3D wheelchair simulator - XNA game Studio

Hi again! The purpose of this blog is also to comment in some projects I've done during my undergraduate studies. So this time I''ll show you a 3D wheelchair simulator I did using XNA game studio during my sophomore year. XNA game studio is a Visual Studio Plataform which uses C#  mainly for those who like videogames' programming.

This simulator was design based on an Intelligent Wheelchair which can be controlled through eye movements and voice commands. This wheelchair was developed by some graduate students at my college ITESM-CCM. The objective is for the users to get familiar with the wheelchair's controls, and to practice how to navigate through different type of scenarios (narrow spaces, hills, etc). In this way, the risk for them of having an accident when using the real wheelchair is reduces; as well as the time in which they adapt to the necessary commands to control it. The simulator also includes real life noises and animations. It offers different view perspectives (as in a video game like Call of Duty / Halo).

In my opinion there are a lot of easier game engines to program your own simulator or video game like Unity, and which offer better graphics too. But if you are old school and like programming almost from scratch and see for yourself algorithms for rendering graphics, XNA is a good choice to start.

I post some pictures of how does the 3d simulator looks like and videos of it from my youtube channel (suscribe!). If you want the code, ask for it in the comments. Thanks.

Video : Description fo the 3d environment
Video: Description of the voice commands for the 3d simulator