AT&T Reveals Winners of First Magic Leap Hackathon
Among the 31 submissions, judges selected three winners, with the grand prize winner taking home $5,000, the runner up pocketing $3,000, and third place securing $2,000.
The grand prize winner was Lifescope, makers of a platform that visualizes a users' online transactions and captured content. The company submitted XR Time Machine, an app that allows users to explore their digital timeline via WebXR.
"Lifescope is a tool for connecting your services into an API of you. Individuals can choose which aspects of their life to track and improve. From an individual data wallet, anyone can spin up their own 'gallery' a time machine portal to re-live their past and retell their story, or project the future and test-run their concepts," wrote developer William Collins-Broza in a Devpost describing the project.
Coming in second was Dr. Dodgy's Intergalactic Augmented Reality Circus. Developed by a former circus juggler, the experience presents users with a cosmic circus via interactive 3D content in the user's space.
"This project uses augmented reality to augment a real live story based circus performance. What is reality and what is augmented will blend together as you watch the circus show interact with spaceships, inter-dimensional portals, asteroids, robots, machines, lightning, and more," said creator Andrew Towl, who hand-modeled the 3D content and animations with Blender, with Unity and Vuforia used to create the AR experience.
The third place winner was Magic Ideation, an interactive spatial ideation tool that mixes the tactile canvas of a whiteboard with the multimedia capabilities of a desktop PC and a mobile device.
Since AT&T has committed to being the exclusive retailer of Magic Leap's first consumer-focused device (whenever it arrives), the company has a vested interest in helping grow Magic Leap's developer community. And, as an internet service provider, AT&T also stands to benefit from the consumption of future AR apps that will need 5G speeds to push high-quality 3D content at low latency.
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