Projects
App for Virtual Reality
What is it
N ASA started using VR simulators for astronaut training within the 1990s and haven’t stopped since. Today it uses different types of virtual training including spacewalks, rescue situations, repair and robotic operations, and in fact zero-g-mass adaptation
Regular school education benefits from VR also. Using virtual field trips, teachers can take students to travel round the world, explore underwater flora and fauna, and enrich lecture with immersive and interesting experiences.
Virtual reality is like dreaming with your eyes open.
– Brennan Spiegel
How its made
Similar to any other software engineering project, VR development also starts with design. we are mentioning this because sometimes, for prototyping or educational purposes, this step is skipped and programmers use assets from community-run libraries. you furthermore may can download ready-made objects, backgrounds or textures – they save plenty of your time and may often improve your project with none additional effort.
To develop interactive and usable virtual reality experiences, an absolute must-have is a game engine. Game and VR engines are programs specifically aimed toward creating rich, immersive, and realistic worlds that need programming and graphic design skills. the most popular VR engines today are free (at least to a particular point), easily integrated with VR platform-specific SDKs (software development kits) and permit for heavy customization with APIs.
While mobile development suggests that you simply use a special tech stack for each OS (unless you’re using one among the cross-platform methods), most VR engines allow you to publish your app on all main platforms. While there are plenty of engines on the market to explore, we used unity for this project.
Considered the mandatory tool for VR engineers, Unity supports all main VR devices and file formats employed by different 3D building applications including Cinema4D, 3D Max, Maya, and more. It uses C# – object-oriented scripting language – to write down commands for game objects and therefore the overall logic of your virtual world. One of Unity’s biggest pros is that the huge community-based asset store for free of charge and paid 3D objects, textures, and audio files. the product is additionally free until you begin earning over $100k a year from your app. The community is unmatched with game developers preferring Unity over the other engines.
The application was made for educational purpose and is comparatively easy to understand. The scene contains a field of play with different colors surrounded by walls and a ball which act as a user. The objective of this is to keep the ball rolling without touching the walls. If it touches, the wall color changes and a message is displayed on the screen indicating the collision. The aim is to reach the checkpoint without colliding. The level increases as more checkpoints are reached.