Dream Space: A VR Messenger Prototype

Aug 2016

My team of 5 students have participated in a three-day campus hackathon, 'Gokathon 2016'. There, we have came up with an idea of providing the greater feeling of "being together" that cannot be delivered with the current medium of cummunication. The year of 2016 was when commercial VR HMDs just started to kick off. We hence used Google Cardboard since it is the most accessible, and prototyped an iOS app of a social VR messenger where users can select a group of friends and invite them into a virtual space. I was in charge of creating the UI prototype with Swift and creating part of the virtual objects and avatars with Maya 3D. Through our creation, we could get a glimpse of the future form of visual communication.