FIVR hackathon is a weekend long event for people interested in virtual reality and augmented reality to share ideas and come together to craft experiences with the latest VR platforms and gadgets.

The weekend starts with idea creation moving on to collaborating in small teams on your chosen topic together with other VR/AR developers and designers. At the end of the weekend we will present and enjoy the projects created during the hackathon and get to try out other teams creations. 

TOPICS

You are completely free to hack whatever you want during the weekend! However, we also have some topics provided by event partners and organizations.

Bringing archive material into AR/VR/360 environment
Yle

Build a way to travel through the history of libraries
Central Library

A new life to old stereoscopic images
Helsinki City Museum

If you have your own topic in mind, we encourage you to pitch it during the topic presentations on Friday.

What to bring?

Bring your own working platforms, desktops, laptops, tablets, VR gear, crayons and whatever you believe you will need during the event. We provide you with WLAN, working space for the weekend and some food and drink to keep you going. FIVR Hub currently has one complete HTC Vive set and one HTC Vive DK1 with 1 working controller, as well as two powerful computers to run high-end VR. Other gear is up for the participants to bring: you can see a spreadsheet that is regularly updated from here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nkjnsmlwhCUe95PBcjl8ezDGtNP-qX_EDpYMWJgU-pg/edit?usp=sharing . 

Schedule Friday 

16:30 Doors and the registration opens
17:00 Hackathon kickoff - information and topic presentations
17:40 Ideating the projects & snacks
18:45 Idea pitching!
19:15 Forming the groups, hacking starts
24:00 Doors closing

Saturday

On Saturday, sauna is warm at Sosiaalitalo from 10:30 to 19:00. The swimming pool and showers, also located at Sosiaalitalo, can be used till 11pm. Bring your towels and swimming gear! :)

09:00 Doors open, breakfast
11:30-17:30 Lunch is served at Sosiaalitalo
19:00 Pizza & status check
24:00 Doors closing

Sunday

09:00 Doors open, breakfast
11:30-17:30 Lunch is served at Sosiaalitalo
13:00 Hacking concludes
14:00 Team presentations and information about the city model of Helsinki
14:45-16:00 Demoing!

Our hackathon is well located in the heart of Helsinki within the reach of public transportation so you should have no problem venturing to and from the hub as we close down for the night between 00:00am-09:00 am.

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