The visit of HUB Studio was my first time experience the real VR headset. The world that I experienced was real and vivid, then I come up with the idea that making the use of this sense of reality to design a virtual accompanist system. I will describe the design proposal as follow.
It is common that many children are scared or feel lonely when stay alone. The reasons for this situation are various, for example, most children do not have siblings but their parents are too busy to accompany with their kids, these children are my targeted customers for this product. My concept is essentially design for solving these problems, such as that child cannot sleep alone or they are afraid of staying alone, because these are main concerns for busy family and child psychologist. There is no doubt that this is also suit for the lonely elderly.
In brief, the concept can be described as a VR application which help users to see the virtual companions in order to relieve loneliness and fear. Firstly, this product will create a virtual situation for users. Parents can record their video via this application, for example, they can transcribe their actions when they are sitting with their children. Then, when they cannot accompany with their children, kids also could enjoy their time although they are alone. For example, they just need to put on the device, like an application of glasses, which could display their parents’ virtual figures for them. Hence, they can see that their parents are accompanying with them. I hope this function could help children to overcome their feeling of anxiety. Secondly, besides recording the real people, parents also can put some virtual characters into the videos which are recorded in these applications. For example, many kids believe that the superheroes are existing and adored them as the goddess. Therefore, making use of their idols may easier to help them to fight with scare. Thirdly, this product also allows running the applications from third platform. There are many bedtime story applications in the app stores. In future, children will not only listen the stories from the app, but also can experience that heroes are the story tellers.
The ideas above are my main ways of using VR technique to educate or treat some children mental problems. In addition, there are several similar applications which are adopted by psychologists like a therapy for curing psychology problems. Psious Toolsuite is a mobile platform application that using goggles and immersed 3D world experience. For example, putting the patients in the virtual environment that they scared, when they are suffering that feeling, doctor can guide them how to deal with the anxiety. However, this application is based on the Goggles. For virtual reality system, one of the key elements for better user immersion is the fidelity of computer generate images. I think that we can combine virtual world with the real world together. Therefore, the device which I need is a VR headset, but like a glasses, because the headset cannot impact users to look at the real world.
Children can use this glasses view the virtual idols, and also they can hear the radio by earphone.
If kids have this glasses, the parents will stay with them forever.
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