FSU Metaverse MVP & Career Center
Gamifying career development through immersive technology
Procedural World Building
Architecting the campus environment with Houdini-driven pipelines
CAD-to-Engine Data Pipeline
Seamless transfer of linework from Civil3D into Unreal Engine for procedural generation workflows.
Linework-to-Spline Pipeline
Developed an automated workflow to import CAD linework directly into Unreal Engine as spline data. Roads, pathways, building footprints, and utility lines maintained their engineering precision through the conversion.
Houdini Digital Assets Integration
Exported spline data fed directly into Houdini Digital Assets (HDAs), driving procedural generation of roads, terrain adaptation, building placement, and environmental storytelling elements.
Unreal Procedural Blueprints
Spline data also powered native UE5 Procedural Blueprints, enabling real-time adjustments to the campus layout within the engine while maintaining the engineering-validated foundation from Civil3D.
Bi-Directional Workflow
Changes made in Civil3D could be re-imported without breaking existing work, allowing stakeholders to request layout adjustments late in production while preserving generated content.
Houdini Procedural Generation
Abandoned manual placement in favor of custom procedural tools built in Houdini.
Engineering Standards Integration
Integrated real-world civil engineering drafting standards directly into the generation logic, ensuring the campus layout was not only visually cohesive but architecturally grounded.
Rapid Iteration Capability
The procedural pipeline allowed for rapid iteration of environment layouts without sacrificing detail, enabling multiple complete campus redesigns within days rather than weeks.
Custom HDA Tools
Built reusable Houdini Digital Assets that the team could deploy directly in UE5, empowering non-technical team members to generate complex environment variations.
AI-Powered Career Simulation
Integrating OpenAI API for immersive interview and assessment systems
AI Career Coaches
Four specialized AI guides with unique personas, each providing personalized guidance based on your learning and career journey context.
Mentor - The Learning Coach
Focuses on skill development and educational pathways. Analyzes your current knowledge gaps and recommends courses, certifications, and learning resources tailored to your career goals.
Scout - The Job Hunter
Specializes in job market navigation and opportunity identification. Provides real-time insights on industry trends, connects your skills to open positions, and strategizes your application approach.
Sage - The Growth Advisor
Concentrates on professional and personal development. Offers guidance on soft skills, leadership qualities, networking strategies, and building a sustainable, fulfilling career path.
Pathfinder - The Explorer
Helps discover and align your interests with career potential. Uses conversational exploration to uncover hidden passions and map them to viable career trajectories you may not have considered.
Shared Context System
All four coaches share a unified memory of your journey—conversations, assessments, and progress are synchronized across the AI team, ensuring consistent, personalized guidance no matter which coach you engage with.
Mock Interview Module
Voice-based AI interview system with resume analysis and job-specific scoring.
Resume-to-Interview Pipeline
Users upload their actual resumes which are parsed and analyzed to generate personalized, job-specific interview questions delivered by AI NPCs.
Performance Scoring
The system analyzes audio responses in real-time, scoring users against specific job descriptions and providing actionable feedback on their interview performance.
Response Authenticity Detection
Engineered logic to distinguish genuine human responses from AI-generated answers.
Multi-Layer Verification
Prioritized audio analysis to verify soft skills authenticity, detecting patterns indicative of AI-scraping versus genuine human speech patterns and emotional cues.
Integrity-First Design
Built the system with assessment integrity as the primary constraint, ensuring the platform genuinely tests user capabilities rather than their prompt engineering skills.
Holland Code Assessment
Visual-first multiple-choice test for career interest profiling.
Visual-First Interface
Designed an engaging, game-like assessment experience that transforms traditional career testing into an immersive world exploration activity.
Career Path Mapping
Results are mapped to potential job paths within the metaverse world, creating immediate context and relevance for students exploring their career options.
Motion Capture & Cinematics
Owning the animation pipeline from performance to engine
The Drone Tour Intro
Cinematic sequence introducing users to the campus through a creative drone interaction.
Performance Capture
Personally choreographed and enacted motion capture sessions, performing all character movements to create a unique, cohesive animation style throughout the experience.
Creative Drone Interaction
Designed and animated a signature moment where the user grabs a drone from mid-air, transforming it into a selfie-cam for an innovative campus tour introduction.
Real-Time Lip-Sync System
Dynamic facial animation for text and voice-driven NPC interactions.
Dual Input Support
Implemented real-time lip-sync that works seamlessly with both pre-written text dialogue and dynamic voice AI responses, maintaining immersion across all NPC interactions.
Performance Optimized
System runs efficiently in real-time without pre-baking, enabling truly dynamic conversations while maintaining high-fidelity facial animation quality.
Full Animation Pipeline
End-to-end ownership from mocap stage to engine integration.
Pipeline Architecture
Designed and maintained the complete animation pipeline, from raw mocap data cleanup in MotionBuilder to final engine integration with proper retargeting and blend setups.
Diverse NPC Behaviors
Created a library of distinct character animations covering idle behaviors, gestures, and contextual reactions that bring the campus population to life.
The Result
Despite a high-pressure 3.5-month development window, the project successfully demonstrated complex platform capabilities—merging procedural generation, generative AI, and high-fidelity character animation into a cohesive, functional demo that set a new standard for immersive career development tools.
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