About PICO and PICO Dev Jam 2023

  • Founded in March 2015, PICO is a leading VR company with independent innovation and R&D capabilities, focusing on VR all-in-one technology.
  • In 2021, Bytedance acquired PICO, offering immersive and interactive VR experiences to our customers, embarking on a journey to infinity powered by a mission of bridging connections and enriching lives.
  • PICO is kicking off the 2023 PICO Dev Jam, our first-ever global challenge for emerging virtual reality developers. The competition aims to boost the VR ecosystem through the development of innovative virtual reality and mixed reality content, while also nurturing PICO’s growing community of VR developers around the world.

 

Challenges

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.  
  • Timeline
    • 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)
 

Requirements

Project Requirements

WHAT TO BUILD
  • Build or design a demo app (coding implementation) or a design document on various creative ideas that fit within the 2023 PICO Dev Jam theme: Redefining XR: Beyond Imagination, Into Innovation.
  • Project ideas or creativity could fall into one of the categories below, including but not limited to: 
    • Game design and interaction
    • For work productivity
    • For entertainment senarios
    • For education purpose
    • For finance, medical, or other daily-life senarios
    • Desktop toolings
    • For multi-user scenes in all above settings
    • Any mobile app converted to 3D or VR app that may draw more user retention
  • Participants will be encouraged to utilize (or incorporate the idea of) the following two PICO SDKs in your demo app or design document:
    • 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
 

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).
    • If your submission is a demo app with coding implementation, the project must be capable of being successfully installed and running consistently on the platform or emulator for which it is intended. Participants are encouraged to submit their source code or GitHub repos if they’d like.
  • If your work or submission utilizes the PICO Sense Pack and PICO Interaction Pack, the submission should include an explanation of how the project uses them.
  • 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

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$49,500 in prizes

1st Prize (3)

One winner ($8,000) will be selected from each of the below region(s) : 1. EMEA; 2. Asia; 3. North America, South America, Oceania&Pacific

2nd Prize (3)

One winner ($3,000) will be selected from each of the below region(s) : 1. EMEA; 2. Asia; 3. North America, South America, Oceania&Pacific

3rd Prize (3)

One winner ($1,500) will be selected from each of the below region(s) : 1. EMEA; 2. Asia; 3. North America, South America, Oceania&Pacific

4th Prize (3)

One winner ($500) will be selected from each of the below region(s) : 1. EMEA; 2. Asia; 3. North America, South America, Oceania&Pacific

5th Prize (3)

One winner ($300) will be selected from each of the below region(s) : 1. EMEA; 2. Asia; 3. North America, South America, Oceania&Pacific

Best Game App (3)

One winner ($1,000) will be selected from each of the below region(s) : 1. EMEA; 2. Asia; 3. North America, South America, Oceania&Pacific

Best Non-Game App (3)

One winner ($1,000) will be selected from each of the below region(s) : 1. EMEA; 2. Asia; 3. North America, South America, Oceania&Pacific

Best MR Design (3)

One winner ($600) will be selected from each of the below region(s) : 1. EMEA; 2. Asia; 3. North America, South America, Oceania&Pacific

Best Hand Tracking (3)

One winner ($600) will be selected from each of the below region(s) : 1. EMEA; 2. Asia; 3. North America, South America, Oceania&Pacific

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Steve Lee

Steve Lee
CEO, Amaze VR

Inga Petryaevskaya

Inga Petryaevskaya
CEO, ShapesXR

Ashley Blake

Ashley Blake
COO, Andromeda Entertainment

Jaime Pichardo Garcia

Jaime Pichardo Garcia
Chief Business Officer, Odders Lab

Jiesi Ma

Jiesi Ma
Head of PICO OS Product

Peter Li

Peter Li
Head of PICO Gaming Partnerships

Chi Fang

Chi Fang
Head of PICO Design Center

Yuping Wang

Yuping Wang
Head of PICO Developer Platform Product

Qiwei He

Qiwei He
Head of Operations, PICO Store

Shane Engelman

Shane Engelman
Head of Technology, Felix & Paul

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)

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