HVRE
hands-on VR experience developers group
Hands-on Virtual Reality Experience, HVRE, continues to host
experimentation in VR, AR and other alternate reality media. We started with a hand full of members from RunJumpDev.org in 2015, when we created a Virtual Haunted Trail called Haunted Pixels in a month and a half! Lessons learned, we started much earlier for 2016 and maintained a very manageable scope. As a public project we recruited some amazingly motivated talent to contribute to last year's project, Mortimer's Mansion, a survival horror puzzle game, which was be featured at LexPlay. In 2017, we completed an art project for the Google Cardboard called "Dreams". We worked in small groups to create small instances of their dreams, whatever their interpretation. Each "Dream" was part of a gallery of dreams, where the means of entry to each dream might be viewed as a work of art in itself. Each participant or group bartered work with other participants to get work that they needed and did not possess the skills to do themselves. The goal was to provide a system that helps participants learn to manage scope, create a plan, express need effectively, and better estimate time for their own abilities. This year we are working on an AR cat collecting game.