Hackathon Winners: XRAI Hack & HarvardXR Ideathon Winners Lightning Round

Winners in the XRAI Hack (XR Bootcamp Hackathon) and HarvardXR Ideathon take the Nexus Stage in a lightning round to talk about their projects and accomplishments.

Immediately after their lightning round, chat with teams about their projects during the Builders Hour. Look for the hightop tables set up near the Nexus Stage or for teams that have a booth, be sure to find them in the expo hall.

XRAI Hack
 

Project Luna - Instead of journaling with pen and paper, you will experience a responsive visualisation that reflects your emotional sentiment as you respond to questions about your day

• Yiguan Liu
• Kevin Doherty
• David Wiltshire
• Petr Leontev
• Michael Turkington

IntelliSpace - Enables people to design their dream space with the help of AI.

• Xinchan Jin
• Girish Mallikarjuna
• Rimbik Das
• Meghna Sonie
• Xiaofan Shen

HoloSign - Real-time sign language translation through machine learning, enabling improved communication for the hearing impaired.

• Mark Ransley
• Asan Amirov
• Marcus Connor
• Giulia Ferraioli

Shufa - Teaches calligraphy with precision and ease, guided in mixed reality and using the Logitech MX Ink Pen for accuracy and ergonomics.

• Mark Bamford
• Haohan Cui
• Dorothea Tan
• Pablo Melchor

Mimical - A unique spatial puzzle game about overcoming creative challenges. You solve puzzles by drawing brush strokes which come alive and travel through space and time, mimicking every move you made.

• Nas Aali
• Remus Constantin
• Ibrahim Akgul
• Kakra Nimako
• Saul Pena Gamero

HarvardXR Ideathon:

Shadow Dancing - “2D grooves into 3D moves” projects your shadow onto the artist’s avatar  that has perfect alignment with instant feedback and transforms your living room into a dance studio

• Mo Touman
• Akhil Atluri
• Ilya Kozlov
• Justin Chow

CortexR/World Tutor - is a multimodal app that asks teens playful thought-provoking questions about the things around them like, 'Why does your reflection flip left and right, but not up and down, when you look in a mirror?'"

• Mehdi Akhondi
• Urooj Imdad, Doctor
• Vijay Kagupati, CS Student
• Rolf Kruse

RescueTech - Augmenting Firefighter Communications turning first responders into superheroes 

• Jalin Brown
• Cameron M. Contreras
• Kashyap Sridhar
• Nasif Zaman