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At the RealityShift Hackathon held at University of Southern California, we were challenged with a single prompt:
“Build an XR application that addresses a social issue.”
We spent 2 hours brainstorming before deciding to tackle this:

𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐕𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬

As people get older or develop balance issues, they often struggle to keep their vision steady while moving their head. Doctors typically prescribe simple eye and head exercises to help.
For example, focusing on a thumb while turning the head side to side, repeated several times, followed by similar exercises.

The problem is that these exercises are boring.
And when something is boring, people lose motivation to do them consistently.

Until Now!

Thanks to King Evan and his soldiers! we have the amazing Spectacles using which we gamified these exercises!

Now, users are more motivated to consistently perform these exercises.
Our app can also act as a tracking/logging system, as well as an accuracy system, so that people can go back to their doctors and, rather than asking doctors to take their word for doing the exercises, they can proudly show proof that they carried out the exercises consistently and accurately.

Here's how our Demo works:
You focus on a bird in front of you, and move your head in the direction of the breadcrumbs in front of you accurately to collect them and you continue to follow this as you progress to the next exercise and so on.

Feel free to check out the demo of our AR app in the video below or on our Devpost:
https://devpost.com/software/the-vestibular-eye

As usual, we wish we had more time to completely merge developed features such as bird animations (turning based on head direction), a main menu with a tutorial, visual effects and a time limit, but we are happy that we were able to build something functional within the short time frame.

We are excited to continue improving this with features like unlockable bird models, cloud-based data tracking, and more!

We competed against teams of four and still placed 3rd as a team of two.
Huge thanks to Peter Locharernkul for making that possible! 🤝

Thank you, u/nick-ross, for being the best mentor and judge we could have asked for! 🫡
Thank you, Steven Xu, for your support and for sharing your personal inspiring XR journey! 🙌

Kudos to the entire RealityShift team for organizing such a smooth and well-executed event, especially given the limited preparation time 👏

Looking forward to the next one 💯

Feel free to show support on our LinkedIn post and lets connect! 🤝
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amirmbk_xr-augmentedreality-spatialcomputing-activity-7453917949838663680-jHdY