This took much longer than anticipated...

Today my day was divided into paperwork and administration, a little research reading, and spending many hours getting a proof of concept working only to be frustrated by the bugs I can't squash because I am not a programmer/developer. Worse yet I know exactly what causes them, and what parameters need changing... and with 20 or so hours of crash-course on C++ I could probably patch a fix but am worried about that causing more issues down the line (like when a DIY does their own electrics and bridges the fuse with wire "because it keeps blowing them").

Anyway, I now have proof of concept for a VR teaching tool (some might call it a game) to facilitate kinaesthetic learning. I have a demo level for a simple greenscreen shoot, another for a greenscreen virtual production shoot, and a final one that simulates a virtual production shoot with LED cave walls. While it is riddled with bugs I did make an effort to not make life easier because its VR. For example I could have perfectly locked perspectives and renders of all cameras in the LED cave by making one master texture. But I wanted to simulate the frustrations of a real virtual production. as such anyone who changes their lens or camera settings is going to have to re-calibrate the LED cave as well (Ok I lied, I did make the camera not cast shadows and some objects not render to certain cameras but I am going to argue that those are important resource optimisation measure; I swear!).

I applied for an Epic MegaGrant and the Epic Fellowship in the hopes of being able to continue working on this project.

It's exciting, and I will have the opportunity to run real classes and collect feedback in order to improve it soon. I hope to offer it free of charge to high schools and universityies as a teaching tool and at "less than a full priced game" price on steam/oculus for indies, youtubers, streamers, etc. I don't want "all the money" but it would be nice to pay my medical bills and not have to shower at the gym.