VR vehicle entertainment concept (Backseat Driver)

Core Responsibilities

- Working in a small team to a deadline

- Technical lead

- Working with designers and technical artists to support their vision

- Integrating multiple emerging technologies

Description

Developed as a prototype demo of the future of passenger entertainment, designed to simulate an AR solution through VR.

Backseat Driver shows users how augmented screens, spatial product purchasing, relaxation and navigation could occur.

Technical Tasks

- Developing a game state system that cycles various applications and can be skipped/altered on the show floor

- Optimising a performance-heavy app for VR

- Combining new and in-development hand tracking and mid-air haptics technologies with brand new VR devices and tooling

- System architecture and prioritisation to keep to the strict deadline