Bio-VR

An Android Virtual Reality application, which displays basic biological information in 3-D space using Google Cardboard. Built using Unity 3D game engine, Google Cardboard SDK for VR support, blender for 3D asset creation.

Table of Contents

• Bio-VR
  • Sections
  • Information
    • Zoom scene
    • Cell Division scene
    • Quiz scene
  • Steps
  • Team
  • Credits

Information

This application contains information about DNA structure, particularly displays DNA, Chromosome, Introns, Exons, and basic building blocks of DNA, nucleotides. The application consists of three different stages/scenes:

Zoom scene

Used to display the DNA, Chromosome, Introns, Exons and Nucleotides in a 3-D space. Contains a button to switch to Cell Division Scene while viewing Chromosome.

Cell Division scene

Used to display the Cell Division as an animation and read extra information about the Cell Division phases.

Quiz scene

A small quiz to test the knowledge of the user after having tried all the scenes. Has a specific timer, and prints the result of the quiz at the end.

Steps

We divided the project into two parts:

• Modeling with blender

  Learning the basics of blender, and building the DNA, Chromosome, Introns, Exons, Adenine Guanine, Cytosine and Thymine in blender and then importing these objects as assets to use with Unity game engine.

• Building the scenes with Unity 3D game engine and C# programming language

  Learning the basics of Unity 3D, getting used to the syntax of C# programming language to write custom scripts to control the objects found in the Unity scenes.

Team

• Blin Qipa

  Computer Sciences Engineering student in Yeditepe University.

• Hilal Inan

  Computer Sciences Engineering student in Yeditepe University.

Credits

• Supervisors:

  Assist. Prof Esin Onbaşıoğlu

  İsa Ahmet Güney

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