Name: NY VR Hackathon
Start: 2017-02-17T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-02-19T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 30 W 26th St

NY VR Hackathon

HACK REALITY

Winners Posted Below!

About

Collaborative competition for up to 15 student teams to explore and create VR applications using the Samsung Creator's Kit, which includes a Samsung smartphone, VR Headset and 360 Camera.

DatE

Friday Feb 17 from 5pm- Midnight
Saturday Feb 18 from 9am- Midnight

Sunday Feb 19 from 9am-6pm

LOCATION

30 W 26th St New York NY

WINNing teams

One winning team per vertical.

Maximum Team Size: 5

Each member of each team wins:

Samsung Phone
Samsung Gear VR

Samsung Gear 360 Camera

vertical 1: EDUCATION

Virtual reality (VR) is the new frontier of innovation in the classroom. VR can serve as an exciting tool to create immersive experiences that enhance learning and introduce students with new digital experiences. Although, still in the early stages of development, the possibilities of VR in education are endless. This hackathon will explore ideas and concepts for using VR to create first-hand learning experiences that improve learning outcomes.

Vertical 2: TRAVEL

One of the emerging sectors of virtual reality are 360-degree immersive experiences through video that transport users anywhere in the world. Many companies are working with travel destinations to create content while also working with travel brands to provide virtual tours. This technology enables a user to virtually walk around any location or destination before making a purchase. During the Hackathon students will be able to utilize and create various travel experiences by designing, prototyping, testing, and implementing through VR.

Judges

Ben Doyle, Director of Marketing, Entry Point VR

Dessy Levinson, VP & Head of Story, 645 Ventures
Niranjan Nagar, Director of Prod Mgmt, Samsung NEXT
Ben Peirce, Co-Founder/CEO, Vrtigo

Sophia Dominguez, CEO & Co-Founder of SVRF

Ajay Singh, Director, Samsung NEXT Ventures

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY

5-6PM: Arrive + Network Dinner

6-7PM: Panel + Q&A

7-8PM: Students Pitch and form teams

8PM-Midnight: Hacking begins

saturday

9AM-Midnight: Hacking continues

SUNDAY

9AM-3PM Hacking continues

3-4PM All teams present demos, and judges will select top 2 teams in each vertical.

4:30-6PM After top two teams in each vertical present, three winners will be announced.

Judging criteria

PLATFORM SPECIFICITY

Does this VR application demonstrate significant advantages over a similar service delivered via desktop, smartphone etc?

novel/UI

Does this application’s interaction design meet and/or exceed the core principles of usability and accessibility?

Re-Usable/Utility

Does this VR experience offer genuine utility?

judging continued

immersive

Does this application transport the user to another time or place?

bonus

Does this application provide an experience that is genuinely innovative and exciting? Does it increase desire for the future of VR in everyday life?

RULES/guidelines

Maximum team size is 5.

Demo is 4minutes in total.

Q&A from judges only.

Present on your own laptop.

resources

Gear VR Experience Design Handbook

Tech Tips for Gear VR Development

Get your machine set up for Oculus Development with Unity

To do this, Android SDK should be installed

Windows users- take note that addtnl drivers may be needed to make this work.

Sign up for an Oculus Acct & read here

Learn about the GearVR Framework Project
Read about AFrame for WebVR Development

Sign up for ConstructVR account (so you can deploy your VR app)

PANELISTS

George Valdes, VP of Product-IrisVR

Niranjan Nagar, Director of PM-Samsung NEXT

Dessy Levinson, VP & Head of Story-645 Ventures

Christoper Paretti, Co-Founder-VRB

MENTORS

Nick Nigam - Ventures at Samsung NEXT

Tyler Hopf - Creative Director, IrisVR Adjunct Faculty, School of Visual Art

Sarah Rothberg - Adjunct Faculty at NYU Tish and Virtual Reality Producer

Dan Butchko - CEO and Founder at Playcrafting

Faculty, School of Visual Art

Christopher Paretti - Co-founder of VRB

Skye Book - iOS & Graphic Engineer at Unclip

Brunno Attorre - CTO and Co-founder of Uru

Bill Marino-Co-Founder, Uru

Brent Chow - Co-Founder at SVRF

Sophie Dominguez - CEO and Co-Founder of SVRF

MENTORS

Edwin Rogers-360VR Specialist, NBCUniversal

McCall McIntyre-Investor, Samsung NEXT Ventures

Tim Casio, Director M&A, Samsung NEXT Ventures

Jason Kende, Founder-Asterisk VR

Ben Pierce - CEO of Vrtigo

George Valdes - VP of Product at Iris VR

Callie Leone - Membership Manager at Galvanize and speaker at InsideVR

George Pabst - Senior Engineer, Samsung Electronics

Steven Kuyan - Managing Director, Future Labs - Data | Digital, AI NexusLab

TEAMS

1st PLACE TEAM: Wanderlust [Travel]

We create personalized travel experiences through time and space. Visit the same city during different eras, seasons, or decades!

