Creating safe spaces during COVID-19 by allowing users to text or type their feelings and secrets anonymously in a VR environment
ROLE
UX + Design Direction
STUDIO
NYU Interactive Telecommunications
Collaborators
Nianqui Zhang
Nick Tanic
Ever craving for a virtual space to share your secret?
The Secret Base is a safe environment allowing audience to share their personal secrets anonymously online. Participants can enter a secret message through web or mobile in the portal, and the message will be rendered in the virtual reality space instantaneously.
You may send an anonymous secret here:
https://textogether.herokuapp.com/home
SOFTWARE
Unity
WebSocket
Live Web GUI
Web3D Objects
HARDWARE
Oculus Quest
Mobile Phone
Phase One
Prototyping
Testing the Remote control between web connection to string input from live web to GUI text in unity.
Phase Two
Backend Development
The website is connected to unity using the web socket and published online through Heroku. When users submit the text message from the website, the information will be sent to unity as a string viable and instantiate a new text mesh pro prefab.
Phase Three
User Testing and Improvement
To make the text displayed well, we tested different effects on the text prefab and decided to apply the vertex jitter and rigid-body, getting a bouncing and shaking behavior.
Problem about text folding in uncontrollable direction Solve it by create invisible Plane object with Mesh Collider to control display range in certain area.
