Demonstration of student project about walking in a maze in VR on Steam

  • Martin Kraus
  • Sule Serubugo
  • Denisa Skantarova
  • Nicolaj Evers

Press/Media: Press / Media

Description

Sommad is a demonstration of a student project about natural walking in a self-overlapping maze in Virtual Reality (VR) which lets additional users, who do not wear a head-mounted display (HMD), help the HMD-user to solve the maze. Sommad is available on Steam and requires an HTC Vive HMD and a tracking area of 2.5m x 2.5m. Two scientific articles about the project will be presented at the ArtsIT 2017 conference.

Period26 Jul 2017 → 14 Aug 2017

Media coverage

2

Media coverage

  • TitleSömmad VR
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletYoutube
    Media typeWeb
    Duration/Length/Size8 minutes 8 seconds
    Country/TerritorySwitzerland
    Date14/08/2017
    DescriptionVideo review of Sömmad in German.
    URLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9nOMbkQ0I
    PersonsMartin Kraus, Sule Serubugo, Denisa Skantarova, Nicolaj Evers
  • TitleVR Maze Simulator Sömmad Is Coming Soon To HTC Vive
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletVRFocus
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date26/07/2017
    DescriptionAnnouncement and review of Sömmad
    Producer/AuthorRebecca Hills-Duty
    URLhttps://www.vrfocus.com/2017/07/vr-maze-simulator-sommad-is-coming-soon-to-htc-vive/
    PersonsMartin Kraus, Sule Serubugo, Denisa Skantarova, Nicolaj Evers

Media contributions

1

Media contributions

  • TitleSommad
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletSteam store
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryDenmark
    Date07/08/2017
    DescriptionDemonstration of a student project about natural walking in VR.
    Producer/AuthorRovango Studio
    URLstore.steampowered.com/app/676470/Sommad/
    PersonsMartin Kraus, Sule Serubugo, Denisa Skantarova, Nicolaj Evers

Keywords

  • Virtual reality
  • Locomotion
  • Asymmetric experience
  • Steam
  • Demonstration
  • Game