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MIT Reality Hack 2023: Team Amadeus

MIT Reality Hack 2023: Team Amadeus
Guitar Hero controller on a desk. There is a circuit board on the left side of it with an arduino. Behind that is a laptop with a 3d world on it displaying sound waves and a Quest 2.

Team Amadeus

A tool for educating young people on the science of sound with hardware and VR.

In 2.5 days a team that didn’t know each other made an experience that left people with smiles on faces.

This was our submission video to the judges.

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Amadeus in action

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Harmonix:

Here is a video of Eric Malafeew, the Lead Architect and Engineering lead of Harmonix ( the company that made Guitar Hero), using it at the public expo:

Team:

  • Edward Deaver, IV - Initial sensor testing, Github coordination, Unity Csound Synthesizer, video production.
  • Dana Sy-Ching - Hardware testing, wiring, input code
  • Yash Goyal - Hardware testing, wiring, input code
  • Whitt Sellers - Unity VFX Graph particle system and lead merging all of our code together in Unity.
  • Jacob Woods - Bluetooth code on ESP32 and communication between it and Unity.
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Edward Deaver

Edward Deaver is a creative technologist that enjoys spending his time outside climbing, running, hiking, and biking.

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