
To start the SteamVR environment process, go to the “Create/Modify an Environment” action under the “Workshop” category. Make sure that the check box for the “Use SteamVR Home” setting is on.

Make sure your VR headset is connected by ensuring that the headset icon is green.īefore beginning the process to create the SteamVR environment, check some settings to make sure everything is configured correctly. To create a custom SteamVR environment, follow the steps below:Ĭlick on the SteamVR icon from the desktop (as shown in the picture) or in the upper right corner of Steam. Even though the example below uses a zebra fish model, the steps can be applied equally as well to any other model, like a building of historic architecture. The default setting for the SteamVR environment is the SteamVR Home, but SteamVR allows users to change it to a custom environment that can include a virtual representation of their 3D content. To get started, creating a SteamVR environment is a relatively straightforward way to get spatial content into a multiuser VR environment. After processing, this data could pave the way to creating an entirely virtual U-Hall experience for new students who have never seen the building, alumni who want to remember old memories, or researchers studying the architecture and history of U-Hall.

For example, the University Hall (U-Hall) building, the former home of the University of Virginia’s basketball teams, was scanned before its recent demolishment. Additionally, it allows scholars all around the world to develop creative ideas using VR technology that would otherwise be impossible. This is particularly useful for visualizing information about cultural heritage, since the information is easier to manipulate and distribute in a digital form. Or perhaps step back in time with a ride on the West Somerset Steam Railway, whilst a trip to Taunton or Clarks Village will satisfy anyone in need of a bit of retail therapy.įor those with a more active spirit, Quern Barn is surrounding by no fewer than three designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty - The Quantock Hills with their deep wooded valleys or ‘combes’, The Mendip Hills with their famed Jurassic landscape and coastline, and The Blackdown Hills are all ideal for walking, cycling or horseriding. Walkers in particular can also enjoy a huge wealth of country and coastal paths including the Coleridge Way, the Two Moors Way and the much loved South West Coastal Path which stretches between Minehead and Brean.Now that you have created or captured some 3D content for virtual reality (VR) ( post), the next logical step is to experience it in VR. And most evenings Quern Barn’s own Riverside Farm plays host to a troop of inquisitive badgers who love to come up to the patios to say hello.Īway from the barn, our guests can enjoy the delights of Dunster village, with it’s famed National Trust gardens, mill and castle.

Meanwhile, if you like your wildlife on four legs, an abundance of grazing animals can be found on the marshes, along with roe deer, hares, foxes and otters. Late summer and through the season shelduck arrive in their thousands whilst reed buntings, barn owls and merlin can also be seen.

Early summer brings ringed plovers, lapwings, egrets, avocets, and skylark. Here hundreds of acres of saltmarsh and freshwater wetlands provide home to a rich mix of flora and fauna. Right on our doorstep we have Steart Marshes - one of the UK’s largest new wetland reserves and a wildlife lovers delight. Nestled in the village of Combwich, besides the Parrett Trail, Quern Barn is ideally situated to discover everything the beautiful county of Somerset has to offer.
