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Michael Starrett edited this page Jul 11, 2019 · 9 revisions

Landmarks is an open source package for Unity3d. This github repository represents a functional Unity project folder. See the "Getting Started" section for more information on how to use this repository. Landmarks was originally created and coded by Jason Laczko, for the Human Spatial Cognition Laboratory (PI: Arne D, Ekstrom, PhD) to facilitate desktop-based spatial navigation experiment building. Over the years, the package has been modified to accommodate various, new experimental paradigms and applications. Most recently it has been modified by Michael J. Starrett to support SteamVR and has undergone significant changes to improve end-user functionality. This repository, the result of those efforts, aims to unify these and future changes/updates by harnessing the power of git for collaborative coding.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a game designer or software engineer by training. I am a psychology PhD student with a functional understanding of Unity, programming, and git.

Over the course of my PhD, I have had to devote a substantial amount of time to learning Unity, programming my tasks, and integrating (constantly changing) emergent VR technologies into these programs (instead of reading papers, collecting data, and writing/publishing manuscripts). At the very least, my hope is that Landmarks can save other researches some of this time by providing a functioning scaffold upon which they can build their experiments. Ideally, Landmarks has the potential to become a collaborate, open source tool for researchers to build experiments using the powerful Unity3d Engine.

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