VIA-VR

Overview

An engaging story, entertaining interactions and varied challenges are the secrets of the success story of adventure games. Immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences provide an ideal ground for pushing the adventure genre to the next level.

In the project VIA-VR, we aim to do exactly this, and create a framework for modeling and staging strongly engaging VR adventures for medical training, prevention, therapy and rehabilitation. The overall pipeline will offer the selection and composition of graphical assets to create according virtual worlds, to digitize one’s body, to define measurements for medical supervision of a training or therapy session, and to program the game’s plot relying on means of visual scripting.

VIA-VR is coordinated by JMU’s Games Engineering group but involves several strong partners in research and development.

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Theses and projects

Assigned

Assessment of Help Facilities in VR Adventure Platform

In the project VIA-VR, we aim to create a framework for modeling and staging strongly engaging VR adventures for medical training, prevention, therapy and rehabilitation.This project aims to evaluate help facilities that can be used to teach users how to use the VIA-VR framework.

VIA-VR: Drug Prevention Demonstration

Design and develop a VR application that addresses drug usage prevention

Assessment of the user state in VR healthcare applications

Within this project you can leverage physiological and/or behavioral data to determine the current state of the user in a virtual environment.

Creating a VR Questionnaire Tool

Design and develop a questionnaire tool and incorporate it into the VIA-VR project.

Marie Thienemann

Evaluation of VIA-VR 3D Environment Editor

User-centric evaluation of the 3D editor used to create virtual environments for the VIA-VR platform.

Closed

Project LEVEL: virtuaL rEality adVenturE tooLkit

Project LEVEL aims at translating, extending and innovating game and complementary mechanics and user interfaces from the adventure game genere for realising VR adventures.

Formative Design of VR Guidance Cues

Design and develop a cue guideline to be used in VR experiences to assist a user.