Thesis

The point of our experience is to educate people about the pros and cons of different types of energy sources including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and fossil fuels. To do this, we are creating a quiz. There will be two questions, if you guess the correct answer, you move on to the next question. If you guess the question incorrectly, you start from the beginning. Each dome is designed to be a unique experience for the user.

We messed around with the programming

Sketch

The Mid-Review helped us combine the dome and decision making.

Domes

We researched more about renewable energy types

Walk through hall making choices

The Escalator idea

We ended up at

our final project

Precedents

Wind turbines were the

first renewable energy

we thought of since it's

well known and there's

a lot to it.

We used solar since it's

a very common type of

energy that many people

use and know about.

Wind Turbines

Solar Panels

Precedents

We liked the idea of having portals since

they can make you

travel fast and would help keep our younger audience engaged.

We wanted to give the

player the ability to chose

their own path since

that can help people learn

Portal

Choices

Research & Inspiration

How much longer we can use coal

• We will run out of coal in 114 years
• This is if we stay at out current use

Teach about renewable energy sources and help people switch

It showed us that it is important to teach people about renewable energy since if we do soon we will run out of coal and oil.

Wind turbine power production

• In the U.S.wind turbines have the potential to power 940 homes for a full month

Try to tell people about wind turbines

We felt that we should talk about wind turbines since they can produce lot of energy but more need to be made and for that to happen people need to know about them.

First Concept Sketches

Hands

Options

Sketches

Tycoon

Drilling for Oil

Renewable Home Design

Mining for Fossil Fuels

Sketches

Choices sketches

Hall

Dome

What Worked?

What Didn't?

1. It conveyed a deeper meaning
2. It took advantage of VR

1. The power-ups

The Escalator Idea

A game where you're climbing up a

down escalator and you have different types of energy power ups to make you go faster.

Prototype 2

Video

Technical Diagram

Wind

Solar

Biomass

Hydro

Nuclear

Fossil

End Dome

Start Dome

Change #1: Adding the hints

Change #3: Making

the wind turbines spin

We made it so that you can go down into the dome and search for the hint to the question.

We wanted to add motion to our experience to enhance it, this

also added a sense of realism in our scene.

Change #2: Adding a

start and end dome

We felt as though the experience felt incomplete without a start and and end dome.

Reflecting & Looking Forward...

• Add sound.
• make you teleport better.
• make smoke move.

• work on things 1 at a time.
• make the view room bigger.
• give each dome its own terrain.

Final Images

Thesis

Renewable Road Trip is a VR experience designed to marry automotive design and sustainable education. Through a series of sustainable charging stations (i.e., solar, wind, hydro), the user will drive up a virtual mountain side while listening to a radio station that provides history, information and benefits on each type of sustainable energy.

Design process flowchart

We started with terrain section and car body/model.

Then we realized car was hard to work and drive.

We researched how to make the car drive smooth.

Mid-Review feedback made us go from not focusing on terrain visuals as much to wanting to implement some change in the area you are driving in as you drive up the road.

We tweaked more visuals and added some cosmetics to get to our current model

We also added a terrain section with a road to drive on.

Assetto Corsa map

We wanted to create our terrain in the same visual way that this game map was made.

Renewable energy

charge

Implementing renewable energy sources to car charging ports

Research & Inspiration

History of

renewable power

• Water wheels were the first renewable energy source in 200 BC

Inspired Design Choice

We wanted to implement hydro, wind, and solar power to charge electric cars in a virtual reality game.

History of electric

cars

• Electric cars are better for the environment and provide a use for renewable energy.

Inspired Design Choice

Implementing electric cars and connecting renewable energy to them was our preferred design choice.

First Concept Sketches

Twisty roads surrounded by trees.

Start of the road and first renewable energy charger

Evolving terrain as you

drive.

What Worked?

What Didn't?

1. The body worked and didn't fall apart
2. Wheels could turn
3. Had camera attached to preferred interior view

1. Car would not go forward or turn
2. Camera would sometimes fall out of view
3. Car would wheelie every time you tried to go forward along and had no brakes

We made a car from scratch in Unity with some physics to move and steer around.

First Prototype

Change #1: Adding cosmetics and decor

Change #3:

We added some trees, different terrain texture, and charging

Explain what you added / changed for the next iteration

Change #2: Re modeled

Took original frame and re did body, rims, and other cosmetics

Wind Power Charging Station

Car

Solar Charging Station

Environmental Design

Final Result

Final Image

Reflecting & Looking Forward...

With more time...

• Make Charging stations functional
• Add Radio station with

information and history

• Add more sustainable

features.

Restarting we would've focused on story line elements and create a better picture explaining how sustainable energy is used.

Questions?

Precedents

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Thesis Statement

The point of our experience is to educate people about the pros and cons of different types of energy sources including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and fossil fuels. To do this, we are creating a quiz. There will be two questions, if you guess the correct answer, you move on to the next question. If you guess the question incorrectly, start from the beginning. Each dome is designed to be a unique experience for the user.

Sketch



Prototypes

Prototypes

Prototypes

Game Testing

Observations

• The location of the head needs to be changed
• Its hard to tell when you get teleported
• The room is too transparent.

Next Steps

• We need to add more domes with different energy types
• We also need to make the wind turbines move
• Lastly, we need to add more questions