About

This project started out with me rewatching a Nickelodeon show from my childhood, Avatar: The Last Airbender - and still thinking that bending of the elements is one of the coolest things ever done in animation.

I wanted to be able to control actions based on actual movements I made, not just press a bunch of buttons or grab weapons that do different things like in other VR games.

Development

One of the hardest challenges has been to define what a "motion" actually is - where does it start, where does it end - how do you check if what the user just did corresponds to one of the motions you are listening for? A controller's position in space was pretty tough to define as well at first before I figured out that their position in space is best defined as positions in a spherical coordinate system - more or less - where the HMD is the origin.

This article is a work in progress...