Holographic Experience Center is a part of a design studio project. The studio took place in Second Life, which is an immersive, avatar-based, multiuser online environment. This project is divided into three phases.
The first phase includes using multi-user immersive games as case studies playing and experiencing them to develop research and thinking skills relevant to informed decision-making about uncertain situations.
The second phase focuses on structured role-playing and scenario building through the use of an established role-playing framework (the Fiasco game by Jason Morningstar) in the context of architectural research and design. It also includes extensive stakeholder research to understand their requirements.
The third phase leverages online collaboration spaces in the context of pandemic-mandated geographic and spatial separation to explore their spatial potential for mixed-reality architectural design. It includes a detailed design brief development based on the requirements identified in the second phase. It focuses on real-time collaboration in a shared virtual world to design architectural spaces.
In collaboration with: Robert Helbock, Meaghan Kelly
The first phase
Factorio: Multiplayer Game
Game Overview and objectives
Chronemics
In-game map
Technical Details
Multiuser collaboration
In-World resources
Multiuser collaboration
The second phase
Structured role playing workflow
Structured role playing rules
Structured role playing rules
Structured role playing rules
Structured role playing rules
Journey map
Speculative anomalies
Speculative anomalies
The third phase
Journey map created by a different group for which we designed a virtual space
Design brief development
Holographic pods area
Entrance foyer
Office space
Second Life import workflow
Import workflow example
Building in Second Life
Further individual exploration
Originally designed in Second Life, this project is explored again in Unreal Engine. It uses a third-person character enabling the user to self explore and navigate through the space and have an immersive experience. The showcased part has three main spaces-
Preparation room
Hologram experience room
Recovery room
Key learnings were to explore Blueprints and create animations and interactions for various assets in the space.
Preparation Room
Hologram Experience Room
Recovery Room
Unreal Engine blueprint to control moving platform