• Software installation

• Casting

• Player settings

• Login

• Licenses

• Multiplayer

• Hand actions

• Quick access menu

• Activities

• Gallery of figures

• Games

• Set up your Quest following these instructions.
• Request access to the Neotrie beta channel from the contact form, indicating the email assigned to your Meta quest headset.
• Accept the invitation from Virtual Dor to access the Neotrie beta channel. To do this, search for email from do_not_reply@mail.oculus.com. You will need to be logged in to your Facebook/Oculus/Meta account on the same browser on your phone or computer for the opt-in link to work:

Casting from Quest to a PC or phone or tablet

To take broadcast from the Quest on a computer open in Google Chrome http://www.oculus.com/casting

• Update Windows.
• (Only for Windows Mixed Reality headsets) In Cortana’s searcher of your desktop, look for “Windows Mixed Reality” and install it.
  
• If Oculus Rift, download Neotrie VR from the library of Rift experiences.
• In other cases, register at STEAM and keep login for the next steps.

Login

Once registered on the Neotrie website, you can access your user and content, from within the game. You can skip login if you are going to stay as a Beginner player. Login is needed to have chat voice available in the Multiplayer mode.

Language

Choose a language (some parts of the multiplayer version are only in English) 

Graphics quality

Choose a graphic quality level. Some huge figures may require low quality level or hiding vertices or edges in the Figure settings.

Player

Pass your virtual hand on the buttons “boy” or “girl” to choose an avatar, hair color, etc.

Write your name in the box “Player name”.

Take the camera (black rectangle) on the table to see what you look like. Make sure you have a personal name to properly access the multiplayer mode voice chat.

The host creates a public or private lobby. The other players join it by pressing the “Quick Join Public Lobby” or “Join Lobby” with the code facilitated by the host.

The host can choose “Teacher” option to have more control on the scene. In this mode, the other players will have restrictions. For instance, they will not be able to delete or load activities or neot, hide geometric figures, etc.

First steps: Hand actions

With your hands you can create any figure with vertices, edges, faces, as well as edit any of these elements.

Quick access to menu

Press the trackpad or buttons B or Y to open and close this menu. Pass your hand over the buttons to select or deselect an option.  Activated buttons have a darker color.

Gallery of figures

The figures will appear just above the menu. You can choose with or without faces. 

Here is the list of the implemented figures:

• Plane, sphere, cylinder, cone, torus, Moebius.
• Triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, etc.
• Platonic solids: say “platonics” to have all at once.
• Archimedean solids
• Deltahedra
• Johnson (not recommended to load the 92 Jonhson solids, in PCs with lower processor).
• Kepler solids
• Catalan solids
• Regular Polychora (hyper-tetrahedron, hyper-cube, hyper-octahedron, 24-cell, hyper-dodecahedron, hyper-icosahedron)

Activities

Activities from our community can be downladed automatically touching boxes in the scene. The scenes will automatically download to the local folder “NeotrieSaves”, together with the associated files.

Available boxes of activities are related to our educational projects.

Games (3d graphs)

Four colors theorem: Click the vertices with your finger to change their colors. Connected vertices must have different color, so edges change to white. Paint all vertices and use as few colors as possible to get more score.

Eulerian paths: An Eulerian path is a path which does not repeat any edge. It is known after the solution by Euler of the famous problem of 7 bridges of Königsberg. Click over the edges with your finger. These will change to orange. Try to get the longest Eulerian path, to get the maximum score.

Hamiltonian paths: A Hamiltonian path is a path which passes through all vertices, without repeating. Click the vertices with your finger.

Restrictions menu (only PC version)

This panel (remnant from previous versions) is available on the downleft corner of the screen of your computer. Options can also be managed inside the VR scene directly.

• Grid: Restriction on the positions of vertices, on the screen of the computer. X=0.1 sets a grid of 0.1m = 1dm at the X-axis. These can be fixed on the Axis tool.
• Lock pad: This prevents changing the basic modes of the hands and open the menus.
• Angles: Sets the angular jump for the Rotations tool (in degrees).
• Scale Coef: indicates the coefficient of scale (or homothetie) when copy a figure with the copy seal.

