Ghost Runner

Inspiration

Racing video games ghost cars and the NFL combine 40 yard dash

What it does

You're competing against an AR ghost, running at the pace of your best chrono at the 40 yard dash. The first round is easy, but after you set your best time, it will always be a race against your past self.

How we built it

We used a model and animations from Mixamo, sounds and materials from the LS library, pieces of the true size object template, and a lot of Elmer's glue (custom scripts).

Challenges we ran into

Scene placement was a difficult piece of UX to solve since the alignment and sizing is so integral to the experience. If the alignment is slightly off, it makes a big difference 40 yards in the distance. There is still some unreliability with the surface tracking, but combining the true size template with some of our own logic allowed us to lock the track to the camera's rotation in an alignment phase. In this case, it feels much more natural than using two fingers to rotate.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

After road-testing our port of anime.js, we optimized the workflow a bit. It's super nice to be able to use the same animation library in our web work AND in Lens Studio.