Virtual Reality Helmet
This is a helmet made by Plexiglas, LED lamps and a motionsensor. When the motionsensor reacts it makes the lights change depending on the distant of the motion. The sensor is placed in a glove so you can explore the space and your surroundings differently.
The helmet is made by plexiglas and it is shaped in a way so that the light creates a disortion to your view. There are several screens from cellphones placed in the helmet to strenghten the effect.
We made this during a technology workshop in Umeå School of Architecture. We had one week to work with this and present it.
This is a helmet made by Plexiglas, LED lamps and a motionsensor. When the motionsensor reacts it makes the lights change depending on the distant of the motion. The sensor is placed in a glove so you can explore the space and your surroundings differently.
The helmet is made by plexiglas and it is shaped in a way so that the light creates a disortion to your view. There are several screens from cellphones placed in the helmet to strenghten the effect.
We made this during a technology workshop in Umeå School of Architecture. We had one week to work with this and present it.
We had a technology workshop were we had to become inspired by old technology devices. My group and I was inspired by a cellphone that we took apart. The thing we found that gave us the inspiration to make this, was the different screens the cellphone contained. The screens changed the vision and disorted your surrounding giving it color and abstracting it (when you look through it.) Immideately we thought of making glasses- Virtual Reality Glasses- that gave you a different way of seeing everything.
Continuing developing our idea, we wanted to connect the senses such as sight, hearing and feeling. We found the inspiration of a partylamp reacting on music. In the same way, we could change the sights through colours and lights which changes through the sounds you make when you feel at things. We thought it could be as a chain reaction.
We had this following video as inspiration and direction.
Continuing developing our idea, we wanted to connect the senses such as sight, hearing and feeling. We found the inspiration of a partylamp reacting on music. In the same way, we could change the sights through colours and lights which changes through the sounds you make when you feel at things. We thought it could be as a chain reaction.
We had this following video as inspiration and direction.
To make this happen we had to work with this Materials
- Adapter (a battery can be used as well)
- Mice cable (where the sound could come in)
- transistor (this is the key to the whole project)
- LED's
- Electrical Wire
We would also use thick plexiglas as glasses. We would later on make scratchs on it which would lead to that the light would transfer better. Thereafter we would also drill some holes in it where we would later on put in the LED lamps.
The thing was that everything changed when we pluged everything in. We could no longer use the mice since the adapter had to high volts (the mic was to weak) and that led to that the lamps burned. To get everything work as we wanted we needed more time before our deadline (We only had further 48 hours)
Thereafter we changed and used a sensor. So now, the sight would change through the movement and not the feeling or sound.
We put in the sensor in a glove so that when you wanted to move in the darker you could sense the surroundings.
We also changed the glasses into a helmet that was made by 2mm plexi glass (the glasses disappeared during our workshop). Putting everything together we hid the cables behind metal that we used as design and a way of spreading the light any further.
We continued putting in some more glasses, exploring how every material affected the different way of seeing with lights and metal.
All in all, we used 5 LED.
- Adapter (a battery can be used as well)
- Mice cable (where the sound could come in)
- transistor (this is the key to the whole project)
- LED's
- Electrical Wire
We would also use thick plexiglas as glasses. We would later on make scratchs on it which would lead to that the light would transfer better. Thereafter we would also drill some holes in it where we would later on put in the LED lamps.
The thing was that everything changed when we pluged everything in. We could no longer use the mice since the adapter had to high volts (the mic was to weak) and that led to that the lamps burned. To get everything work as we wanted we needed more time before our deadline (We only had further 48 hours)
Thereafter we changed and used a sensor. So now, the sight would change through the movement and not the feeling or sound.
We put in the sensor in a glove so that when you wanted to move in the darker you could sense the surroundings.
We also changed the glasses into a helmet that was made by 2mm plexi glass (the glasses disappeared during our workshop). Putting everything together we hid the cables behind metal that we used as design and a way of spreading the light any further.
We continued putting in some more glasses, exploring how every material affected the different way of seeing with lights and metal.
All in all, we used 5 LED.
The project developed into a Virtual Reality Helmet that changes the perception of a room.
We tried it out many times and discovered several things. Now you could play with your movements and explore the surroundings where every movement has consequences.
We tried it out many times and discovered several things. Now you could play with your movements and explore the surroundings where every movement has consequences.
This is a work made by Daniela Lamartine, Hanna Johansson and Isabelle Holm, UMA1
