7P8-Virtual Reality

I have been looking forward to making virtual reality since the beginning of the semester, so I am very happy to finally have done this as a project! I used the website https://cospaces.io/edu/ to design my scenes. I got an empty scene that I added a large rock formation and some trees to. I knew I wanted a river but CoSpace did not have the shape I wanted so, thinking of my last project, I used https://www.tinkercad.com/ to design a 3d river. I imported the river and surrounded it with some plants and rocks. Once the scene was completely designed (animals included) I started to code the story I had in mind. After I had made my code I showed it to others to make sure that my story would make sense to someone else.

While I was making my virtual reality, I didn't really learn to many things, rather it gave me a lot of experience with the things I do know how to do. Although, the one thing that I can recall not knowing before is that different endings of file names support different images. Such as, .jpg, .png, or .pdf, all support 2 dimensional files (pictures), but files ending in, .obj, .fbx, or .zip support 3 dimensional objects. These files can be used for similar purposes but for my virtual reality I had trouble with what type of file it was since I needed it to be a 3 dimensional image.

Of the 7 standards that Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students has set  (Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator) My project ties to Empowered Learner because knew what I wanted to accomplish and as I coded my scene I went over my story multiple times to make sure I was on track. I used the help of my peers to check my scene and see if it was able to be used by someone else.

There were two challenges that I can think of that put my project to a halt. I wanted a stream that wound through my scene, but there was not any bodies of water provided in CoSpaces's library. To solve this project I remembered that when we used Tinkercad it saved the image as a .obj, I checked and the upload of a 3d image for CoSpace supported .obj objects, so I made the shape of my river and exported it to CoSpace. The second challenge I faced was that I needed two scenes but I did not want to actually change how my scene looked, so I found a way to duplicate my entire scene and just had to erase my code.

Given a chance to redo this project I would use what I know now after completing it for a first time to speed up the process, and use that time to make a more complicated code. I was very happy with the way that my story played out so I might elaborate on that more if I re-did it. Overall I was very happy with the way that my scene played out and the design that I put into it. The code was a lot of fun to make!

The Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing.  My project connects to Computer Programming, in the CTE program at Hastings High School.  My project connects to careers in software development, AR and VR maintenance, and graphics engineer.