MiReBooks - Scene Authoring Tool

MiReBooks produces a series of Virtual & Augmented Reality based (=Mixed Reality or MR) interactive mining manuals as a new digital standard for higher education across Europe.

• https://mre.rwth-aachen.de/forschung/projekte/mirebooks/

Tasks

• Further development of the scene-creation tool
• Implementing a system to create, edit, and delete video annotations to a 360° video
  • Write Annotation
  • Draw Annotation
  • Arrow Annotation
  • LookAt Annotation
  • LinkToScene Annotation
• Implementing a Save&Load system for multiple scenes, 360° videos, and annotations
• Implementing a Help System

Team**:**

Samira Khodaei, M.Sc. - Project Lead Dr.-Ing. Anas Abdelrazeq - Project Lead Lea Daling, M.Sc. - Project Lead Ekaterina Nedorubkova - UI Design Muhammad Waqas - Unity Dev Felix Voigtländer - Unity Dev

General Information

IMA RWTH Institute Aachen 2020

Platforms: Windows

Assets: DoTween, Unity UI Extension Kit

Tools: Unity, C#, Miro, VisualStudio, GitLab, GitKraken

Features

360° Video scenes

With annotations, such as arrows, drawings, text, links to other scenes, and points of interest for students.

Drawing

Drawing adjusted to the inverted sphere used to display the 360° videos

Text

Multiple text settings.

Scene Link

Links to other scenes can be set up to switch to another scene.