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SUMMARY:Winnipeg Game Collective Meetup #147
DESCRIPTION:Meetup #147 Tix\n\n\n\nMore WGC Events\n\n\n\nWGC Discord\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for Winnipeg Game Collective’s monthly game dev meetup. Meet local developers\, hang out\, and play some games with the community. \n\n\n\nWhether you’re an artist\, programmer\, musician\, newcomer\, or indie dev\, you’re welcome at our monthly game development meetup. \n\n\n\nThese meetups are casual and inclusive spaces to connect with others in Winnipeg’s game development scene. Enjoy a drink and chat—no experience required. \n\n\n\nThis event is in-person. \n\n\n\n👀 What to Expect\n\n\n\n\n🕹️ Indie Arcade – Play local games on the Winnitron 1000\, Winnipeg’s homegrown arcade machine.\n\n\n\n🧊 Icebreakers Bingo – Low-pressure introductions to help you meet people.\n\n\n\n🗨️ Conversations – Share what you’re working on\, get feedback\, or just talk about games.\n\n\n\n👋 New Faces Welcome – First meetup or fiftieth\, you’ll find a friendly crowd.\n\n\n\n\nLocation: King’s Head PubTime: 6 pm to 10 pmTickets: Free\, but please register on zeffy: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/wpg-gamedev-meetup–147  \n\n\n\n=== \n\n\n\nThe Winnipeg Game Collective is a nonprofit community of game developers in Winnipeg\, Manitoba. Founded in 2014\, the collective promotes game development and fosters a supportive environment\, welcoming individuals from all backgrounds and skill levels. \n\n\n\n\nMeetup #147 Tix\n\n\n\nMore WGC Events\n\n\n\nWGC Discord\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetails
URL:https://newmediamanitoba.com/event/winnipeg-game-collective-meetup-147/
CATEGORIES:Game Jam,Meet Up,Promoted Event
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SUMMARY:New Media Manitoba's StudioLab xR: 3D Gaussian Splatting Acquisition
DESCRIPTION:Register Today\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUse Gaussian Splatting Acquisition to turn Real-World Locations into Photorealistic 3D Scenes\n\n\n\nNo advanced 3D or coding background needed. If you’re curious about scanning and reality capture and comfortable finding your way around a computer\, you’re ready for this. \n\n\n\nTerrestrial scanning has traditionally meant a choice: LiDAR and photogrammetry give you accurate measurements\, but the results often look flat\, gappy\, or artificial once you try to actually look around inside them. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) changes that equation. It’s a newer capture-and-rendering technique that turns real-world scans into scenes you can walk through in photorealistic detail\, reflections\, foliage\, glass\, fine texture and all \, and it does it in minutes\, not days. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is a hands-on introduction to that pipeline. In this three day workshop you will learn how to capture a location with modern scanning hardware\, how to clean up and process that data\, and how to bring the result into a real-time 3D environment where it can actually be used for visualization\, presentation\, or production. \n\n\n\nJoin the Virtual Production Academy and Epic Games Authorized Instructors who will walk you through the process end to end. You’ll capture and process a real scan yourself\, and see how it’s deployed in a real-time engine including a look at how the same pipeline extends all the way to a live LED wall\, one of several places this technology is landing right now. \n\n\n\nWho is this for:\n\n\n\nTerrestrial scanning and 3DGS are useful well beyond any one industry this workshop is built for anyone who wants that skill set\, including: \n\n\n\n\nFilm & advertising professionals curious about digital scouting and how scanned locationscan be used in preproduction.\n\n\n\nReality capture & survey professionals already working with LiDAR or photogrammetry who want to add high-fidelity 3DGS to their toolkit.\n\n\n\nArchitecture\, engineering & construction (AEC) professionals looking for faster\, more photorealistic ways to document and present sites and buildings.\n\n\n\nReal estate\, tourism & marketing professionals who want immersive\, walk-through-quality captures of properties or destinations.\n\n\n\nHeritage & cultural documentation specialists interested in creating lasting\, richly detailed digital records of historic sites.\n\n\n\nUrban planners & digital twin creators building accurate\, real-world-based 3D models for planning and public engagement.\n\n\n\nDigital artists & Unreal Engine technicians who want to build real-time environments from real-world scans instead of building everything from scratch.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll walk away knowing how to do:\n\n\n\n\nCapture a real location as a precise\, photorealistic 3D scan using professional-grade scanning hardware.\n\n\n\nClean up and refine that scan so it’s genuinely usable: sharp\, stable\, and free of visual noise.\n\n\n\nBring the scan into a real-time 3D engine (Unreal Engine) and get it running smoothly.\n\n\n\nUnderstand how a finished scan gets calibrated and deployed for real-world use\, using a live LED wall demonstration as a hands-on example of a real-time deployment pipeline.\n\n\n\nRecognize and troubleshoot the common visual issues that show up when a scan gets pushed into real-time playback.\n\n\n\n\nWhat to bring:\n\n\n\n\nCuriosity about 3D scanning\, no advanced 3D or coding background required.\n\n\n\nBasic comfort navigating a computer; some familiarity with Unreal Engine’s interface is helpful but not mandatory.\n\n\n\n\nYour instructors:\n\n\n\nThis workshop is led by Epic Games Authorized Instructors with real-world reality capture and virtual production experience: Gastón Alvarez and Carlos Vilchis\, brought in through a partnership with the Virtual Production Academy.  \n\n\n\nBetween them\, they bring hands-on expertise in real-time 3D pipelines\, 3D art\, capture and digitization of real-world locations\, and on-set deployment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://newmediamanitoba.com/event/new-media-manitobas-studiolab-xr-3d-gaussian-splatting-acquisition/
CATEGORIES:Promoted Event,Training
