Neos Activities

[Frooxius]

This has been planned for a while (originally for the beta release in May, but didn't make the cut), I'm logging it now since it's been brought up in an conversation.

Right now the issue for newcomers is that Neos can be pretty overwhelming, especially if they're looking to do a particular thing with it, since they're unguided.

To help with this, I want to implement something called "Neos Activities", which are essentially template worlds designed for particular use case - creating art, visualizing 3D models / MRI scans, generating a photo gallery, visual programming, taking notes, holding a meeting/presentation and so on.

User would simply find the right activity, click on it, which would open a world designed for that purpose (e.g. with drawing tools and some materials pre-spawned or some UI wizard / tutorial to walk the user through).

A set of these will be spawned in each user's home to get them started as well right after starting Neos. Community will be able to build more of these as well and make them available to others (potentially even sell them for NCR).

Technically they're very simple, all they need is a world as a template, name, category, description, tags and some thumbnail (ideally short animated clip), so shouldn't be too hard to implement. Creating a new activity will be pretty much just creating a Neos world as usual.

What do you guys think? Got any ideas for particular activities that should be made for a "starter pack"?

[MR-Alex42]

Art:

• Tiltbrush World
• Grafitti World (you can spray on walls/buildings)
• Museum/Gallery (in
• Material World

Meetings:

• Conference room
• Town hall (stage, voting feature)
• Ideation / creativity (Post-it wall, post-its, highlighter, serious play building blocks)
• Team Event (Walk the plank, Assembly Line),

Education

• Class Room
• Lecture Hall
• Group Training

Architecture:

• Building Design
• City Planning

Data Visualization:

• Networks
• Medical Data

Level Design:

• Dungeons
• Landscapes

Entertainment

• Movie Theater (Home, Normal, IMAX size)
• Board Games (Chess, Go, Backgammon)
• Casino (Roulette, Blackjack, Slot Machines)
• Irish Pub (Dart, Pool)
• Arcade

[sirkitree]

That's a great list @MR-Alex42 - I'd be happy to help build some of these. Maybe we setup a contest and have these user generated?

[Frooxius]

Yes, those are great ideas! I love the idea of a contest, I'd very much appreciate help with these. I'll be doing some myself and adding some extra components necessary.

[sirkitree]

Submitted a simple art gallery type world called "da5id" inspired by

[sirkitree]

I started a Tilt Brush world a while back to see what all needed to be done for the materials.

I'll give that another go as the import library has changed since then, but here's the plan.

1. start with Tilt Brush and write the name of all the brushes with that particular brush in a grid layout
2. export this tilt brush file
3. create new world in Neos
4. import tilt brush file export and see how well it does

I'm pretty sure it won't work on all brushes, and the animated brushes will most likely not work either. Will post back with results.