9th and 10th November saw the ionic Studio Two at Abbey Road host the 2019 Hackathon, where 17 teams worked through the night to create technologies, apps and experiences centred around the theme ‘The Power of Immersion’. A team of AudioLab members (Adrià Martinez, Tomasz Rudzki, Dan Johnston and Chris Earnshaw) travelled down to take part, and came away with the prize for “Best Hack of the Year” and the “Spark AR” first prize for their amazing ‘Pocket Venue’ application! Pocket Venue combined three separate technologies including Facebook’s Spark AR to create an interactive AR Music player. The competition was judged by a panel of industry experts including representatives from Abbey Road, Facebook, Universal Music Group and L-Acoustics, and as the prize was sponsored by Facebook each of the team walked away with an Oculus Quest.
Dan, Chris and Adria hard at work..?
The #SparkAR by Facebook Prize for the Best Use of Spark goes to Cros and Pocket Venue! The winners each receive an Oculus Quest device and automatic invitation to the Abbey Road Red 2020 Hackathon #AbbeyRoadHack pic.twitter.com/Mmfvus8aR2
— Abbey Road Red (@AbbeyRoadRed) November 10, 2019
Our hackers @adriamartinez94, @tomasz_rudski, @dansresearch and Chris Earnshaw have built the interactive AR music player ‘Pocket Venue’ in #SparkAR, which a user can move around and interact with instruments, incorporating the #LISAimmersive spatial set-up #AbbeyRoadHack pic.twitter.com/D88aQ1GQhJ
— Abbey Road Red (@AbbeyRoadRed) November 10, 2019
More about Pocket Venue: https://devpost.com/software/interactive-venue
Check out some of the great press reports at:
- https://www.abbeyroad.com/news/abbey-road-red-hackathon-2019-the-power-of-immersion-winners-announced-2629
- https://www.psneurope.com/studio/abbey-road-red-hackathon-2019
- https://musically.com/2019/11/11/interactive-ar-music-player-wins-abbey-road-reds-2019-hackathon/
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