Hardware

Part of a research design team tasked to determine if virtual reality can be used as a solution for training. As this is year 3 of the project, it has seen many iterations of controllers since inception. Technology in this environment is rapidly changing and we needed to adapt with it. We have finally settled on hardware system that will allow us to track small objects such as an OC Spray cannister in an immersive virtual environment while still being able to place the controller in the police officers actual duty belt. Designing the controllers called for using CAD to design mock-up 3d prints as well as programming Arduino control boards and interfacing them with Unity. The version we sit with now has come from many months of research into the different ways to track and control objects in a virtual environment.