Great Week

Welcome to another week of my blog! This was a very unique week. I started off by organizing the survey for Thursday. I had to send out a lot of emails and messages organizing a small group to try out virtual reality. I ended up having about 10 people try out virtual reality.

During the survey I had them try out the viewmaster and the Samsung gear vr. For the viewmaster I had them watch this kind of scary video called Sisters. Basically you sit in a room and watch a creepy doll move around in the dark. Some people thought that the video was actually scary; some thought it was boring because it was basically like watching a video. I wanted to display a video for them to try but I wanted something slightly more interactive. Alternatively, maybe a normal video would of ended up better. This was the slightly worse headset out of the two. This left me a bit restricted of what I could do.

Then for the Samsung gear I had the participants play a game called Smash Hit. It was a game more focused on interaction rather than exploring a 360 degree space, unlike Sisters. You move room to room at a fast speed just smashing through glass and blocks by shooting metal balls. It sounds very simplistic, but everyone had a great time.

After that I would ask everyone just a few quick questions. That concluded my survey. It only took about an hour.

I spent the rest of this week writing down everything from the recordings. I am not finished but I should be sometime next week.

Overall I am really pleased with how it went. I nearly did not have access to a samsung s7, which is needed for the gear vr. But thankfully my friends dad was able to lend me his.

That is all for this week. Only two more weeks! I am very excited to see the conclusion to the senior research projects. Hopefully everyone has a good weekends!

Griffin