Sea And Life: Endless Chains Sýndarveruleikaupplifun by Shin Asaw

Sea And Life: Endless Chains Sýndarveruleikaupplifun by Shin Asaw is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award í járni in Hönnun fræðslu, kennsluefnis og þjálfunarinnihalds Competition Category.

JárnMenntun· 2020

Sea And Life: Endless Chains Sýndarveruleikaupplifun

by Shin Asaw

Client: Sea VR Study Project Executive Committee

A' Design Award í járni Winner in Menntun Category

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The Design

About Sea And Life: Endless Chains Sýndarveruleikaupplifun

Haf og líf: Endalausar keðjur er sýndarveruleikaupplifun sem sköpuð er fyrir nemendur í grunn- og framhaldsskólum. Fyrri hlutinn er 360 gráðu heimildarmynd sem útskýrir umhverfisvandamál hafsins, svo sem plastúrgang, með heitum lífvera og ítarlegum tölum. Seinni hlutinn er leikur þar sem nemendur kanna hafið, leita að lífverum og svara spurningum með fjórum svarmöguleikum. Svör eru valin með stefnu höfuðsins, þannig að engin handstýring er nauðsynleg. Sjónarhornið er aldrei fært með valdi, sem hjálpar til við að koma í veg fyrir hreyfiveiki.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award í járni

Sea And Life: Endless Chains Sýndarveruleikaupplifun vann A' Design Award í járni, virta viðurkenningu sem veitt er góðum hönnunarverkum sem uppfylla þær faglegu og iðnaðarlegu kröfur sem gerðar eru til vel hannaðra sköpunarverka. Sigurvegarar í járni sýna mikla færni, mikla sérhæfingu, sérfræðiskilning og skapandi getu höfunda sinna. Þess er vænst að Sea And Life: Endless Chains Sýndarveruleikaupplifun sé mjög metið, dáð og elskað sköpunarverk sem er hagnýtt og nýstárlegt. Þetta hönnunarverk sem vann A' Design Award í járni sameinar bestu starfsvenjur greinarinnar og hefur hæfa tæknilega eiginleika tengda þekkingu og hæfileikum. Sea And Life: Endless Chains Sýndarveruleikaupplifun er virt fyrir nákvæmni sína og er hannað til að veita lífsgæðabætur sem hjálpa til við að gera heiminn að betri stað.

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.