Hackathon «VR/AR Crimea — 2023» was held in Sevastopol: history, art, virtual reality

By Stefania Novak On Мар 22, 2023

CrimeaPRESS reports:

From March 18 to March 20, at the site of the digital education center for children “IT-cube. Gagarin” hosted the Interregional Hackathon “VR/AR Crimea – 2023”. This year it combined virtual reality technology, history and art.

The virtual and augmented reality hackathon has been held in Sevastopol for the 5th time. The organizer of the event is the children’s technopark «Kvantorium» Sevastopol. «VR/AR Crimea» brought together more than 100 participants in full-time and remote formats. This year, 13 cities joined it: Tver, Yekaterinburg, Kirovsky, Magnitogorsk, Miass, Blagoveshchensk, Tomsk, St. Petersburg, Volzhsky, Rostov-on-Don, Novocheboksarsk and Perm. Teams participated in two age categories (11-18 years old and over 18 years old).

The organizers offered tasks from real customers on four tracks: «Guide», «Art», «History» and «IT Crimea». The teams brought the exposition to life, generated ideas for improving the app, created an AR tour, and developed a game around the building, touching on different eras.

And in order to reboot, they watched movies, relaxed in the chill zone, danced, participated in a photo contest, stood in the bar, sang «Cuckoo» and reincarnated as detectives.

After two days of work, the participants submitted their projects for evaluation by experts, who determined the best in each track.

The winners of «VR / AR Crimea — 2023» are:

Track «Guide»a basic level of

Banana Smoothie team (Vsevolod Shilovsky, Vladimir Chernyaev, Matvey Kovalenko, mentor: Ekaterina Ponomareva)

Track «IT Crimea»age category 18+

Team «Off-Meta» (Daria Pegova, Denis Grinenko, Alexey Tarasov)

Track «Art»advanced level

BROTeam team, Novocheboksarsk (Evgeny Novikov, Andrey Shomkin, Elizaveta Smirnova, mentor: Roman Bogatyrev)

Track «History»distance format

Atomic Heart team, Magnitogorsk (Ivan Tyukineev, Vladimir Makarov, Artyom Osipov, mentor: Danil Borovskikh)

The sponsors of the hackathon are:

General sponsor — cultural space «Third Place», founded in 2020 in the historic Guryev-Naryshkin mansion in the heart of St. Petersburg. This is a contemporary art center that combines exhibition halls and an NFT platform, a lecture hall, a cinema hall, as well as a collection of works by Russian artists.

Museum-model «Petrovskaya Aquatoria» — a unique museum of St. Petersburg. The exposition is an interactive reconstruction of the most significant sights related to the history of the creation of the city and the Russian fleet.

Company «Stupor» is a Russian system for the protection and detection of quadrocopters and drones. «Stupor» includes a line of devices and software and hardware systems that make up a full-fledged system for protecting, detecting and countering UAVs.

Technopark «IT Crimea» is a Russian Silicon Valley project, a hothouse for technological talent. The main task is to create a technopark in Sevastopol of a new format that can provide everything a modern IT specialist needs.