Team Colladine, Maco & Karlo, wasn't able to win Globe Labs' Google Cardboard Hackathon. Now we are trying to close this chapter of our lives and move on, not by forgetting about it but by learning from it. What better way to learn from something than documenting a postmortem?
Content from this blog will come in slowly as I try to remember every important events. I also wanted to add pretty comics so you won't get bored with my banters. But be warned; I may have had some artistic liberties while writing, and there will be a lot of swearing (and probably a lot of grammatical errors)
Team Colladine, Maco & Karlo, wasn't able to win Globe Labs' Google Cardboard Hackathon. Now we are trying to close this chapter of our lives and move on, not by forgetting about it but by learning from it. What better way to learn from something than documenting a postmortem?
I heard about Hackathon
I first heard about Globe Labs’ Google Cardboard Hackathon event after the Global Game Jam ended. The big nerds in the office were raving about Globe Labs' Hackathon event being moved. The hackathon was all about Google's Cardboard Virtual Reality (VR) gimmick, but I didn't mind it. One day, Karlo, the biggest nerd of them all, approached me asking if I can help him out on Hackathon because his first choice partner was already taken by another developer. I was hesitant because first of all, Cardboard App was new tech I don't understand. Secondly, I don't know shit about Unity. And Lastly, Karlo don't know shit about Unity. I threw him bullshit ideas, thinking he might leave me alone.
By lunch time, I tried hearing out his idea. It was something about the internet, going through lines like the ones on Wreck It Ralph VR experience, then calling it an educational application. Though it was not a bad idea, I thought, by the end of the day it's all just a gimmick. It can be replicated in a really big screen like iMax, or on a laptop in a dark room. Also, who's the target audience? Really old people? Will it be something you'll use again once you've experienced it?
I threw him more bullshit ideas so I can escape the conversation. I never really answered his invitation to the hackathon.
I first heard about Globe Labs’ Google Cardboard Hackathon event after the Global Game Jam ended. The big nerds in the office were raving about Globe Labs' Hackathon event being moved. The hackathon was all about Google's Cardboard Virtual Reality (VR) gimmick, but I didn't mind it. One day, Karlo, the biggest nerd of them all, approached me asking if I can help him out on Hackathon because his first choice partner was already taken by another developer. I was hesitant because first of all, Cardboard App was new tech I don't understand. Secondly, I don't know shit about Unity. And Lastly, Karlo don't know shit about Unity. I threw him bullshit ideas, thinking he might leave me alone.