Sea And Life: Endless Chains

VR Experience for Sea VR Study Project Executive Committee

This is an immersive edutainment. The first part, "Movie Side," explains marine environmental issues. Children can learn while being impressed by the images on the dome screen or HMD. Next, children challenge the second part, the "game side". Kids will review their knowledge using four optional quizzes while enjoying an underwater experience and hunting for creatures. At this time, kids want to improve the score, so they want to watch the first part many times. Also, the production of VR takes great care to ensure that children with growing vision can enjoy it safely.

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Unique Properties

This is an immersive VR edutainment for primary and secondary students. It consists of two parts. The first part is Movie-Side, which is a documentary film of 360 degree to explain some marine environmental problems using detailed numbers and names of organisms. The second part is Game-Side which provides underwater immersive experience, fun of creature hunting, and confirmation of knowledge using quizzes with four choices.

Tags

VR, movie, film, game, edutainment, quiz, HMD, display, goggle, OculusGo, 360, ocean, sea, marine, animal, creature, life, plastic, garbage, waste

Production Technology

We used Unity as a development environment for VR applications and edited the video (CG) with Adobe PremierePro, Adobe AfterEffects, Autodesk Maya, etc. In particular, plug-ins for VR (Mettle Mantra VR series, GoPro VR series) were used extensively. For 360-degree shooting, I used GoPro Fusion for aerial photography, Kodak PIXPRO 4KVR360 for underwater, and RICOH THETA V and Panasonic GH5 on the ground.

Design Challenge

We have developed software that does not use the hand-held controller that comes with OculusGo in order to save time and effort in teaching how to use VR goggles. In particular, players can enter the answer for the 4-choice question just by the angle of the head (direction of sight line). Furthermore, in order to prevent children's VR sickness, we have made a direction that does not forcibly move the view. As a result, there were no children who felt ill while targeting more than 100 students.

Project Duration

The project started in Tokyo from around January 2018. Over half a year, we did movie side filming in the seas around Japan, and produced game side in Tokyo. In September 2018, we held the first one-day event for all students at Hachiyama Junior High School in Tokyo. In October, a permanent exhibition was held for a month at Science Center for Children in Shibuya. If there is a request from an educational institution etc., we will still lend it.

Operation Flow

i) You wear the OculusGo, see a tutorial on how to play. ii) Select the Movie or Game button. iii) On the game-side, travel through the ocean looking for creatures. The questions will only be displayed when you find a particular one. You can continue until you find all or time out. iv) You will be given one of the three titles of "Sea Friend" with 0 to 6 correct answers, "Sea Master" with 7 to 9 correct answers, and "Sea God" with Perfect. If you want to answer all correctly, you can try again.

Research

This project's main purpose is to enlighten children about various problems related to the ocean such as plastic waste and global warming, and was carried out with financial support from the Nippon Foundation.

Inspiration

Documentary film can be effective when you want young people to be interested in difficult social issues. However, knowledge is not established just by watching, so some kind of "confirmation" is necessary. At that time, if the school-like writing test is conducted, the students who scored low may lose interest in the issue. Therefore, I thought that it would be effective to use VR goggle, watch the video first, then try the game, and repeat these until getting enough score while having fun.

Image Credits

Image #1 : Designer & Director of Photography Shin Asaw, SnL_EC_mainimage, 2019. Image #2 : Director of Videography Shin Asaw, optionalimage#1, 2019. Image #3 : Director of Videography Shin Asaw, optionalimage#2, 2019. Image #4 : Game Director Shin Asaw, optionalimage#3, 2019. Image #5 : Director of Photography Shin Asaw, optionalimage#4, 2019.

Project Overview

Sea And Life: Endless Chains VR Experience has been a Iron winner in the Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design award category in the year 2019 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.

Iron Recognition

Shin Asaw was recognized with the coveted Iron A' Design Award in 2020, a testament to excellence of their work Sea And Life: Endless Chains VR Experience.

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