VR/AR

Virtual Reality Game Design-

Touch the Painting

A Unity game to study back view impact on spatial ability and performance

What is the Game?

Touch the Mona Lisa painting!

The game is about finding some famous paintings in the Louvre Museum. Participants need to find several paintings and touch them in a maximum 20 minutes to win the game

Team- Hila, Pooja, Trishala

Goal

To evaluate a theory of "why" a wider field of view (front view + rear view) in immersed virtual reality plays a role in spatial judgement and performance

Central Research Question

Why Adding Back View in immersed Virtual Reality impacts Spatial Perception?

Tools

Hardware- Dell computer Meta Pro Max + Joystick for moving in the game

Software- Unity 3D & Rhino (for 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design)

Timeline

Discovery & Research- 10 weeks

Design & Testing- 10 weeks

3 motivations for choosing VR

Significant benefits like high physical immersion, high mental immersion, high interaction and imagination.
Covid bought more attention to virtual environments (medicine, training, education)
Companies have been expanding their services after Covid 19 (itsspaceVR, which creates virtual meeting spaces etc.)

User focused key interactions

Virtually walk through the Museum (Denon wing) while physically seated on a chair
Move around the building with controllers
Check the paintings on the walls
Find the targeted paintings and touch them. They will get disappear if a correct painting is touched

Game Infrastructure

Denon Wing of the Louvre Museum is partially 3D modeled in Rhino (half of 1st Floor)
80+ paintings are included
Three paintings are targeted to be found and touched to win the game
Targeted Painting-

Monlisa
Liberty Leading the People
Louis XIV

To get ready for the game the participants will start with a pilot session

How to play the pilot session of the Mona Lisa game

Start with a pilot session

Get to know the paintings & touch them

Start the main game in Louvre with same rule and functions

Push the button game

Future Plan

Finish the Denon wing modeling
Import it into Unity and update interactions and scrips
After IRB approval, find participants and start data collection
Analyze the data
Write a paper!

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