Empowered Minds Inc. is an organization founded with the mission to educate students and help them stay active and healthy. One of the ways that they help kids get active is by allowing them to play games that require them to move around. My role while working with this company was to help design and create video games that would encourage kids to be active. The first project that I created was a virtual environment in the Oculus Quest.
Once the user turns on the headset, they are immediately transported into the landing page which is the space environment seen in the video below. I created the environment in blender by inserting a giant sphere into the environment directly around the player’s starting location and applying a free space image to act as a wallpaper. Then I took the company logo and converted it into a vector image so that I was able to have it float freely in 3D space without it having to be an image on a plane. Once the environment was created, I had to create an account as a developer then build and export the environment to the Oculus Quest store. From there I was able to add my custom environment to the downloadable environments available on my connected headset.