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Being a Volunteer for VRA Hackathon

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On 7 October 2017, I had made some great achievement which is being volunteer for an event for the first time in my life. I had never try being any volunteer for any event before. At first, I am actually the one who was chosen to join the hackathon but our class are really having tons of stuff to do like assignments and final exam is coming soon. After few discussion with the lecturers, we are given to choice to join any thing we want. I actually did not refuse to join the hackathon if we are given enough time or this hackathon event is organize on the period that we are not that busy. Unfortunately, the date is fixed and our VR3 assignment progress still more to go. So, i couldn't afford to spent two whole day for the hackathon and i join the volunteer instead. Before going to the event, i actually had no idea what is that and i never heard of hackathon before. I was expecting this is a big event which has around 500-800 people participating and a lots of volunteers are helping. ...

A Visit to Exa Outpost

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On the day of 8 September 2017, we went to the first VR theme park in malaysia that offers multiplayer free roaming VR experience which is launched by the EXA Global in Setiawalk, Puchong. I was so excited to know that there is a free roaming VR game exist because one of the weakness of VR game is that we couldn’t roam freely as there will be lots of wire messing around and the devices will go out of detection area.  So, i set quite a high expectation towards the visit to Exa. It was raining cats and dogs at the moment when me and my coursemate trying to get ourselves to the Exa as there were no bus provided for us due to the MMU convocation day. However, we managed to get ourselves to Exa just on time. And.... We reach here like finally! (Image taken from Malaysia hardwarezone.com because i forget to take a picture of the outside) Exa uses black and yellow colors as the color theme of their structure design. The exterior design of Exa looks pretty mysterious and it gi...