What kinds of experiences are possible when you match room-sized body tracking with untethered, mobile VR?
The ‘Kinect VR’ team is building a virtual reality game that will showcase the power of their KinectVR plugin for the 3D gaming framework Unity.
In this week, teams who had nailed down their conceptual frameworks were doubling down on experiments in making and technology.
Some teams were still unclear on direction, with the program organizers working to help unblock and get the teams started.
The teams met and worked Saturday during our first co-working session of the 2016 season. It was a great day, spread across two locations in the city.
Half the teams were based at NYU Tandon, the other half at Thoughtworks New York. We kept a live video feed running all day so that the teams could see each other working and feel part of the same collective.
A lot of fun was had last night at the 2016 season kick-off social event at Thoughtworks NYC, at a twinned event with the Hardware Hack Lab.
Meeting for the first time, our many groups of Art-A-Hackers got together and discussed their projects. The teams were all looking forward to the co-working sessions ahead.
We are pleased to announce the selected participants for the Art-A-Hack 2016. Our participants this year are diverse, and come from backgrounds in art, technology, and a range of intersecting feilds.
The 2016 season of Art-A-Hack is a partnership between Thoughtworks, The Volumetric Society and Integrated Digital Media at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Each of these partners brings different areas of expertise to the table to help our teams.
Our final presentations took place on July 11 2015 at Thoughtworks. Besides friends and family, Thoughtworks founder Roy Singham came by to see what our Art-A-Hackers had produced.
Our seven teams were able to showcase the results of four weeks of incredibly hard and well-thought out work.
For Week 4 of Art-A-Hack we were hosted by Microsoft in their sparkling offices opposite the Port Authority bus station in Times Square.
The teams adapted to the new lab environment, putting finishing touches on their projects.
