The Problem

• Industry leading VR hardware and software is closed source and often hostile to developers
• Popular Headsets such as the Oculus Quest have very low availability outside of western nations

Goals

• Develop a hardware and software ecosystem of similar quality to the Oculus headsets while remaining open source
• Keep prices as low as possible to increase accessibility
• allow people to customize hardware to fit their price range

Target Users

• Makers who want a highly accessible piece of technology they can tinker with
• General consumers that want more a affordable and customizable VR experience

Open Source Initiatives

Hades VR

By LiquidCGS

Slime VR

By The Slime VR Team

Relativity VR

By Maxim Perumal and the Relativity VR team

Previous Versions

MK1

An early prototype to get acquainted with VR tech and practice 3d modeling skills.

MK3

MK2

Another early prototype using laser cut wood for rapid prototyping with lens adjustment and computer vision.

The first attempt at a final consumer product although it ended up lacking polish and many lessons learned from it were brought into MK4

MK3 Pitfalls

Uncomfortable plastic face socket

Adjustment requires screw driver

Uncomfortable and clunky adjustment

Hard to modify electronics

MK4 Changes

High performance and cheaper micro controller

Easy ratcheting adjustment

Lower profile screen

Soft TPU rubber pads

Modular electronics mounting

Quick lens adjustment

Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)

• Provides flexible and soft 3d prints for increased comfort
• Slightly harder to 3d print at high quality
• Extremely durable
• Used in headset face padding

Ratchet Adjustment

• A ratchet that automatically unlocks through the dial being counter rotated
• Offers extremely simple and fast adjustment
• Significantly more durable than previous solutions

Modular Electronics

• Easily removable electronics for easy modification
• Fully screw free assembly
• Extremely low cost at $6 for 3DOF tracking, $50 for low resolution screen, and $50 for 6DOF tracking

Challenges

• Ribbon cable on screen getting torn making the headset non functional
• Poor print quality with TPU
• Creating assembly methods that don't require screws

Next Steps

• Source replacement screens
• Create better screen and screen driver housings to prevent damage
• Eliminate the need for supports while 3d printing
• Implement polish such and dust gasket for screen and more lens adjustment

My experience

My name is Jasmine, and this rroject is a response to an ongoing struggle I face today

For a while, I was only eating ~950 calories per day, which is about 27% of the 3400 calories my body needs to stay alive.

This led me to lose about 5 lbs (2.2kg) per week. This number is insane considering the CDC recommends that you loose 1-2lbs.

My experience

Micro/Macronutrients

Macronutrients are a type of nutrient required in large amounts, micronutrients are the opposite. Althought you don't need as many micronutrients they are still very important.

This experience happened while I was going to the gym, although just because I was going to the gym when this happened doesn't mean that the gym was harmful.

The Gym

Gym Social Media

Physique inflation

This is Arnold Schwarzenegger on a ton of steroids in the 1970s. He looks huge, but in 2024, his physique is considered mid-tier.

Physique inflation

This is a natural bodybuilder who won the MCR bodybuilding competition. He is the best of the best when it comes to natural bodybuilding. His physique is completely unachievable due to insane genetics. Nobody can recreate this physique through simply hard work.

Consequences

This amount of insane physiques that are simply unachievable but still shown to hundreds of millions of teenagers.

This leads many to go onto fat loss diets and aggressive mass gain diets. Neither of these options is healthy, and neither of them will get you any closer to a roided-out bodybuilder with godlike genetics.

Aggressive fat loss

Agressive fat loss can have have a lot of consequences, including dizziness, fatigue, abnormal heart rhythm, low blood pressure, and feeling cold all the time. Agressive fat loss phases can also lead to the development of an eating disorder.

Intreviews

I contacted many sources to get as many interviews as possible, from NuVU Students, to eating disorder organizations and even personal trainers. Some responded, many didn't, but I got very valuable insight from everyone I did talk to.

