Operating any piece of equipment has a learning curve. This is easy to forget in our daily life while interacting and operating everyday items such as door handles, light switches, a computer mouse and driving our car. These are just a few examples, and we operate all these things without even thinking about it.
When entering a virtual world using hand controllers for interaction, we are reminded about this fact. Operating the same equipment suddenly becomes more challenging. Our job, as developers of VR training simulators, is to make this transition from real life to virtual as smooth and seamless as possible. This has not been an easy task, and it has taken us thousands of man hours to get to where we are today with our physics based VR interaction engine.
As a company, we have technology and gaming in our DNA. We depend on customer feedback and extensive testing on people in different age groups and with different backgrounds. The most rewarding experience so far, has been to watch people from age 8 to 70 testing our VR simulators (see video above).
The project has given us invaluable feedback, and one of the things we found is that age isn't necessarily a factor when using VR simulators - this was a huge surprise to us! Maybe this proves that age is just a number after all?
Read more about physics based VR hand interaction engine here.