Sea And Life: Endless Chains Experiencia de Realidad Virtual by Shin Asaw

Sea And Life: Endless Chains Experiencia de Realidad Virtual by Shin Asaw is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño Educativo Competition Category.

HierroEducación· 2020

Sea And Life: Endless Chains Experiencia de Realidad Virtual

by Shin Asaw

Client: Sea VR Study Project Executive Committee

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Educación Category

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The Design

About Sea And Life: Endless Chains Experiencia de Realidad Virtual

Mar y Vida: Cadenas Infinitas es una experiencia de realidad virtual creada para estudiantes de primaria y secundaria. La primera parte es un documental en 360 grados que explica los problemas ambientales marinos, como los residuos plásticos, con los nombres de los organismos y datos detallados. La segunda parte es un juego en el que los estudiantes exploran el océano, buscan criaturas y responden cuestionarios de cuatro opciones. Las respuestas se seleccionan mediante la dirección de la cabeza, por lo que no se necesita ningún mando manual. La vista nunca se desplaza de forma forzada, lo que ayuda a prevenir el mareo por movimiento.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Sea And Life: Endless Chains Experiencia de Realidad Virtual ha ganado el A' Design Award de Hierro, un reconocimiento prestigioso concedido a buenos diseños que cumplen los requisitos profesionales e industriales que se esperan de creaciones bien diseñadas. Los ganadores de Hierro demuestran gran habilidad, alta especialización, comprensión experta y capacidad creativa de sus creadores. Se espera que Sea And Life: Endless Chains Experiencia de Realidad Virtual sea una creación muy apreciada, admirada y querida, práctica e innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Hierro integra las mejores prácticas del sector y tiene características técnicas competentes unidas a conocimiento práctico y talento. Sea And Life: Endless Chains Experiencia de Realidad Virtual es respetado por su minuciosidad y está concebido para aportar mejoras en la calidad de vida que ayudan a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
Dimensions & Packaging: For VR goggles, OculusGo is adopted as an integrated type with low introduction cost and no need for PC connection.
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.
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.
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.
Patents: (C) 2018 Sea VR Study Project Executive Committee
Team Members: Concept Designer and Movie Director and Game Director : Shin Asaw
3D Designer : Satomi Iseki
2D Designer : Risa Takahashi
Programmer : Kouji Chado
Programmer : Mika Nishida
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.