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My Experience at the world's first Holographic Hackathon

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  So this past weekend I went to Seattle to participate in the first ever Holographic Hackathon. This event sponsored mainly by Microsoft gave a select number of lucky individuals the opportunity to work with the Microsoft HoloLens device. As an organizer of hackathons for the past few years I was beyond excited to be a participant for a change. True this weekend was not the first chance for me to be around the device, we had several at our AEC Hackathon last month in SoCal, but it was the first time I had an uninterrupted weekend dedicated to developing for it. For those that are not familiar with this augmented reality headset, see the video below from Microsoft's Build 2016 keynote. Hackathon Day #1 The Holographic Hackathon was held at Fremont Studios just north of downtown Seattle. The venue was a super cool open space with blue lights and black curtains along the walls. The crowd was an interesting mix of software & Unity developers, audio engineers, a