AR/VR is a fascinating problem space in that it's probably one of the most divisive among emerging technologies. Believers say it has the capacity to revolutionize, while skeptics think that it's a fad that will pass over in no time. At TreeHacks, we want you to decide for yourself where you stand, and a great way to do that is by getting your hands wet in an AR/VR project at TreeHacks. We hope that you'll explore how AR/VR can be used to take users on a journey and create empathy and experience.
We're looking for creative, innovative ways to apply AR/VR technology to improve users better perceiving the environment around us, or a completely new environment altogether. Perhaps you'll explore built-in AR/VR mobile packages like ARKit by Apple or ARCore by Google. Alternatively, perhaps you'll take a deep dive into using Unity to build more immersive applications or Vuforia, a major AR development platform. AR/VR has unparalleled opportunities in understanding - check out how the Wall Street Journal created a VR guided tour experience of the Nasdaq called "Is the Nasdaq in Another Bubble?" In a similar vein, AR/VR applications for experience could be incredibly useful for efficiency, equitability, and improved performance - that's exactly the goal of STRIVR Labs, developing the next generation of immersive training. Lastly, the holy grail of AR is persistence, which is being able to place an object in the world for anyone else to see, creating a whole new universe right in front of our eyes. 6D AI is a company leading in the space with the vision to build an integratable 3d map of the world. VR enthusiasts envision a virtual world indistinguishable from our own, with haptic devices to take interaction to the next level and AR enthusiasts have their eyes set on the AR Cloud - a real-time 3D (or spatial) map of the world, overlayed onto the real world.
- Developing AR/VR Office Hours with developers from Magic Leap
- Friday 2/14, 10pm - 11pm, in AR/VR Lab by Huang 218/219
- Introducing StereoKit – Next-Gen MR Dev Tools with Microsoft
- Friday 2/14, 10:40pm - 11:20pm, in Huang 018
- StereoKit is an open source, cross-platform Mixed Reality library that makes MR development simple! Optimized for mobile MR hardware, and streamlined for non-game MR development, StereoKit provides important functionality that a game engine cannot.
- Creating Digital Holograms with Hedron Vision by Sam Redmond, Founder of Hedron Vision & founder of TreeHacks 🌴
- Saturday 2/15, 1:30am - 2am, Huang 305
- Hedron Vision helps you bring a 3D experience to 2D screens without extra hardware. With our technology, your phone screen transforms into a quasi-holographic display so that your 3D digital scenes appear to have perceptual depth. Our development tools integrate with Unity for mobile apps. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to integrate your TreeHacks 2020 project with Hedron’s technology to make your Unity applications appear holographic on phone displays, all with just a drag-and-drop plugin!
- Building Blocks of Unity: Learn Basics for Any AR/VR Project with Arjun and Joseph from Stanford XR Club
- Saturday 2/15, 11am - 11:30am, Huang 305.
- AR/VR Grand Prize
- Sponsor: TreeHacks
- Prize: Facebook Portal for each member
- Best AR/VR Hack
- Sponsor: Facebook
- Prize: 4 Oculus Go VR Headsets
- Best AR/VR Hack that Uses Teleportal Platform
- Sponsor: Teleportal
- Prize: Raspberry Pis 4th Gen + Access to Teleportal Platform
- Hedron Vision - A Unity package to convert phone screens into quasi-holographic displays
- To see Hedron Vision in action on a sample app, check out this gif
- Magic Leap has been generous enough to give us a few of their enterprise-grade devices, as well as a lot of mentors and technical support channels for building hacks on their devices throughout Friday night and Saturday. Would highly recommend, not an opportunity you see very often! Come to their Office Hours event in the AR/VR Lab (by Huang 218/219) from 10pm - 11pm on Friday night to get set up and chat with them. They're super excited to meet y'all.
- Magic Leap QuickStart Guide - EVERYTHING you need to get started developing on Unity or Unreal on Magic Leaps!
- iOS ARKit Hackpack
- Teleportal Dev: A suite of tools and services that makes it easier to create mixed reality software, developer discord available here
- Hedron Vision (technical + conceptual) – reachable through workshop (refer to Events section) + Slack + in person
- Magic Leap (technical) - reachable through their office hours (refer to Events section), via their development Discord + in-person at the AR/VR Lab
- Stanford XR (technical) - reachable through workshop (refer to Events section) + Slack
- Microsoft Hololens (technical) - reachable through talk (refer to Events section) + Slack + in person
- Gaming
- The obvious one!
- Retail
- Advertising
- Storytelling
- Media/Entertainment
- ie: recreating parts of the Louvre to exhibit in art schools where access isn't possible
- Training/Recruiting
- Healthcare + Medicine
- Engineering
- Education
- ie: ARnatomy (teaching medical students anatomical and surgical skills without cadavers)
- Persistence
- KidsEmote: An interactive mobile app that uses augmented reality to help autistic children understand emotions from facial expressions
- HealthHunt AR: An AR mobile game that uses gamification to improve the hospital experience for children
- PEAK: A virtual interview prep platform