UI graduate student Alic Szecsei said his team’s project involved using Microsoft Hololens, a type of smart glasses that merges virtual reality with reality, for image text processing. His team won first place last year for its project involving the virtual reality system Occulus Rift.

“The idea is that you would be able to wear the Hololens, look at some handwriting or a sign, and be able to essentially have the device turn that into machine texts,” Szecsei said. “Then we could, for example, translate it on the fly.”