VR Hackaton Utrecht 2016 {Events}

VRHackatonUtrecht2016 Thursday 26, Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of May 2016 in Utrecht

#VRHackathon on Twitter, identi.ca, Live Cast, TwitterStreamGraphs, Collecta, flickr

Attended activities

• VR Inception School
• Ideas dump
• Hacking

VR Inception School

Won in the Serious VR category

• Demo link https://output.jsbin.com/pisaje/
• learn VR concept in VR!
  • organize group of rooms, 1 concept per room
    • e.g. discover how to position an object in space
• implemented features
  • interact with code simply by looking
  • 0 installation required (assuming a modern browser on a modern phone)
  • collaborative room
  • template system to create new rooms easilly
  • saving code by email, not subscription required
  • multiple design for the entrance
    • e.g alternative http://output.jsbin.com/jacuveq/
  • mulitple design for each room, not only 360 photo based but full 3D also
    • e.g. minimalist environment https://output.jsbin.com/qebepuf
• tested support
  • Cardboard on multiple iPhones and Android devices
  • multiple desktops on Ubuntu and Windows
• theoretical but untested support
  • Vive, Oculus, etc (all supporting webVR)
• features still to implement
  • thought of during the Hackaton
    • better templating system, distinguish languages, visual theme specialisation, etc
  • thought of after the Hackaton
    • ...
• content still to add
  • thought of during the Hackaton
    • 3D modelling, following the discussion with judges
  • thought of after the Hackaton
    • AR HUD as linked to the camera (cf own threejs demo http://vatelier.net/Demos/Game )
      • to distinct from content on scanned surface
• based on own Principle of Sandboxed re-usable explorations

Ideas dump

Unranked

• virtual lab discovery e.g. virtual FabLab with instruction per machine
  • ideally with without project Tango and 360 camera
  • see also http://vrlab-brussels.info/wiki/DYIHeadsetFirstWorkshopQuest/DYIHeadsetFirstWorkshopQuest
  • could be adapted for live events e.g. Campus Party
• relaxation and meditation mobile booth, cf Qspace and VRHackatonBrussels2016#ReviewOptions
  • see also MyndGazer with neurofeedback or http://www.lionsroar.com/ready-for-a-virtual-reality/
• creative sandbox, cf SRE
• IoT dataviz manipulation using LeapMotion and VRHackatonBrussels2016#ReviewOptions
• live dataviz e.g. Twitter or BitTorrent swarms
  • e.g. visualization of tweets related to the event with possibility to bookmark/discard them
    • with possibility to automate the filtering through ML if done enough times
• phone, tablet and smartwatch(es) with accelerometters as controllers e.g. in 3D maze game
  • http://abe.ghost.io/firebase-pebble/ by @abeisgreat
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Detecting_device_orientation
  • https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/master/examples/js/controls/VRControls.js
  • see also http://navivr.net for an Android/iOS app equivalent
  • own Pebble version https://cloudpebble.net/ide/project/275677
  • potentially with more possibilities using Apple 3D Touch https://github.com/freinbichler/3d-touch
  • see also https://github.com/povdocs/webvr-remote
• art exploration cf VRHackatonBrussels2016#ReviewOptions
• worldview interaction visualization cf VRHackatonBrussels2016#ReviewOptions
• 3D visualization of WikiBrainMapping
• Wiki.3DVisualization
• in VR tutorial about... VR
  • going further than just pannel but having toggle switches for code blocks
  • useful for VRLab Brussels too
  • could also work well to integrate with the virtual lab discovery idea
  • re-usable for hackleague, competitions, etc
• immersion logs based decompression chamber
  • motivated by Mike Heim's concepts of Alternate World Syndrome (AWS)/Alternate World Disorder (AWD)
• climate change VR demo
  • making tangible "the scale and rate of change required is often unappreciated." What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view.
    • using metaphores e.g. "wall" of energy efficiency requires
  • could instead take the position of a political design maker voting on motions then trying the result ina simulation
  • related
    • http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2015/10/sierra-club-and-ryot-release-first-virtual-reality-climate-change-psa
    • http://vhil.stanford.edu/projects/2015/sustainable-behaviors/
• number theory with resistance cf also Bret Victor math viz
• bitcoin micropaymemts
• school of life inspired demo

See also more older ideas http://vatelier.net/Main/HackathonJanuary2016

Ranked (based on criteria of novelty, fun, VR added value)

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Hacking

Respecting cf GoogleIO2016

• remarks
• remarks

Keep in mind SRE and VirtualReality

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Overall remarks and conclusions

• see first hackathon VRHackatonBrussels2016 and recall lessons learned
• could be improved by doing that
• see also that other event

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Other reviews or coverage

• try HoloLens

Tools

VirtualReality

• previous work
  • http://vatelier.net for demos
  • http://vrlab-brussels.info workshop and presentations including demos
• hostless interaction https://firebase.google.com
• Asset uploading with CORS support https://uploadcare.com
  • does not supporting audio
  • see also http://www.gubatron.com/blog/2011/11/29/lighttpd-allow-access-control-allow-origin-headers-on-the-server-status-page/ and http://test-cors.org/

To do

1. improve Template
2. add map data (:ola-point lat= lon= text='':)

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