This project aims to support the separation of work and life in a work from home environment. To our surprise, although not needing to commute to work saves a lot of time and effort, it can also have negative effects.
With our offices being in the same space as our bedrooms, there is no way to separate work life from home life. Getting off work means switching off tabs or switching computers, instead of relocating from an office space to home now. Studies have shown that the lack of this waiting period makes it hard to switch away from work after hours.
This article shows that people have different habits they have replaced with their commutes to consciously prepare their minds for work.
Our project aims to tackle this issue by replicating the commute of driving to work/ being stuck in rush hour in VR.
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First make sure you have Node installed.
On Mac OS X, it's recommended to use Homebrew to install Node + npm:
brew install node
To install the Node dependencies:
npm install
To serve the site from a simple Node development server:
npm start
Then launch the site from your favourite browser:
If you wish to serve the site from a different port:
PORT=8000 npm start