Michael Kerkow
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Readyverse- Your home in the Ready Player One Universe
Built in Unreal Engine 5, Readyverse is a hub world for a number of game experiences. In it you can invite your frients to your hub, talk in game, launch directly into other games and display rewards and unlocks from those games. For this title I was Lead Game Developer and in addition to setting…
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Raicers- Mario Kart meets F1 Manager
Raicers is an AI racing game where you configure your vehicle and driver strategy and compete against other players in tournaments across different 8 race tracks each with unique gameplay. I was part of this project from early prototyping through to production. I was responsible for several core gameplay systems including: Being part of the…
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Snobal Sphere- Meet and Collaborate in VR
Snobal Sphere is a multi-user virtual reality collaboration and meeting tool built in Unity. Sphere allows users to meet, host presentations and collaborate on projects all within virtual reality. Delivered initially for the Pico Neo 2, the projects development was ported to support the newer Pico Neo 3 as well as the Vive Focus 3.…
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Immersify- VR Solar Panel Installation Training
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…
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JBH XR- VR Training Assessment
JBH XR is a VR experience built for JB Hunter Training using Unity for the Pico Neo 2. It integrates with the Snobal Cloud platform to authenticate users, deliver content updates and report assessment results. The assessments are fully voiced by integrating text-to-speech services from both Google and AWS. The piece contains five certificate assessment…
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Weavcast Easter Queen St Mall 2019
April 2019, Weavcast is featured as part of Lightweave’s Easter activation in Queen St Mall in Brisbane. Weavcast allows users to share their creative Colouring In AR content to a shared digital diorama. Alongside Bunny Battle VR, and Bunny Hunt AR, Weavcast sported a new easter environment and augmented reality colouring-in easter bunny and chick…
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Weavcast – Starlight Room- Queensland Children’s Hospital
The first public installation of Weavcast was at the Starlight Room at Queensland Children’s Hospital in December 2018. Weavcast allows users to share their creative Colouring In AR content to a shared digital diorama. Built in Unity3D, I was the primary developer for Weavcast and built the core systems and environments for the windows client…
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Woodchop VR at the Ekka 2018
The first public showing of Woodchop VR was held at 2018 Royal Queensland Show alongside the other Lightweave experiences Snow Slingers and Dinosaur VR. The experience paired a physical axe and stump in the real world with virtual chopping and scoring in virtual reality leading to a extremely satisfying tactile chopping experience. I was the…
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