Motion Chair is a handy and scalable gadget for LBE (Location Based Entertainment). No matter whether is in VR theme park or in exhibition. They are often seen in playing VR videos, move correspondently to the video's movement, designed by the motion director.
Most motion chairs take http sockets protocal.
The format may be variated, but the core concept is the same:
Sent a message with X, Y, Z, yall, pitch, row data to the chair. It'll move and rotate to that position / rotation.
So I came about the idea for creating motion chair editor.
Which is used for directors to generating script of motion chair movement track in real time.
I designed and developed 2D Version and 3D Version of motion chair editor, and co-worked with Qing Shao , whose VR films were nominated twice in LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA.
The 2D version is like traditional movie editing software, that you could insert a chunk for the motion command, and control the time line via common commands in Adobe Premiere.
Clients can edit each chunk by dragging and setting values.
The UI of the 3D version is very simple. At the beginning there is the instruction of the PS controller, telling you each command mapping to the controller. Then when you're controlling with PS controller to move the chair, the only words will showing on the top-right of the VR scene, showing you the status of current command of the motion chair.
Then after months of testing, we figured out that the 3D version with VR headset equipped is the best practise for designing motion scipts.
(Unfortunately I currently missed the UI screenshot and videos for the 2D editor, I'll update once if I had a chance to aceess that. )
