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Innovative minds rally at China's 1st Tango Hackathon

china.org.cn / chinagate.cn by Guo Yiming, October 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

Tango Hackathon is concluded with a startup team called "Dajiaoguai" winning the competition on Oct. 11. [Photo provided to China.org.cn]
Over 20 startup teams, featuring the most advanced technologies in the AR (Augmented Reality) field, competed on a Hackathon, a sprint-like event for computer programmers involved in software development, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, on Oct. 12.

Tango Hackathon, sponsored by PC and smartphone giant Lenovo, has drawn over 100 young competitors for a 4-day intensive brainstorming and teamwork exercise to work out AR applications on Tango, a technology platform developed and authored by Google that uses vision to enable mobile devices.

The event is part of the 2016 National Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week, which stages a series of activities, including summits, forums, discussions and road shows.

The winning team of the Hackathon will be granted early-stage seed funding worth one million yuan and a 3-month free incubation from the Lenovo Accelerator, an incubator offering funding, infrastructure and business support for entrepreneurial startups specializing in core technology.

"The event gathers developers from all around the world, who brainstorm to develop new ideas and work out prototypes for new products," explained Cindy Liang, general manager of Lenovo Accelerator. "We want to develop Hackathon into a new model for promoting innovation and supporting start-ups."

"Lenovo has a full breadth of services and resources to help our Accelerator Entrepreneurs develop their product concepts and get off the ground rapidly, including R&D capability, marketing channels, end-to-end supply chain solutions and global mentor network."

The AR-centered competition – involving diversified inventions in gaming, education, consuming products and health care – represents Lenovo's ambitions for augmented reality.

The company said it will release its Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, the first Tango-enabled smartphone that features augmented reality gaming and utilities. It is also expected to introduce its AR app store to put new software into application in mobile phones and tablets.

The first Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week kicked off at Zhongguancun, known as China's Silicon Valley, in Beijing last October after Premier Li Keqiang called for "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" at the Summer Davos Forum in September 2014.

He called for a new wave of mass entrepreneurship and grass-roots entrepreneurship and innovation this year.

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