Lampix Announces October Hackathon Sponsored by Bareburger

NEW YORK, September 25, 2018 (Newswire.com) - New York-based Lampix announces hackathon sponsored by global franchise Bareburger. On October 13 and 14, developers with mid-level or higher programming skills are invited for a food-filled, restaurant-themed event geared towards creating visually stunning experiences in augmented reality (AR) on a one-of-a-kind platform and its respective API.

Lampix CRO Salvatore Buccellato remarked, “We’re excited to see the kind of talent that this hackathon will attract, and what they will create on our award-winning technology. Restaurants don’t just serve food; they serve entire experiences and AR is poised to enhance dining in the most amazing ways.”

We're excited to see the kind of talent that this hackathon will attract, and what they will create on our award-winning technology. Restaurants don't just serve food, they serve entire experiences and AR is poised to enhance dining in the most amazing ways.

Salvatore Buccellato, Chief Revenue Officer

Lampix is a software, hardware, and cloud-based (IPFS) platform that adds augmented reality (AR) to any flat surface without the need for any additional gadgets.  Lampix lowers the upfront effort to develop AR applications by offering a comprehensive framework covering every aspect from computer vision and AI to interface design. Content creation is easy since it relies on well-known technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. The developer kit comes with an open API and application examples (including source code). The platform addresses the hard tasks related to Computer Vision and AI, enabling developers to create - within hours - applications and content that reacts to real-world objects, movement, and hands.

Developers should bring laptops with Node and NPM installed, as well as their IDE of choice. The Lampix app development channel for the hackathon will be located at https://gitter.im/lampixjs

Register via Meetup -- https://www.meetup.com/Bringing-Blockchain-to-Augmented-Reality/events/254994253/?isFirstPublish=true

About Lampix

Lampix is an award-winning Augmented Reality technology company that combines their proprietary object-sensing software platform with an advanced smart projector and camera system. Lampix recognizes hands, objects, and documents bridging the gap between the physical and the digital with universal and communal augmented data. The company’s largest customers include Bloomberg, BMW, Nespresso, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Lampix was named the winner of Highway 1 (2016), the AR/VR category in the Accelerator Pitch event at SXSW (2017), and was named Best Augmented Reality Display by Next Reality (2017)

Lisa Chau
Director of Communications
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Source: Lampix