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Quick Draw VR Shooting Gallery – Arduino Toy Gun VR Controller

March 30, 2017

Shooting Gallery VR game that uses a store bought a toy gun and it to a targeting device using an Arduino Microcontroller. The game is built in Unity3d for Google Cardboard and Daydream.

Download Android Here

The game recreates the classic penny arcade shooting gallery.  With the challenge of converting a toy gun to a responsive VR controller.   Using Bluetooth to communicate from the gun to the phone and use a 9-DOF sensor and turn the sensor data into something a Unity3d game can understand.

Github source code to turn your own toy gun into a game controller.

https://github.com/3lbsadmin/WildWestVR

Download Android

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2472

the plan was to find a gun with an electronic switch for a trigger.  Gun that makes shooting noise are perfect for this project. I found this gun on Amazon pretty cheap.

https://eddiecarbin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gun_test_3.mp4

WildWestVR

https://github.com/3lbsadmin/WildWestVR/wiki

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