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Congratulations to the guys at Defiant Development who have achieved a second placing in the Qualcomm 2010 Augmented Reality (AR) Developer Challenge. Morgan Jaffit announced the good news late last night that the Brisbane based indie team received a cash prize of $50,000 for their motorcycle stuntman game called Inch High Stunt Guy...
From Morgan's Tweet...
Defiant just picked up a 50k prize in the qualcomm ar comp! Excited to see what we can do next with Inch High Stunt Guy!2nd Place – $50,000 – Inch High Stunt Guy by Defiant Development Pty Ltd. (Australia) A game where the player arranges various obstacles to enable a stuntman to successfully jump his motorcycle through a hoop The Qualcomm 2010 Augmented Reality (AR) Developer Challenge commenced with the launch of Qualcomm's AR software development kit (SDK) in October 2010. The initiative was an effort to kick start the development of Augmented Reality based applications. From the Qualcomm press release...
"Qualcomm congratulates the winners and all the developers that provided submissions," said Jay Wright, director of business development at Qualcomm. "With just over three months of development time since the SDK became available, developers have shown that compelling AR experiences can be created rapidly using Qualcomm’s platform."