Inspiration

One of the team members was taken on a tour of QUT VR Lab and they were demonstrating a similar thing using vr to control a remote control tank so i thought of my involvement in agriculture and thought about controlling a tractor using vr.

What it does

We can remotely stop a malfunctioning tractor through VR

How we built it

We used three.js to build the view from inside the cockpit of the tractor and programmed head tracking to activate the button to stop the malfunctioning tractor. We incorporated 360 degree video footage to view the surrounding inside the cockpit. It is designed to be used with the VR headset whether that be cardboard VR or GearVR.

Challenges we ran into

Loading the free 3rd party models took a while. We ran into some challenges ray-casting to take one line from the center of the screen to find where it's pointing in order to create an interactive experience.

We had to bring in a remote toy car to create 360 video content which simulated the movement of the tractor.