Future of Work

Version 0.9 (C) 2023 Ethan Holen, Francisco R. Ortega, Ben Clegg.

For non-commercial license, we are using GPL v3 see license:

For commercial license, please contact Dr. Ortega NuiLab

Documentation for the NuiLab Future of Work project

Developer: Ethan Holen

Getting Started

Required Installs

• Unity version 2019.4.0f1 LTS
  • Unity should prompt you to install this if you open it in unity hub

Running

• The project itself is meant to be built on an oculus quest, i havent been able to try it on other headsets but it might work with a little tweaking.

1. Plug in your quest
2. Open the build menu when the project opens File > Build Settings
3. Once the build menu is up select your desired scenes
4. Set texture to ASTC
5. set ETC2 fallback to 32-bit
6. Select your quest as the run device (might require a refresh)
7. Set Compression Method to LZ4
8. Press Build and Run and select whatever file you would like to store the build in
9. That should do it

You will probably have to jump through some hoops on the quest to set up developer settings and stuff which is well documented on the oculus developer site

The Design

This project is meant to simulate building simple stuctures out of Meccano bars in a VR environment.

The bars themselves are made up of three separate components:

1. The Base

2. The Builder

3. The Preview

The base is the immovable part which starts the building process, one of these has to be put down in every scene to start off the building process. The second bar, the builder, is where the main interaction happens with the user. It is the grabbable piece that can be used to hover near the base and trigger the preview which generate from the base at certain offsets.

The preview is triggered by the snap offsets (orange spheres) making contact with the snap points (blue diamonds) on the base. The script behind this interaction is called BuildOffset.cs

Data Recording