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SUMMARY:WGC: Game Board Knight
DESCRIPTION:Get Your Tickets\n\n\n\nMore WGC Events\n\n\n\nWGC Discord\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPull up a chair\, pick a game\, and meet some people. \n\n\n\nJoin the Winnipeg Game Collective for a board game night at GameKnight Games. Bring a friend or come solo. Grab something you already love from the store’s library\, or take a curated random pick and try something new. A facilitator will be on hand to teach rules and help tables get started. \n\n\n\nWe’re running it on Extra Life Game Day\, so 100% of ticket sales go to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba. WGC is covering all event costs. \n\n\n\nThis event is in-person. \n\n\n\n👀 What to Expect\n\n\n\n\n🎲 Pick Your Game – Choose from GameKnight’s library\, or let us hand you a curated random pick.\n\n\n\n🧩 Learn Something New – A facilitator will be on hand to teach rules\, so you can jump into games you’ve never played.\n\n\n\n🗨️ Meet the Community – Hang out with local developers\, artists\, and people who love games.\n\n\n\n💜 Play for a Cause – Every ticket goes to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba.\n\n\n\n\nTime: Saturday\, November 7\, 2026. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.Place: GameKnight Games519 Osborne StreetWinnipeg\, Manitoba\, R3L 2A9CanadaTickets: Pay what you can for charity: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/board-game-knight  \n\n\n\n=== \n\n\n\nThe Winnipeg Game Collective is a nonprofit community of game developers in Winnipeg\, Manitoba. Founded in 2014\, the collective promotes game development and fosters a supportive environment\, welcoming individuals from all backgrounds and skill levels. \n\n\n\n\nGet Your Tickets\n\n\n\nMore WGC Events\n\n\n\nWGC Discord\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetails
URL:https://newmediamanitoba.com/event/wgc-game-board-knight/
CATEGORIES:Game Jam,Meet Up
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SUMMARY:Hack Club - Haven Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:Learn More\n\n\n\nMentor Form\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDon’t Game Jams Sound Awesome? \n\n\n\nThis November\, YOU can join the world’s largest teen game jam. Yes\, you! It doesn’t matter if you have years of experience\, or just learned what they are today. \n\n\n\nYou’ll join thousands of teens ages 13 to 18 making games from all around the world.  \n\n\n\nDon’t consider yourself a game dev? No problem – we have tons of workshops for you to make your game; NMM’s IDM CreatorLab Lead\, Marc Cacho\, will be guiding the Intro to Godot workshop! \n\n\n\nWhen: Saturday Nov 14 & Sunday Nov 15\, 2026Time: Sat = 9 am to 9 pm\, Sunday = 8 am to 8 pmWhere: Rady Faculty Health Sciences Pathology Building\, Theatre E (771 McDermot Ave) \n\n\n\nThis is your chance to learn something new\, meet new friends\, and go on an incredible adventure together: \n\n\n\n\nLearn & Build: follow workshops or create at your own pace\n\n\n\nMake Friends: meet new people and form lifelong relationships\n\n\n\nFree Food & Prizes: can’t say no to free snacks 😉\n\n\n\n\nWe take safety seriously. You can see our parent guide reach out to the Hack Club for more info \n\n\n\n\nParent Guide\n\n\n\nEmail Hack Club\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to make a difference and be a mentor? \n\n\n\nHaven is run by high schoolers\, for high schoolers in over 200 cities worldwide. We need to collect the above information for safeguarding and so we can send you updates ahead of the event. \n\n\n\nHere are our promises: \n\n\n\n\nThis data will never be shared with third parties.\n\n\n\nWe will never sell your data.\n\n\n\nLocal event organizers will have limited access to your data and won’t be able to see your exact date of birth and home address.\n\n\n\n\n\nMentor Form\n\n\n\nPrivacy Policy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetails\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebsite: virtualhyper.net \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://newmediamanitoba.com/event/hack-club-haven-hackathon/
LOCATION: Rady Faculty Health Sciences Pathology Building\, Theatre E\, 771 McDermot Ave\, Winnipeg\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Industry Event,Promoted Event
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SUMMARY:HYPER Winnipeg 2026 - In the blink of AI
DESCRIPTION:Learn More\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrating 5 Years of Hyper in Canada!It has been 90 years since Alan Turing’s Universal Turing Machine sparked the computing revolution.  \n\n\n\nToday\, as we marvel at the rapid evolution of AI\, we must also balance this momentum with a deep commitment to ethical responsibility and environmental sustainability.New Media Manitoba is proud to partner with Hyper for these dynamic panels that explore the challenges and opportunities in Interactive Creative Tech as we look to the future of this innovative field. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2026 PROGRAM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n⭕ 12:15 Doors Open \n\n\n\n⭕ 1:00 – 5 Years of AI: From predictive to generativeFrom analyzing past data to creating new content.How moving from prediction to generation transforms how we workSpeakers: Cam Bergen\, Ali Esmaeili\, Alex Juma\, David Valentine \n\n\n\n⭕ 2:30 – The Ghost in the MachineDecoding AI consciousnessSpeakers: Tracy Gromniski\, Travis Herntier\, Yuri Galvao \n\n\n\n⭕ 4:00 – The Future of TechAn unbiased exploration of the possible scenarios for the next 10 and 50 yearsSpeakers: Zainab Mosunmola Hassan \n\n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetails\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebsite: virtualhyper.net \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer: Fabio Hofnik
URL:https://newmediamanitoba.com/event/hyper-winnipeg-2026-in-the-blink-of-ai/
LOCATION:New Media Manitoba StudioLab xR\, 100-201 Portage Ave\, Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, R3C 0B9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Industry Event,Promoted Event
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