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Bazaar

  • Created by a team Led by Todd Semple, ceator of Plants vs. Zombies
  • VR Puzzle Game using GearVR
  • excellent blackless color pallette inspired by impressionist exhibit at the deYoung museum in SF
  • ride a magic carpet, collect items, avoid danger, get lost
  • looking up to the sky lets you access inventory / navigate / other tasks - pretty innovative!
  • created for Oculus VR Jam

@alt_text_bot

  • Created during AT&T NYU ConnectAbility Hackathon
  • uses Cloudsight API to return 'alt' text for any image you tweet at it
  • very accurate / precise
  • adds an accessibility layer to twitter
  • built in a day

Kickback

  • created at LA Hacks 2015
  • Checks your email to review Amazon receipts and gets you price-change refunds
  • works in the background
  • team is still developing it
  • zero consumer downside

Box of Dreams

  • Created at HackGT in 2014, has been refined / minituarized since.
  • uses Kinect cameras, projectors, and a 'voumetric fog column' to create holographic 3d images.
  • can render any video on fog column.

The Night Cafe

  • built during Oculus Mobile VR Jam
  • surreal, interactive Van Gough painting
  • walk around and see painting in 3D
  • uses stylized 3d rendering

TaxiLater

  • built during Uber Hackathon
  • let's you schedule an Uber for later (one of the most requested feature for end users)
  • immediately makes Uber more valuable to riders

Split Stick

  • a game concept where 2 players share 1 controller - or 1 player moves while the other controls the action.
  • players have to discover how game works, before the rules change and roles reverse.

sizeOf

  • built at BrickHack
  • uses metadata from DSLR/smart phone camera & basic trigonometry to measure size of objects within a photo. -accuracy in the .1m to .5m focal range, and +/- 10cm accuracy at medium to long ranges. On an SLR, +/- 1cm accuracy was possible on .5m to 3m range.
  • the epitome of a great hackathon project.
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