Solesurfer

Smart sole controlled VR snowboarding experience

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Inspiration

Spencer helped found one of the largest snowboarding brands in China. Zack has a company that makes smart soles. Why not put two and two together and make an awesome XR snowboarding experience!

What it does

It's a ski/snowboard game controlled by smart sole hardware, with multiple game modes including gem grab, half pipe, and free ski. No hardware? no problem, also works with arrow keys. You can also blow up obstacles with laser beams, because everything is better with laser beams. You can also optionally generate worlds dynamically using the world labs api

How we built it

We used threejs, brilliant sole smart sole, meshy to make the characters and obstacles, world labs for the background generation, PICO for the immersive experience

Challenges we ran into

Calibrating the sensitivity of the smart sole and making sure the Euler angles were mapped correctly was tricky.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learned how to use PICO, World Labs, getting the smart sole connected, making realistic physics for the halfpipe and freeski mode

What we learned

Snowboarding is cool. 3D artists are cooked

What's next for Solesurfer

Add more game modes and cooler world maps

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