Yarn: VR Storyboarding Tool

Project summary: How can we enable students to co-create virtual reality content for post-secondary education?

Virtual and augmented reality can provide technology-enabled learning experiences that are both engaging and stimulating. However, they’re rarely used in courses today. This project looks to take the lead on finding new ways to use these technologies to improve learning outcomes and the student experience.

Project outline:

  • Research
  • Design sprint with post-secondary students
  • Synthesize insights
  • Develop prototype
  • Test prototype
  • Iterate
  • Create mockups

We noticed that although there are a growing number of options for web VR creation, that there are no tools to teach people how to translate their 2D ideas into 360 virtual space. So, we came up with a VR Storyboarding tool that can be used in a web application, with drag-and-drop 3D assets, to create panoramic or monoscopic scenes that can be previewed and downloaded in different file formats.

The potential applications for this tool are exciting and far-reaching, as it can be used as a teaching aid, design framework, as well as a low-fi engine for VR asset creation.

Links

Interactive prototype

eCampus Project page

Using Format