Ball Pit VR

The Ball Pit is a virtual interface for musical expression where a performer can generate a stochastic music system in a room scale virtual environment. The performer is situated in an enclosed space with tiled walls of aproximately 4x4 meters. Using the controller the user can spawn, grab, strike and destroy balls in the virtual space. Once thrown into the room, the balls move and bounce of the tiles without being affected by gravity. When a wall tile is struck by a ball, it lights up in red and emits a sound reminiscent of the bouncing of a ping-pong ball. There is 12 tiles on each wall, each colored in a different shade of green. The tiles are tuned to a pitch from the chromatic scale, and are evenly distributed along the walls. While the chromatic pitch is associated with the tiles, the octave of the sound is determined by the size the ball, with 3 sizes for low, mid, and high.