Jeep VR

A first-person VR driving experience built for a military-themed event activation in Delhi. Player takes the wheel of a vintage military jeep and drives through an island environment featuring an airbase, coastal roads, and off-road terrain. Vehicle systems, VR cockpit ergonomics, scene composition, and level design by me; environment art sourced from commercial asset packs.

Role

Solo, vehicle systems and level design

Status

Deployed at event

Duration

2025

Form

First-person VR driving

Engine

Unity 2022.3

What it is

A VR experience built for a military-themed event at Mall of India. Player puts on a headset, sits behind the wheel of a vintage WW2-era jeep, and drives across an island that progresses from a paved coastal road past an airbase, off-road through palm forests, and onto a beach. The whole experience is two to three minutes of continuous driving.

Full drive, in-game footage. The route progresses from paved road through the airbase, off-road through palm forest, onto the beach.

Approaching the airbase. Helicopter hangars in the distance, watchtower, palm-lined road.

Mid-route. Coastal road with rock walls on the left and tropical vegetation on the right.

What's mine, what's sourced

I want to be honest about this because it matters for what the project actually demonstrates:

Sourced: environment art (terrain, palm trees, buildings, rocks), jeep model, audio.
Built by me: the vehicle controller (steering, throttle, suspension feel, off-road behaviour), the VR cockpit (head tracking inside the cab, mirror reflections, dashboard scale calibration), the level design (where the road goes, where the player's eye is led, the pacing of the experience), and the scene composition (where the airbase sits relative to the player, what is visible when).

The art is asset-pack work. The driving experience is mine. That is what hiring managers at a VR studio would care about, anyone can buy a palm tree; making a vehicle feel right in VR is hard.

A landed aircraft visible ahead. Scene composition: the airbase tells a story without dialogue.

Off-road section. Different terrain, different feel, different traction.

Lessons from VR cockpit work

Scale calibration matters more in VR than anywhere else. A vehicle's interior dimensions, where the steering wheel sits relative to the player's real-world position, the height of the seat, get these wrong and the experience feels uncanny in a way that 'looks fine on a flat screen' does not.
Cockpit framing is your friend. Putting the player inside a vehicle reduces motion sickness dramatically because the brain has a stable frame of reference (the cab) even when the world is moving.
Vehicle responsiveness has to be exaggerated. Real-world physics tuned 1:1 feels mushy in VR. The jeep had to feel slightly more responsive than realism would suggest.

Stack

Unity 2022.3C#VR (headset deployment)Custom vehicle controllerCommercial environment asset packs

What this project demonstrates

VR vehicle systems. Cockpit ergonomics, scale, responsiveness, the specific things that matter in headset.
Level design for VR. Pacing, scene composition, environmental storytelling without dialogue.
Honest credit. Art is sourced, systems are mine. The project is what it is.