My Macro Coach

Your personal coach

App Goals

• Zero numbers, Zero consequences
• Macro & micronutrient tracking
• Grocery list maker
• Nutrition facts every day
• Live updating TDEE that responds to weight gain/loss
• Easy recipe system
• Barcode scanning
• Sleep tracking
• Personalized
• Open source & Free
• Track with your friends
• Easy for healthcare provider to see data

Timeline

Phase 1

• A few goals
• How am I going to achieve these goals
• Userflows
• How I am translating that experiences

Next steps

• Mock-ups for app and user features
• Creation of userflows
• Building a community
• Starting app development

Thank you for listening

Enjoy a healthy meal with enough calories and macronutrients. If you are worried about eating too little or too much, contact a nutritionist.

Evocative Image (?)

Precedents

Precedents

Moodboard

Sketches

Testing/ Process

Prototype 1

Testing/ Process

Prototype 2

Testing/ Process

Prototype 3

Why

An illustrated field journal of a fictional natural philosophers's travels through a fantastical-creature-infested area.

How

To spark interest in biology through whimsical and fantastical elements.

Sketches Option 1

Compile all sketches in one slide (delete this)

I am now in what I would consider to be the forest proper. I can reliably stretch my fingers to reach two trees wherever I stand now, and the ground is dark and damp. It was when I paused for my lunch that I noticed my environment had changed, though I suspect I was in the woods for a good deal of time before that. Today was rather less exciting than the last; the most interesting thing I saw was a multi-colored boulder sparkling in the light. There are a few mushrooms about, presumably from the rain two days ago, but none of them are special. It’s on days like this that I think of home. There’s not much in Alradeen that I love. I don’t mind sleeping close to the earth when it’s dry, so I’m impartial to my bed but preferential towards my roof. It’s physically more comfortable to draw and write at my desk, but I frequently find I have little to draw or write about. The smell of town is quite disfavorable to where I am now. The bodies and garbage and livestock and coal versus the grass and trees and water. I don't particularly care about most people in town.

Process Diagram

What tools were used in the fabrication of your device? (i.e. molds, fixtures, templates, jigs, etc)

Illustrate with 2D or 3D model (delete this)

The Honey Squid is a small mollusk which uses its powerful skirts to propel itself through the air between flowers, who’s nectar it drinks through one of its two long probosci, which curl into its body to prevent them from being damaged when it lands. In the much larger and heavier females, (which are usually 1 to 2 feet tall compared to the mature male’s 1 to 5 inches and 2 grams) the probosci also bend to be on the side of rather than underneath the body. When a female Honey Squid reaches maturity, it stops bouncing and starts walking around on it’s short bendy legs, which grow to be much stronger as part of the maturing process.

Honey Squid travel in large groups of many males and offspring and one female who protects the others with her size. The female lays her eggs onto the many sticky hairs on top of the males, where they are fertilized. The hairs also help keep the males afloat for longer. Adolescent females also have these hairs, but they stick and stay together in tentacle-like clumps over time, as they are not useful to the mature females and would only get in the way. This is where the squid part of the name comes from. 

When the eggs start to hatch, the male Honey Squid begins liquifying. The hatchings consume their father to get the nutrients that they need to get up and running. They then join the pack and get all of the food that they need for the rest of their lives from nectar. When a female Honey Squid matures, she leaves her pack in search of mates. This is the only time that a Honey Squid will choose to be without a pack. When she finds another pack, she will take all of its female’s mature male offspring as her mates. This is beneficial to the old females because she no longer needs to take care of the young male who can never be her mate. A female Honey Squid dies when she is too big and slow to run away from predators, or she cannot get enough nectar to sustain herself to the next patch of flowers. 

Honey Squid

Project Statement

The primary objective of this project is to design, develop, and integrate a reusable glider into a rocket system, aiming to achieve sustainable and cost-effective space launch capabilities. This integration will focus on ensuring the rocket can deliver payloads to orbit while the glider enables a controlled, safe, and reusable descent back to Earth, while also highly minimizing the fuel used for rocket re-entry and landing. Our rocket is also aimed to be self guided and able to land in the ocean were it can use sail and electric energy to reach the coast making it completely autonomous.

"Why?"

