Virtual Reality for Large Audience Participation

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Virtual Reality for Large Audience Participation

• Abstract
• Introduction

• End-Product Description
• Technical Approach
• Testing Approach
• Budget Personnel Effort

• Iowa State University houses the United States
  largest virtual reality auditorium, seating more
  than 250 people. The system takes a computer
  generated world and projects that onto a 15 foot
  by 30 foot screen, allowing the audience to view
  the 3-dimensional image by wearing stereoscopic
  glasses. The goal of this project is to allow
  the entire audience to simultaneously interact
  with the virtual world. Every chair in the
  auditorium will be fitted with a personal
  interactive device. Then the data is collected,
  processed, and sent to the virtual reality
  application, all within a time-critical period.
  The projects design includes the hardware for
  each seat, and the software to receive and
  process the data.
• General Background
• This project will allow the entire audience to
  interact simultaneously with the application
• Technical Problems
• Interactive device that is intuitive and easy to
  use
• Data management of a large set of inputs
• Operating Environment
• Intensive use and possible mistreatment
• VR Juggler compatible data processing software
• Intended Users and Uses
• Users High school students and up
• Uses Interactive and collaborative
  demonstrations

• Each participant in the auditorium will have
  access to an interactive device and stereoscopic
  glasses, enabling each individual to interact and
  make decisions that directly influence the
  actions performed by the VR application on the
  viewing screen
• Mounting Fixed on chair with retractable cable
• Controls Digital buttons
• Data Collection Data stream to the main computer
• Software VR Juggler device driver and
  stand-alone testing suite
• Hardware Simulate possible mistreatment and test
  intuitiveness of operation
• Software Simulated input testing and continued
  revisions
• Collaboration Single and multiple input device
  testing with VR demo

Item Cost
Testing equipment 18,00.00
Plastic enclosures 10,000.00
Push buttons 390.00
Power indicating LED 50.00
Wire 3000.00
Computer and hardware 5000.00
Labor 6000.00
Materials and Supplies 500.00
Total 42,940.00
Personnel Semester Summer Total
Chad Cromer 124 150 274
Andrew Schwantes 120 135 255
David Snow 127 150 277
Yifei Wang 123 150 273
Total 494 585 1079