This presentation highlights the 2015 mentoring session for the Gold Coast Mayors Telstra Technology Awards. Highlights include using Unity3D for building Mixed Reality Prototypes, including examples of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, 3D Printing and mixed combinations.

1. Dr James Birt

2. Time
(mins)
Session Outline
30
Presentation:
- Visualisation & Interactive Prototyping with
practical advise on developing interactive
virtual & physical prototypes across platforms
using Unity 3D
30
Technology Hands on (Present your ideas!):
•3D Printer
•3D Scanner
•Virtual Reality
•Mobility
•Robotics

3. Dr James Birt
Assistant Professor of Interactive Media
and Design (Games & Multimedia)
 BIT (Hons), PhD (Software Engineering &
Artificial Intelligence)
 2014 Australian Office for Learning and
Teaching Citation for Outstanding
Contribution to Student Learning
 15+ years industry & academic experience
 http://bond.edu.au/profile/dr-james-birt

4. 2014 Emerging
Technologies
Hype Cycle

5. Why Visualisation and Interaction?
 Humans perceive images & audio faster than raw data
Bond Web Design & Investigative
Journalism collaboration to use Census
data  highlight human stories on
“unhappy” places in Australia

6. 2D static images can be misleading
From this vantage point we
actually cant see this
portion of the building

7. Virtual Reality

8. Education
 Blended Learning
Mobile Devices, 3D Manipulation &
Augmented Reality
Stirling, A., & Birt, J. (2014). An enriched multimedia eBook application to facilitate learning of anatomy. Anatomical sciences education, 7(1), 19-27.

9. 3D Printing &
Augmented Reality
 Distance Education
9
https://youtu.be/vTRsnn-76mM?t=1m40s
Cowling, M. A., Moore, E., Birt, J. (2015). Augmenting Distance Education Skills Development in Paramedic Science
through Mixed Media Visualisation, Proceedings of EUROMEDIA'2015, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, April 27-29.

10. Interactive Mobile Stereoscopic
Augmentation
10
Move the marker closer
to the phone and see
inside the object
Gaze (using a Raycast) at the 2D
Representation and instantiate 3D model

11. Exploring Mixed Media
Prototyping with Unity
11

12. Unity 3D  http://unity3d.com/
 cross-platform
creation system
 2D/3D
visualisations
 includes game
engine,
programming IDE
(C#, Javascript)
 Amazing
community
 Free & Licensed
http://unity3d.com/
unity/licenses
scene view
game view
scene objects
project assets
object details

13. 3D Model  OBJ (STL) Format
Keep poly count low
• For the best portability save
your model in obj file
format
• Please note that many 3D
printers e.g. UP require an
.stl file format

14. 3D Printer
Tips:
 Covert all Nurbs to polygons
 Keep Low polygon count
 Combine mesh using Boolean
Union
 Triangulate Mesh
 Fill Holes
 Check vertex normals
 Base surface flat
 Check physical scale
 Avoid overhanging surfaces
(results in support material)
 Smooth Design
 Delete Object History
 Export as obj (stl)
Vertex normal shown Scale: mm

15. Unity 3D + Oculus
Rift  Setup
 developer.oculus.com/dow
nloads/
 Download Windows
Runtime
 Download Unity Package
 Install Windows Runtime
 Import OculusUnity
package
 For interactive 1st Person
OVRPlayerController is
added to your scene
 Add a platform or terrain to
walk on  the controller
has gravity applied

16. Unity 3D + Augmented Reality
Resources
 Qualcomm Vuforia 5 includes
(Stereoscopic AR):
developer.vuforia.com/
 Marker generator:
www.brosvision.com/ar-marker-
generator/
 Guides:
developer.vuforia.com/library/gettin
g-started

17. Android + Unity
Resources
 Unity3D Setup:
docs.unity3d.com/Manual/android-
sdksetup.html
 Android SDK:
developer.android.com/sdk/
 Developer Guides - Android:
developer.android.com
 Java Development Kit:
www.oracle.com/
Tips
1. Install Java (JDK) -
Administrator
2. Install Android (SDK) -
Administrator
3. Run Unity3D – Android Build &
Player Settings