Overview

PlaygroundVR was a dutch startup with the mission of bringing a social & fun multiplayer VR experience to hospitalized children. I joined the project in November 2019 as a volunteer and enriched the project with audio over the coming years.

Key Responsibilities

• curated, edited and implemented over 120 sound effects
  • impact audio for grabbables
  • UI audio
  • feedback audio
  • environmental audio
• created and implemented smart audio components
  • pooling
  • scattering
  • randomization
  • pooling
  • distance-based occlusion
• audio mixing between world sounds, feedback, voice chat and music
• composition and production of custom UI audio events
• supported lead developer with general debugging and testing
• curated lofi hiphop music in cooperation with ChillHop

Impact

• during playtests my team members reported that kids did not want to stop playing and exceeded the play time limit
• the lack of sound was resolved - the game loop felt much more enriched and completed

Technologies

• Oculus Go
• Pico G4
• Unity
• Photon
• Audacity
• FL Studio
• Ableton Live