Methods and Tools for Designing VR Applications for The Internet

The design of a Virtual Reality (VR) application, in general, can be long and expensive if not done properly. Designing VR
applications for the Internet can be very challenging as it targets large audiences with different backgrounds. This means
that the usability and the user interface must be well developed and intuitive. Although a number of tools exist to assist the
designer in building the VR application more rapidly, there are still no formal guidelines to help him to make his/her
design effective. Furthermore, these tools make often the assumption that the designer have a minimum of knowledge
about VR as well as the different authoring tools and file formats. This also increases the challenge for a novice designer
as he may not have enough experience to know in advance which tools and file formats to choose. This paper will start to
review the different steps that a designer should pay attention to when designing a VR application. Then, the paper will
give an overview of the tools that may help the designer to build quickly a VR application for the Internet.