Ten students from Master of Science MTI3D programat the Chalon-sur-Saône Institute met with ten students from Master of Science Reality program at HAW Hamburg on the Paris campus to hold an XR hackathon.
The goal of a hackathon is to help students develop technical skills in programming and 3D modeling in a very short period of time. “It’s a good exercise in time management and stress management,” notes Ruding Lou, director of Master of Science . For the XR hackathon, students had two days to complete their project. ”
The goal of the XR hackathon was to raise students’ awareness of international opportunities by meeting peers who share the same passion and communicate in English. It offered an immersion into their future professional lives, where they will work in international and intercultural teams on shared projects.
Developing an application to promote environmental responsibility
The five teams, each consisting of two French and two German students, took on the challenge—in a spirit of fun and camaraderie—to develop an app in two days that would collaboratively promote environmental responsibility.
“The presentation took place in the presence of Eike Langbehn, head of Master of Science Reality program at HAW Hamburg, Ruding Lou, and myself,” says Jean-Remy Chardonnet, deputy director of the institute in Chalon-sur-Saône. “The students had to give an oral presentation of their project without any visual aids, and then demonstrate the virtual reality app they had developed.”
Two award-winning projects
Two of the five projects won awards.
The first project involved placing two people in the same environment, one in the present (where everything is fine) and the other in the future (where everything is deserted). The aim is for the person in the future to guide the person in the present so that the future becomes livable again. The person in the present must grow trees, save water, etc.
The second project simulated cleaning up all the waste in the ocean from a submarine. While one person pilots the submarine, a second person operates a claw that grabs the waste. The winners on the French side are Manon Lemonnier and Kyllian Viltet for the first project, and Olivier Raoux and Pierre Thibaut for the second project.
A presentation at an international conference
The next step for the winners is to finalize their projects by early January 2025 in Hamburg for presentation at the IEEE VR 2025 international virtual reality conference (more information).
This hackathon received financial support from the Franco-German Youth Office.
