Narrow Walls VR

SUMMARY

Narrow Walls is a VR experience that situates immersants into the role of war survivors trying to escape reality through transferring their consciousness into the virtual world. In the virtual world, the immersants learn about the background stories and motivations of other survivors who are in a similar situation. At the end of the experience, the immersants discover a surprising ending that reveals what the future holds for them.

ABOUT

Created during Semester in Alternate Realities at Simon Fraser University based in Vancouver, Canada. Our design challenge for the semester was VR4GOOD which tasked us with creating VR experiences that could possibly achieve a positive shift  in it's users .  The team behind this project was comprised of classroom of 18 people and was developed through two epics using the Agile development approach. We had two public user testing sessions during which we received feedback and refined our concepts in an iterative fashion.

This is an exerpt from the SIAR website:

These works were created by students from different SFU departments who joined our Semester in Alternate Realities. The works are part of an emerging field of development and research that use VR and other emerging technologies to increase aware­ness and be a catalyst for improving our world. These projects are the culmination of 14 weeks of an intense, iterative, agile, reflective and adaptive teaching and learning process. Four distinct yet interconnected “for good” Virtual Reality experiences focused on themes related to improving the social and environmental condition, by not only drawing awareness to issues in the world that require our attention, but also providing unique first-person experiences that we could not have without immersive technology.

TEAM

• Amber Shao
• Vlad Ryzhov
• Alex Aguilar
• Ana Karen Martinez
• Elene Wanner
• Ioana Sandor
• Jonathan Lee
• Leo Danenkov
• Lukas Ritter
• Nicholas Ramsay
• Nick MacKay
• Oliver Aung
• Qiuli Wu
• Radu Orlandea
• Ricky Lalli
• Robert Michels
• Sheri Wong
• Zoe Temple-Sandison

Instructors:

• Bernhard Riecke
• Patrick Pennefather

Special Thanks:

• Ivan Aguilar
• Barb Berry
• Andrei Gontcharov 
• Alex Kitson
• Katerina Stepanova
• Noah Miller

REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum: 

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater

CPU: Intel i3-6100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200, FX4350 or greater

Memory: 8GB+ RAM

OTHER SIAR PROJECTS:

Seige: https://redfoxgamedev.itch.io/siar-siege

Fit4U: https://rmichels.itch.io/fit4u

ASSETS USED:

VR Head Gestures as Input by Tom Farro

Oculus Integration by Oculus

Game FX - Game Sound Effects by Hollywood Edge