VR PRINCIPLES

NAVIGATION PRINCIPLES

DISCOVER INFO IN SPACES

• Select an information point to reveal content with cursor (Cat Flight)
• Open a sequence of text + info + video in the 3d space as 2d panels
• The placement of info icons in the environment encourages you to look around, explore and discover
• 2d cards/panels reveal anecdotes and encourages discovery and exploration of a 3d map (Everest VR)
• Better to not show all the information icons at once, but for them to appear when you get closer, a gamification to encourage discovery.

NAVIGATION MENU

• Menu selection is very clear, the cursor should always be present for selection
• Timeline navigation for entire experience, with cursor so user can skip, go back and forth or repeat sections

EXPERIENCE INFORMATION AT THE APP START

• Info is very clear at the application launch (2d white text on black)
• Suggestion of how to best experience the application ( sit / stand up)
• Tutorials on how to use, navigate and interact with application, what to be aware of (possible difficulties and how to avoid them, i.e. dizziness)

KNOWLEDGE PHASE / INFORMATION SUMMARY

• Text explanation is always first –> Experience 2nd
• Text is always alone at the beginning of a chapter (Apollo 11) allowing users to perceive the message without distraction

GESTURE INTERACTION

• Use a “flashlight” to point and reveal views as seen in theBlu VR, Chernobyl VR Project, and The Mage’s Tale
• Choreography in Miyubi: Moving one’s head in a choreography to unlock special content

USER POSITION DURING THE EXPERIENCE

• Stand
• Sit
• Define Area of play
• Suggestion at the beginning of the application, before story and title

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NARRATION PRINCIPLES

EXPERIENCE NARRATION

• Chronological narration – Linear single sequence (Ghost in a Shell, Allumette,Dear Angelica)
• Chronological narration – Chapters (Apollo 11, The Singularity, Miyubi)
• Free mode (god mode in Everest VR and moon exploration in Apollo 11)
• Crescendo in the stories (theBlu VR, Disney’s Star Wars)
• Hologram – real characters filmed and made into holograms (Buzz Aldrin’s Cycling Pathways to Mars, Obduction VR)
• Learning (360 footage in real environments with person speaking to you)
• Arty / Theater experience with no chronological order (Film VR )

TIME

• Time Lapse (speed up) as seen in The People’s House and Through the Ages
• Time Stretch (slow down) as seen in Everest VR
• User manipulation of Time (user can choose to slow down or experience the environment in normal speed) as seen in Ghost in a Shell and theBlu VR

SCALE

• Hyperscale person as seen in Allumette and Rose and I
• Contrast from micro to macro view as seen in Dear Angelica and Disney’s Star Wars

SPATIAL CONTRAST

• User chooses her own scale as seen in Everest VR

MICRO/MACRO

• Lost (Macro robot) – Allumette opening titles (micro environment) – Henry (1:1)
• WOW effect is to see and do something not possible in reality
• Planets (Buzz Aldrin’s Cycling Pathways to Mars)

AUDIO

• Drives the user’s viewing position, it encourages one to look around
• Emotional impact in stories (watching a nature documentary with vs. without the epic music)

EMOTIONAL CONTENT RAISING

• Sound
• Motion
• Height/vertigo/size/gravity Alteration, and Cat Flight
• Displacement in space
• Personification (Miyubi)
• See your body (1st person)
• Visual FX/shaders
• One take (one shooting to record film, as if you were really in the space and  the story happens around you in real time)
• Dynamism

LOCATION

• 1 scene showing several places at once as seen in U2 and Kinoscope,
• Menu location (Disney’s home)

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CONTENT

 

CONTENT PRODUCTION

• Film footage 360
• 3D footage 360
• CGI
• Combination of CGI and film VR
• 2d content motion graphic, visual in space (The Singularity)
• Picture in VR
• Flashlight

VIP RECORDED CONTENT

• Narration told by VIP voices as seen inThe People’s House, Notes on Blindness, Through the Ages, Mission: ISS, Buzz Aldrin’s Cycling Pathways to Mars, U2, NYT Take Flight and Kinoscope

2D ANALOGUE IMAGES / FILMS INTO 3D SPACE

• Cut up and layered As seen in BBC Easter Rising
• Framed within a 3D environment, as seen in Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin’s Cycling Pathways to Mars and Mission: ISS

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TECHNIQUES

SCENE CHANGE TECHNIQUES

• Fade out/in
• Camera Aperture
• Eye Opening (blink)
• Appearing/Disappearing by building scenography elements (from a static point of view)

MOVING/EXPLORING IN THE APPLICATION

• User doesn’t move
• Things / stories change all around (BBC Easter Rising, Allumette, theBlu VR)
• Users advance in space by predetermined designed path (Ghost in a Shell)
• User move in space, jumping from one point to another (Everest VR, Farlands and Storm)

TYPOGRAPHY

• Art direction of Typeface related to the theme of the application (Miyubi // 80s style)
• Readability/Anti Alias
• Layout design (Miyubi interface as mask)
• Info in space (subtle backgrounds)

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Slow moving camera –> bring something dynamic to an audio narration
• Drawing/building in a scene (Dear Angelica)
• Triangulation moving/appearing/disappearing (texturing / dynamism) (as seen in BBC Easter Rising)
• See yourself in the environment (your shadow in BBC Easter Rising, your moving head in the TV in Miyubi)
• 2d content motion graphic, visual in space (The Singularity)

FRAMING

• Framing the Point of View in a diorama-like way, as seen in Kinoscope, Hovering, Everest VR and Buzz Aldrin’s Cycling Pathways to Mars
• Void (negative spaces) Dear Angelica, The Singularity, and Notes on Blindness

OVERTURE

• Images / portrait frames appearing to introduce the story (Henry)
• Extraction of the essence of the story (Allumette // peering through many windows)
• Metaphor
• Cinema frame (Everest VR)
• Film to present original content (Apollo 11 // J.F. Kennedy speech on a tv screen and projector)