Hygge

Overview

Hygge is an immersive augmented reality experience that brings the cozy and comforting atmosphere of hygge into customer's homes. It allows users to visualize and purchase fixtures from real store catalogs, creating a personalized ambiance that promotes relaxation and well-being. View on Devpost

Successes

I implemented virtual relighting to work in the real space, an LLM recommendation system, made a valiant attempt at drop-in multi-user, and enabled our 3 designers to work in Unity and C# with git.

We had some really really sweet branding/design, video-making was awesome. Also had fun the entire time meeting everybody at the hack!

Made a 3D model pipeline with a ton of heavy lifting using AI for mesh and texture gen, procedurally (and sometimes hand-) optimizing them for Quest.

Learnings

We generated AI video commercials that were inspiringly cohesive, the tech is becoming really useful.

I learned a valuable lesson in decision-making, there was a point where I knew it would be risky to do drop-in multiplayer and more complicated design logic with fixture recommendations. I should've picked a lane but crashed in the middle of both at like 3am Sunday. But like who is Icarus without the sun, Sisyphus without his rock... I'll make better decisions on the next one. This has me fired up to do another hack soon!