Inspiration
I a big fan of reading books. But I do also know that although books provide a valuable content and information still, it lacks the engagement and interactivity (obviously!). So that is why I decided to make an interactive experience which needs to be informative as well as attractive and interactive.
What it does
Its an interactive futuristic solar system experience where you can not only learn what each planet is about and made of, you can also use your hand to zoom in or zoom out the planets and see it in more depth and details.
How I have built it
I have used Unity engine and C# for writing all the functionality. A large part of the functionalities involved using the Meta's Interaction SDK which had enabled the pinch to grab and zoom functionality.
Challenges I ran into
The main and most complex part of this project was to make sure that the planets must be interactive and at the same time whenever the user selects a planet, its relevant information must also be displayed somewhere incase if the user wants to read it. I had implemented several blocks to display the information around the planet but due to so much content finally I thought its best to display in the block format with the use of text and images.
Accomplishments that I am proud of
I am certainly proud of the overall interaction that I was able to put in the project through the use of hands and not controllers. I wanted to make sure that the hand interaction must be implemented for all the interactions, and it is indeed implemented.
What I have learned
Honestly I have learned a lot. Not only about how to do things in this project but also I have learned what could be the future prospects of VR and its application. It was really fun developing this application through out, I ran into challenges and then I was able to accomplish the challenge using online research.
What's next for Solar System
The next thing I am planning to do in this is to add more information into it, making the overall solar system more informative and closer to how actually it is. Further I am planning to add realistic videos from NASA's website and ISRO website.
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