AR / VR for High Ropes Courses (Hochseilgarten)
bachelor thesis
| Status | in progress |
| Student | Jonas Boenisch |
| Advisor | Felix Dietz, Ville Mäkelä |
| Professor | Prof. Dr. Florian Alt |
Task
Description
Outdoor sport experiences have been growing in popularity both as recreational activities as well as team building events. The goal of this project is to explore novel concept ideas for introducing AR into high ropes courses (Hochseilgarten). These concepts can range from giving users tips on how to tackle an obstacle, showing paths with different difficulty levels to ways to gamify the experience and promote teamwork.
This thesis will be conducted in collaboration with the Jochen Schweizer Arena. Parts of the work (for example, studies to inform concepts and prototypes) as well as the evaluation of concepts will be conducted on-site.
Tasks
- Review of related literature
- Ideation of novel interaction concepts
- Designing and implementing proof-of-concept prototypes of selected concepts
- [Depending on scope:] Deployment and testing concepts with users
(Preferred) Requirements
- Experience in C# and Unity3D
- Interest in AR / VR
- Interest in performance improvements in sports
- Independent scientific work and creative problem solving
Keywords
augmented reality, virtual reality, tracking, sports, games, interactive systems