vr minigames
I took an intro to VR class just for fun in school. Turns out, Unity is awesome! My instructors made the class super exciting, teaching us all the cool things about the tool. I got so hooked that I started tinkering with Unity outside of class and explored more about VR. My enthusiasm didn’t go unnoticed—my instructors offered me a research gig over the summer, which mostly involved making VR games! The research project was all about using VR to figure out which visual features are essential for our perception. In real life, we see everything, but in VR, we can limit what people see and still see if they can do real-world tasks. It might sound a bit nerdy, but here are some of the games I created and had an absolute blast working on!
learning unity 3d with generative ai
Before developing for VR, you obviously had to learn unity 3D. I had a lot of fun with the tool, and a lot of my learning was by myself, outside of class. Now this was the time when ChatGPT was getting really popular, and man, it's such a great learning tool. I fiddled with different prompts to create different quirky scenes. My professor liked my mini projects so much that he offered me a teaching assistant position in his Intro to VR class and allowed me to create a new set of learning assignments myself that could teach the students how to use the tool, using ChatGPT. Here are some of the projects that I had fun making.
gym trainer with gen ai
I love to say that I love working out. But let's be honest, it's very difficult-motivating yourself, figuring out what your workout split should be and eating healthy. I usually tend to eat healthy because I like to cook my own food. Ofcourse I indulge in a few icecreams here and there but what is the point of life if we cannot eat some icecream? Anyway, to help with figuring out the workout split, I created a gym trainer GPT using ... ChatGPT 🤯. This was a super fun side project, when I was procrastinating working out by deciding what workouts to do. This GPT helped me figure out my workout split, but the motivation? Is there some AI that can 'generate' motivation to go to the gym?
ui challenges for virtual reality
Back in school, my friends got into doing the 100 Days of UI challenge. Around that time, I got curious about virtual reality and started tinkering with VR environments. As I was learning and designing, it hit me that VR interfaces needed a lot of love and improvement. Then Apple released the Vision Pro, and lots of companies released design guidelines for VR. I wanted to dive in and practice, but there wasn't a '100 Days of UI Challenge' for VR. So, what did I do? I turned to ChatGPT and had it whip up a custom UI challenge for VR environments. I designed based on those prompts, and it was super fun!