| Thanks all for your great comments! For some reason, I cannot answer all your questions as the system blocks me from posting, probably because I did not post the original link here... Therefore, I am going to answer as much as possible in one post :) I totally understand the feelings of some about "corporate hackathons". While it is valid that companies get probably more from these hackathons than us, I want to stress the following: - We had the opportunity to work on a challenge with a huge amount of data that I would not otherwise be able to get - We were able to work with great guys I would not have met otherwise - We stretched ourselves to see if we could combine AI and AR, which would probably not have happened otherwise - The implementation of anything built during the weekend would takes months for anyone, even with the code we produced - This is a learning experience for all parties The data we used was based on input from a laser scanner. The scanner provides a height map, which would be shown as a colored PNG. We also had point clouds, but only for a few months, so not much use in AI... We used the PNG to generate a bump and normal map to show in AR. Thanks again and hope that you had fun reading it :) |