Virtual Reality Hackathon, Part 2

2016. január 15-16.Budapest, Magyarország

We're super excited to announce our upcoming virtual reality (VR) and drone related hackathon series and invite you to come join us! We'd like to collaborate on this hackathon with you. Starting the afternoon of Friday, December 4th at 4pm and continuing all day Saturday - we invite you to join in the spirit of hackathon, drones, and virtual reality with us. We want to do this because we feel that innovation is best demonstrated by bringing ideas to life, even if the first version may not be perfect.

At Pulilab we are looking to enter the Virtual Reality (VR) space and to create something that's never been done before with VR. Our mission with this project is to be able to be somewhere else -- virtually. This would be done by controlling a drone, hooked up to 2 cameras, through movements made on a virtual reality headset. Natural movements made by the user's head [wearing the VR headset] would control the drone movements and the cameras would mimic the user's vision, bringing live feed back to the virtual reality headset.

Due to the complexity of the project, we have divided the hackathon into a 3-part series, in order to focus on specific parts of this VR product as well as give you the opportunity to join a session that's right for you!

The 3-part VR hackathon series

• Part 1, December 4-5: Controlling motors using the input from a VR device
• Part 2, January 2016: Get moving camera feeds onto the VR device
• Part 3, February 2016: Optimize for high speed and high bandwidth video links

Agenda

• Friday
• 16:00-16:30 Arrive and form teams
• 16:30-21:00 Research into the night
• Saturday
• 09:00-10:00 Sprint and task planning
• 10:00-20:00 Hackathon
• 20:30-21:00 Team presentations

If this is something for you, we'd love for you to join! Participation is free of charge, we simply ask you to confirm your participation on the Eventbrite page. In the coming days we will hand select individuals who RSVP-ed and send you an email / ping you with instructions. If you do not get selected this time around, no worries, we will have Part 2 and Part 3 coming up soon!

If you have any questions about the hackathon, feel free to get in touch with us at: hello@pulilab.com