In this post I will summarize the work on the virtual reality project and reflect a bit what I experienced in the implementation process. First of all I should point out that unity is an extremely powerful platform and is easy to use, when having some programming experience. All these things like collision, drag and mass otherwise would be difficult to implement. In the implementation process I was often improvising a bit to overcome difficulties.

In order to evaluate the locomotion technique, I conducted a series of tests with our course participants that were familiar with the usage of virtual reality techniques and other people, that have not used VR technology in any form before. I discovered a discrepancy in the ease of use for these two groups. The group non familiar with this technology needed more attempts to get familiar with the haptic and the general environment.

In this post I will describe how I installed and set up the Unity Hub and editor on my machine. First I went to the official unity page. This article assumes, that you have not installed unity yet. Thus you need to download the unity hub. In this article I am using Windows, but the steps for the other operating systems are not that different. Of course you need to accept the unity licence agreement.

The aim of this article is to guide you through the process of creating your first game in unity. In order to do this start by your Unity Hub, click on new project and select for this tutorial 3D-Core. Give the project your favorite name and location. Now you should see the unity editor. In order to get started, select Assets/Create/Scene. In the assets tab of the editor you should now see an icon new scene.

In my locomotion project I went for an approach to imitate cross-country-skiing in VR. The overall idea will be, that you have to move your arms from top to down, and this then gives you a push. I used the environment build by Wen-Jie Tseng, that he provided for our class under this link. This was my starting point, to modify the position of the OVRCamera Rig with its controllers, in order to move.

Who knows whether we are not all the time already in some kind of ultimate display…. In 1994 Paul Milgram published with a work, where he introduced the idea of a Reality-Virtuality Continuum. You can think of it in the following way: With the rise of technology, like smartphones or in general some Silicon Valley Hardware device, the line between what is reality and what is virtual becomes more and more unclear.