Virtualitics Class Activity

Overview

The virtualitics class activity entails a fun, 20-30 minute scavenger hunt section, as well as a quick survey that follows at the end. 

Setup

On Browser

1. You should've received an email from Virtualitics with a registration link. Click on the register account button. (If you do not find this in your inbox, check your spam mail)

2. Set your own password.

3. Follow this tutorial on how to setup on quest.  

Steps

On Oculus Headset (Loading in the data & preparing for treasure hunt)

1. Navigate to the Apps section in the Oculus Quest 2 menu.

2. Open the Virtualitics app.

3. Sign in with the account you just created.

4. On the left side, you should see a tab that says "loaded' and "sample". Make sure you are on the tab that says "sample".

 5. Move the cursor the dataset that says "Airport Traffic," and pull the right trigger on it. (It should load a large, dark screen with the "Load Dataset" button on the bottom)

 6. Press the "Load Dataset" button. On the next screen, press the "Go to Mapping" button.

 7. Once you see a cluster of data points, move on to the next step.

 8. Click the avatar icon in the right side of the screen.

  9. If you're a room host, click the "host" button, select the organization radio button, and tell your group the room code. If you're not a room host, ask your room host for the room code.

On Oculus Headset (Getting used to Virtualitics - join breakout room together)

1. Say hi to your group, make sure they can hear you and you can hear them (If possible, try to do the rest of the activity through the in game voice chat, not zoom).

2. Change your avatar to one you like .  (There should be a place to change your avatar right below where you pressed "join" or "host".)

3.  Watch the following short videos for a quick tutorial on how to manipulate the data.

The left video showcases how to select specific categories to show. By selecting the radio button, you can toggle on/off the display for that category. You can choose to ONLY display a specific category by clicking on the name. You can reselect all by clicking on the refresh button at the top of the tab.

 the right video showcases how to specify what each axis (x, y, z) and color represents. Drag category names from the "Features" tab into the "Position" to specify axis, or "Appearance" to specify the colors, sizes, etc. of each datapoint. 

On Oculus Headset (Actual scavenger hunt)

Follow the directions below, and find the six letters you get.

1. Plot "Network (1) Z"  on the X axis, and set "Louvain Community" as the category that determines color. On the right side of the screen, select the "Community 2" radio button (You should only see one color of datapoints now). Find the name of the airport with the lowest Z value, and keep note of the FIRST letter of the name of the airport.

2. Remove "Network (1) Z" on the X axis, and set the "Latitude" and "Longitude" as the X and Y axis. Keep the color as "Louvain Community". On the right side of the screen, select "Community 8". Find what state all of these airports are in, and keep note of the SECOND letter of the name of the state.

3. Replace "Louvain Community" with "Top Airlines"  in the color selector, and and figure out which airline has 53 routes. Keep note of the FIRST letter of the airline.

4. Add "Weighted Degrees" as the Z axis. Now, you should get a plot of the most popular airports in the US. Find the name of the most popular airport, which should be 5 words. Keep note of the FOURTH letter of the FOURTH word in the name of the airport.

5. Look at the map again, and keep note of the FIRST TWO letters of the northeast most airport on the map. 

Spell out the letters, what do you get?

Survey

On browser (you can exit the breakout room if you like)

Please fill out this survey.

If you have extra time

Keep playing around with the current dataset, or pull up another sample dataset.