The SilverLogic Wins 2017 eMerge Americas Hackathon – Visa Category
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The SilverLogic, a Boca Raton software engineering company won first place at the 2017 eMerge Americas Visa Developer Hackathon. This is the 3rd year the team wins big at the annual tech conference.
TSL developed an augmented reality app within 24 hours. The Real Deal app was created to enhance and augment the consumer shopping experience, the application finds exclusive deals around you powered by the Visa Offers Resource Center. Users simply scan a storefront or nearby location with their iPhones, once the Real Deal app recognizes your location it will display animated pop ups showing customers deals available at that location. The Real Deal App can also be used from home with Amazon’s Alexa, shoppers can ask Alexa to tell them deals from the merchants around their location.
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According to David Hartmann, a member of the winning team “the Hackathon gave them an opportunity to try some awesome new technologies like ARKit, Google Vision API, Amazon Alexa, facial recognition, and machine learning”. The Real Deal app is a completely functional native iOS/Alexa/Django app featuring the brand, new Apple ARKit, Visa Merchant Offers Resource Center, Visa Merchant Locator, Google Vision, and Amazon Alexa.
Real Deal code is open source and available on Github (feel free to fork):
iOS code: https://github.com/silverlogic/RealDeal
Django code: https://github.com/silverlogic/real-deal-back
Alexa code: https://github.com/silverlogic/real-deal-alexa
About The SilverLogic
The SilverLogic makes ideas happen, whether they require sophisticated apps, websites, business automation, artificial intelligence, or platforms. Collaborating closely with clients, they strive to exceed expectations and are dedicated to delivering the best possible products to their clients and their users. The SilverLogic is excited to be on the forefront of the augmented reality (AR) and machine learning revolution.