Adventure through the reimagined Hunting Exhibition in VR

About the project

The One with Nature Hunting and Nature World Exhibition was held in Budapest between September 25 and October 14, 2021, at the renewed Hungexpo exhibition halls. For the exhibition, we created a unique virtual reality application set on the Hungexpo grounds together with the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). The university's 3D designers came up with the concept and created the 3D visual world. They developed the individual 3D models, while we built the entire game logic of the application, programmed the interactions and navigation, and completed the application. Wearing an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, the user finds themselves on the Hungexpo grounds in a unique virtual world. Traveling on a log floating down a river, they can explore the exhibition area. They can go up to the lookout tower to view the whole area from above, and at certain points they can stop and enter the individual halls. Along the way, the installations on the building walls come to life, quotes from well-known Hungarian poets can be read, and animals move around everywhere. The theme of each hall matched the theme of the real exhibition halls, and many objects or trophies displayed in reality also appeared as 3D virtual replicas. The user could either follow the tour route or bring up a map, allowing them to freely jump to any selected point. Displaying the richly animated, highly detailed visual world posed a serious challenge on the Oculus Quest 2 headset. Extensive optimization was required to ensure a smooth user experience. The nearly 30-minute VR experience could be tried out in a dedicated area set up specifically for this purpose within the hall.