#engage3d

This last week we announced the 22 final round winners of the Mozilla Ignite Challenge in Chicago. Here’s a few of the winning projects we wanted to share:

Check out Mozilla Ignite Winners Engage3D: A real-time 3D Telepresence System

3D videoconferencing in the browser

“Our 3D  video conferencing application brings the Microsoft Kinect’s three dimensional capabilities to the web, streaming content in three dimensions right in the browser. It brings live, interactive and 3D educational content into classrooms at no additional cost  to schools.

Unlike traditional video, our application  allows students to really interact with the content — moving, seeing  and exploring — in an immersive way that has not been seen before.

We  had the opportunity to showcase an early version of our application  for  a crowd of more than 1200 last March at the Chattanooga  Downtown Public Library.  Children and teens (and even a  few senior  citizens!) were mesmerized.

We initially assumed  that the  best application for our technology would be in healthcare or  business, but the fascination we saw at that event made us realize that 3D video  conferencing could become a powerful educational tool.”

New open web tools pushing the envelope

“Through three rounds of pitches and development, our team  has learned  so much about the exciting possibilities and challenges of  gigabit  application development.  We’ve also gained new expertise in  web tools  such as websockets and Three.js.  And without the funding of this program, our organization  would  never have come to life.