Button

Welcome to Button

My Amazon Sumerian Hackathon entry for the 'Best VR App' category.

Browser Requirements

• Firefox Version 60 and higher (built and tested in 64.0)

Supported VR Headsets

• Oculus Rift / CV1
• HTC Vive / Vive Pro

To Start:

• Stand in the center of your VR space.
• Open the experience by clicking this link.
• Click the unmute icon in the lower right corner to enable audio.

• Click the VR icon in the lower right corner to start the experience.

• You will start in a very small closet-sized room.
• If you see a button, you should press a button.

Controls:

Teleport is disabled at the start - Listen for the audio cue that says, 'Teleport has been enabled'

• Oculus Touch Teleport - A/X button press

• HTC Vive / Vive Pro Teleport - Trackpad press

• There is no click/snap turning - turn your body.

• Buttons in the environment are activated by reaching out and touching them.

• A note on the 4th puzzle: Button was primarily developed and tested using an Oculus Rift and two front facing sensors about 5 feet apart in a small office. No rear / third sensor should be required to complete the 4th puzzle. It's all timing and technique.

!!! Firefox Stability Note !!! If you run into glitching or freezing during gameplay...

• Close Firefox and wait about 30 seconds.
• Reopen Firefox. (one tab)
• Reload the experience.

Inspiration

"What could someone with little to no real-world coding or web development experience create and deploy using only the Sumerian Dashboard, the Sumerian tutorials, and assets included with Sumerian?"

The Self-Imposed Rules:

• I could only use the Amazon Sumerian Dashboard to create my objects and entities in my VR environment.
• I could only use the Asset packs included with Amazon Sumerian. No custom / imported objects or models.
• I could not write any custom game or web code. Everything had to be done in the State Machine behavior system.
• Any code used had to come from examples in Amazon Sumerian tutorials, and the Amazon Sumerian Users Guide.

What it does

Button is a branded Web VR escape room puzzle experience for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets that provides four increasingly difficult puzzle challenges towards a final goal.

How I built it

• Button was designed and built 100% in Amazon Sumerian.
• Audio and soundscapes were built using creative-commons licensed samples processed in Audacity, Platinum Notes 4, and Wondershare Filmora.
• A few custom textures for the end sequence were created using GIMP 2.10.6

Challenges I ran into

I ended up sacrificing Google Daydream/Oculus Go VR headset support so I could use the 'VRController' component with the 'Daydream' controller ID to hack together a state-machine controlled rigid-body entity with a functional trigger collider. This was to work around a current bug with 'entity-with-rigid-body-collider' to 'entity-with-collider' trigger not functioning properly at the moment.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• I am really happy with how the branded 'billboards' turned out at the end of the experience. I'm not a graphic designer by any means and this was my first attempt and making my own textures for use on entities.
  
• I'm also pleased with the sound effects and overall sound engineering.
  
• And I am very proud of my creative use of State Machine behavior logic I developed to implement puzzle functionality without having to write a single line of code.

What I learned

I discovered it is good practice to keep at least three project whiteboards (virtual) going:

• Overall start-to-finish storyboard.
• Entity and Logic System notes.
• Timeline with task breakdown.

What's next for Button

After the Amazon Sumerian Hackathon has concluded I plan to deploy Button as the official website for BrainFizz VR LLC - www.brainfizz.net - This will make BrainFizz VR LLC the first Virtual Reality company who's commercial website is only accessible via a 6DoF VR headset.

Built With

• amazon-sumerian
• amazon-web-services
• audacity
• gimp-2.10.6
• platinum-notes-4
• wondershare-filmora