THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED!

Thank you to the 114 developers across 63 countries who participated in the competition! The judges were impressed with all of the submissions across the challenge categories.

Be sure to check out and congratulate the winners:

Best Education, Training, and Simulation: InStage
Best Brand Engagement and Retail: The Horse Arc
Best Entertainment, Hospitality, and Media: ARNavigationSystem
Best Other (new product, service, etc.): Button
Best AR App: Digital Healthcare
Best VR App: Room of Keys
Best 2D App: Prosperia
Best Chatbot App: Sally, An Educational Preschool AI

Add your comments and feedback for the future on their project pages! Click the submissions to view the other impressive projects and find another great hackathon to join.

3D experiences are here, and Amazon Sumerian is the quickest and easiest way to build one! Amazon challenged participants to create AR, VR, or 3D apps using their browser-based IDE. With Sumerian’s unmatched ease-of-use, they built highly immersive and interactive scenes for a variety of headsets, and both iOS and Android devices. Sumerian’s one-click publishing removes the need to build for each platform from scratch. And with AR Kit-compatibility, a ton of graphics to choose from, and plenty of room for customization, they published in 3D in no time.

Participants in this hackathon had access to tutorial and training materials to learn to build immersive apps with Amazon Sumerian and received support throughout the challenge via our Slack community, Twitch, and webinars. Experts provided training on the Sumerian service and provided insights into creating apps that integrated with Amazon Polly, Amazon Lex, DynamoDB, S3, IoT, ML, AI, Amplify and other AWS services.

No hardware required: Sumerian is compatible with many headsets but they didn't need hardware to take part! Learn more about compatible browsers and devices here.

Categories

For this challenge, participants built experiences that fell into one of the following categories:

Education, Training, and Simulations
Brand Engagement and Retail
Entertainment, Hospitality and Media
Other (new product/service, etc)

Bonus: We also selected winners for Best VR, AR and 2D app as well as best use of a Sumerian Host or Chatbot. In addition to all the great prizes they won, the first 100 eligible submissions won $250 in AWS Credits! Need some future inspiration? Jump over to the Categories tab to read up on potential use cases, and over to the Resources tab for compatible devices, tutorials, documentation, and more.

Requirements

Main Requirement: Create and publish apps using Amazon Sumerian’s browser-based IDE that fit into one of the challenge categories.

Submit the following assets:

A demo video (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or Youku). Your video should include a demo of your working application via a step-by-step visual demo. Screencasting is a good way to demo these apps.
Submission form. Written description of the app, use case, value proposition, category of submission, designated device, and any necessary operational instructions. If your app requires specific steps for use or if you designed with a specific device in mind, you must include the details on your submission form.
URL for your published app for evaluation. Provide the unique URL you will receive when your app is published.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$101,845 in prizes

Best Education, Training, and Simulations

• $5,000 cash USD
• $5,000 AWS Credits
• HTC Vive Focus VR Headset ($599 retail value)
• Virtual meeting with Sumerian product leadership team and judges
• AWS blog post featuring challenge winners
• Feature on select AWS channels (Sumerian website, YouTube, social media, etc.)
• VR/AR Association (VRARA) Membership (1 year; individual; $500 value)
• Featured in VRARA newsletter
• Present at VRARA/Sumerian webinar
• RMIT Online AR/VR Strategy course tuition paid ($1,200 value)
• Serve as a Mentor to RMIT Online AR/VR App Development course (part-time paid role; pending application review/approval)

Best Brand Engagement and Retail

• $5,000 cash USD
• $5,000 AWS Credits
• HTC Vive Focus VR Headset ($599 retail value)
• Virtual meeting with Sumerian product leadership team and judges
• AWS blog post featuring challenge winners
• Feature on select AWS channels (Sumerian website, YouTube, social media, etc.)
• VRARA Membership (1 year; individual; $500 value)
• Featured in VRARA newsletter
• Present at VRARA/Sumerian webinar
• RMIT Online AR/VR Strategy course tuition paid ($1,200 value)
• Serve as a Mentor to RMIT Online AR/VR App Development course (part-time paid role; pending application review/approval)

Best Entertainment, Hospitality, and Media

• $5,000 cash USD
• $5,000 AWS Credits
• HTC Vive Focus VR Headset ($599 retail value)
• Virtual meeting with Sumerian product leadership team and judges
• AWS blog post featuring challenge winners
• Feature on select AWS channels (Sumerian website, YouTube, social media, etc.)
• VRARA Membership (1 year; individual; $500 value)
• Featured in VRARA newsletter
• Present at VRARA/Sumerian webinar
• RMIT Online AR/VR Strategy course tuition paid ($1,200 value)
• Serve as a Mentor to RMIT Online AR/VR App Development course (part-time paid role; pending application review/approval)

Best Other (new product, service, etc.)

