Greengate VR

Greengate VR is a Virtual Reality product I developed with my Company BuildR, alongside the Greengate Power Company. I worked as the Lead Designer, Developer and Project manger on the project.

Greengate VR was developed as an edutainment and site visualization tool, to help clients, employees and the general public visualize the truly massive scale of two renewable energy projects, Stirling Wind, and Travor’s Solar (Canada’s largest solar project and one of the largest in North America).

Given the scale of these projects (Stirling featuring over 30 turbines over 5 km² and Travor’s featuring over 2,000,000 Solar Panels over 7 km²), trying to truely comprehend their scale without the use of Virtual Reality is nearly impossible. We knew when we were tasked with the job, just showing the sites at ground level wouldn’t accomplish the task.

Eventually we resolved to let players climb to the top of a radio tower/wind turbine (150m tall), building out 2 terrains over 30 km² in size, using the actual data from each site, enabling players to not just view the site in 360°’s but enabling them to see all the way to the horizon.

Since then Green Gate VR has been featured at over a dozen trade show’’s and pop-up demonstrations across North America, in permanent installations at Telus Spark and The Alberta Energy Museum as well as Global News, City TV and CBC’s The National (Canada’s most popular national news broadcast).

Product was designed for use with the Oculus Rift S, but is compatible with the HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality and the Oculus Quest (Using Virtual Desktop or a Link Cable)