Nokia announces winners of Future Capture contest; some amazing imaging apps are coming soon

Before long later the Lumia 1020 launched, Nokia announced an open contest to developers around the globe. It was chosen Nokia Futurity Capture. The contest aimed for developers to dream upwards imaging apps and hacks to take advantage of some of the new hardware in the Lumia 1020. Nokia and so chose ten ideas, flew the developers with those ideas to Sweden, and had a hackathon to meet which ideas proved strongest. These are the results.

Let's aggrandize on the quick recap from higher up. The competition called for developers to submit ideas to Nokia effectually imaging. In July, Nokia released both their new Imaging SDK and a device to really push button mobile photography – the Lumia 1020. The Nokia Future Capture contest was focused on giving developers the chance to push button their creativity with imaging and photography. A developer could submit upwards to iii ideas for an app or hack on those guidelines.

Nokia would then select the top 10 ideas. From there they brought the developers to Lund, Sweden for a hackathon. This hackathon was a identify for those 10 winning ideas to be created past their developers. The contest was open to new ideas and apps/hacks previously created weren't considered. This was an outcome to showcase new uses of the engineering science Nokia'due south been creating.

The superlative prize? A Nokia Lumia 1020 and a trip to a Nokia event with all expenses paid (and VIP treatment). The top winner would also take their app promoted via several Nokia channels and the Windows Phone Shop. Who won?

ane^st Prize – Rudy Chen and Shida Li, Canada
1^st Runner Up – Jason Podwojski, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland
2^nd Runner Up –Matt Cavanagh, South Africa

What did Rudy and Shida create to win the hackathon? The duo created a "Smart Resizing" app. What does information technology do? It allows a user to "downsample" an image, basically editing or removing empty infinite in an epitome to produce a final consequence that is seamless.

The video below highlights the entire upshot, but you can get a glimpse of their app towards the end. We're confident we'll exist hearing, seeing, and using this app in the not likewise distant future.

Congrats to both Rudy and Shida and all the developers who participated in the hackathon. We hope to see all apps make it to the Shop shortly. The details around all the apps are deficient at the moment. Nokia is going to continue to help all participants make those apps a reality.

Missed out on the Nokia Time to come Capture contest? Don't worry, Nokia is announcing a new contest soon. Nosotros'll share the details when they do.

Source: Nokia Conversations, Future Capture

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