AVA AR 3D

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This is a game made in Unity 3D, employing Augmented Reality technology to tell a story in the most immersive manner, using choice-based questions to make the viewer think about the story being told, effectively gamifying the concept of storytelling. Its benefits against a web article, a lecture, or an educational video are both the fact, that the story requires input from the audience to continue, and the fact that the viewer can walk among the objects displayed, seeing everything from every perspective, should they choose to do so. A large part of the idea is the concept of a framework for teaching about other space missions or even creating custom stories. The story is linear, but a scoring system can be implemented, further propagating gamification and replay value due to the desire to reach the perfect score. The current form of the game, which is the attachment of this submission, only contains one question with monologue, the Sun, the planets Venus and Mercury, and the Parker space probe, showing an animation of the probe approaching the Sun upon answering the question. As stated earlier, the main purpose of this project is to create an interesting and immersive way to raise the public interest in space, increasing the support for space programs and concepts like extraterrestrial colonization, deep space travel, meteor strike warning and prevention, as well as off-the-planet mining, just to name a few. The entire game was written in Unity, models were created in Blender, the probe model was downloaded from the NASA official website resources. The scripts were written in C# using Microsoft Visual Studio.

The Parker probe 3D model was downloaded from the NASA official website resources for 3D models here.

It was a long journey of two days of hacking, creating and developing an amazing solution: a 3D storytelling game in augmented reality, how the Parker probe "touches" the Sun. This case is mindblowing mainly because of the so big temperature on the Sun's surface and in the Sun's atmosphere. The space technology progress is amazing and it is a nice idea for storytelling. That was the reason why we chose the challenge: ON THE WAY TO THE SUN.

The data provided by NASA and the official websites of this mission (here) were very helpful to understand the story, problems, and visions.

Making a game in 3D is messy sometimes, but our programmer and 3D graphic colleagues solved many issues to provide a great demo of our storytelling game vision. We as a team, we deserve applause, for what we made in a few hours.

We used:

• The Parker probe 3D model was downloaded from the NASA official website resources for 3D models here.
• Sun corona effect was taken from the NASA Youtube video here.
• Textures for Mercury and Venus planets were taken from Wikimedia Commons using Google here and here, respectively.

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