With lighter headsets on the horizon, the number of ways in which users might consume media in the future are endless! So for our latest contest, we asked ShapesXR users to come up with innovative prototypes for mixed reality applications that suggest new and exciting ways in which people might consume media in the metaverse.
We asked designers to consider how media consumption, in a mixed reality environment, would adapt to real world spaces, integrate social interaction, and enhance the overall experience for users.

Final

On December 16th, five finalists presented their prototypes, LIVE from ShapesXR, to a panel of industry professionals from Netflix, Meta, and Google.
Audience members tuned in from around the world via YouTube live to watch each finalist take to the virtual stage to present their ShapesXR design for a mixed reality application that innovated a new and creative way for users to consume media in the future.
Each finalist had five minutes to present their project, and our three winners were announced at the conclusion of the event.

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The update of ShapesXR adds new features for all Quest users, takes advantage of Meta Quest Pro capabilities to push the boundaries of creation in Mixed Reality, and makes collaborating a more immersive and social experience. Let us walk you through all the new features:

Avatars

Bring your own Meta avatar in ShapesXR for a more social experience. We have finetuned and adapted the whole UX to make sure being together would never feel overwhelming or distracting… no matter the size you are in 😉

Color passthrough

We recently added powerful MR functionalities to ShapesXR and NOW couldn’t be more excited to enable all our users with full-color passthrough 🌈. Anybody with a Meta Quest Pro will be able to visualize UI and test interactions in higher fidelity and accelerate the design process for all Mixed Reality apps and games coming to the new generation of MR headsets.

Face tracking

ShapesXR is the perfect place to brainstorm in XR or present your designs or 3D storyboards… and it just got A WHOLE LOT better 🚀. Anybody using a Meta Quest Pro can enable face and eye tracking capabilities and unlock the full potential of human expressiveness. Communicating and interacting in VR or MR has never been more accessible and effective.

Stylus

Sketching and commenting are an integral part of the design process and the integration with the Stylus controllers makes it a more precise and delightful experience. Flip the Stylus controller, set up the sketching tablet on your table and you are good to go.

New onboarding

We have redesigned our onboarding experience and you can now access a library of videos voiced over by our legendary instructor Jeremy Casper. He will guide you step by step, teaching the basics and advanced features while you design your very own prototype.

Learn the XR design process in our new template

Explore the brand-new template and meet the recorded avatar of Michael, ShapesXR very own product designer. He will guide you through an example of our design process showing ideation, low and high-fidelity prototyping, and even ideas for responsive design in mixed reality.

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Winners

1 Place - Diego Millan

Diego is an AR & VR developer graduate student, electrical engineer, and an avionics technician.
Diego designed an application that suggested ways in which airline passengers could consume media during flight. Mixed reality tabletop games that you could play with other passengers, real-time map overlays that one could view while looking out the window, and 360 flight cameras accessible via users' headsets were just a few of Diego's exciting ideas.

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2 place

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2 Place - Imtissal Hallak

Imtissal is an immersive designer and came up with an innovative way of incorporating mixed reality into the analog experience of reading a magazine. For her design she showed how an MR application could be used to dramatically enhance the experience of reading National Geographic. Imtissal incorporated sidebar overlays, audio cues, and even an interactive 3D model of the solar system into her design.

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3 Place - Michael Markman

Michael is a senior XR designer and prototyper. Michael prototyped a social media, mixed reality application called Portals. Portals would allow users to interact with short form media content in highly immersive ways. Not only could users watch portal content in AR, they could create volumetric immersive content directly from their phones.

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Finalists

Jayson Hahn

Jayson is an AR/VR designer at Spatial. Jayson’s presentation was a master class in XR design theory. He demonstrated how mixed realities applications could easily adapt to the needs, experience levels, and desires of individual users.

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Jose Somolinos

Jose is a solutions strategist and XR lead accedo.tv. José designed an interactive, social application that allows users to watch media in real time with friends, view volumetric content, and interact with AI avatars based on characters from the movies they are watching.

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3hd place

Honorable Mention

Andrew P. Alderete

Andrew is a content creator, XR developer, digital strategist, and world builder at CineConcerts. Andrew's highly immersive design would transport audiences into virtual concert halls, where they’d be fully immersed in live orchestra performances of scores from popular movies, all while watching the films unfold on giant virtual screens.

The first ShapesXR contest

Final

Update - Quest Pro update with eye and face tracking for avatars, colored MR and stylus. Quest 1,2 and Pro Update - avatars.

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Avatars

Color passthrough

Face tracking

Stylus

New onboarding

Learn the XR design process in our new template

Winners

1 Place - Diego Millan

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2 Place - Imtissal Hallak

3 Place - Michael Markman

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Finalists

Jayson Hahn

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Jose Somolinos

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Honorable Mention

Andrew P. Alderete

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