UpCycle

Inspiration

Our topic was inspired by the observations we made in our community and also the topic that frequently appears in the news: pollution. This is been a huge problem in the world, and all efforts that have been made to hinder its growth have gone in vain. We attempt to just devise a model through which is able to display the deplorable development that has been caused by our careless actions.

Challenges We ran into

Due to our lack of experience with Unity and VR, we ran into many technical problems. We tried setting up a VR environment and didn’t have any idea of what to do. Through the help of several mentors and the unity workshop, we were able to set up an environment and experience VR for the first time. After creating the VR part, we made the android app which led to a whole other set of problems. There were many small problems such as changing font size and adding pictures, but through the help of the mentors, we were successfully able to complete our app and our whole project.

Accomplishments that We’re proud of

We are proud of the fact that we were able to set up our first VR environment and our first app on Android Studios.

What We Learned

We learned the ways whereby we can make various structures and objects in Unity, and learned various features of VR. We also figured out methodologies by which we could create the app that we made for this event. Some syntax of java was employed in order to create this app, which was a completely new language for us and was a really educational experience.

What's next for UpCycle

We plan to add more functionality into our app and VR environment. For VR, we would like to add the ability to walk around and pick up objects. For our app, we would like to make it more polished. There are also numerous other features we would like to add to enhance the user’s experience. Lastly, we need some hardware acceleration since we are currently running the app on an emulator.

Built With

• android-studio
• mixed-reality
• unity