ADN中国队参加微软Kinect他赢得了全国比赛三等奖，我们的创意项目与团队Kinect于Naviswork虚拟之旅

以下是我的英语写了一个简短的总结，直接贴出来. 让我们知道我们在这参加Hackathon

That’s an exciting Hackathon for me and also China team, I think. We experienced the full process, and learned a lot about how to organize a nice Hackathon.   Meanwhile it is also a good team building activity.  Through this Hackathon, we worked closely, and more about each other. 

It took place in Microsoft’s office (Microsoft University floor). It has a big open area for coffee, break, and meal for 50-60 people,  and a huge training hall. 70 people registered the event, and eventually 40 showed up. 
This was a 24 hours Hackathon, the language for the Hackathon is English. ( Starting course, team presentations are all in English).

About 10 teams joined the competition. Our team name is Shen Xing Zhe(神行者）, which means miracle walker, is the only team that doesn’t have the experience of Kinect programming. As Daniel said, one external developer joined our team.  Eventually 5 teams win prizes.  we are among it.  The reward for each member is an “Arch Touch wireless Mouse”.    
  

Our project is to develop a virtual roaming tool using the Kinect sensor within Naviswork. We thought Naviswork should have the good performance of updating its 3D viewer frequently. (The result shows it is. Naviswork’s view is very sensitive to the motion of captured by the Kinect sensor).  Xiaodong is a key contributor on the camera controlling in NW, he did a great job!

We designed the motions to control the Naviswork view’s camera (position, direction). Control the turn left or right by the two hands virtually holding a steering wheel, stretching two arms in right ahead means walking forward, collapsing arms means move backward. Marching on the spot means walking in the Naviswork model.  We even can control the walking speed by speed of the knee’s move frequency.  Finally didn’t show that in the presentation for it takes time to give an ideal factor to get an ideal walking speed in the model.   This motion judge function can be used for any of our 3D products, for example, Revit, Cloud Viewer.   (we will see how is the performance for Revit, Cloud Viewer)

One thought about the time: I think 24 hours is a good time.  During the 24 hours, I only slept for 3 hours.  1.5 hour before the presentation/judge, my head was kind of exhausted. If we will hold a 32 hours Hackathon, it is better to let the audience to have a longer sleep.

I was presenting my idea of my team project.

 Working hard on the coding and researching.

 Testing the connection of the Kinect with computer test program.

Lunch Break and discussion on the solution. The right one is one of our team member from outside of Autodesk (where is Joe? I was taking the photo).

We got some gifts like: nice glasses bottle(not the disposable bottle), snacks. In the purpose of letting more people know this Hackathon event. Additional watches for those who shared the event using Weibo or Weixin (similar cloud apps like  twitter)) and get good feedback from their friends/followers. ( Good idea of using the social media. For sure, We will also use the social media way  for our own Hackathon in Shanghai.)

Thank you Daniel, Zhong on the extensive research and programming for our Cloud viewer and motion builder. Your cloud, web programming expertise is very impressive, Good job!
Xianhua helped the miracle Walker team on the logistics, and also accommodated me and Xiaodong in this condo (very close to the Microsoft office), and also act as the Roaming Walkers for many times of test standing before the Kinect sensor!  
And Special thanks to Xiaodong for his excellent job on programming on the Naviswork side, and also his impressive suggestion, ideas for the team to make the virtual roaming in Naviswork true!