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Looking for any advise or insight! thank you
Hello,
I am a masters student and for my thesis we are studying the impacts of fire on individuals. We were hoping to be able to design a VR game to simulate an in fire experience so including increasing smoke, difficulty seeing ect. We have 3D footage of the environment we are hoping to use.
I am just wondering, is it possible to turn this into a 'reality' and then upload it to the VR machine so that the subjects could be experiencing the fire environment as they are being tested?
Thank you so much, any assistance and guidance is appreciated.
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Sounds like a very interesting use of VR!
In terms of advice, the first and unfortunate point I would make is that it's not easy to naively turn video footage into a dynamic VR experience. If you have 360 video of a fire, having a person be stationary with only the ability to look around is eminently doable, but if you have regular footage that represent conceptually what you're going for, then you might need to spend some time building the environment itself.
If you're looking for a way to do so and photo-realism is important, I would recommend developing a PCVR experience that uses Unity's HDRP pipeline. There are some fire and smoke effects (free in VFX graph API samples) that are very very impressive looking in VR and could play a critical role in providing realism and immersion, so I would recommend looking there to see if the pipeline fits your needs.As far as achieving the effect you're going for, (conveying the feeling of being trapped in a fire), I think VR in general can work very well; obstructing the player's view with smoke and limiting their ability to move around is going to naturally make them feel trapped and relatively helpless (something that normally developers try to work against). With not too much effort I think you could get what you're going for up and running just by using standard VR API's.
Hey there @apt123.2002, that's a nifty idea you got there. You should make your idea visible by going here. You can post your idea, as well as any others, on this forum page for everyone to see!
