A Virtual Reality Hackathon event is looking for remote participants from across NI to take part in an online event to offer 'touch free solutions' at this time of a global pandemic.
The Hackathon is the result of an exciting collaboration between Northern Ireland Screen and Future Screens NI, in partnership with Belfast-based SideQuestVR and Digital Catapult’s Immersive Labs.
While all level of participants are welcome, the Hackathon is encouraging students from Universities with immersive courses and research activities, practitioners in screen-based creative industries who are interested in getting a taste of what it takes to make immersive things, Immersive companies’ teams, VR enthusiasts who aspire to jump from consuming into making VR to take part in this Hackathon.
The main theme of the hackathon will be around touch-free solutions for a post-pandemic world, leveraging the hand tracking feature of the Oculus Quest that enables interacting in VR without physical controllers.
These sessions will be hosted in a mix of Zoom, Discord and social VR to take advantage of the most widely used technologies for delivery of content.
The Hackathon will be free to enter and run over 7 days, from Thursday September 10th to Wednesday September 16th.
There will be live tweeting from the event so you can follow it on Twitter @futurescreensni and @sidequestvr with hashtags #oculusquest #virtualreality.
VR Hackathon Mentors include:
Luca Mefisto: Luca Mefistófeles (@lucamefisto) is a seasoned Software Engineer but ultimately, he is just a hacker who enjoys math-rock music, making modular origami pieces and creative thinking.
Orla Harris: Orla is the COO and Co-Founder at SideQuestVR. She will guide attendees through the best practices on submitting projects to SideQuest.
For Tickets and more info visit the website.
