Vision
Project Overview
In 2008 my teammates and I developed software called “Vision”. This is an application developed to make aware people about sustainable environment matters, offering a tool which gives them the possibility to interact with other people and their ideas, making them plunge into a 3D world that evolves following the changes made by the community.
The basic idea is to put in touch people that wish to discuss about the current environmental matters, without the restriction of a simply insertion of opinions but offering a new method of interaction with them and with the other users.
So it’s a community based software that encourages the interaction between users (with blogs, forums or chats), favoring the fruition and the creation of contents in a new and creative way, stimulating the people’s curiosity and willingness to socialize.
That curiosity comes from the availability of an innovative tool that gives the possibility to see the user’s own ideas: a tridimensional scene created from the analysis of that ideas!
Why read your ideas when you can see and touch them?
The range of sensations and motivating forces coming from a virtual environment is absolutely richer than the one coming from a simple textual interaction!
Reading and writing about lakes, mountains and forests can be interesting, but it’s far more interesting to plunge into this world: during a discussion, the software parses the text and visualizes a tridimensional environment based on the recognized elements!
We have focused on the educational and cultural growth of the youngest generations in environmental terms, because according to us the future of the environment is up to them, but due to the flexibility of Vision, it can be used in many different scenarios, for example restructuring and planning of green areas making use of the community opinions.
Technology/software used
Expression Blend 1.0
XNA Studio Express 2.0
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
SQL Server 2005
.NET Framework 3.5
XNA Framework 2.0
Windows Presentation Foundation
Documentation:
Here it is possible to find the documentation (in Italian) of Vision project.
Screenshots and videos:
Vision screenshot of a park with a bench, some trees and a statue.
Screenshot of a park with a mansion house, some trees, a rock path and some flowers.
Vision plugin inside Internet Explorer
Architecture of Vision
Below, it is possible to find some videos of Vision.
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Intro video.
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Presentation - First part.
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Presentation - Second part plus live demo.
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Presentation - Third part.
Awards:
This project has been awarded "Best Italian Project" in Software Design category during the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 Finals, Rome, May 2008.
World finalist at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 World Finals, Paris, July 2008.
Best project at Start Cup, "UN.IS.CO. innovation award", Udine, June 2008. More information here.
We also were interviewed by one of the major news channels in Italy
Watch the interview (in Italian) here:
Overview of Rome competition (in Italian)
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Watch it in wmv directly from Microsoft website.