Last week, I attended one of Niko’s adaptive music sessions and it got me thinking about how music will be applied in my VR app. I began to make a list of sounds I needed for each of the interactions and background music and searched online for some sounds. I found some that fit into what I’m looking for and I tried to make sure that the sounds flowed with one another. They include:
App launch
Menu background music
Hover (https://freesound.org/people/deadsillyrabbit/sounds/251390/)
Select (https://freesound.org/people/TiesWijnen/sounds/413310/ )
Practice mode background
Awareness challenge background
Voice challenge background
Physical challenge background
Challenge results (https://freesound.org/people/GabrielAraujo/sounds/242501/ )
I’m still looking for a few more to add and will continue the search.
Another activity I did was a brainstorm locomotion interactions with fellow UX designers who are also in the VR space. At XR Studio, we all took a pile of index cards and wrote down our different ideas how a locomotion system for walking a dog would look like. After our individual brainstorm, we taped the ideas onto the wall/pillar and grouped them based on themes and similar ideas and shared why and how it would work. The objective -- what is the best locomotion of walking a dog in VR that causes the least amount of motion sickness? Some interaction that stood out were tilting and rotating the controller to adjust speed and direction and using the toggle.
That's all for this week!
Cheers,
Neilda Like Zelda
Cheers,
Neilda Like Zelda
Evolvr VR Week 5 - Avatar & Environmental Design Thoughts
by: Ren Wang
Image: Evolvr Oculus App
It’s quite challenging to design a "therapeutic" environment without it feeling medical or healthcare-related. Most of the time people relate therapy to a treating environment like a room in the clinic or even a hospital. Though using different methods, the room could be decorated to feel less cold and man-made, it’s a luxury that a therapy could be conducted in a natural environment that’s free from the fast-paced human world completely.
by: Ren Wang
Image: Evolvr Oculus App
It’s quite challenging to design a "therapeutic" environment without it feeling medical or healthcare-related. Most of the time people relate therapy to a treating environment like a room in the clinic or even a hospital. Though using different methods, the room could be decorated to feel less cold and man-made, it’s a luxury that a therapy could be conducted in a natural environment that’s free from the fast-paced human world completely.
In architecture, the invisible yet crucial factor in design is actually the reality itself, including limitation of gravity, site, weather conditions etc. Architects took advantage of these limitations and present to us amazing designs. Whereas in virtual reality, there are no such limitations - one could argue that it could be the computing performance or hardware - and a hard surface, a man-made structure is probably the easiest part to build (model) in VR. What’s most difficult is to realize the feeling of nature that already exists in our real world - the air, the breeze, the light, or you could say, nature.
How do you make “summer” in virtual reality? In the past month, I realized that design in virtual reality and reality (like architecture) has almost focused on the opposite things - virtual reality is about constructing the (almost invisible) context that you take for granted every day in reality. You can throw in a model of Villa Savoye in a second in virtual reality, but will that give you a complete experience of the house? No. It might be informative enough, but you don’t feel the house. Because in reality, you are experiencing the house in an environment. As I mentioned in my personal blog posts, the environment is largely ignored or done poorly as people are focusing more on story or functionality in VR. I want to design an environment that’s good enough for people to enjoy simply exploring, and the hub of the VR rehab is a good opportunity, stay tuned.
Hola amigos!
Last week was brain gymnastics for our team learning new skills in Unity. We were successful in creating our interactions in Unity using VRTK. However, there are still some challenges as we are getting familiar with working with scripts. We are managing our own expectations without deterring our vision by keeping a minimum viable experience top of mind, and documenting our wishlist of features, bells, and whistles as part of the long term roadmap for our experience. We're tackling our scenes one at a time with a list of interactions required for each story/experience. We look to the amusement park philosophies of Disneyland in setting a scene that tells a story. When you visit any of the theme park's areas, you know what world you're immersed in by the props, and design of the space.
- Buttons that open doors
- Teleporting
- Grabbing objects
- Collecting objects
Anyone else using VRTK?
Good news!
We have been successful in generating awareness from amazing Latin American independent artists interested in providing us their music. This helps in three ways.
