Canvas Idea

To develop a controlled VR environment for "Light Therapy Technologies" to conduct research on how color and flicker frequency impact a person's psycho-emotional state.

Canvas Challenge

The core problem was "reality contamination." In a normal room, it's impossible to completely isolate a subject from external visual stimuli. Any data collected would be "contaminated" by these uncontrolled variables, making the research unreliable. The challenge was to create a perfectly sterile and controllable visual environment.

Stroke Solution

The key decision—the "one precise stroke"—was the creation of "The Ideal Laboratory," a VR ecosystem that separated the experience into two parts. 1) The "Island of Calm" for the subject: a serene virtual island that helped the subject relax, ensuring the purity of their psycho-emotional response. 2) The "Reality Control Panel" for the researcher: a server-side remote control to change parameters in VR in real time and record precise data.

Value Metrics

• Data Integrity: The VR environment completely eliminated external visual "contaminants," ensuring laboratory-grade precision and reliability of the collected data.
• Subject Comfort: Replacing a cold lab with a virtual island improved the quality and speed of the experiments by helping subjects relax more quickly.
• Researcher Flexibility: The "Reality Control Panel" gave scientists full control over the experiment, allowing them to flexibly change parameters and accelerate the research cycle.

Tech Stack

• 3D Engine: Unity 5.x with C# scripting
• VR SDK: Oculus Mobile SDK for Gear VR integration
• Hardware: Samsung Gear VR powered by a compatible Samsung smartphone
• Backend: Node.js with WebSocket for real-time parameter control from the research server
• Database: PostgreSQL for storing experimental data
• Research Dashboard: Web interface with D3.js for data visualization

“In light therapy, every little detail matters. A random glare from a lamp could skew months of work. Your VR application is the first truly sterile visual environment we have ever had. We stopped fighting "contamination" and could finally focus on what matters—clean data.”— Dr. Alina Safronova, Head of Research at "Light Therapy Technologies"