BerlinVRBLN Focus: Hackathon#2

1. Theme:

“VR Social Collaboration”:

Creating content and experiences together in VR for industries, communities, entertainment and art.

Each participant will receive a free VR headset from Microsoft to take home 🙂

2. Program:

Friday 3rd of August 2018 – at MD.H (see address below)

19h00 – Doors open

19h30 – Opening ceremony (drinks and pretzels)

20h00 – Pitching ideas

21h30 – Teams get together

23h00 – End of the day

Saturday 4th of August 2018

9h30 – Doors open

10h00 – Start of the hackathon / open end

Sunday 5th of August 2018

12h00 – End of the hacking / enjoying demos

15h00 – Presentations

17h00 – Winner announcement / Party time!

18h00 – End of Hackathon

Gifts: Each participant will get a VR headset from Microsoft for free.
First Price: Trip to China (flight and hotel) to compete with the Global VR Hackathon finalists.
Talent encouragement price: 5 Nolo kits (6 DOF tracker) Nolo.com

3. Who should join:

Graphical artists, motion designers, gamers, 3d artists, animators, sound designers, storytellers, developers, performance artists, filmmakers, journalists, digital designers, musicians, … and enthusiasts!

We encourage the participating teams to explore and create new forms of interaction in this new social reality.

4. Why join:

– Meet like-minded people
– Make an awesome VR project which everyone will benefit from
– Have fun!
– Get visibility from the big VR brands

5. Post Hackathon:

– Optional space available on the following Saturdays for teams to polish their VR experience and put it on VR distribution platforms.

6. On site media coverage:

VR Business Club: live 360 video with interviews in Facebook Spaces (Developer’s talk with VRCORE, consumer’s talk with Facebook USA, investors talk with Switzerland)

7. Where:

MD.H – Opening day
Mediadesign Hochschule Berlin, Franklinstraße 28-29, 10587 Berlin.
(mediadesign.de)

Microsoft Atrium
Charlottenstraße 46, 10117 Berlin

8. Sponsors:

– Hardware: Microsoft Mixed Reality, HTC Vive, Caseking, XMG
– Location: MD.H, Microsoft Atrium
– Prizes: VRCORE, Nolo

9. Media partners:

– Microsoft, Mediennetzwerk Bayern, VR first und VR Meetup Leipzig

10. Organizers:

VRBLN, MD.H University, VR Business Club, VRCORE

11. Contacts:

– Organization: Carl White (carl.white@vrbln.de, +49 176 459 303 80)
– Media/Sponsors: Maren Courage (courage@vrbusinessclub.com, +49 171 701 780 1)

12. Price and registration:

35€ per person.