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2023 AR/VR Africa 

Demo Day

April 
5th
, 
2023
11:00am 
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Showcasing African XR creativity & innovation across the globe 

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For the AR/VR Africa Demo Day!


The Demo Day is the culmination of an intensive 3-month virtual bootcamp designed to support teams in advancing their XR solutions. These 1st place teams from the 2022 AR/VR Africa hackathon have participated in weekly sessions facilitated by industry experts and received technical and financial support to build their MVPs.


Seventeen teams will pitch their innovative solutions on Demo Day. This event will bring together industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and the XR ecosystem for an unforgettable experience.


Join us for a day of immersive product demos, pitches, expert advice, and invaluable networking. Don’t miss out on this first look opportunity for African XR talent and innovation.

 
Get ready to experience African XR in action!



The Location

This hybrid program will be held in-person in 16 African cities, with a simultaneous virtual event allowing all to connect and watch the teams pitch. Able to join in person? Contact our Country Partner in the city you are in:


Douala, Cameroon -  SDK Games
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire - GoMyCode
Goma, DRC - Wito XR Studio

Cairo, Egypt - 5dVR
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Guzo Technologies
Accra, Ghana - Nubian VR

Nairobi, Kenya - BlackRhino VR

Maputo, Mozambique -  Ideia Lab & Inkdot

Windhoek, Namibia - Muhoko Investment Group

Lagos, Nigeria -  Imisi 3D

Kigali, Rwanda - African Leadership University

Dakar, Senegal - Digi Leeb Studio

Johannesburg, South Africa - African Technopreneurs

Dar es Saleem, Tanzania - Ona Stories

Tunis, Tunisia - NETINFO

Kampala, Uganda - IDI, Makerere University


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The Teams

N-Tech 

Team N-Tech from Cameroon 

N-Tech utilizes VR to create a solution that simulates machine maintenance and can be used to train users on how to perform maintenance services on complex industrial equipment.

Dev De Babi

Dev De Babi from Cote D'Ivoire

Dev De Babi’s solution, AR Learn,

allows children learn about animals in local and foreign languages via stickers. It also has a VR version that allows parents/ guardians send exercises to a child with a corresponding sticker through the headset directly to the AR app in real time.


Relic Works

Relic Works from Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Relic Work's solution is a VR educational game with different modes and levels that allows users to learn and explore the places and historical moments in African kingdom. Through this solution, users will now better understand African history and geography.


14A

Team 14A from Egypt

Team 14A's solution, Vractice, is a VR application that helps users prepare for critical moments such as job interviews, exams etc. Users are able to practice and prepare themselves mentally anywhere anytime.

Team Unity

Team Unity from Ethiopia

Team Unity's solution, VR Exposure Therapy for Glossophobia, is aimed at treating people with glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, by applying exposure therapy in VR using different settings (classroom, conference room etc) and various difficulty levels to simulate real-world scenarios.

Team Office

Team Office from Ghana

Team Office's solution is a mental health solution focused on depression and stress management. An AI psychologist diagnoses patients within a virtual setting and propose measures to help the patient. 


Imagine XR

Team Imagine XR from Kenya

Imagine XR's solution, Ngoma XR, utilizes AR to educate people on how to make musical instruments from waste products, and how to play these instruments. Another aim of the solution is to showcase as many African instruments while educating communities in art, cultural heritage, pollution and business empowerment.


X3D

Team X3D from Kenya

Team X3D's solution, I Hear You, is an immersive VR experience that is responsive to sign language while simultaneously teaching its users this language. The solution was inspire by two students, one with cerebral palsy and another with a limb impairment who cannot use the controllers as other able-bodied students.

Techunters

Team Techunters from Mozambique

Techunters' AR Lab is a school lab solution that allows pre-university students to complete physics classes and experiments in a virtual environment using AR. Students can interact with the schemes and components of an electrical circuit, thus going beyond theory.


Hedz Up

Team Hedz Up from Namibia

Hedzup is a world scale AR platform which delivers location and context-based data to users. It focused on the interaction between users, users and businesses, and users with the city, and introduces e-commerce concepts and the metaverse to anyone with a smartphone.

Octane

Team Octane from Nigeria

Team Octane created Block VR. BlockVR is a VR solution which educates users on the construction cycle of buildings, the different component that makes up different buildings (commercial, historical etc) and also how each component affects the user experience of the building. It aims to facilitate contextual learning and retention in architecture for students, Institutions, and professionals.

Legion

Team Legion from Rwanda

Team Legion created a Surgery Simulator, a VR experience that teach users how surgery is carried out. It will aid medical students in acquiring surgical knowledge and optimise efficiency during surgeries for doctors through AR/VR.

Animus

Team Animus from Senegal

Team Animus' AR-STRUCT aims to ease the understanding of different building plans (e.g. concrete plan, plumbing plan, electricity plan etc) for its users. It projects single 3D representations of buildings and offers fully manipulable virtual materials (e.g.engines, electric circuit etc) too expensive or not readily accessible.

Silent Snipers

Team Silent Snipers from South Africa

Team Silent Sniper's Unbound Virtual Tours is a virtual tour experience that provides users with immersive and realistic tours with interactions with locals and businesses.It aims to have an added feature which allows users receive a souvenir box from any local store explored in the experience.

Team Mama

Team Mama from Tanzania

Team Mama's solution, C-Section VR Training Simulation, is an interactive and immersive training experience which complements and adds value to current training procedures and experiences provided on performing Caesarean section surgeries. It takes the player (trainee) through the surgery procedure step-by-step, assesses performance and provides feedback.


AR Lab Team

AR Lab Team from Tunisia

AR Lab's solution is a virtual chemistry lab that helps users learn, experiment and practice chemistry by reading detailed information, experimenting by adding and mixing chemicals with no risk of accidents. It is aimed at improving the quality of education in Africa while reducing cost. 


Chazon

Team Chazon from Uganda

The Chazon Solution is a virtual market that allows potential clients immerse themselves in creative content and also experience the ‘try-before-you-buy’ concept. Its diversity is built on a vast scale of end users and service providers from different industries - hospitals, real estate, interior designing etc.


Schedule (WAT)

11:00am – Arrivals & Networking

 

12:00pm – Welcome

 

12:15pm – Pitches (Part 1)

 

 2:15pm – Lunch & Demos

 

3:00pm  – Pitches (Part 2)

 

3:50pm  – A word from the Partners 


4:05pm  – Networking & Demos

 

4:50pm  – Closing Remarks

 

5:00pm  – Cocktail



"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

– Arthur C. Clarke, Author

2023 AR/VR Africa 

Demo Day

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