Manifest

April Demo

Experience Flow & Features:

1. Introduction:

User starts directly in Prospect Point at a place closer to the parking lot. User is meant to locomote their self to the vista point where it's more visually interesting.
Table map shows in front of user at the start location when user first enters prospect point.
Table map shows a miniature topographic map of entire stanley park. Multiple points of stanley park are labeled out, these are destinations where the user can teleport to
table map can be toggled on and off by user using a button on the controller

2. Orienting the user on the controls

Each tutorial label points at a button on the controller and describes what it does
- minimap toggle button
- table map toggle button
- armswinger button
- teleport button
- grab item button
before user uses any buttons on the controller, the tutorial labels will be visible at all times at any view angle. after user uses eacg function on the controller, the label for that button will disappear unless the user is looking down at the controller or very close to it.
Tutorial labels (gowtham, shavonne) will appear around the controller when the user looks down at the controller (rotation of hmd game object is somewhat below horizon (20degrees under straight ahead?)

3. The scene/model of each major location of stanley park:

photography of the place in real life
photogrammetry needs to be done to make the 3D model
3D model from photogrammetry tool needs to be cleaned up, decimated, textured, and brought into Unity
- model should be in large pieces, from 10-50 pieces in entire scene
- total not over 1 million polygons
- textures composed of 2K-4K textures, not over 20 maps
- flat ground model needs to be split from the rest of vertical models to help with armswinger boundary detection
- colliders need to be added in scene to prevent armswinger from going through objects in middle of scene inside boundary
lighting needs to be applied via directional light in unity
- realtime shadows enabled
- realtime global illumination enabled
- light probes set
- reflection probes set
environmental audio recording needs to be done for each major scene
- audio needs to be cleaned up, loopable, substantial length so it doesn't repeat too frequently
- overall ambient audio source is omniscient
- more local sources like birds or animals or cars should be from spatialized audio sources scattered around scene
- (current people involved: gill, loch, andrew)

4. Minimap

basic functionality to see where user is in within the local destination (ex. prospect point rather than in stanley park)
minimap is always parented to one of the controllers
whichever controller toggles on the minimap, it should show up on that controller only. can't exist on both controllers at same time
controller prefab has a empty game object that dictates where the minimap prefab will be parented to
minimap shows points of interest, each one with an icon
- info panels
- unique objects in the scene
- 360 video spheres
minimap shows current location of user and maybe direction that user is looking at
base functionality it just shows where user is. more advanced functionality will feature teleportation by pointing on area on minimap
(current people involved: jeannie, shavonne)
minimap visual steps
- - import the PNGs made from 2d design program and bring them into Unity,
- - 2D layers placed into quads as different Unity materials
- - 2D quads are physically offset from each other
- - 2D quads grouped under a single empty game object
- - empty game object is named as the minimap, and is made into prefab
- - minimap prefab applied to controller prefab

5. Locomotion

teleportation
- someone will need to set boundaries for teleportation, where the user can and can't teleport into
- using VRTK or Steam VR's teleport system (need to decide this Thursday)
- (current people involved: jeannie)
armswinger
- allows user to move around the scene smoothly at "walking pace" with no interruption
- (current people involved: ryan)
someone needs to set boundaries restricting teleportation & armswinger
- this boundary area is to be significantly smaller than the photogrammetry model of prospect point. photogrammetry should sufficeintly show areas up to where the boundaries are, without holes. past the boundary is where the model can start having holes
the visual language for teleportation trajectory, boundaries needs to be made

6. Infopanels

infopanels are scattered around the scene that show points of interest
by default the info panel is not visible (as to not block the natural view) when users are far away from it there is an indicator on the ground (maybe a ring) that shows that theres an info panel there
when a user walks up to it the info panel will appear
each infopanel carries 100% different information, no repeat info should be present
infopanel offers one-stop-shop of
- audio narration about the point of interest
- imagery / historical imagery of point of interest
- 2D videos of point of interest
- text about point of interest
infopanel should have one giant single area that shows content
only one type of content should show at one time
bottom row of panel has buttons. all buttons of the info panel are present at all times, no hidden panels or sliding panels
- play button
- stop button
- next button
- previous button
- imagery button
(current people involved: shavonne, darren)

7. 360 video spheres

scattered across the scene (independent from infopanel)
when user comes within arms reach, tutorial tag will show next to the orb and tell user what it is
if it's the first encounter, tutorial tags will show how to enter an orb, and how to exit an orb
pick up and drag orb into head to play 360 video
360 video plays right away, autoexits when it ends?
drag 360 video orb from head outwards to remove 360 video orb (interaction needs to be decided on)
(current people involved: ryan)

8. Boombox

boombox is able to play multiple tracks of audio
- 1 single audio source, with spatial audio enabled and with decay
- audio manager will pick between array of tracks and only play one at a time
- audio manager exists on parent boombox and waits for fucntion calls from child buttons
boombox has buttons that can be interacted with
- play
- stop
- pause?
- next track
- prev track
audio content:
- music
- audio narration?

9. Visual Language

Overall visual styles need to be set. try to stay minimal and less ornamental / unecessary decorations
each type of object can have one visual style, although all types of objects should all be related to each other visually in some way
- create the visual design language for interactable buttons
  - should have some 3D presence, not 100% flat to the parent surface (button surface itself can be flat)
- create the visual design language for non-interactable icons
  - can be 2D and coplanar to parent surface
- create the visual design language for info panels
  - mostly flat design
- create the visual design language for tutorial tags

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