Annie Cheng, Cornell University- BS CS '18
Kevin Guo, Cornell University- BS Info Sci, Systms & Tech '19
Yiming Li, Cornell University- BA CS '18
Changxu Lu, Cornell University- BS CS '18
Jason Wu, Cornell University- BS IS '18

1st PLACE TEAM: Prophets [Education]

UTeach is a program using VR and speech recognition to build a review system that has students teach, thereby reinforing their understanding.

Wilson Chen, Cornell University- BA CS & Math '20
Yiteng Guo, Cornell University- BS CS '20
Shuhao Qing, Cornell University- BA CS + Math '20
Fangchen Sun, Cornell University- BA CS '20
Tianyi Zhang, Cornell University- BA Philosophy + CS '20

2nd PLACE TEAM: Vizarro [Travel]

New perspective of your favorite sport

Deanna Deyhim, Cornell University- BS BioEngr '18
Quanxing Lu, Cornell University- MS MechE '18
Juhwan Park, Cornell University- BA Physics + Music '18

Elise Kim, Cornell University- BS AEM '19

2nd PLACE TEAM: In My Shoes [Education]

Creating empathy through different perspectives; the bullied, the bullies, the bystander.

Johanan Ottensooser, Cornell Tech- LLM Law, Entrep. & Tech '17
SeoHyun (Clara) Shim, Cornell Tech- MS IS: Connective Media ''18
Isha Toor, Cornell Tech- MBA '17

Lindsay Fei, Cornell University- BS CS '20

Scale Ex

An educational application designed to teach physical science by allowing the user to orbit w/planets, then "shrink" to the size of atoms in order to experience the vast differences in scale and physics in these environments. Videos and pictures fail to convey the spacial relationship between large and microscopic astronomical bodies.

Cong Ding, Cornell University- PhD CS '18
Samuel Drucker, Cornell University- BS CS '18
SM Mashuque, Cornell University- BS IS '20
Brianna Singer, Cornell University- BS Industrial & Labor Relations '18
Jose Villegas, Cornell University- BS ECE '16

With You

Memory Sharing/Alzheimers

Jaldeep Acharya, Cornell University- MEng CS 17
Tosin Adeniji, Cornell Tech- MBA 17
Gautam Chheda, Cornell Tech-MS IS: Connective Media '18
Arpit Sabherwal, Cornell Tech-MS IS: Health Tech '18
Utsav Vakil, Cornell Tech-MS IS: Health Tech '18

Science Lab

Teaching chemistry

Anant Agarwal, Cornell University- MS CS '17
Barak Cohen, Cornell University- MBA '18
Ransen Niu, Cornell University- MS CS '18
Taru Saraswat, Cornell University- MEng CS '17
Gunjan Sood, Cornell University- MPS Applied Stats '17

Globe Trotters

Platform which enables travelers to experience activities they want to participate in ahead of time and build an itinerary for their trips.

Alexander Bramlet, Cornell University- MBA '18

William Knutson, Cornell University- BS ChemE '17
Siyi Chen, Cornell University- MS IS '17

Poster

Description

Jared Frank, Cornell University- BS CS '18
Alana Marzoev, Cornell University- BS CS '18
Pehuen Moure, Cornell University- BS CS '18
Alex Renda, Cornell University- BS CS '18
Pratham Sarin, Cornell Tech- MBA Product Management '17

Digestion

Healthy eating and an emersive journey through digestive track

Abhimanyu Gupta, Cornell University- BS CS '18
Uresh Gupta, Rutgers- PhD Pharmacy
Rebekah Hess, Cornell University- BS CS '18
Suparit Sunpongsri, Drexel University- MS+BS Engineering '20
Kaiwen Zhong, Cornell University- MS IS '17

Made By

Following the fashion suppply chain from store to manufacture to cotton field.

Priscilla Cancar, Cornell University- BA IS '18
Miyeon Kim, Parsons- MFA Design & Tech '17
Jasmine Oh, Parsons- MFA Design & Tech '17
Andrew Park, Parsons - MFA Design & Tech '17
Rong Tan, Cornell University- BS CS '20

Localest

Description

Martin Chan, Cornell Tech- MBA '17
Zhen (Betsy) Fu, Cornell University- BS CS & ORIE '20
Matthew Jastremski, Cornell University- MBA Digital Tech '18
Melody Spencer, Cornell University- BS CS '18
Cindy Zhang, Cornell University- BS CS '19

Augmented Reading

description

Eric Chien, Cornell Tech- MS Connective Media '18
Roy Cohen, Cornell Tech- MS Interactive Media & CS '18
Adam Felix, Cornell Tech- LLM Law '17
Travis Holt, Cornell Tech- MEng CS '17
Zexi Liu, Cornell Tech- MS IS '18

Bon VR

description

Aidan Fitzgerald, Cornell University BS CS 20
Marcelo Goncalez, Cornell University- MBA '18
Mengjia Guo, Cornell University MPS IS 17
Ellie Lian,, Cornell University- MS IS '17
Jiyoung Oh, Cornell University BS Info Sci, Systms, Tech '18

A complete list of hackathons planned for this academic year: eship.cornell.edu/hackathons

Tech Events Manager-Ami Stuart-can be reached by clicking the 'contact organizer' link below on the right.