Title: Experimental game design with the Oculus Rift

Over the course of 16 weeks four graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University worked together to conduct 14 experiments and create 6 prototypes for the Oculus Rift Developers Kit. Their goal was to make experiences that would change how people would perceive virtual reality games. This tutorial is a look at how to approach the Oculus Rift in general, and what you should do if you want to push the boundaries of virtual reality game design. Description: An introduction to Project Spearhead, who we are, what we did, and why it mattered. (20m). This will catch the audience up on the research and experimentation our team performed on the Oculus Rift over 4 months at Carnegie Mellon. Our next portion of the tutorial will focus on the various tests we performed on the Oculus Rift (1h 40m). We will introduce and break down each of the four categories of tests we performed; Motion Tests, Art Tests, Gesture Tests, and Controls Tests. Each group of tests was focused on experimenting with a certain aspect of the Oculus Rift or an idea of something we wanted to do with the device, but always in regards to the user's experience. For instance, the gesture tests were meant to test the nature of using the Oculus Rift as a gesture controller and we tested this in one way by having users perform a gesture repeatedly in order to detect whether they could do so accurately and whether or not fatigue would set in. Each of our tests followed that mandate regarding user experience and our conclusions will be given largely in context of the users' reactions to our tests. We will provide this data to the audience and discuss the goals we had going into the tests. Lastly we will go over that data we collected and break down the conclusions we came to and how that affected our perception of the device. The second half of our tutorial will focus on our efforts in experimental design for the Oculus Rift (2 hours). We created several prototypes that aimed to use the Oculus in ways that it's original creators did not intend in order to explore the potential of the device. Mainly our focus was the avoid utilizing the device as a First Person Camera. Our tutorial will delve into each of our prototypes, what our goal was at the beginning of the development, …