{"594327":{"#nid":"594327","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Team Brings Home Second Place in Microsoft Imagine World Cup ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team from Georgia Tech took home second place in this year\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/imagine.microsoft.com\/en-us\/Compete\u0022\u003EMicrosoft Imagine Cup World Finals\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EComputer engineering and computer science major \u003Cstrong\u003EWenqi Xian\u003C\/strong\u003E and computer science majors \u003Cstrong\u003ECheng Hann Gan\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003ESarthak Srinivas\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ndash; team \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/oculogx.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOculogx\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ndash; competed against dozens of other finalist teams in this annual global competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow in its fifteenth year, the Imagine Cup challenges student developers to use Microsoft\u0026nbsp;platforms to create innovative software solutions. Competitors must first advance from of their national competitions before qualifying for the global contest.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOculogx competed against 54 other finalist teams over a two-day period before making it to a final group of four teams. The Georgia Tech team Oculogx finished behind Team X.GLU from the Czech Republic and ahead of the third and fourth place teams from Argentina and Canada.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team\u0026nbsp;built a mixed reality warehouse navigation app using HoloLens and Microsoft Azure that increases efficiency by making it easier for workers to find items quickly. The team earned $25,000 and $25,000 in credits toward a Microsoft Azure subscription for its second-place finish.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOculogx\u0026nbsp;competed earlier in the year for the 2017 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Inventure Prize\u003C\/a\u003E as PickAR.\u0026nbsp;Oculogx is also a startup company\u0026nbsp;and was founded by industrial and systems engineering student Charu Thomas. They specialize in augmented reality software solutions for other businesses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Student team fares well in global contest for young software developers"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A student team from Georgia Tech has created an innovative software solution using Microsoft\u0027s Azure and HoloLens technologies."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2017-08-11 16:40:39","changed_gmt":"2017-08-11 18:17:49","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594328":{"id":"594328","type":"image","title":"Team Oculogx","body":null,"created":"1502469722","gmt_created":"2017-08-11 16:42:02","changed":"1502469722","gmt_changed":"2017-08-11 16:42:02","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226500","name":"imagine_cup.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/imagine_cup.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/imagine_cup.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17649,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/imagine_cup.jpg?itok=V6zhSHIw"}}},"media_ids":["594328"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlbert Snedeker, Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-7253\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}