Mytaverse

Partner studio: Puny Human

Concept

An enterprise virtual-environment platform — showrooms, trade shows, onboarding and training — built on Unreal Engine and delivered to the browser through pixel streaming, so users need no local hardware and no install. Cloud infrastructure on AWS, with real-time voice and video layered in.

Requirement

The partner needed a design and implementation overhaul of the platform's user interface and user experience. The constraints are unusual for a game team: the audience is enterprise rather than consumer, sessions arrive as a video stream with round-trip input latency, and the interface has to be legible and operable to non-gamers on arbitrary hardware and connections.

Approach

A seven-person team led by an executive producer designed and delivered the UI/UX overhaul, working across both the Unreal client and the streaming delivery layer.

The engagement ran on Unreal with Perforce and Plastic SCM, against AWS infrastructure and the platform's pixel-streaming and real-time communications stack.

Delivery scope

• UI/UX design
• UI programming
• Unreal Engine development
• Pixel-streaming integration support
• Cloud infrastructure support (AWS)
• Real-time communications integration
• Executive production

Results

• 5-month engagement, June – October 2020, with a 7-person team
• 35 person-months delivered
• Platform subsequently benchmarked at 1,200 unique visitors from more than 24 countries and 30,000 room visits in a single exhibition event
• Demonstrated transfer of real-time engine skill outside games, into enterprise and experiential markets

Engine: Unreal Engine.