S14:E2 - How to get into spatial computing (April Speight)

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In this episode, we chat we talk about spatial computing with April Speight, cloud advocate for spatial computing at Microsoft. April talks about moving from fashion to development, what spatial computing is, and her personal curriculum to learn what she needed to in order to make the switch from project management to the world of extended reality.

Show Links

• TwilioQuest (sponsor)
• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• DevNews (sponsor)
• Linode (sponsor)
• DataStax (sponsor)
• Pluralsight (sponsor)
• Spatial computing
• Extended reality
• Project management
• Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
• Google Career Certificates
• Augmented reality (AR)
• Virtual reality (VR)
• Mixed Reality
• HoloLens
• Magic Leap
• Program Management
• Vive
• Oculus Go
• Oculus Quest
• Google Cardboard
• Udacity
• Unity
• Python
• C#
• Codecademy
• Channel 9
• Scott Hanselman: Announcing free C#, .NET, and ASP.NET for beginners video courses and tutorials
• Mixed Reality Toolkit
• Chatbots
• Artificial intelligence (AI)
• Data Science
• Microsoft Azure
• Facial Recognition
• MIT Reality Hack
• Mixed Reality Academy

April Speight

April Speight is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with the Spatial Computing technical team. Her interests include playing with holograms and creating new realities.