VR Locomotion Accessibility Gadget

forestgibson commented 3 years ago

What would this gadget do?

This gadget would have several different options:

Reduce FOV (basically putting on blinders)
VR Nose (Research has shown that having a "nose" in VR can help)
Cockpit/World Locked visual grounding (Reducing the amount of the world that moves at any moment can help)

Who would use this gadget?

Anyone like me who loves VR but still is incredibly sensitive to sim-sickness due to the vestibular mismatch that happens when using certain kinds of locomotion in games.

Currently, these accessibility options are up to each individual VR developer to make and support. This means there are some games that don't have a full range of options, leaving some users/players out of luck when it comes to having a comfortable experience.

Assuming that you're on the team, what other skillsets would you need to make this project happen over a couple days of hacking?

Basic Programming and interaction design

What will be the toughest part of building this gadget?

Providing easy access to the configuration tools while using other experiences.

Questions:

Could we make it easy to map certain actions to controller input? If so, we could have the FOV limit when pressing forward on the joystick in a game that has you doing smooth movement
Can we have Aardvark detect what scene app is running so settings can be configured to specific applications and games?

BOLL7708 commented 3 years ago

Just as a somewhat related side note, it's a bit funky that this recently popped up on Steam.

forestgibson commented 3 years ago

Just as a somewhat related side note, it's a bit funky that this recently popped up on Steam.

I'll have to check that out! There are still a bunch of games and applications that are basically unplayable for me.

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