Avra Hackathon was held in Moscow to develop virtual reality projects

On June 12-13, 2016, an Avra ​​Hackathon , a 24-hour marathon to create virtual and augmented reality projects, was held in Moscow in the DI telegraph.

The competition was attended by more than a hundred programmers, designers, engineers, marketers and enthusiasts who want to implement their project using promising AR/VR technologies with the support of mentors, as well as find funding for the project.

Professionals from Samsung , Unity , Fibrum , Chingis , Lenvr , Roman Volotsky (curator of the Games Production Schream School) were present as mentors who help participants in the development of AR & VR solutions.

At the final presentation, 19 projects were presented.

The winner of the Khakaton in the “Best Game” nomination was the Quest 42 team with a project to develop a multiplayer VR quest, where each player has his own reality and for victory the participants need to learn to agree. The team united during the Hakaton of the participants: Sergey Lavrov, Alexander Sharov, Mikhail Farlenkov, Sergey Kudryavtsev, Alexander Timofeev, Alan Alikov, Yuri Chernyshov. For development, a prize from Samsung was awarded.

The best non-game solution was the project of the PLINTUS team that created the auto-configurator, using which you can find yourself in the car’s cabin, see various configurations and get information about the characteristics. This solution is interesting when using for a test drive, selecting a car and salon model. Project participants: Boris Romantikov, David Minin, Konstantin Pupin-already a formed team that showed his first VR group “Shoot the Cans” on the Avra ​​Days forum on June 11. The guys received prizes from Homido .

The IZI-IZI project (“play for Igor”) for developing a simulator for a football goalkeeper-a game dedicated to the European Championship-2016 in football, received a special prize from Fibrum . The team participants - Sergey Paskalov, Mikhail Levchenko, Dmitry Karachinats, Kirill Samokhodkin, Gennady Verkin - approached creatively not only to the game itself, but also to the presentation of the project (see photo).

A special prize from Interactive Lab was received by the JumpVR team, which developed the game to "fit on" work in various professions. For example, the difficult work of a fireman is presented. The game was made during Khakaton Stas Belyakov, Timur Yadgarov, Artem Semenov, Khasan Yadgarov, Zhamshid Yugliev.

The Old Roof Games team won the joint nomination of Samsung and Unity's game-labyrinth for two players with beautiful views and interesting adventures for the participant. Participants Daniil Savelyev, A. Konovalov, R. Smirnov plan to develop the game further and, perhaps, at the next Avra ​​Days will present its full version.

One of the main intrigues of Avra ​​Hackathon was the nomination from the educational partner of AVRA DAYS - School of Computer Graphics Scream School . Grants stood at the stake, completely covering the cost of the training course.

After the mentors selection, participants who received grant became known by mentors for training: Alexey Tsokolov-“Games Programming”, David Mini-“Production of the online game”, Ivan Anisimov-training in the direction of “multimedia communications”.

The rest of the Khakaton projects were highly appreciated by the jury, representatives from Interactive Lab, Nival, Samsung, Unity, Fibrum, Homido, Scream School, Business Angels from Switzerland and the United States. Part of the projects are already considering investments and have received proposals for the development of projects for large international companies.

Participants received commemorative prizes, literary subscription from OJSC RVK, certificates in Virtuality Club.

“I am glad that Hakatons according to VR began to be held in Moscow. This is not the first hacaton that I visited. It is very interesting to observe new teams how they try to apply virtual reality in real projects. As a result, interesting developments are obtained into which you can already invest money and turn into really unique projects. Thanks to the associations for organizing such events, with their help we can form a virtual reality market and train potential customers of this new technology. ” Max Kozlov, Head of Interactive Lab

Based on the results of Hakaton Avra ​​Days, the Association of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVRA) decided to make this event regular.

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The organizer of Khakaton was the Association of Augmented and Virtual Reality, DI Telegraph . Partners- RVC , Scream School , Networking-partner Meyou .