MIT Announces VR and AR Hackathon (uploadvr.com)

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MIT Announces VR and AR Hackathon (uploadvr.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday August 20, 2016 @05:30AM from the virtually-augmented dept.

Calling it "A weekend that transforms the future of immersive technologies," MIT's Media Lab is hosting a big Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality hackathon. An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes this report from UploadVR: Game jams, hackathons, and meetups are more popular than ever in the budding VR and AR communities...to focus on creativity and functionality, rather than getting bogged down by polishing and prepping something for launch.

The MIT Media Lab is officially announcing its backing of the appropriately titled Reality, Virtually Hackathon. The hackathon is organized by a multitude of VR/AR experts, developers, industry executives, and MIT students, alumni, and Ph.D. candidates and will take place at the MIT campus.
Sponsors include Microsoft and the AT&T Developer Program, and applications for the hackathon are due by Wednesday, September 7, 2016. I'm wondering if any Slashdot readers have tried writing (or using) VR apps.

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Lol by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-20 05:31 · Score: 0

Lost it at VR/AR experts. It's pretty sad how easily people are able to invent new titles for themselves.
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1. Re: Lol by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-20 05:41 · Score: 0
  
  Dont be cruel. I think the titles are perfectly legitimate.
  -LongDongMcStrokey
Hackathon = free labor by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-20 05:41 · Score: 1

Hey everyone, come out and create ideas for us so that we may steal them! Hackathon! It's fun! Create stuff for us!
1. Re: Hackathon = free labor by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-20 05:45 · Score: 0
  
  Exactly. If something is free, you are the product. It's an idea harvester.
2. Re: Hackathon = free labor by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2016-08-20 06:17 · Score: 1
  
  Luckily, the H1-Bs have apparently freed up plenty of people's time; so they'll probably come anyway if pizza is provided.
3. Re: Hackathon = free labor by spire3661 · 2016-08-20 06:23 · Score: 1
  
  Or, less cynically, a marketplace of ideas. You guys sound like Alchemists, hiding your secrets from prying eyes. Ideas are easy, its the working implementation that scales to billions of users that is the challenge. The only people who worry about having their ideas stolen are people that have only had one good idea.
  
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4. Re: Hackathon = free labor by zawarski · 2016-08-20 08:56 · Score: 1
  
  Not surprisingly, a "Millennial " idea.
Dear EditorDavid by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-20 05:50 · Score: 0

Most of these jokers can't write code of their own. They steal others' code in Open SORES and call it "theirs". There's only a couple guys here that actually produced code of their own that I know of at most.
1. Re: Dear EditorDavid by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-20 05:56 · Score: 0
  
  A typical tactic is to steal source code from a legitimate business like SCO and include it in open sores software. The code is then released under the GPL, in an attempt to force the business to release any code they link to the stolen code as open sores. It's one big heist that has unfortunately been successful in putting legitimate software companies like SCO out of business.
pointless by rogoshen1 · 2016-08-20 06:37 · Score: 1

Augmented reality is a known, solved problem since at least the 1960's with the invention of LSD.
(and that's excluding natural substances like psilocybin. Things like pokemon go aren't an improvement by any stretch of the imagination.
VR / AR Development by Dracolytch · 2016-08-21 05:41 · Score: 1

Yes, I do a lot of VR / AR development. Mostly in Unity, for the Microsoft HoloLens and the Oculus Rift, though I also have a Vive and have a lot of hands-on experience with it. If you have questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

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