PA201 Labs & Final Project
Filip Škola
xskola@mail.muni.cz
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
February 17, 2020
The Labs
Unity
Game engine not requiring too much programming knowledge
https://unity.com/
Virtual Reality Toolkit (VRTK)
Collection of useful, reusable solutions to common problems in
VR development
Supports all major VR equipment (HTC, Oculus) + VR simulator
https://www.vrtk.io/
tutorial: https://learn.unity.com/project/
vr-in-unity-a-beginner-s-guide
features overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH5zHo6qI84
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The Project – "Escape Room"
a simple level of a logic game
one room with several puzzles
user solves the puzzles to "win"
use Unity & VRTK (look into the sample scenes)
focus on interaction (no elaborate graphics neccessary)
use any VR headset (available in HCILab)
Requirements:
1 scene
3 interactive puzzles
an interactable UI (buttons, sliders, ...)
user embodiment – at least the avatar hands in the scene
at least one puzzle incorporating sound effects (beeping, playing
a tune, shooting sounds, ...)
at least one puzzle violating the laws of physics (e.g., gravity, ...)
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The Project – "Escape Room"
Puzzles:
don’t have to be too complicated
examples:
find how to use an unknown object (e.g., need to lift it and look
from the bottom) to solve the puzzle
find a key somewhere in the scene, find a lock, use them together
explore the scene and find a combination for a numeric-lock
explore the scene and find a missing part of an item, then find
correct usage of the item
fire a wepon to a specific location to retrieve object/piece of
information
...
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