For this semester, we've been working on a project in all three classes. It has to do with de-stressing and ways to do so in your daily life. We've been researching all about this in Humanities, and finally the Chemistry part kicked in. In Chem, we are to build Virtual Reality Goggles that will take the users to a relaxing place.
Monique and I worked together to create our own VR goggles, in between working on our rocket motors (see below for more info on that). These goggles only took us a couple days, and it was really interesting to see just how simple it was to create. We used a template that was offered to us, as we didn't want to over complicate anything. It took awhile to figure out how all of the pieces came together. It was very much a trial and error kind of thing. Luckily for us, there were a couple of groups in our class that were building their goggles around the same time as us. We used theirs as an example, and often collaborated with them as a result. Just when we had everything duct-taped, our teacher said that we had to add a second piece to the goggle part, so we didn't get the double-vision. Monique and I took apart our goggles and added the second eyewear. Weirdly, it made the vision even more blurry, so we had to mess with the distance a little bit. This messed with the overall design, because the space quickly became too small to fit a normal phone. In the end, we managed to get a product that we were fine with.
As a second part of this mini-project, we were to take a panorama of a "relaxing and anti-stressful" place, and I decided to do mine in a local bookstore. I've always enjoyed the quietness of bookstores, and the endless titles and authors always brings me a sense a comfort. I hoped this would be the case with the user. I used a virtual reality app in order to create the image, and I was able to use the link and turn it into a QR code, so it could be accessible from any device. That QR code will be down below.
FINAL REFLECTION:
I think that this project was pretty cool. I liked how easy it was to make, and the virtual reality stuff was fun to play around with. Once Monique and I figured out to create the images, it was awesome. I really liked how we got to have some creativity with it, and I learned a lot about virtual reality in general. VR was never something I thought I would be interested in, let alone something we got to work on as a project. Overall, I think it was an awesome experience to play around with this kind of thing, because it really opened up a world that I was never really exposed to. It was also interesting to do because VR is rapidly becoming more and more popular, so it's really nice that we got to learn and explore it now. I liked working with Monique on this, and it was a nice thing to accomplish.
Monique and I worked together to create our own VR goggles, in between working on our rocket motors (see below for more info on that). These goggles only took us a couple days, and it was really interesting to see just how simple it was to create. We used a template that was offered to us, as we didn't want to over complicate anything. It took awhile to figure out how all of the pieces came together. It was very much a trial and error kind of thing. Luckily for us, there were a couple of groups in our class that were building their goggles around the same time as us. We used theirs as an example, and often collaborated with them as a result. Just when we had everything duct-taped, our teacher said that we had to add a second piece to the goggle part, so we didn't get the double-vision. Monique and I took apart our goggles and added the second eyewear. Weirdly, it made the vision even more blurry, so we had to mess with the distance a little bit. This messed with the overall design, because the space quickly became too small to fit a normal phone. In the end, we managed to get a product that we were fine with.
As a second part of this mini-project, we were to take a panorama of a "relaxing and anti-stressful" place, and I decided to do mine in a local bookstore. I've always enjoyed the quietness of bookstores, and the endless titles and authors always brings me a sense a comfort. I hoped this would be the case with the user. I used a virtual reality app in order to create the image, and I was able to use the link and turn it into a QR code, so it could be accessible from any device. That QR code will be down below.
FINAL REFLECTION:
I think that this project was pretty cool. I liked how easy it was to make, and the virtual reality stuff was fun to play around with. Once Monique and I figured out to create the images, it was awesome. I really liked how we got to have some creativity with it, and I learned a lot about virtual reality in general. VR was never something I thought I would be interested in, let alone something we got to work on as a project. Overall, I think it was an awesome experience to play around with this kind of thing, because it really opened up a world that I was never really exposed to. It was also interesting to do because VR is rapidly becoming more and more popular, so it's really nice that we got to learn and explore it now. I liked working with Monique on this, and it was a nice thing to accomplish.