• Sustainability and Environmental Impact
• Cost-Effectiveness:
• Fuel Efficiency:
• Technological Advancement
• Safety and Reliability
• Innovation in Autonomous Systems
• Market Competitiveness

Precedents

Idea Precedent

Name: Energia Rocket

Creator: Ros Cosmos (Soviet Rocket)

Efficiency

Name: 3d printing integration in rocket

Creator: Relativity Space

Reliability

Name: Falcon 9 Landing Burn

Creator: SpaceX

Sketches

Testing

Initial prototype

Prototype 2

Testing

Final

$$$

Specialized

Replacement

Lack of accessibility



Ari

What's Wrong With Traditional Prosthetics?

Other Prosthetic Ideas

Toe

Jaw

Arm extender

Wyatt

Affordable

Accessible

Augment

Wyatt

Claw Control

Claw Control was a Nuvu project designed to be a claw machine puzzle.

Wyatt

Common Prosthetics

 Prosthetics are traditionally designed to seamlessly replace parts of the human body

Dani Clode

Dani Clode is an augmentation designer exploring the future of the human body

Sketches

Ari

Live Hinges

A living hinge is a thin, single piece, flexible hinge traditionally used in injection molding.

Live Hinge Proof of Concept

Material Exploration

NinjaFlex

PLA + Flex

TPU

Refining Design

Hand Mount

Thumb

VS

Hand Mount

Cardboard Prototype

Cardboard

Flimsy

Ugly

Poorly designed

High(er)-fi Prototype

Plastic (PLA)

Adjustable

Uncomfortable

Fits one hand size

Dialing In Comfort

More comfortable

Better quality

Not adjustable

Cant connect to thumb

Diversity

More comfortable

High Quality

Adjustable

Cant connect to thumb

Electronics Mount

What We Learned

Final Hand Mount

Designed off a Real Hand

Flexible

3 Attachment Points

More Adjustability

Final Photos

Why

An audio-visual experience based on the world of fantastical biology that has been worked on for two iterations that can tie in with the website I made last OI

How

To spark interest in biology through whimsical and fantastical elements in life-long learners.

What's New?

-Compared to the first iteration, this one will focus more on the biological features of the animals, and not about the lore of the world they live in.

-Focus on completely original creatures instead of already existing ones

-An Audio Visual experience allowing the user to get more immersed in the world we have created

-One new creature for a total of four unique designs

Prescedents

Fantastical Biology I, II

Morrowind

Precedents

Conceptual Precedent

Name: Fantastical Biology

Creator: Orion Orozco, Bridget Kraemer, Max Fuhrer

Technical Precedent

Name: Scale of the Universe

Creator: Cary Huang

Visual Precedent

Name: All Yesterdays

Creator: C.M. Kösemen, Darren Naish, and John Conway

Feedback?

• What types of animals do you think would be interesting to see?
• Do you think videos, screenshots or interactive 3d environments are the best way to get to our goal

Evocative Image (?)

Precedents

Precedents

Moodboard

Sketches

Testing/ Process

Prototype 1

Testing/ Process

Prototype 2

Testing/ Process

Prototype 3

Why

An audio-visual experience based on the world of fantastical biology that has been worked on for 2 iterations that can tie in with the website I made last OI

How

To spark interest in biology through whimsical and fantastical elements in life-long learners.

What's New?

-Compared to the first iteration, this one will focus more on the biological features of the animals, and not about the lore of the world they live in.

-Focus on completely original creatures instead of already existing ones

-An Audio Visual experience allowing the user to get immersed more immersed in the world we have created

-One new creature for a total of 4 unique designs

Feedback?

• What types of animals do you think would be interesting to see?
• What do you look for in an interactive website?

Why

An interactive website with all new creatures that have extensive biological details/how they relate to real creatures and worldbuilding.

How

To spark interest in biology through whimsical and fantastical elements in life-long learners.

What's New?

-Compared to the first iteration, this one will focus more on the biological features of the animals, and not about the lore of the world they live in.

-Focus on completely original creatures instead of already existing ones

-Interactive website that allows people to click on specific parts of the animal to learn more about its functions and how it relates to why the creature is so viable in its environment

Prescedent

Feedback?

• What types of animals do you think would be interesting to see?
• What do you look for in an interactive website?