From December 2018, to February 2019, I had the amazing opportunity to do a three month internship with the CSIRO, in Melbourne, Australia.
It was an amazing time, I worked on a range of Virtual Reality tools that were targeted at helping and improving scientists, and developers interact with and visualize their data in Virtual Reality.
My time was spent researching current technology trends and then implementing a versatile UI toolkit that could be plugged in to a wide variety of use cases.
My work was done in a mixture of Unity 3D, and AFrame VR.
Most of the work I did was done under an NDA, however I was very pleased to be able to release the vr-ui toolkit I created from scratch as an Open Source project under the CSIRO Scientific Computing department. You can find that here: https://github.com/csiro-scientific-computing/vr-ui
From this I forked it myself and spent a bit of time post-internship to polish and extend some of the features based on feedback: https://github.com/Vochsel/vr-ui
Here is a working demo I created during my time with CSIRO.
Since then I’ve had several people interested in using VR-UI in their own developments and experiments.
I had an amazing time during my internship, met and worked with some really great people, and learned an invaluable amount from both colleagues and other internship students.