Hackathon
New this year
Participants in previous years have asked for more time to build, so we’ve added a fifth day to the schedule to expand creative time to almost 60 hours. Another request by participants was the opportunity to see the submissions built by other teams. On the last day of the hackathon, beginning right after the awards ceremony, the Insider Expo will begin, where participants can visit other teams’ tables to see their creative and original work. The hackathon will close with a public expo for the Boston/Cambridge AR/VR technology community at large.
Workshops
The hackathon will kick off on January 17, 2019, with a full day of skill-building workshops on XR design, development, and XR platforms like the Vive, Hololens, and MagicLeap. Workshops will feature speakers covering hardware, development methodologies, and immersive design concepts.
Mentors
Skilled in XR design, development, and with domain expertise in verticals such as healthcare and medicine, 40 mentors will help teams throughout the hackathon, coalescing individuals into teams, ideating, creating, troubleshooting, debugging, and refining for submission to the judges.
Our Mission and Commitment to Diversity
The Reality, Virtually Hackathon is a platform that cultivates unique innovations in the field of immersive technology. Our mission is the creation of a community of inclusion, where imaginative minds across all dimensions of diversity can collaborate to inspire innovation and build better together.
Judges
Dmytro Danylyk
Lemberg Solutions Limited Android DeveloperVitaliy Zasadnyy
Nravo, GDG Lviv Team Lead, Unity 3D DeveloperOstap Andrusiv
ELEKS, GDG Lviv R&D EngineerOleh Zasadnyy
EPAM Systems, GDG Lviv Junior Software EngineerOverall Preliminary Winners
Best use of AR and IOT in industrial, Manufacturing and Field Service
$2,500 Cash Prize
Winner: Acessibild
Way-more
For the Way-more valuable hack prize, we're looking for a thoughtful & practical application of immersive technology that adds value to the world - so potential to solve a real world problem. It should be obvious that your hack can make an impact if you continued working on it post the hackathon as a viable business / group. So think outside the box, and come up with something innovative, but be grounded to reality!!
$2,500 Cash Prize
Winner: CleARsight
Winner: AccessibleLocomotionWebXR
Data Visualization Challenge
Fidelity Investments is best known as a financial services company dedicated to enabling our clients to achieve lifelong financial independence and peace of mind. Fidelity Investments is also a technology company. We’re exploring new technologies like Virtual and Augmented Reality, Blockchain, and AI, as well as unexpected applications of new hardware/software including (but certainly not limited to) immersive user interfaces, interactions with digital agents, and zero UI. The Fidelity Data Visualization prize will be awarded to the project that evolves two-dimensional (2D) renderings of data into three dimensions (3D) and most effectively combines the following criteria within an innovative, technological solution to the challenge of articulating the value of data in a visually compelling format.
$2,500 Cash Prize
Winner: Cosmos VR
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