VR Kanji Cards - Prototype

VR Kanji Cards is an Oculus Quest App about picking up Kanji and placing them in a VR “Mind Palace”. The Kanji are ordered by their frequency throughout 5000+ Japanese Novels, and there are over 3000 Kanji. This app is simply a prototype for a tool I’ve wanted for a long time.

You pick up cards from a pedestal, and place them around the environment. The environment is a simple square room with a bunch of tables.

I’d like to add more interesting environments in the future, but for now I’m not planning on working on this project further. If it gets a lot of good feedback, I’ll come back, add more to it, and work on smoothing out the kinks.

Controls

Grip - Grab

Left Hand - Smooth Movement

Right Hand - Teleport Movement

Primary Button - Grab a new card from anywhere.

Save File Location (If you want to erase or manage multiple save files)

/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.PlayingwithColor.VRKanjiCards/files/KanjiTransformData.json

Credits

If I missed a credit or credited someone incorrectly, please feel free to reach out to me on Itch.io or any of my socials, so that I can correct it.

Programming, Shader Programming, Baked Lighting, Design, and Development

By David Draper aka Playing with Color

Textures

Little Martin : Retro Texture Pack

https://little-martian.itch.io/retro-texture-pack

Kanji API

By onlyskin, benjaminokeefe, and MikeNatsu

https://kanjiapi.dev/

Kanji Frequency List

By NukeMarine

Restructured by David Draper

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/g6zxs6/a_few_years_back_5100_japanese_novels_were/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zbClv0H5VgswEDAkVmF3ikiVnoi6yGsW/view

Created in Unity Things I’d like to add

• signs that if you touch with certain cards they will have that kanji appear on them
• multiple kanji transforms save files
• customize which parts of the kanji info are shown
• example words
• signboard that shows all kanji highlighted by placed or not
• make it so kanji line up with each other
• select and pick up multiple kanji
• group kanji to align them and pick them all up in a big group
• example sentences
• themed areas for different kinds of Kanji