Computer Vision - Dallas presents Computer Visionaries 2014 , a Kinect Hack-a-thon sponsored by Microsoft. Friday, July 18 @ 5:00PM through Saturday, July 19 @11:00PM; Location: The Dallas Entrepreneur Center (the DEC) in the historic west end district of downtown Dallas.

Do you have a burning desire to shape the future of computing? Are you into bleeding edge technologies? Will you dedicate two days to build world changing technology, here in Dallas? If the answer is yes... you or your team could win up to $1,500 in cash and prizes.

Tickets are $10 and include meals provided by Microsoft. Tickets are limited to the first 150 people. Purchase a ticket here!

Developers, hackers, designers, entrepreneurs, roboticists, engineers, and anyone else interested in shaping the future of computing are invited to Computer Visionaries 2014. The new Kinect for Windows v2 has all new technology and an advanced SDK so you can build amazing projects that use gesture, body tracking, voice, and more to build games, business applications, usability software and other countless other applications. Click Here for More Kinect v2 Specifications and capabilities.

HOW COMPUTER VISIONARIES 2014 - THE EVENT - WORKS:

Competitors will be given the opportunity to present a business problem to all attending. Everyone who has an idea will be given 30 seconds to pitch to the audience. After presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to join any presenter and create a group or may choose to work on their own. Each group will have five minutes to present their solution to a panel of judges on Saturday night. First place wins: $500 in cash and up to five5 Kinect v2 sensors (one per team member). Additional prizes will be awarded to the top presenting teams, to each team presenting, and to each attendee. All registered attendees will be given Kinect v2 sample projects, source code and a thank you gift!

WHAT PARTICIPANTS NEED TO BRING:

1. A laptop/tablet/computer (Note: Only developers coding the Kienct apps are required to ahve Visual Studio and Windows 8 or 8.1 installed.)
2. Your Kinect v2 sensor (optional)
3. A problem in need of a Kinect based solution (optional)

All entries must be in person and have bought a ticket: http://www.computervisionaries.org/#tickets

• Marketable and Does it solve the problem well?
  Is this solution a marketable solution and does it solve the proposed problem well?