AR/VR Hackathon

VIRTUAL + AUGMENTED REALITY HACKATHON

The VR Hackathon is an annual event held in Lausanne. Coders, designers, artists and creative minds gather around new devices and new ideas to create innovative projects in Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality during the first week-end of december

Here is everything you need to know!

What
The VR/AR Hackathon is an annual event held in Lausanne. Coders, designers, artists and creative minds gather around new devices and new ideas to create innovative projects during the first week-end of december.
The VR/AR Hackathon will be held for the third year and a maximum of 40-50 participants is expected.

When
Friday nov 29-30 + dec 1 2019!

Where
EPFL – Lausanne- Switzerland
The EPFL ArtLab will host the welcome and award ceremony
The Romande Energie SmartLAb will be where we will be holding the hackathon.

Prizes
– Main Prize: Winners* will go to the MIT in January to participate at the MIT VR/AR hackathon (https://realityvirtuallyhack.com/)
– Tickets to get a chance to win a Space Travel (provided by Swiss Space Tourism)
– Boris Otter’s book
– Real Space food
– One year membership to SSVAR ( www.ssvar.ch)

Food, drinks, and sleeping
We provide food and non-alcoolic drinks, breakfast and snacks.
Sleeping is not provided (But can be arranged if needed)

Does it cost something?
We ask a participation of 10 CHF for the food catering

Equipement
Bring your own Laptops or Computers if possible, we have electricity and Wifi
Also bring your VR AR devices if you have.

We will have some of the following devices
HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, Oculus GO, Hololens, ARcore Android Smartphoones, Microsoft Hololens, YawVR prototype

Participants
We welcome every profile, coders, artists, designers, thinkerer, poets, etc.
Due to space limitations we limit the number of participants to 50 max.
You can come with your team or alone.
If you do not have a team and want to join one, fear not ! There will be a team-building session for people coming alone

Code-source + Licences + assets
Everything that you create belongs to you. You can create your own asssets, or use free + paid assets. You can start a commercial. Everything belong to you / your team.