5 Prototype

Towards the end of the semester, we tried to wrap all of our thoughts and elements up in a concluding VR-Video experience, which should create awareness towards the topic of climate change in the city and especially the heatweaves and their acceleration through urban heat island effects. We included maps, sounds and visuals to allow the viewer to dive deeper into the topic and to enhance the purely visual content of the 3D VR Experience. Furthermore we created a little survey which looked into the behaviour of people in the city and their mobility behaviours. Additionally we wanted to figure out if such a video could affect their behaviour. For the concluding event we sadly couldn’t be there to participate, so we thought about ways of representation for our project which wouldn’t require our physical appearance.

Therefor we animated a Metahuman Persona to be the narrator of our project, which would appear on an IPad in front of the VR-Headset to give an introduction into the project and explain users how to interact and engage with it. As Exhibition Furniture we build a wooden stand which would hold flyer, IPad and VR-Headset readily available to the viewer.