Project Tropical Treasure Hunt

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  Underwater

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  Bora Bora Islands

Inspiration

Our inspiration was the theme of the hackathon itself. We wanted to give the player an immersive feel for the tropics, while also being entertained by a game wit objectives. What way best to accomplish this than virtual reality? The use of VR has been growing rapidly because it's a fun way to learn, interact, and play games in a mixed reality environment.

What it does

Our tropical Treasure hunt gives the player a goal too find their tropical dream destination, while also experiencing some engaging objectives along the way.

How we built it

We constructed it using a VR platform called CoSpaces. This platform allows the user to create an immersive environment that uses built-in tools to create 3D worlds. It uses the coding language CoBlocks (a scripting language) Aspects used: -virtual reality -augmented reality -class management

Challenges we ran into

A few challenges we ran into was mainly the idea. We formed the foundation of it pretty quickly, but as it progressed we had to account for user input and make many scenarios that would have to be accounted for so that the user could experience things and interact during the VR experience.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Considering this is our first hackathon, we are pretty accomplished that we developed such an immersive idea and delved deeper within VR to create something so surreal that players would really enjoy if given more time to develop. We made this in less than a day, so imagine what we could truly accomplish on such a project with more time. I'd say we accomplished a lot and had a fun time too.

What we learned

As beginners we learned how to implement different algorithms in our test designs we learned in the classroom and how we applied it to the real world.

What's next for Project Tropical Treasure Hunt

If we had more time, we'd expand on objectives for the player and we could even add various levels of difficulty and saving checkpoints, etc. Perhaps the player could choose the types of missions to go on like treasure hunt, deep sea dives, etc. Most certainly expanding on this game.

Built With

• ar
• cm
• coblocks
• cospaces
• oculus-gear-vr
• vr