type of activation: showcase
Lunar drive VR Experience
In association with dell and htc vive
Dates: Beginning at the start of the 2016 PGA season (begins october 2015)
Locations: Following the PGA tour schedule
Role: Production Coordinator & Co Producer / Unreal engine 4 dev & game designer
Responsibilities:
- Manage a group of design teams to ensure the game stays on time and within the budget
- Work with story-boarders, sketch artists, graphic designers, and other creatives to turnkey the entire showcase
- Partner with independent vendors and entities to manage the meeting/showcase logistics
- Analyze story-line, script, game mechanics, & other individual departments to ensure product fidelity is safeguarded
- Provide service and assistance problem solving to any individual or team that encounters issues
- Coordinate the transportation logistics for the delivery for scenic props, displays, equipment, etc
- Coordinate and manage onsite teams while designing innovative and creative ways to improve throughput
- Functioned as a key team member to develop new groundbreaking features focusing on immersion and interaction
- Generate ideas to save money while staying within the context of dell focused branding
- Create production calendars, schedules, call sheets, budgets, and other documentation related to the showcase
- Prep and manage inventory, invoices, budgets, deliveries, and other logistics issues
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key players and digital influencers
- Educate new recruits on 3D Live // AXO rules & regulations through proper demonstration and documentation
- Work with all immersive technologies and tweak ideas and creative concepts to improve game dynamics
- work inside unreal engine 4 to place assets, develop the game mechanics, and create the formal rules
- manage the difficulty of the game (how fast the targets move, where the targets are, how hard is it to score)
- help implement user feedback when scoring points and making the user feel in touch with the games rules
- QA test the game from start to finish while focusing on the user experience and how to improve gameplay
- maintain proper preventative measures to keep gear in optimal condition / continue maintenance check ups
- setup vr stations for the users including managing the vr software and setting up the cameras / controllers
- oversee the user's experience from their time standing in line, to how much motion is needed to swing the club
description of the projecT: 3D Live once again teamed up with Dell, this time to bring an out of this world golf experience along with the PGA to the World Golf Championships. On February 6th, 1971 Alan Shepard tee’d off from the surface of the moon and now you too can take swings from the only driving range in our solar system that allows you to boost your follow-through with the benefit of lunar gravity. With Earth as your tranquil backdrop you’ll be able to improve your shot to lengths even the pros will envy.
Later incarnations of the project include integrating "holographic" 3D LED for spectators to be immersed in the VR environment powered by Unreal Engine. The player inside of VR is hitting their virtual golf ball in front of the 3D LED so to the audience gets to see the ball virtually fly down the driving range. with the combination of the headset and the 3d led, vr is No longer a singular experience. it theoretically opens the headset for thousands of people who can now be simultaneously immersed in a groundbreaking event. The installation was active until the winter season at the microsoft store on 5th ave in manhattan.
Press:
Nominated: Bizbash Event Style Award
