Virtual Reality Interfaces for Product Design

Finding UI solutions for design creation within Virtual Reality

The project

The focus of Virtual Reality has gone from research to widespread adoption in entertainment and practical directions, like the automotive design and architectural visualization. With that, we have to take into consideration the best way to give in-experience control to the user and the interaction within the interface in this medium.

Reimagining interactions for Virtual Reality

How to translate the interactions for content creation that happen in computer and mobile to virtual reality, and help the user explore shape and communicate design intent.

<How to translate the interactions that the user does in the computer (click) and the mobile device (gestures) to the virtual reality world.

How to help the user explore shape within Virtual Reality, Be more empathetic with their design and communicate their design intent.>

Explore shape in Virtual Reality

Be more empathetic

Communicate design intent

The user

Monica Industrial Designer

Design a table for a coffee shop

Limited time

Requirements

Puts on headset

Creates a lo-fi prototype in minutes

Makes different versions

Refine

Show to her clients

Get feedback

See in real scale

Validate and make decisions

What's out there?

Google Tilt Brush

Unreal VR Editor

Gravity Sketch

Quill by Oculus

Use of controllers
Planar Interfaces

The Goal: Explore the best ways to give in-experience control to the user in the VR world and create a user interface for content creation that speaks to the capabilities of natural human behavior.