My experience in Fairs has been exclusive with a company from Saudi Arabia, they have a platform with several years of experience to show content and my contribution has been a bit of realism and the possibility of giving dynamism to the user experience because of the pandemic.
The possibilities are many but the limitations are also, the interactions that for us are obvious are not for the new users and they must be very intuitive because otherwise the users simply leave.
Many are the small actions that can help in a journey but must focus on preventing the user from being trapped not knowing what to do.
Some of the implementations that have worked very well for us are
- when you touch one you can generate a scene change (pre-recorded scene but not shown in the side list) so that the user is correctly positioned in front of the image and does not lose the focus of attention. You can see this in the corridor images of this tour https://all360.shapespark.com/ttp_interacoustic_v1/#autoplay
- place invisible barriers to avoid entering places without content, this is not infallible because when you go down floor levels the user can bite from a distance and overcome the barrier, for that is point 3 see this discussion I can pass trough invisible (and visible) barrier!
- define a minimum distance to the surfaces that is greater than the standard, this is the link to how this is done [quote=“jan, post:2, topic:1446”]
Tomorrow we will release a change that adds support for settingWALK.KEY_MOVE_MIN_DISTANCE_TO_OBSTACLE. It will allow you to limit how close you can walk to obstacles without affecting trigger click detection (for now this will be available only in Shapespark hosting so you will need to upload the scene to test it).
[/quote]) - generate a short list of scenes but easily relocate the lost user.
- place control buttons on demonstration videos so they can have audio included, that audio is normally a welcome or location video. We can place videos as textures but they will not have audio, this only happens when we place a button to control that video, this can be seen in the images of the corridor of this tour https://all360.shapespark.com/ttp_interacoustic_v1/#autoplay
- the location map is good only when the spaces are small, but we still can’t make the red dot more evident, that would be a big help! Another one to locate the participants is to make an orbital view with the spaces and place the names of the spaces so they can go to them easily. You can see this here Room names in top and orbit views
We are currently experimenting with videos with transparent backgrounds, because that would allow us to have a host directly on the scene talking to the user in the first person. Or what is even more interesting, giving a talk directly on the stage space, however we have not yet mastered this technique. You can see this here That one person can control the triggers for everyone in the same meeting - #4 by jorgearq