Qualcomms $200K Competition to Replace Reality
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The world is filled with lots of great stuff: massages, Boardwalk Empire, Chinese food. Unfortunately, all that good stuff gets mixed in with things like stubbed toes, mediocre indie rock, and deadly shark attacks. Reality is fickle. That’s why researchers are so hard at work on building a new reality–an augmented reality–that will do away with all of conventional reality’s nonsense parts.
Mobile technology speeds are finally getting to a place where we can readily layer an improved virtual world on top of the very-much-lacking actual world. Only now are we beginning to lay the groundwork for this new realm of augmented reality and San Diego-based telecommunications firm Qualcomm wants to be at the forefront. The company recently announced a competition with $200K in prize money that will go to the best new augmented reality apps. First place will net you a $125,000 purse, second place: $50,000, and third place: $25,000.
The only rule is that you use Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality development kit for Android phones which is currently available for download. Submissions open November 15th and close January 7th. More info available here.
Soon reality will be a thing of the past.
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