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PICO's premier MR/XR development activity, 2023 PICO Dev Jam, is coming Sep 25 - Dec 10, hosted through Devpost platform ((https://pico-dev-jam-2023.devpost.com/) . Along with a series of campus tour sessions in US and EU, we’re kicking off a dev jam where you can get expert help building your MR/XR projects, creating a design of immersive experience.

Important Notice

In order to participate in 2023 PICO Dev Jam, please go to Devpost to register for the competition (https://pico-dev-jam-2023.devpost.com/). Your project will also need to be submitted through Devpost!

Timeline

PICO's premier MR/XR development activity, 2023 PICO Dev Jam, is coming Sep 25 - Dec 10. Along with several campus tour sessions in US and EU, we’re kicking off a dev jam where you can get expert help building your MR/XR projects, creating a design of immersive experience.

Registration Period： Sep 25, 2023 (10 AM Eastern Time) - Nov 10, 2023 (10 AM Eastern Time)
Submission Period：Oct 2, 2023 (10 AM Eastern Time) - Nov 10, 2023 (5 PM Eastern Time)
Judging： Nov 13, 2023 (10 AM Eastern Time) - Nov 30, 2023 (5 PM Eastern Time)
Announce Potential Winner: On or around Dec 10, 2023 (2 PM Eastern Time)

Project Requirements

We would be looking for and welcome submissions of either design doc or demo app on various creative ideas that fit within the 2023 PICO Dev Jam theme: Redefining XR: Beyond Imagination, Into Innovation.
Participants will be required to utilize (or incorporate the idea of) the following two PICO SDKs in your submission:
- PICO Sence Pack : the all-in-one solution for PICO Mixed Reality development, providing innovative features like space calibration and spatial anchors;
- PICO Interaction Pack : hand tracking features, which optimize algorithms, support Unity's XR Hands pack, and comply with the OpenXR standard

Project ideas or creativity could map to the following tracks, including but not limited to:
- Game interaction design
- Apps for working productivity
- Entertainment
- Education
- or any other daily-life scenarios, in which you can leverage and integrate (the idea of)

Submission Requirements

WHAT TO SUBMIT

Your submission could be a design doc, online doc, a demo app, or a video demo. Please provide access to your working project for judging and testing.
Submission could be accepted in the following format:
- a slide PPT (5-10 pages)
- a word doc or PDF (1-2 pages)
- video submission (3-5 minutes) that explains and demonstrates your idea or project in action (could be a .mp4 file or hosted publicly on a video streaming platform like YouTube).
No matter what submission format you choose, the submission must include an explanation of how the project incorporates the PICO Sence Pack / PICO Interaction Pack.
MR/XR innovation ideas may map or fall into the following tracks
- for game design and interaction
- for work and productivity improvement
- for entertainment, finance, medical, daily-life senarios
- for multi-user scenes in all above settings
- Any mobile app converted to 3D or VR app that may draw more user retention

JUDGING CRITERIA

Challenge Fit Includes how well the submitted work is aligned with the overall challenge theme "Redefining XR: Beyond Imagination, Into Innovation" (20 points)
Quality of Idea Includes creativity and originality of the idea (30 points)
Technical Execution For app design doc (or GDD) submission and Demo app (coding implementation) submission, judging criteria would be different. Please refer to "RULES" section on detailed judging criteria guidelines. (30 points)
Presentation Readiness Includes how clearly layed out and refined the submitted work in the PPT, design doc, or youtube submission (10 points)
Potential Impact Includes the extent to which the created work can be widely useful or favored (10 points)
Extra points Includes how well PICO 4, PICO Sence Pack / PICO Interaction Pack and other PICO toolings were leveraged by the developer (20 points)

PRIZES 💰

$49,500 in prizes

🥇 1st Prize (3)

One winner will be selected from each region : EMEA, Asia, United States ($8,000)

🥈2nd Prize (3)

One winner will be selected from each region : EMEA, Asia, United States ($3,000)

🥉3rd Prize (3)

One winner will be selected from each region : EMEA, Asia, United States ($1,500)

4th Prize (3)

One winner will be selected from each region : EMEA, Asia, United States ($500)

5th Prize (3)

One winner will be selected from each region : EMEA, Asia, United States ($300)

Best Game App (3)

One winner will be selected from each region : EMEA, Asia, United States ($1,000)

Best Non-Game App (3)