Interactive AI Life Skills Educational Video Game

Inspiration

As a current university student, I realised that for me to be independent and live alone, I would need to know what to do to rent my first house. There is nobody to teach me how to do it, so I had to search the web, and due to a lack of experience, I don't dare to make a rash decision for fear that I may be making a decision that's not ideal for me. I didn't know how to make a proper plan to prepare to move house. Relying on google wasn't enough, because I might not be making the best choice. Also, as a university student, I quickly realised that I didnt have public speaking skills during my internship days, which led me to lose confidence in myself. Confidence is very important, especially when presenting oneself in the workplace, which is why I decided to create a system that can teach users how to do things that are not taught in schools.

What it does

This project aims to teach life skills to anyone, where the education system is lacking in especially in developed countries. Life skills could range from leadership skills, building one's self confidence, public speaking skills, to even useful skills such as landing a job based on one's educational level, geographical context, and socioeconomic status, to the steps required to get a house, or host a party, or travel around a country, or plan for a wedding etc.

How we built it

The idea is to use Azure AI and Azure Data Services to create a machine learning model that can track the user's progress and generate content that will be personalized for each player. Virtual Reality is incorporated into the game to make the experience even more interactive and realistic. This app can be built using Unity for the Virtual Reality and Oculus Rift headset.