Tuukka Takala Unity & RUIS lecture

2 Tuukka Takala About the course assignments Start thinking about project assignment ideas. Examples: Social media in VR Information visualization & editing in VR Google maps in VR Discuss ideas and prepare to form student groups Four students per group

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4 Tuukka Takala What is Unity about? Integrated game development environment Cross-platform: Windows, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android, game consoles, web browsers Rapid iteration game development: Run game in editor Scene building Asset management Scripting

5 Tuukka Takala Unity core features PhysX physics engine Mecanim character animation Nav mesh pathfinding Shuriken particle system Networking (multiplayer) Unity Asset store

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9 Tuukka Takala RUIS - Reality-based User Interface System Platform for prototyping 3D User Interfaces Core idea: Make 3DUI development easy for hobbyist developers Supports: Oculus Rift, Kinect, PlayStation Move, Razer Hydra

10 Tuukka Takala Possibilities for New Interaction Styles Kinect + PlayStation Move = AWESOME

11 Tuukka Takala Project History 2010: Initiated by me and Roberto Pugliese in : Presented a paper at 3DUI 2011 conference Used in a Virtual Reality course by 5 student groups 2012: Used in a Virtual Reality course by 4 student groups Two RUIS installations present in MediaLab’s demo day

12 Tuukka Takala Recent RUIS developments 2013 VR course project works TurboTuscany demo

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15 Tuukka Takala RUIS Future Will be sold in Unity Asset Store Features to be added: Kinect2 support Documentation and tutorials

16 Tuukka Takala Comments? More RUIS info at: Thank you