The other way - immersive VR storytelling through biking.

“The Other Way” is a VR interactive storytelling experience created on HTC Vive. The major interaction is biking. We used a VR tracker tied to a user’s foot to calculate the padding speed and installed another tracker on the bike’s handlebar to obtain its turning direction. By lifting the wheel from the ground, users can physically bike to explore the VR world.The story tells a little girl who lost her way in a park and tries to overcome her fear and find her mom. In the experience, users would immerse themselves as the little girl, and bike in a beautiful and windy forest to find their ways out. The experience creates a novel approach of interacting with the virtual reality and allows a fully immersive biking experience that merges the physical and digital world. To further provide users with more realistic experience, we even explored placing a fan in front of the user, which offers users an illusion of blowing wind and a sense of speed. The story is built in an open world, and there is no single way to complete the story, as such, it holds a unique experience for every audience every time.