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Engage Competitive Analysis

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Engage

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User Experience

Describe the user experience of the VR platform, including ease of use, intuitiveness, and accessibility.

Daniel’s notes

It’s nice having very granular controls made possible with quest controllers

The interface is largely intuitive

Hover states effectively explain the more nebulous controls

Host actions are a critical settings page

Draw inspiration from this as well as zoom and other meeting platforms

The option of tablet or fixed screen controls is nice

The fixed screen takes up a lot of the players real-estate

Engage is both a presenter and creator’s space

Shannon’s notes

Controllers allow an easy interaction with the VR Platform

There are many avenues and options for a user to try, but Engage's menus and tools are visually appealing and well-organized, making it easy for users to find what they need

Users are able to both start and join a session, as well as simply look at events

Events are organized into Public, Hosting, Attending, and Interested

There are hover states (on some buttons) that explain what a button navigates to

The button corresponding to the current page is highlighted to indicate its active state

There is an option to view the menu as a fixed display hovering in front of you, or a tablet attached to your arm

Interaction with the tablet seems to be limited. I was not able to push buttons until it switched to the fixed display

The menu is only accessible after leaving the main hub

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Interaction Design

Analyze the interaction design of the VR platform, including its use of animations, transitions, and feedback.

Daniel’s notes

Presenting and manipulating models

It is nice to have control over location and scale of the object

The gizmo to rotate an object is not intuitive

The 3D models can have animations embedded

Shannon’s notes

The 3D models are great quality and are adjustable

Some models already have embedded animations

The ability to change and adjust the models are not intuitive

The transition to and from different spaces is very visually appealing

The state change that occurs when hovering over buttons provides effective feedback regarding the currently selected option

There are moving aspects in many of the locations

The location “Creative Plaza” has two platforms facing each other (ground facing sky) that users can teleport between

The teleportation is a good transition

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Visual Design

Analyze the visual design of the VR platform, including its color scheme, typography, and use of imagery.

Daniel’s notes

The dark color scheme looks good

The icons are cohesive but not very futuristic

The icons are also hard to understand without engaging in the hover state because there are so many of them and their function is so niche

The spaces were fairly well done from a 3D modeling standpoint

Text and graphics on signs and posters are not clear

Shannon’s notes

Color scheme:

Overall the color scheme is incredibly inviting and engaging

Many environments utilize a lot of green and blue (almost like an artificial outdoors)

All of the locations are bright and inviting (even the classroom)

Typography:

On the main menu, the text is very readable and consistent throughout

White and blue font is used the most. Green is used sparingly.

When navigating to other locations, signs (with text) are incredibly blurry and hard to read

Imagery:

The icons are clear and good quality

The models that make up the environments are great

Posters and images that are used to decorate spaces are blurry

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Technology

Analyze the technology used by the VR platform, including its performance, stability, and compatibility.

Daniel’s notes

Supports hardware from: Oculus, Meta, Vive, Pico and others

Having the oculus as a base allows very granular controls that may not be possible in IC

Shannon’s notes

Lite (free):

Host private room: 4 users max

Creation tools: Demo only

MetaVerse access

Plus (€9.99/month) - Everything in Lite, and:

Host private room: 20 users max

Creation tools: Full access

Host public room

Enterprise (Contact for pricing):

Host private room: 70 users max

Host large event

Commercial use

MetaWorld creation

Cloud file storage (beta)

Branding options

Overall Strengths

Daniel’s notes

Nice to have a browser/video support to share extracurricular material

Polling feature is useful

Works across many devices

Helpful hover states

Shannon’s notes

There are many avenues for users to either attend or host a meeting

There is great features such as polling and note-taking

The UI is minimal which allows users to focus on the environment around them

Hover states allow for the use of icons, which helps limit clutter and a big use of text

Overall Weaknesses

Daniel’s notes

I could not figure out how to rotate the 3D object which I feel is important (found it: it is an unintuitive gizmo)

There are a lot of controls which may take some extra onboarding effort

I feel like there should be easier ways to distribute models to the class

Shannon’s notes

Though it has a strong UI foundation, many of its features are not intuitive

Some buttons when using the 3D object don’t work well

There are a lot of features presented at once, which may overwhelm users

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