2016 is the year that virtual reality hits the consumer market with at least five major VR platforms coming from heavyweights such as Google, Sony, Oculus, Samsung and Valve. These platforms offer different solutions to the problem of input in VR including everything from position tracking controllers to single button input schemes. Learn how to design compelling UX that is intuitive, what concepts translate across each platform, as well as a few things to avoid along the way.

1. Game Director / User Experience Designer / Technical Architect

2. VR is coming sooner than you think!!

3. We already have crossed the line

4. In 2016 there will be 5 consumer
VR platforms on the market

5. Consumer VR Hardware 2016!!!!

6. What works well in VR?

7. VR / AR Convergence

8. What's Changed? Why now?

9. Tools

10. What works in VR?

12. Presence
The single most important thing in every VR
experience

13. Sight, look around you,
visual exploration

14. Users should need and want to look
around in the world

15. Closer items have more impact

16. There are many ways to use that impact

17. Many layers of depth can add to presence

19. What does not work in VR?

21. Don’t mess with the
inner ear
When our senses
dedicated to
presence disagree
the body responds
by attempting to
remove any
potential toxins we
me may have
swallowed

22. If you do break the rules, break them wisely

24. Alternate Approaches

25. Plan for a range of input possibilities

26. So many options...

27. Mapping user intent

28. Give the user a way to project their intentions

29. How do we express and interact
in the real world

30. Gaze based interactions

31. Show user focus

32. Mapping user intent by
only show what’s right

33. Tomato Presence!
our focus become what we interact with

35. It’s even more important in social
experiences

37. What about user interfaces?

38. You need find somewhere to put it
Hint ( not your face )

39. Here is a lesson I learned
the hard way

40. Dealing with depth can be tough

41. Really tough

42. It needs to be contextual

43. Simplifying interactions

44. Gestures usually suck

45. Computers look for single conditions
Users explore what’s possible

46. Needs to be obvious & reliable

47. Focus on user intent via
oversimplification & automation

48. Design for the hardware

50. UI can reinforce the behavior

51. My advice

52. Test, Fail, Rebuild, Improve, Learn

53. HOW TO CONNEC WITH
ARTIST,DESIGNERS & DEVS
IN TORONTO?

54. TorontoVR is a monthly event for the VR
community in Toronto where we can share,
discuss, connect and explore the potential
of Virtual Reality!

55. RSVP for the next event @
http://www.meetup.com/TorontoVR/

56. Thanks For Coming Out!
Questions?