We're excited to announce our first challenge for 2024, the 8th Wall Time Capsule Challenge. This first challenge is an opportunity for developers to flex their creative muscles and push the boundaries of WebAR experiences. The Time Capsule Challenge will run from February 6th to March 25th and is an opportunity to not only show off your technological skills but lead audiences through a voyage through time by blending history, culture, and WebAR together for a powerful immersive experience.
Our journey with the Time Capsule Challenge begins with the 'Info + Ideation’ event. Here, you'll gain valuable insights into the theme and objectives, and spark your imagination with an ideation session to iron out your ideas. Following this, we delve deeper with '8Talks: Using WebAR for Historical Preservation,' where our friends from ROSE Digital share how WebAR can be a powerful tool for capturing and immortalizing historical moments. The final event will be 'Cre8te: Teleport Users Anywhere in Time Using WebAR,' a workshop focused on a hands-on walkthrough of building a portal + VPS experience.
The grand finale of our Time Capsule challenge will be the awarding of the 'Era Innovator' Grand Prize of $5,000, celebrating the entry that most impressively embodies our criteria of Time Traveler, Innovation, Niantic’s Mission, and Completeness. Alongside this prestigious award, we'll recognize outstanding achievements in other categories with the 'Timeless Creativity Prize,' 'Temporal-Geographic Explorer Prize,' 'Historian’s Choice Prize,' and the 'Cultural Heritage Prize.'
Judging will be based on these four criteria: