MetaMorphos VR

MetaMorphos VR is the evolution of MetaMorphos. It's an application that illustrates the structural plans of metazoans through 3D reconstructions. The organisms presented in the application are avatars, 3D reconstructions of typical organisms that encompass the major characteristics of taxa. MetaMorphos enables the analysis of the external morphology of these avatars as well as their systemic organization. The visualized organ systems include the digestive, excretory, nervous, reproductive, circulatory, respiratory, and any other unique systems observed in specific taxa (e.g., the ambulacral system in echinoderms).

Overview 🔎

The objective was to develop MetaMorphos with xr technology in order to create more immersion and therefore more retaining of information for users.

FEATURES 🎨

The main features are being able to interact with 3D animals (hands and controllers) in virtual reality and to have immersion with mixed reality

CHALLENGES🤔

The challenges were to create interactions in VR by minimizing the number of buttons. As this was my first VR project, a lot of trial and error to find the right compromise in terms of realism and performance. I also had to implement hand tracking to let users easily switch from hands to controllers.

IMPACT 💥

The impact is a new learning way in animal biology education. This type of application did not yet exist for the study of animals and this allowed us to have many interest from many actors and medias.

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