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VR Development

Here in the Design Hub we are starting to work on projects that involve into Virtual Reality.

VR for short. VR is a new and still improving technology that is still in big business today. Everyday it’s improving and new technology is warping its ideas in the system.

VR Headset that is used can help someone see in the eyes of what is happening in the virtual world. Many VR company’s that are popular today are: HTC Vive, Oculus, Windows Mixed Reality.

Basically VR is suppose to help us see in a place we don’t see everyday. Some say it helps people to escape from reality we live today.

Other than games, VR has many purposes that can help people with their day to day lives.  VR can be used to help peoples health and give people experiences that they will never have or want to have like go to a unique place or somewhere around the world.In the Design Hub, we are working with 3 projects that are involved in vr.

Our first project in VR is called ADABathroom.com. This project is about viewpoints/ experience of a person who really needs it. We currently are measuring bathrooms from places around us that currently have public bathroom. Also we are going to model each and every bathroom that we measure and make. For this project. Then we will convert these models into a VR enviroment that can be used in VR. Then we will test these models and everything out by the experience that we put into the program to replicate what it is like to go to the bathroom by the experience. The on thing that we are still in development but has in mind is to add a log rating system so that we can know the persons rates on the bathrooms and also experience.

The second VR project is the “ Physics particle Collider “  this project is currently about very slow motion of high energy physics of particles and see how they can interact with one another. There are currently no educational vr models out in the market. So we have to create each model ourselves.

The third and final project is the Stem building project. Currently we only have the building for the VR. But we need to populate the building with items and people. But also we have to add other buildings surrounding it to replicate the ARC campus. The reason for that is to help indicate what it would feel like to have it in already built and surrounding with ARC buildings so we know how and what it would feel and look like in the college.

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ARC Design Hub Drones Take to the Sky!

Photo by photography intern Angelique Doty

On March 2, 2018, middle school and high school students from Heritage Peak: Pacific Charter Schools visited the ARC campus to view the demonstration of drone flying put on by the drone-flying interns of the Design Hub: Sean, Jason, Shane, and Allan.  Jason demonstrates the flying of the drones using remote controls, while Sean presents the technique of using hand gestures to direct the drone on where to fly. The basic ground rules for the drone flying demonstration in the gym was for all people in the gym who are not currently involved in the drone flying to stay behind the blue line, except for the individuals who are either showing the students how to fly the drones, or the students actually participating in flying the drone. Angelique, one of the Design Hub’s photography interns, had the opportunity to fly the drone. “Jason showed me how to guide the remote control to direct the drone to wherever I wanted it to go. It was like a real life video game!” She tells us afterwards.

Angelique is the Design Hub intern behind capturing the photos of these drones, and is our eyes and ears for fantastic events like these. She is one of the several very talented photographers we have on our team, and is an integral part in bringing the Design Hub stories to life. She takes our articles to a whole other level, because without pictures these pieces would be all bark and no bite. Here is a quick thank-you to her!

This event Angelique covered was made possible by the CTE department reaching out to the drone flying interns of the Design Hub through Randy Schuster, who put this event together. This event was put in place to encourage more students to discover all the different educational opportunities that ARC has to offer. There will be further development and a build of programs, especially in the photography and agriculture departments.  The drones will be flown on campus in certain areas. For this event, it was held in the gym and on the neighboring field. Due to restricted airspace, there are regulations for how far the drones can be flown in the air. They are in the process of setting up another drone flying event on a specific day during the month of April, and are working on getting certain days set up to fly the drones during the semester. 

Photo by photography intern Angelique Doty

Flying these drones isn’t the only thing our Design Hub interns get to do, either. We actually make them by hand here in the Hub’s maker space! Every piece is designed on the computer by our modeling interns, and sent to be 3D-printed in our 3D printing lab. From there, the pieces are assembled by hand, and the tech needed to fly the drone is inserted into the drone body. Then, voila- we have a drone that is ready to fly! No drone kits required. Here at the Design Hub, our students really take pride in their work, and are happy to share with others and inspire younger students like the ones at Heritage Peak. If we left at least one inspired student from this visit, we consider that a win, and we hope to see that inspiration someday flourish into something great.