2016 Winners

 

Presenter/Prize Category Team Name Prize Project Description
AT&T Presents: Best AR Hack Waypoint Rx $5000 An augmented reality system for guiding untrained pharmacy assistants in filling prescriptions, ensuring patients receive the correct medication and dosages.
Samsung Global Innovation Center Presents: Best VR Hack KidCity VR $5000 TreeHouse is an educational platform that allows parents and kids to play and explore together in virtual reality. Children start out in a magical tree house space; this is their homebase. From here the player has access all platform activities. Inside, the child meets Mr. Pouf, an adorable robot companion that acts as a guide throughout all of the experiences.
Best Audience Prize Vream Team $2500 Users can compose, listen to, and visualize their own music through a wholly new abstract vision. Users draw music with their hands and watch it play before their very eyes. The notes light up in the color of their pitch, where pitch varies on the vertical axis.
Best Up and Coming Hackers VR Storytellers $300 On entering your story on our website, the app generates the viewable VR content including real life characters (images), objects in proper locations – scenes (background), coupled with sounds based on the characters, actions, and mood on the story plot.
AT&T Presents: Best Non-Gaming App Waypoint RX $2500 An augmented reality system for guiding untrained pharmacy assistants in filling prescriptions, ensuring patients receive the correct medication and dosages.
Qualcomm Presents: Most Refined Mobile VR Experience VR Storytellers $1000 On entering your story on our website, the app generates the viewable VR content including real life characters (images), objects in proper locations – scenes (background), coupled with sounds based on the characters, actions, and mood on the story plot.
Sony PSVR Presents: Best Interactive VR ZeeGee Ball PlayStation VR A zero gravity game where he player is able to float from area to area, using controllers like wings to guide themselves around.
HTC Vive Presents: Best Vive Hack Kidcity VR HTC Vive TreeHouse is an educational platform that allows parents and kids to play and explore together in virtual reality. Children start out in a magical tree house space; this is their homebase. From here the player has access all platform activities. Inside, the child meets Mr. Pouf, an adorable robot companion that acts as a guide throughout all of the experiences.
Best Entertainment 1/ RevolVR $1000 RevolVR created a virtual experience that promotes fitness and human well-being through cardiovascular exercise that is packaged as a fun and engaging game. The game is set in 2035. Earth is quickly running out of natural resources. Scientists are desperate to find the energy needed to sustain life and find a source on a nearby planet. Users must run in place to collect crystals to bring back to Earth.
2/ Vream Team $500 Users can compose, listen to, and visualize their own music through a wholly new abstract vision. Users draw music with their hands and watch it play before their very eyes. The notes light up in the color of their pitch, where pitch varies on the vertical axis.
3/ Rendever $250 Team building is an extremely important process for companies in order to function and innovate together. Users are placed in different rooms and have original ways to communicate outside of using voice. Team members must work together to solve puzzles in rooms as well as master collaboration.
Best Getting Things Done and Doing Business 1/ Silver Unicorn $1000 Silver Unicorn is a collection of hacks and APIs that aims to serve as a prototyping platform for Augmented Reality by handling human-digital-physical interactions. The original project includes a hack for Microsoft Hololens that set up a complete loop of interactions between a human using voice to control a Sphero via a TCP server running on a Mac OS app.
Best Human Social Connection 1/ Nudge $1000 Nudge was inspired by how AR (particularly in Pokémon Go) started organic conversations, brought people together and created communities. It allows users to scan other users and figure out mutual interests to organically start conversations.
2/ HoloCaptions $500 Those with hearing impairments might not be able to utilize the same auditory cues that we use every day, or experience conversations in the same way. HoloCaptions provides an auditory compass and real life closed captioning for indoor use for those with hearing impairments.
Best Human Well Being 1/ StudyVR $1000 Have you ever studied a concept that you never applied in real life? Most children learn best through doing, and StudyVR is our solution to engage the next generation of kinesthetic learners. StudyVR is a learning tool for grade school kids to connect with their learning concepts with the HTC Vive, using kinesthetic hands-on interaction to engage them on a deeper level and bring science to life.
2/ KidCity VR $500 TreeHouse is an educational platform that allows parents and kids to play and explore together in virtual reality. Children start out in a magical tree house space; this is their homebase. From here the player has access all platform activities. Inside, the child meets Mr. Pouf, an adorable robot companion that acts as a guide throughout all of the experiences.
3/ Helping Hand $250 Assisting patients with phantom limb syndrome in their rehabilitation process.