Virtual Reality: Creative conception and website for Hackathon!

Client: Microsoft Russia, Team: Beavers Brothers

Ilya Pastushkov

Published in

Eulerr

4 min readNov 8, 2017

Brief description

The first Microsoft Virtual Reality hackathon took place In December 2015 in Russia.

About VR in a few words!

Nowadays virtual reality applications and games become more and more popular. Top-level companies like Microsoft, Google, Samsung, HTC invest a LOT OF MONEY in this industry!
So, to make VR technologies more popular and force a price for devices down ( by creating a competitive environment ) this top-companies often organize VR hackathons! This competitions help to find some new idieas and give a financial help to perspective developers with their projects!

The goal

To make programmers know about Microsoft Virtual Reality solutions, to choose talented VR developers which are really rare and to give them the financial help.

The tasks we should have completed

Place all the information about VR development on the Windows platform at one resource.
To hold a first Virtual Reality Hackathon event in Russia!

So…

Breathtaking features we have brought to life

“Create your own virtual worlds” conception!

We have created three different scene types for our developers:

Quest — kind of game where your aim is to travel around the location and investigate different weird things.
Shooter — your goal is to kill as much enemies as you could! Often, VR shooters are not really frightening but…
Horror — you should stay alive as long as possible, be as quite as possible and run for your live fast as lightning.

How the scenes were created?

For making each world come real we have created skeches first. Then we have met the professional actors, made a lot of photographs, and finally made magnifficent collages!

We have involved a lot of professionals in creating these game-worlds: sketch artists, actors and photographers.

Here you can see the three steps of making three different worlds more real!

Drawing a sketches.
Shooting scenes with actors.
Visualising the sketch art more detailed and connecting it to the photo made on step #2.

The website: before and after

Creating the website was also interesting!
We have created two simple pages to give the event’s participants an access to hackathon matherials. Some useful stuff you should know before you start and the feedback about event when it had been finished!