After the many previously successful VR Hackathon events held in Seattle and San Francisco, VR Hackathon is finally coming to Europe for the first time in January 2016! VR Hackathon provides an exploratory environment where disruption, innovation, and creative ideas are brought to life. It looks to bring together crowd sourced knowledge for the advancement of virtual reality & complementary technologies.
The Hackathon will be held in Brussels, on the 15, 16 and 17 January, at the heart of Europe where there is a strong local VR Ecosystem in Belgium with 520 members registered on the Be.VR Meet Up. Brussels is diverse in population and industries, and known to be the birth place of innovative ideas. With the ICT sector containing 2,000 companies, employing about 30,000 people and generating annual revenue of 4.5 billion Euro, Brussels is the ideal place to host the first European VR Hackathon in 2016.
Together with Screen Brussels, Software in Brussels, EU VR and Web 3D, we want to create an environment that embraces new ideas and technology solutions for immersive technologies. We know it takes longer than a weekend to build great solutions, but this is ample time to form teams of good people and begin creating great solutions. The dream team calls to European tech developers, game programmers, makers, UI/UX designers, artists, animators, storytellers, enthusiasts, professionals, students, and all that want to spend a weekend creating solutions with virtual reality and other immersive technologies!
The VR Hackathon will be held at Co. Station Brussels, an innovative and creative co-working space for startups. Located only 5min walk from Grand Place and Grand Centrale, this place is accessible for all: 5 Parvis Sainte-Gudule - 1000 Brussels – Belgium.
Tickets are on sale now! There are different categories suited for all. Note that there will be a 50% discount for students! Click here to buy your ticket.
Stay updated with VR Hackathon by following the Twitter account: @VRHackathonBxl and the hashtags: #VRHackathonBxl, #EUHackathon. Be part of this great event!
Our Program:
Friday:
18h00 VR Meetup (Demos and presentations)
19h30 Program kick off (Presentations)
20h00 Ideas pitches and team formations
Saturday:
8h00 Breakfast
9h00 Morning announcements / Hackathon Begins
10h30 Workshop Sessions Start
13h00 Lunch
19h00 Dinner
00h00 Overnight hacking
Sunday:
8h00 Breakfast
12h00 Lunch
13h00 Hacking concludes / Team Presentations & Judging
16h00 Winner announcements
16h15 Hacker Expo
18h00 Doors Close
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