(aka Immersive Web Fest)

Goals

• Raise awareness of WebXR and the capabilities it provides
• Inspire more developers to start building WebXR experiences
• Make valuable, lasting contributions to the ecosystem with the entries that are submitted

High-level Details

• Online event
• Allow up to teams of 4
  • Maybe up to 6?
• 3 month runtime
  • Organize talks/workshops in the first month for those just entering WebXR
  • Have two more monthly check-ins
  • Duration not set in stone
• All code should be made open source/publicly available after the hackathon is over.
• Entries can be considered for up to two categories at once if requested (no more though).

Partners / Sponsors

• Confirmed
  • Zesty Market
  • XR Foundation
  • Speechly
  • OMI
  • Construct Arcade / Wonderland Engine
  • Zeblocks
• Potential
  • UW Reality Lab
  • 1KX

Entries

Categories

Splitting this section up into separate pages for multiple different hackathons.

Shortlist of categories that could provide interesting challenges:

• Accessibility
  • How can we make WebXR experiences more accessible to everyone?
    • Examining WebXR+ARIA one possible route to explore https://equalentry.com/does-aria-even-work-with-webxr/
    • This category can easily tie in with Input / UI in terms of utilizing alternate input methods.
• Input / UI
  • How can we reduce friction when interacting with immersive interfaces, or even just within an immersive environment?
    • We can get a lot more creative than pointing and clicking with our controllers on floating 2D planes.
    • Voice-controlled and gesture-based interfaces offer some potentially interesting avenues to explore.
    • Novel usages of hand tracking would also be good.