Future vr input & ux solutions

Game Director / User Experience Designer / Technical Architect

VR is coming sooner than you think!!

We already have crossed the line

In 2016 there will be 5 consumer VR platforms on the market

Consumer VR Hardware 2016!!!!

What works well in VR?

VR / AR Convergence

What's Changed? Why now?

Tools

What works in VR?

PresenceThe single most important thing in every VR experience

Sight, look around you, visual exploration

Users should need and want to look around in the world

Closer items have more impact

There are many ways to use that impact

Many layers of depth can add to presence

What does not work in VR?

Don’t mess with the inner ear

When our senses dedicated to presence disagree the body responds by attempting to remove any potential toxins we me may have swallowed

If you do break the rules, break them wisely

Alternate Approaches

Plan for a range of input possibilities

So many options...

Mapping user intent

Give the user a way to project their intentions

How do we express and interact in the real world

Gaze based interactions

Show user focus

Mapping user intent byonly show what’s right

Tomato Presence!our focus become what we interact with

It’s even more important in social experiences

What about user interfaces?

You need find somewhere to put itHint ( not your face )

Here is a lesson I learned the hard way

Dealing with depth can be tough

Really tough

It needs to be contextual

Simplifying interactions

Gestures usually suck

Computers look for single conditionsUsers explore what’s possible

Needs to be obvious & reliable

Focus on user intent via oversimplification & automation

Design for the hardware

UI can reinforce the behavior

My advice

Test, Fail, Rebuild, Improve, Learn

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