VR Showcase 2023 at Vanderbilt University

And the winner groups are "TetraVerse" and "Warm-Blooded-Hunt"...

At the end of the Fall 2023 semester, students from the Projects in Virtual Reality Design (CS-4249/5249) course participated in the departmental final project showcase alongside peers from other project-based courses, including Software Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems. I was thrilled that the project TetraVerse won first prize and Warm-Blooded Hunt received second prize.

TetraVerse was a 3D Tetris-style game where multiple players collaboratively aligned falling 3D blocks on the floor of a virtual room—a concept that required extensive mathematical computation. In contrast, Warm-Blooded Hunt featured an asymmetric multiplayer design in which one player flew as a hawk searching for the sparrow’s eggs, while the other, playing as the sparrow, had to hide them in safe locations. The most impressive aspect of this game was the sophisticated flying mechanics, which took the team significant time and effort to perfect.

As the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course, I was proud to have guided both teams—particularly toward the end of the semester—in refining several critical gameplay mechanics.