Keywords: Virtual Reality, Unity, Training, Solar, Installation, Pico Neo 2

VR Solar Panel Installation Training is a training experience built in Unity for the client Immersify.

The application is built for the Pico Neo 2 headset and integrates with the Snobal Cloud platform for online content delivery and reporting of user results. The VR training course is voiced using text-to-speech services to convert scripts to audio files.

The training course covers four main parts of solar panel installation, these include:

• Roof-top panel assembly
• Roof-top panel cable setup
• Interior inverter, battery and circuit breaker setup
• Solar system testing and initial power-on of solar panel system

For this project I was responsible for developing the VR course content in Unity. This included:

• Creating the main game state system
• Importing and setting up art assets
• Creating systems for picking up and placing objects
• Creating cable connection systems with grab and place affordance systems
• Creating usable VR tools and interaction points such as wrenches, drills and volt-meters

Building and designing the virtual interactions with the solar equipment and tools in a way that was intuitive for new users was a major challenge in this project. This involved designing simple and reactive affordances for interactions to help streamline tasks alongside a large amount of iteration and play-testing with naïve users with little to no virtual reality experience.