VR Football Demo Management
Built demo orchestration system for NFL Pro Era, enabling real-time control of 20+ scenarios. Created CloudXR streaming client for wireless Meta Quest demos at conventions.
📋Overview
Developed comprehensive demo management and orchestration tools for NFL Pro Era, a commercial VR football training game. The system needed to support live demonstrations at major conventions and trade shows, where setup time was critical and reliability was paramount. Created tools enabling real-time control of 20+ different gameplay scenarios without performance impact, allowing demo operators to quickly respond to audience interest and showcase different features. The control system used OSC (Open Sound Control) messaging for low-latency communication between the demo control interface and the VR application. Implemented custom CloudXR streaming solution for wireless Meta Quest demos, solving the cable management challenge at crowded convention floors while maintaining the visual quality and low latency required for VR experiences.
🎯Challenges
- •Enabling real-time scenario switching without frame drops or loading delays in VR
- •Creating wireless VR streaming solution with <20ms added latency for acceptable VR experience
- •Coordinating demo control across multiple simultaneous headsets at conventions
- •Implementing custom multiplayer mode for standalone demos without full server infrastructure
- •Reducing demo setup and teardown time from 30 minutes to under 5 minutes
- •Maintaining demo reliability across 8-hour convention days with minimal technical support
💡Solutions
- ✓Designed pre-loading system with scenario pooling to enable instant switching without visible loading
- ✓Created Meta Quest streaming client using NVIDIA CloudXR SDK with Android JNI for native integration
- ✓Built centralized demo control dashboard using OSC protocol for multi-headset coordination
- ✓Implemented simplified multiplayer mode using direct peer-to-peer networking for demo scenarios
- ✓Created streamlined setup workflow with automated health checks and configuration validation
- ✓Added comprehensive error recovery and automatic fallbacks for common issues
🚀Outcomes & Impact
- ✓Reduced demo setup time from 30 minutes to under 5 minutes
- ✓Achieved <20ms added latency for wireless CloudXR streaming
- ✓Successfully ran demos at 5+ major conventions with 99%+ uptime
- ✓Enabled 4-player simultaneous demos that impressed audiences and press
- ✓Tools reused for internal playtesting and QA workflows
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