can we use APIs to make OpenStack interoperate with immersive 3D platforms, toolchains and environments?
● Can we do this with:● Free and/or preferably FOSS components?● Using OpenStack's most-commonly used languages?
■ Python■ Web tools
● In an open way that prevents lock-in? (Of 3D envs or other bits)● In a way harmonious with community architecture standards?
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Virtual Reality and OpenStack: Hooah!
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Virtual Reality and OpenStack: Getting Real
● On the upside, we work for Mirantis!● On the downside … in Marketing● We've done virtual events!● (And yes, we can code a lick)● But Python, not so much● OpenStack SDK/internals, nope● We build clusters pretty good!● But of course, we do it with Fuel
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Virtual Reality is a Stack: The User's View
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Virtual Reality is a Stack - The Solution Stack(s)
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Unity 3D: F (not FOSS), but All Kinds of Awesome
● Free (for individual use)● Aggressively multi-platform● Write once, run anywhere● Standalone or Server● Code in C# or javascript● Beautiful, mature toolchain● Huge community● Oculus-, VIVE, etc., ready: Compile and Go
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OpenSim: FOSS - Simple and rich
● Free and Open Source● Distros and clients for Lin/Win/Mac● Code in LSL, Mono, VB and others● Good for (small) enterprise VR● Does not scale well● Non-coders can create● Global, diverse community
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OpenSim Shout Out: Dr. Crista Lopes
● Professor of CS at UC Irvine● Former Xerox PARC Researcher● "Elements of Programming Style"● 2016 Pizzigati Award Winner
(Tides Foundation - Software inthe Public Interest)
● Diva Distro PTL
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Crude Demos
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Onward to the Matrix
● We will put our code on GitHub if nobody snarks● John will be committing doc improvements to SDK● We keep refactoring and generalizing:
● 3D Abstraction Layer● Environment Driver
● And adding features to the API, e.g., VR Murano Catalog
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Questions?e.g., Where's my Oculus?
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Thank you
Nick Chase - [email protected] Jainschigg - [email protected]
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