Winners – Apotheosis Group and University of British Columbia

In collaboration with Kalypso and IEEE, the 3D Retail Coalition (3DRC) hosted the sixth annual Grand Challenge in late 2023. Teams from around the world submitted projects focused on this year’s theme: the transformative potential of Generative AI for 3D Product Creation. With creative research and innovative solutions, teams aimed to show how their projects could revolutionize how retailers and brands discover, create, make, and sell new products.

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Winner – Emersya

Now in its fifth year, the 2022 3DRC Grand Challenge: 3D Virtualization for Retailers and Brands invited the academic and research communities to present creative research and solutions with the potential to transform how companies create, make, and sell new products by harnessing the power of digital product creation.

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Winners – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, University of Florence, and Vital Mechanics Won the 2021 Retail Digital Transformation Grand Challenge

Now in its fourth year, this year the competition challenges the academic and research communities to offer up innovations, research and solutions to address these issues while helping build capabilities for the future of retail.

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Winner – unspun

The 2020 Retail Digital Transformation Grand Challenge announced unspun, a pioneering apparel brand that has reinvented the conventional apparel value chain, as the winner of the competition.

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Winner – 3DLOOK

Check out the 2019 winner and stay tuned here for information about the 2020 grand challenge that will be launching in February 2020.

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Winner – Shimmy Technologies

In 2018 IEEE 3DBP, the 3DRC and PI introduced the Retail Digital Transformation Grand Challenge. Check out the 2018 winner.

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