• $5,000 cash USD
• $5,000 AWS Credits
• HTC Vive Focus VR Headset ($599 retail value)
• Virtual meeting with Sumerian product leadership team and judges
• AWS blog post featuring challenge winners
• Feature on select AWS channels (Sumerian website, YouTube, social media, etc.)
• VRARA Membership (1 year; individual; $500 value)
• Featured in VRARA newsletter
• Present at VRARA/Sumerian webinar
• RMIT Online AR/VR Strategy course tuition paid ($1,200 value)
• Serve as a Mentor to RMIT Online AR/VR App Development course (part-time paid role; pending application review/approval)

Best AR App

• $1,000 USD
• $4,000 AWS Credits
• $150 HTC Viveport Gift Card
• AWS blog post featuring challenge winners
• Feature on select AWS channels (Sumerian website, YouTube channel, social media, etc.)
• 50% off VRARA membership (1 year; individual; $250 value)
• Featured in VRARA newsletter
• Present at VRARA/Sumerian webinar
• RMIT Online AR/VR Strategy course tuition paid ($1,200 value)
• Serve as Mentor to RMIT Online AR/VR App Development course (part-time paid role; pending application review/approval)

Best VR App

• $1,000 USD
• $4,000 AWS Credits
• HTC Vive Pro Complete System ($1,399 value)
• AWS blog post featuring challenge winners
• Feature on select AWS channels (Sumerian website, YouTube channel, social media, etc.)
• 50% off VRARA membership (1 year; individual; $250 value)
• Featured in VRARA newsletter
• Present at VRARA/Sumerian webinar
• RMIT Online AR/VR Strategy course tuition paid ($1,200 value)
• Serve as Mentor to RMIT Online AR/VR App Development course (part-time paid role; pending application review/approval)

Best 2D App

Best Chatbot App

First 100 Eligible Submissions (100)

(Prizes will be determined at the end of the submission period. See rules for more info.)

• $250 AWS Credits

How to enter

How to Enter:

Register for the hackathon on Devpost.
Review the Resources and Categories to help get started.
Find a teammate (optional) by reaching out to other developers on the Participants tab.
Join the Sumerian Slack channel and use the #hackathon room.
Sign up for an AWS developer account, if you don’t already have one. The 12-month trial is free.
Create a Cognito ID (here’s how).
Create and publish your application.
Shoot your demo video and take screenshots of your functioning app.
Provide access to your app to Devpost by including your unique Amazon URL and any operational instructions on your submission form.
Submit your application on amazonsumerian.devpost.com BEFORE January 14th, 2019 @ 5pm EST!

Judges

Sanjoli Chauhan
Industry Partnerships Manager, RMIT

Jack Hylands
GM Strategy & New Product, RMIT

Marcelo Lewin
Immersive Technologies Evangelist and Producer, HowToCreateVR.com

Tanya Laird
Founder & CEO, Digital Jam

Kris Kolo
Global Executive Director, VR/AR Association

Bjorn Laurin
AVP, Viveport, HTC Vive

Nell Waliczek
Principal Engineer, AWS

Kyle Roche
General Manager, Amazon Sumerian

David Chiapperino
Creative Director, Amazon Sumerian

Judging Criteria

Applicability & Impact
(Clarity of the use case (opportunity/problem addressed), extent to which the app/solution can be widely adopted; impact)
Design & User Experience
(Quality, completeness, and creativity/originality; clarity of the user interface, interaction, design and experience)
Technical Design & Implementation
(Architecture of the solution, functional robustness; stability of the implementation; how well the idea is executed)
Appropriate use of AWS services
(Use of AWS services to support the deployment, management, and functionality of the solution)
Submission & Presentation
(Quality of the functional app and working demo; quality, completeness, and clarity of supporting documentation (written/video))

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Amazon Sumerian AR/VR Challenge

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