imageMirametrix is organizing a Hackathon event starting from Friday evening May 11th, 2012 through Sunday evening May 13th in Montreal at Notman house.

This Hackathon is a competition to build eye tracking games, applications and systems (including gesture aspects). Mirametrix, will provide the eye tracking equipment and Kinect gesture trackers.

Participants have the opportunity to network, be in touch with the new technology as well as develp new skills. The event is hosting fifty enthusiasts in hacking human computer interaction.

The team that impresses us the most will be awarded an S2 Eye tracker ($5,000 value), and a $3,000 cash prize. Additional prizes will be announced at the event, but the best prize of all will be spending an awesome weekend working with a ground-breaking technology and connecting with amazing developers, entrepreneurs, jedis and more!

Where

Notman House, 51 sherbrooke west in Montreal

When

Friday, May 11, 2012 at 6:00 PM – Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 10:00 PM

For more information you can visit:

http://mirametrixhackathon.eventbrite.com/

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Frédéric Harper is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Canada. In the IT world for more than 10 years, his expertise is mostly around Web development with different platforms and technology. If you want to talk about Web, Open Source, Open Standard and Interoperability, Fred is your man. Don't be afraid to get in touch with him as he is a social beast and a social media aficionado. To know more about him or on any technical and day-to-day subjects, go read his blog http://outofcomfortzone.net.

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