uSens Announces Winners of $200,000 ARVR App Developer Contest

"We were impressed by the quality and creativity of the projects submitted by our semifinalists," said Dr. Yue Fei, uSens CTO and co-founder. "Our winners integrated Fingo modules in imaginative ways and demonstrated the ability to make engaging, exciting use of our tracking technology to benefit end-users. I'm very pleased about the promise of future applications of our tracking tech." Dr. Fei is speaking at AWE at 4:15 pm on June 2 on "4 Keys to Augmented Reality's Future."

A total of $200,000 in prizes were distributed amongst challenge entrants in the U.S. and China. These are the winners in the U.S.:

• Grand Prize: Developer Chris Wren won $50,000 for his application MonsterShop. The application delivers the framework for a VR retail experience by allowing players to customize the appearance of monster avatars via drag-and-drop hand gestures. For example, players can drag different colored eyeballs and facial hair onto the monsters.
• 2^nd Prize: Developer Wallace Lages won $25,000 for Krinkle, a mobile action game that enables hand-activated spells. Players use motion gestures to shoot fire from their palms and form water balls.
• 3^rd Prize: Developer Tom Leahy won $10,000 for Embodied Labs, an interactive medical training tool that lets users experience macular degeneration first-hand.

In the Chinese regional competition, winning titles included fighting games GestureMagic and Shadow Play, the self-explanatory Throwing Bomb Game, and electronic circuit assembly experience VR Electronics Laboratory.

All uDev Challenge submissions were made for Samsung Gear VR™, Google Cardboard™, HTC Vive™, or Oculus Rift™. Semifinalists developed their applications using the uSens SDK and an entry-level uSens Fingo module for adding 26DOF controller-free hand tracking.

The uSens Fingo series of modules offers advanced 3D human-computer interaction capability for both mobile and tethered systems. By attaching a Fingo to the front of a head-mounted display (HMD) device, end users can enjoy their favorite apps without major sacrifices to system power consumption or performance - even on mobile.

The uSens uDev Developer Network

uSens's uDev network helps the developer community integrate the company's tracking technology in their ARVR projects. uDev offers comprehensive developer kits and support for popular integrated development environments (IDEs) and work flows. uSens software currently supports Unity 3D, Unreal, Java, C++, and C# for mobile and PC developers, with more development environments to come. Request a developer kit or order a Fingo, shipping now within the U.S. and China for only $99.

Connect with uSens:

• Watch multiple demonstrations of uSens technology in action: https://youtu.be/zMroCZ9uoOw
• Meet live with uSens in booth 400 of the Augmented World Expo (AWE) in the Santa Clara County Convention Center from May 31 to June 2.

About uSens, Inc.

Founded in 2013, San Jose-based uSens, Inc. closes the gap between Virtual Reality and the real world. The pioneering ARVR software company provides inside-out, 26DOF hand and 6DOF head position tracking technologies for Augmented and Virtual Reality experiences. With domain expertise in 3D HCI technology, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, uSens is leading the industry to achieve Super Reality, a truly immersive and natural ARVR experience. For more information, visit www.usens.com and follow @usensinc.

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