Assignments

If you have a general assignment ask yourself following questions:

• Who is my user group? Who are my stakeholders?

• Why does my client want to have a VR experience? What the proposed purpose of the product? And, do we agree?

• When will the product be used? What does this moment look like? Is it a casual moment? Does the moment occur repetitiously?

• Where will the product be used? What kind of environment? What kind of feel does this environment have? Who are present? And who are not?

• How is the product used? Does it need support? Is that available?

• What are we going to make that is contributory to the clients needs and society as well?

Brainstorming

Conceptualization

Create a concept for your virtual reality idea.

1. Start with the spatial design: (think about spatial narrative - create a floorplan & bubble diagram

Is the spatial narrative and spatial design clear?

Ask yourself following questions:

1. Wayfinding – how does the user understand where he is, and does he know his way through?

2. Navigation - how does the user move from A to B: teleportation, walk-in-place, other?

3. Selection & Manipulation – how is the user able to select and manipulate actions in the experience?

4. Feedback & feedforward – how does the user get feedback? What kind of information and what form does it have? ( visual, auditive, haptic feedback)

1. Create a top down view for every space & every event

Before creating the top-down view, ask yourself following questions:

• Where are you in the space?

• Are you there? Do you have a body?

• Who do you share the space with?

• What’s your relationship towards the others?

• Comfort space exists in the virtual world!

• Passive spectator – active participator 1st person – 3th person How to appeal to the viewer?

1. Analytic model

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T1NBdzh5B9_3S3G_Far3oj1aOsfVs0fj/edit?ouid=106237340022990813910&rtpof=true&sd=true&usp=share_linkdocs.google.com

• Create a moodboard ( environment, atmosphere, video - 3D, visual aspects, spatial immersion )

• Detail the top-down view storyboard (per event / per space): add text

1. Creating a prototype in Unity

2. Documentation

• composition of your team + roles + groups number/name

• A title clearly explaining the functional aspects of the project

• The logic of the VR simulation presented as a written playbook and visual storyboards ( story structure, moodboard, user flow, conceptualization, ..)

• A paragraph explaining why VR is an added value compared to the situation without a VR component (min. 1/2 A4)

• A paragraph explaining the validation/testing process and conclusions (min. 1/2 A4)

• your teams experience in a multidisciplinary collaboration (min. 1/2 A4)

• conclusion of each individual in the multidisciplinary collaboration (min.10 sentences/person)

• what are the next steps to go from your prototype to a VR product (min 1/2 A4)

Recordings: - a movieclip of a demo of your VR application: Platform: YouTube

VR application:

• a shared folder of all the assets , documents, code, clips, APK file in your teams channel

• a publication of your VR application on sidequest

1. Presentation

• Target group: who is my audience?

• How will he/she experience your production?

• What’s the goal of your production?

• Position/role of the user in your experience

• Type of immersion. Why?

• Moodboard: environment, atmosphere, video - 3D, visual aspects, spatial immersion

• 360 map of main scene

• Story structure and user flow (Storyboard)