Gravity Jack

Meta, formerly Facebook enlisted Gravity Jack as a strategic partner to help them develop the future of social gameplay leveraging virtual reality technology. Giving Gravity Jack full creative control over the concept, our team conceptualized and developed a multiplayer (up to 8 live players at once!) VR game that takes place on a space station on Mars. Amongst the players, there is a traitor(s) who is trying to delay the necessary evacuation of Mars by sabotaging group missions within the space station. After a timed mission, the players meet back at headquarters to discuss and ultimately vote on who they think the traitor is. If all the players can identify and agree on the traitor the game ends If not, the players must go back out on a new mission - giving the traitor more time to sabotage the station.

Gravity Jack developed this for the Oculus Quest VR headset and incorporated realistic avatars and hand-tracking functionality into the gameplay. Aside from coding alongside the Meta developers, what made this project truly unique is that Gravity Jack used the Unity platform to create an open-sourced code base that encourages other developers to reference, pull snippets from, or even add to for their own projects.

The SimSafe virtual reality application provides a realistic, immersive, yet safe training environment that allows users young or old to extinguish common household fires using proper techniques. Within the VR environment, users are trained to deploy the tried and true P.A.S.S. (pull, aim, squeeze, sweep) technique while wearing a VIVE PRO VR headset and controllers. Once the training is complete, users are tasked with extinguishing a simulated fire on their own.

As the user extinguishes the fire on a stovetop or in a trash can, the app tracks: the user's motions, the time it takes them to extinguish the fire, and even calculates how much of the extinguisher they used to put the fire out. All of the data is calculated to provide the user with an overall score. The completion of the project resulted in a comprehensive training experience that can be purchased and shipped to fire departments, schools, and office buildings across the country!

On-demand, step-by-step instructions are the future of Augmented Reality's capabilities. In a partnership with T-Mobile, Gravity Jack developed an application that unlocks these capabilities to showcase T-Mobile's ultra-fast 5G network. Equipped with an iPad, users scan a high-pressure water system that isn't functioning properly. In real-time, the app overlays dynamic 3D animations to provide the user with instructions to walk them through the steps to make repairs to the filter, gauges, and other components.

The experience leverages Augmented Reality to point out the parts and the repair process but also shows users the correct tools needed to complete the repair. Taking the experience to the next level, the T-Mobile real-time repair application capabilities can put users on a live video conference with up to five remote repair experts. During the call, the experts can draw on the screen to guide the user with any additional repairs. With the development of this project, the future of maintenance and training is here and happening.