Loading and saving keyboard

We can use this virtual keyboard to save and load Neot files in local folders:

Loading from windows menu

Figures, pictures, objects, sounds and videos can be loaded directly in the scene with a windows menu (available formats neot, stl, obj, jpg, png, waw, mp3, mp4, config).

You will be able to manage all these files and folders:

• PC Version go to your local folder: user\Documents\Neotrie
• Quest Version  with a USB 3.0 cable: \Quest2\Internalsharedstore\Android\data\com.VirtualDor.NeotrieVR\files\Neotrie

Loading 3d objects

OBJs and STLs can be inserted into the scene, and can be painted, rescaled, and have sounds and gravity added to them.

Loading images

Images (JPG, PNG format) can be inserted into the scene from the windows menu. These images can be taken and enlarged as other objects.

If you want to insert a PDF, first convert it to an image for insertion.

Loading 360º backgrounds

One can change the background of the scene with any desired 360 picture (JPG format). Open it from your folder “environments 360” and move it inside the ball of 360º picture. Now take the ball and approach it to your head.

Can use Street View download 360 to download pictures from Google Earth, for instance.

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Loading sounds

One can import mp3, waw, ogt files into the scene, as well as assign them to 3d objects, images and drawings.

Tools

Tools (as other objects) can be taken by pressing the Trigger Button, release them by pressing the Trackpad or the buttons A or X.

Many of them have a small blue cube or pyramid at the end which works as a pointer or selector.

Tools can also be obtained from Menu>Tools.

Tools help: Grab a tool to show how to use it.

Tape

Measure lengths between two vertices, or any two different places.

Protactor tool

The protractor tool gives the angle between two edges, and the dihedral angle between two faces. While maintained the trigger button pressed, touch over two edges or two planes.

Recall that in the quick access Menu, the measuring info button gives the length, area and volume of all the figures in the scene.

The info button shows the number of vertices, edges, and faces, as well as the Euler characteristic (V-E+F).

Palette and pencil

With the pencil you can paint free drawings, vertices, edges and faces, and other objects inside the scenario. Tool button allows to paint all vertices, edges and faces of a figure.

Optional button that allows you to paint all the similar elements of a figure at once.

Optional button that allows you to paint the faces of  a figure with the same number of vertices.

Rubber

The rubber (“eraser”) can be used to delete a figure, by touching any of its vertices. 

Copy tool

Press on a vertex of a figure to be copied. The copy tool also allows to make clones of any other figure, 3d object, image, 3D ball, sounds or music notes, free drawing, and any other tool. All these clones can be saved in your scene as a neot file.

This optional button allows you to save a figure in NeotrieSaves>000_MyFigures

Scaled Copy tool

Change the scale to have a scaled copy of a figure or object.

Optional button allows to scale the figure directly.

This optional button allows you to scale the figure directly (without copying).

Rotation tool

Touch 2 vertices or 1 edge, to fix the rotational axis, or a face to rotate around this face.

Button allows to automatically rotate the figure.

Optional tool button allows to make rotated copies dependent from the original.

Reflection tool

• Planar symmetry: Touch one face (or 3 points) and one vertex of a figure to reflect.
• Axial symmetry: Touch one edge (or 2 points) and one vertex of a figure to reflect.
• Central symmetry or inversion: Touch 1 point to fix the center and an extra point of a figure to reflect.
• Optional Button to make dependent reflected copies.

Magnet tool

This tool allows users to join tiles by two of their edges. It also joins two 3D figures by two of their faces, or two pairs of edges.

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Parallel tool

Use this tool to make parallels, sum of two vectors.

Optional button allows to make parallel copies of figures.

Perpendicular tool

Use this tool to make perpendicular of two vectors, and also projections of a point on a line or plane.

Touch a point on a plane and then the plane to find the perpendicular on that point.

Touch a point on an edge, and the edge to get a perpendicular plane on that point.

Optional button fixes a face for plane geometry. 

Middle point tool

Use this tool to make the middle point of a set of points.

Touch an edge or a face to get their middle point.

Divisor tool

Use this tool to have rational points m/n on a segment. 

Touch a point of a figure to get divisions of all its edges at once.

Bisector tool

Touch two edges to bisect.

Intersection tool

Intersection tool permits to find the intersection of:

• 2 lines (gives two points of minimal distance).
• 1 plane and a line (touch a plane and then a line, or three lines)
• 2 planes (touch either: two planes, or 4 lines).
• Intersections between other figures are work in progress.

