Brunify’s VR to learn MIB wins LiveWIRE Hackathon

Brunify’s pitch to develop digital actuality (VR) instructional content material round Malay Islamic Monarchy (MIB) just lately gained LiveWIRE Brunei’s Hackathon and the Progresif Particular Undertaking Award.

The staff of 4 college students from Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) and Politeknik Brunei (PB) earned $3,500 altogether from the 2 awards.

Brunify developed their idea over the hackathon from March 18 to twenty hosted at Progresif’s HQ, saying that VR would assist complement current MIB instructional efforts, for the reason that expertise has extensively used globally as an academic instrument to simulate extra immersive studying experiences.

In second profitable $1,500 was Studapp, who pitched to supply an edutainment animation net collection for Progresif centered round O-Degree topics starting with Arithmetic.

In the meantime S.W.O Tech’s plan to construct and deploy sensible, IoT family water retailers that individually measures output of faucets and pipes in residences took third and $1,000.

The sensible retailers can be designed to wirelessly feed information together with water utilization and stress to a cell software for customers to view in real-time. Though the federal government can monitor the whole water consumption of residences, the sensible retailers would be capable to breakdown total use.

Six groups comprising 25 youth from greater studying establishments participated within the hackathon: UBD, PB, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali and the Institute of Brunei Technical Training.

The hackathon was held to encourage youth to develop tech-related options in six core areas: atmosphere (power transition and waste administration), agrotechnology, digitalisation, sensible manufacturing, edutainment (training and humanities & tradition), and entrepreneurship.

With the beckoning of the fourth industrial revolution, the hackathon’s taking part teams are focused to type their very own startups that can then enter LiveWIRE’s enterprise growth programmes such because the High Ten Innovators and Enterprise Awards.

Darussalam Enterprise (DARe) served because the hackathon’s ecosystem associate, with Progresif as strategic associate.

The three day occasion included workshops by LiveWIRE counsellors and DARe representatives on constructing enterprise fashions, finance and pitching, whereas Progresif taught branding and advertising and marketing.

Native edutech startup Mindtrex Academy additionally participated in mentoring the scholars, alongside professionals from LiveWIRE, DARe and Progresif.

The judging panel evaluated the pitches primarily based on their particular person feasibility, industrial worth, staff composition, innovation and monetary prospects; in addition to how they aligned with the six core areas.

The judges included Brunei Shell Petroleum Firm’s Communication & Exterior Affairs Supervisor Suriani Garip; Community Integrity Assurance Applied sciences’ Deputy CEO Siti Nur Aazzah PD Hj Abdul Aziz; Progresif Chief Finance Officer Rashid Najeeb; and Progresif’s Head of Product Innovation Md Haziq Hj Mohd Sarip.

The highest three groups had been additionally awarded weekly teaching classes for a month with DARe and studying alternatives with Progresif.

Modernising MIB training with digital actuality 

Co-founder and third-year UBD scholar Md Adib Rifa’ie Asri (pictured) stated Brunify’s VR instructional content material growth journey will start with MIB because it’s a fundamental topic taught within the nationwide syllabus that has but to be delivered by way of the most recent applied sciences.

“MIB is our price and philosophy as Bruneians. Due to expertise, the youthful generations have entry to Western tradition,” stated Adib. “The youthful technology are straying from our personal tradition (and the VR expertise could make it extra engaging).” 

The content material can be accessible with wearable VR gadgets comparable to Oculus, and Brunify hopes to work with these liable for the syllabus’ creation to have the ability to design efficient VR studying experiences.