ACE VR Car Game

Note: I cannot disclose the source code of this project, as it is proprietary now. The project is still under development with a different internship team.

This untitled project was certainly an interesting one to work on. At Ontario Tech, we have some cool engineering technology that some of my professors wanted to use to make a fun and realistic VR car driving experience. I had the privilege of working with the ACE facility staff and some lower year students in the making of the first prototype.

In a nutshell, the tech is a system with 4 posts on the corner of a large square, fit to carry a real car. It is used to simulate road conditions, uphill and downhill, etc. We wanted to  leverage this tech to make driving in VR feel all the more real.

I was responsible for setting up the framework for the core gameplay and networking the game to the 4 post system. I wrote clean and expandable code using a combination of C++ and Unreal Blueprints. The 4 post communicator as I called it sends commands to the system to change the height of any post. It is multithreaded and can take any number of requests at a user-modifiable speed dynamically at runtime.

This was my first professional project as a game dev, and I learned a lot about collaborating with fellow students from different years and with different skills levels. I also learned what its like to work for multiple external clients, and it was my first foray into VR development. It was a great experience for sure.