Slider tool

This tool allows to automatically move a point passing through a set of vertices.

Press the button “circle” to generate a circle. Maintain the trigger button press and touch three points: the first one is the center of the circle, the second a point on the circle, and a third to define perpendicular to the plane.

Press the button “restart” to restart all the moves made with the slider tool.

Loci pencil

Use this pencil to draw the trace of a point or edge.

Compass tool

• It transfers a specific distance in a given direction, by selecting 4 points (the first two give the distance, and the last two the direction).
• It finds a point in the intersection of two spheres and a plane, by selecting 5 points.
• It intersects a sphere with a line (by selecting 2 points and an edge).

Sphere tool

Use this tool to make spheres, cylinders, and cones depending on vertices.

Ortohedron

Use this tool to make an ortohedron with or without faces, with the given measures.

The faces will not be assembled.

This optional button will create an ortoehedron with faces.

This optional button will create an ortoehedron with 2 colours.

Nets generator tool

This tool allows to generate a unit cell, as well as crystal structures. Change the parameters a, b, c, alpha, betta, gamma, and size number, to get the desired cell unit. 

1. Touch one point and release. This gives you the four points of the unit cell. Create edges if you like.

2. Once you have the cell unit, touch the 4 points generating the cell unit to generate the base net.

3. Finally, touch the previous 4 points and one more single point “atom” to generate its copies. 

Fractal tool

Use this tool to build self-similar fractals.

Touch a figure with the set of positions of the selfsimilar copies of the 1st iteration, and then a point of the figure to fractalise.

Touch the origins of the set of frames defining the similarties (affinities), and then a point figure to fractalise.

Touch the 4 vertices of every frame defining the similarties (affinities), and finally a point figure to fractalise.

Translated copies

Chose 2, 3, or 4 vertices and a point of a figure to make 1, 2, or 3 directions to tile.

Rotated copies

Chose the angle and the number of copies.

Reflected copies

Generates a reflected copy (central, axial or planar).

The reflection tool as a projector:

Generates the reflected copy on a plane.

Projects a figure on a plane from a point.

3d axis and labeling

The label tool is used to get additional information about our geometric elements. It is also used to create texts, copy and paste from one label to another, and other game options.

Labeling geometrical elements:

Use the label tool to add:

• Name, coordinates to vertices (with respect to the Axis of coordinates).
• Name, weight, length to edges
• Name, area, equation to planes.
• Similar information to circles, spheres, cylinders, cones, etc.

Button true or false for test activities

In the next video, it is shown how to use the label tool to make tests in VR, with scores.

Each label created in the scene can be edited by touching the little red square on its right. One can add the desired text, and also the following commands:

<button correct=t> and <button correct=f> for true or false.

<nhits> for number of hits, <nerrors> number of errors.

One can also edit the file directly with any text editor. For example in this NEOT file one can change texts, positions, and values of buttons ((t=true, f=false).

Press the “On” button to turn on the multiview planes.

Press “On” to turn on the scanner, and see the projections of any figure.

Hide the figures allows you to play the game of discovering the hiding figure.

Boxes (Deleted from version 4.6.3)

Ask your pupils to classify polhyedra or any set of figures by types. One can use these boxes to move a set of figures at once. Boxes are editable, scalable, coloreable, and one can make copies with the “seal” copy tool.

Tool not available in versions 4.7.x

Shuttle

Shuttles can be used with interesting didactical applications. Both the shuttles and the balls are scalable and paintable. They interact with objects. The larger the gun, the larger the balls.

Config files are useful to configurate your scenes for activities or lesson plans.
Download an example of file.config here.

Open it with any text editor. (Recall to save it as filename.config and not as filename.config.txt). Take care to save it as filename.config (and not as filename.config.txt).

Choose the tools that you want to see on the scene, indicating TRUE or FALSE. Other parameters of the game can also fixed here.

• T_ROTATION = TRUE (indicates that the rotation tool is enabled in the scene).
• MAX_ANGLE_TELEPORT = 10 (indicates the maximum angle of 10º when teleporting).
• VERT_DETECTION_DISTANCE = 0.03 (distance of 3cm to detect any vertex).

These config files have to be located in any folder inside [Documents>Neotrie, for instance:
Documents>Neotrie>Config