alice-teacher Final Alice VR Demo Video and Lessons Learned

[Barnum, William]

Hey all,

Thanks so much for the feedback on the draft video of the Alice VR program
demos!

I wanted to share a few things I learned from my experience:

1. When I first imported a student project into VR, I was disappointed. It
seemed less realistic.  One student had created a neat narrative that
depended on tight camera angles that focused on only what she wanted the
viewer to see. It ruined the illusion when I could swivel my head to
control the view because it didn't look right from different angles. It was
kind of like if your favorite TV show turned the camera 5 degrees, and you
could see the wood holding up the fake walls to the fake room. I realized
that we needed to consider all possible camera angles when designing worlds.

2. The Alice Unity player doesn't work exactly the same as the desktop
Alice player. In some cases, sloppy or processor-intensive code which
didn't cause problems on the desktop player caused issues with the Unity
player. I didn't realize that until students tried out their worlds, and we
had to troubleshoot on the fly. Doing it again, I will install the Alice
Unity player on each student's desktop and have them try their programs out
ahead of time without VR goggles. That way, we can work out the bugs before
we try it with the VR headset.

3. I've tweeted out the final version of the video. Any likes, comments, or
retweets on the tweet would be humbly appreciated. 🙂
https://twitter.com/Bill_Barnum/status/1465351712386871298?s=20

Bill

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