1. Introduces our work to Latin American built in audiences
2. Creates interest from recording labels and sponsors
3 Gives us amazing music and support
Last week was brain gymnastics for our team learning new skills in Unity. We were successful in creating our interactions in Unity using VRTK. However, there are still some challenges as we are getting familiar with working with scripts. We are managing our own expectations without deterring our vision by keeping a minimum viable experience top of mind, and documenting our wishlist of features, bells, and whistles as part of the long term roadmap for our experience. We're tackling our scenes one at a time with a list of interactions required for each story/experience. We look to the amusement park philosophies of Disneyland in setting a scene that tells a story. When you visit any of the theme park's areas, you know what world you're immersed in by the props, and design of the space.
- Buttons that open doors
- Teleporting
- Grabbing objects
- Collecting objects
Anyone else using VRTK?
Good news!
We have been successful in generating awareness from amazing Latin American independent artists interested in providing us their music. This helps in three ways.
1. Introduces our work to Latin American built in audiences
2. Creates interest from recording labels and sponsors
3 Gives us amazing music and support
Hello OLP Team,
My weekly update today is my progress on the environment. I have been working hard with my environmental artist and we have started breaking ground on the forest we want to create in VR.
We started with drafting out the layout of the world through papers on our floor and once we finalized the layout we made sure the art style was set for our experience then we started modeling this in 3DSMax.
With the approach of creating this environment from the ground up, we are saving a ton on draw calls.
Traversing this previs version in VR is now only hitting 6 draw calls. Which is Amazing!!!!
I'll have more updates soon!
My weekly update today is my progress on the environment. I have been working hard with my environmental artist and we have started breaking ground on the forest we want to create in VR.
We started with drafting out the layout of the world through papers on our floor and once we finalized the layout we made sure the art style was set for our experience then we started modeling this in 3DSMax.
With the approach of creating this environment from the ground up, we are saving a ton on draw calls.
Traversing this previs version in VR is now only hitting 6 draw calls. Which is Amazing!!!!
I'll have more updates soon!
"POSTING FOR NEILDA PACQUING"
Last week, I attended one of Niko’s adaptive music sessions and it got me thinking about how music will be applied in my VR app. I began to make a list of sounds I needed for each of the interactions and background music and searched online for some sounds. I found some that fit into what I’m looking for and I tried to make sure that the sounds flowed with one another. They include:
App launch
Menu background music
Hover (https://freesound.org/people/deadsillyrabbit/sounds/251390/)
Select (https://freesound.org/people/TiesWijnen/sounds/413310/ )
Practice mode background
Awareness challenge background
Voice challenge background
Physical challenge background
Challenge results (https://freesound.org/people/GabrielAraujo/sounds/242501/ )
I’m still looking for a few more to add and will continue the search.
Another activity I did was a brainstorm locomotion interactions with fellow UX designers who are also in the VR space. At XR Studio, we all took a pile of index cards and wrote down our different ideas how a locomotion system for walking a dog would look like. After our individual brainstorm, we taped the ideas onto the wall/pillar and grouped them based on themes and similar ideas and shared why and how it would work. The objective -- what is the best locomotion of walking a dog in VR that causes the least amount of motion sickness? Some interaction that stood out were tilting and rotating the controller to adjust speed and direction and using the toggle.
That's all for this week!
Cheers,
Neilda Like Zelda
"POSTING FOR NEILDA PACQUING"
Last week, I attended one of Niko’s adaptive music sessions and it got me thinking about how music will be applied in my VR app. I began to make a list of sounds I needed for each of the interactions and background music and searched online for some sounds. I found some that fit into what I’m looking for and I tried to make sure that the sounds flowed with one another. They include:
App launch
Menu background music
Hover (https://freesound.org/people/deadsillyrabbit/sounds/251390/)
Select (https://freesound.org/people/TiesWijnen/sounds/413310/ )
Practice mode background
Awareness challenge background
Voice challenge background
Physical challenge background
Challenge results (https://freesound.org/people/GabrielAraujo/sounds/242501/ )
I’m still looking for a few more to add and will continue the search.
Another activity I did was a brainstorm locomotion interactions with fellow UX designers who are also in the VR space. At XR Studio, we all took a pile of index cards and wrote down our different ideas how a locomotion system for walking a dog would look like. After our individual brainstorm, we taped the ideas onto the wall/pillar and grouped them based on themes and similar ideas and shared why and how it would work. The objective -- what is the best locomotion of walking a dog in VR that causes the least amount of motion sickness? Some interaction that stood out were tilting and rotating the controller to adjust speed and direction and using the toggle.
That's all for this week!
Cheers,
Neilda Like Zelda
