Tangibles Worlds

Virtual reality allows us to disconnect from reality to immerse ourselves in the unreal. But what happens when this virtual reality is also tangible?

This project offers an experience of sensory immersion, the tangibility of which leads us beyond a simple visual observation. We intervene in the world by touching it. The tactile experience is fundamental because becomes a catalyst, who tries to change, all the facets of the virtual reality in which we are placed. What we perceive from the outside, does not represent what we live inside the virtual world.

This project is an attempt to create and establish a strong link between reality and Virtual Reality. In a way the project reflect how to manipulate the reality and influence the virtual world and vice versa. I'm trying to explore what it means to touch some strange materials without seeing our hands and see something happening in a virtual world.

Moodboard

TODO | DONE

Unity

• Create 3 difference environment for each box.
  • Bake textures
  • Bake animations from Cinema 4D to Unity
• When the user put his hand inside a cube the world is revealed
• Improve the scripts for the serial communication between Unity and Arduino.
• Animate each world.
• Lights.
• End of the experience:
  • Check when all the worlds are completely explored.
  • Show credits.
  • Restart the experience each time some one remove the VR headset.
• Bunch of others things on the scripts:
  • Animate lights.
  • Move them around.
  • Animate light intensity and range and color.
  • [ ] Maybe add some shadows.

Some visuals

Arduino sensors

• Arduino mega.
• 4 Capacitive wire + 4 10kΩ resistors + 4 270kΩ resistors.
• 4 Photocells and optic fibre + 4 10kΩ resistors.
• 1 LED stripe.
• 4 Flex sensors + 4 47kΩ resistors.
• 3 Distance sensors Sharp GP2Y0A21YK0F 5 V/DC (10-80cm).
• Put everything together.

1. Bubble

Materials:

• Mold
• 4 Silicone mold with 4 flex sensors.
• Fill the mold with:
  • Pearl clay or
  • Sagex pearls.
• Mold support MDF
• Base MDF
  • Make a hole for the cables
  • 4 MDF pieces to connect the mold support and the base
• Buy somo Rhodorsil Additif 11013 from Silitech

World palette color

Virtual Universe:

Sensors:

• 1 Arduino mega
• 4 Flex
• 4 47kΩ resistors
• Wires from the other boxes

2. Pics

Materials:

• Brush hairs
• Brush hairs support MDF
• 4 MDF pieces to connect the support and the base
• Fiber hairs
• Base MDF
  • Make a hole for the cables
• Wires from the arduino

World palette color

Virtual Universe:

Sensors:

• 4 Photocells
• 4 10kΩ resistors
• LED

3. Wires

Materials:

• Wire support Steel
• Put some elastic wire
• Put some conductive wire
• Base MDF
  • Make a hole for the cables
• Wires from the arduino

World palette color

Virtual Universe:

Sensors:

• 4 Capacitive wire
• 4 10kΩ resistors
• 4 270kΩ resistors

Manufacturing planning

• 3 plexiglass boxes.
• Make a hole on the wall to support the oculus sensor
• 3 table legs
  • holes for the cables.
  • base
• Build a box to hide the pc
• Cut 3 pads for the plexiglass holes on the digital cutter

Setup

The 3 boxes will be over a special support.

Setup spot propositions

On the CV openspace.

Useful links:

Baking Animations in Cinema4D:

• Bake Nurbs into PLA Cinema 4D Tutorial
• Baking Animated Deformers or Effectors with Point Cache Tag
• Shaders
• Cubemap
• Unity Skyboxes
  

Serial communication for integrating Arduino and Unity:
SerialCommUnity

Git from Terminal

• Status

git status

• add all the files

git add .

• Commit

git commit -m "message string"

• Push uploader

git push

• Clone locally

git clone git@github.com:spezialis/DiplomaProject.git

• Recuperer ficher

git pull

• Following steps: pull -> add -> commit -> push

Credits

By Stella Speziali
Tangibles Worlds
Lead by Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Cyril Diagne, Christophe Guignard
Assisted by Tibor Udvari, David Roulin
ECAL/Bachelor Media & Interaction Design
University of Art & Design, Lausanne 2017
www.ecal.ch