VR MRF Tour

Discover the Recycling Process in Virtual Reality

In my third year at the University of Lethbridge, I joined the Agility program - an incubator of sorts that focuses on allowing students to pursue a project in their field while aiming it to impact their local community. For my project, I worked alongside an artist to develop a virtual reality tour fly-though of the cities’ new recycling processing facility to safely facilitate tours for elementary schools.

This project for me was my second venture developing a project for a client in VR. The building is a 1:1 replica in scale, containing thousands of physics recyclable assets. These aspects along with the fact the machine files were thousands of AutoCAD components, this was a project that challenged the sense of immersion as well as my ability to optimize the project to meet VR specifications.

Work I’m most proud of:

• Object pooling system
• Conveyor belt systems non-physics & physics variants
• Optimizations to collisions, materials, and lighting for HTC Vive