XYZ Lab

Digital Twin Integration with Innovative Physical Lighting Control

XYZ Lab combines VR with a physical controller to intuitively adjust real-world lighting, merging digital and physical spaces for an immersive experience.

Duration

Jan. 2023 - Apr. 2023
(Total 14 Weeks)

Team

Monica Hwang
Robin Keum

My Role

Physical Prototyping

Laser Cut
Unity Mapping

Coding

Software

Unity

Photoshop
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Python

How might we leverage the concept of digital twins
to provide intuitive control over
physicaland virtual environments simultaneously?

Constructed an accurate digital replica of our classroom within the Unity platform.

Utilizing the controller enables simultaneous manipulation of both digital and physical environments.

Bridging digital and physical environments together.

How can we manage our physical controller?

Seesaw

Tilt the bar up or down to adjust
lighting intensity down for
dimmer light, up for brighter light.

Rotation

Rotate the controller to shift the
lighting's color, offering a spectrum
from warm to cool tones.

XYZ Position

Move the Oculus controller in
any direction to change the
lighting's hue, customizing the
color spectrum in real-time.

UNITY EXPLORATION

Before embarking on our main project and our initial venture into VR,
we explored various methods to interact with the digital twin.

Experimenting with hand tracking to manipulate virtual
knobs and utilizing Oculus' physical controller, we discovered
three impactful ways to operate our controller:

Rotation

XYZ Movement

SeeSaw

INTEGRATING!

My teammate Robin and I aimed to
integrate these diverse use cases
into a single physical controller, resulting
in our final physical prototype.

Our physical working process

THANK YOU