VR Hackathon Brisbane is a community driven event bringing together developers from the Brisbane area to develop innovative VR solutions, have fun, and help build out the future of immersive technologies. It provides an exploratory environment where disruption, innovation, and creative ideas are brought to life. It encourages crowd sourced knowledge for the advancement of VR technologies. Now a global community, VR hackathons are organized the Web3D Consortium. VR hackathon in Brisbane is co-organized by CSIRO Data61, and is co-located with the Web3D 2017 Conference.
We encourage entrants to bring their own hardware to work with.
To promote the use of VR in real world, we are encouraging industry specific challenges e.g. Future Factories, Smarter Mining, Disaster Resilience, Safe UAVs, Wearable Sensors, Talking Roads, Smart Farm and more.
Where and When? Brisbane Powerhouse 2-4 June 2017
Friday 2 June 2017
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Reception and Registration
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome - Networking (team formation)
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Team Introductions - Lightning Round
8:00 PM - 12:00 AM Hacking Begins
Saturday 3 June 2017
8:00 AM - 12:00 AM: Hackathon Continues
12:30 PM - Lunch
1:30 PM - 6:00 PM More Hackathon
7:00 PM - Dinner
10:30 PM - Close
Speaker schedule on Saturday 3 June 2017
10:30-11:00 Talks Peter Mills (Locomotion in VR), Steven Mohr (Virtual Production)
11:00-11:30 Workshop Richard Eastes (Unity in 30 mins)
11:30-12:00 Workshop Pablo Farias Navarro (360 Video workflow)
12:00-12:30 Workshop John Bailey (Design, Interface, Interaction using the VIVE)
12:30-01:30 Lunch
02:00-02:30 Workshop Jaymis Loveday (Mixed Reality)
02:30-03:30 Talks Ross Brown (VR Brain Hacks via Embodied Cognition: two case studies),
John McGhee (Design, Interface, Interaction using the VIVE),
03:30-04:30 Talks Michael McClenaghan (Building custom hardware with HTC trackers)
Kieran Lord, (TBA)
Kerrie Mengerson (TBA)
Sunday 4 June 2017
8:30 AM - Doors Open
10:00 AM - Judging Starts
11:00 AM - Team presentations
11:30 AM - Award presentations
12:15 PM - Closing remarks
12:30 PM - Close
Eligibility
Individuals, teams, and organizations.
Requirements
Hackathon Porjects will be judged by the above rules in each of the hack categories.
To be complete, a project submission(Devpost) must include:
1. Project title and hack Category
2. Full Names of each team members
3. Email address for each team member
4. Devices, Software, Content, and Harware used
5. A short 1 minute video explaining the experience, ideally a combination of screen captured footage and video footage of a person playing the event
Please submit the above before 1:00 PM (excepting video, can be added any time) on Saturday 3 June 2017
Prizes
FOVE
Web3D Consortium
Unity Licenses
Creative Enterprise Australia
Samsung Internet
Firehouse 101
CSIRO Data61
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Developers must officially register here: VR Hackathon Brisbane
Please ensure that all electrical cables as tested and tagged by our electrician before use onsite.
Judges

Names Not Listed
VRH
Judging Criteria
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Best VR Experience
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Best Use of X3D/X3DOM
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Best Artistic Experience
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Best Audio Experience
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Best Social Experience
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Gear VR Award
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Accessibility
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People's Choice
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Best Data Visualisation
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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