"Music & Entertainment" track winner at World Hackathon Day

World Hackathon Day took place online this weekend (29. - 31. May, 2020) and my team (Mohamed Bouallegue, Niksa Vlahusic and I) won the track "Music & Entertainment" with project "VR Concerts powered by AI"!

Nowadays concerts are being cancelled and artists are giving online shows. We like music and we miss concert experiences, so we came up with the idea to create a new digital platform where concerts can be seen in Virtual Reality.

Platform should allow artists to create concerts easily and to share them with their fans. With use of Artificial Intelligence, viewing experience would be enhanced and much better than on the standard video sharing platforms.

We used different technologies in order to build this project. The main site was built with HTML, Javascript and PHP. For the Virtual Reality part we used Unity. Video processing is done with Microsoft Azure Video Indexer for scenes and keyframe detection. Solution is hosted on Microsoft Azure.

We are proud that we managed to build VR solution powered by AI in such a short time. We are also proud that this project was built from home with team members located in 3 different countries: Sweden ????, Germany ???? and Croatia ????.

Music video used in our demo project is streamed from here. All rights to that video belongs to awesome band Goldfinger. We would also like to say that we really appreciate their (and other bands) efforts in making "stay home" / "quarantine" music videos.

Special thanks go out organisers Nir Kouris, Ignacio Agramont Bejarano, Julien van Dorland, and to all other people included in hackathon organisation, mentors and sponsors who made this hackathon possible!