Alice Player

The Alice player is a separate stand alone application.  To learn how to install, run, and use the Alice player please view the linked How to: Using The Alice Player How to (Found in Useful Links on this page)

Exporting Worlds

To run worlds using the Alice Player you will need to export a new save format for Alice that will have the file extension .a3w.  To export to this format you will need to use the Alice IDE Export build found on this page.  To learn how to export and run your own Alice creations view the linked How to:  Exporting For The Alice Player (Found in Useful Links on this page)

Some worlds may cause Alice to crash or you may receive errors on export as we continue to work through bugs related to the export functionality to handle all Alice functionality and patterns that students may be creating.

Enabling VR Mode

The Alice Player will also support running Alice Worlds in VR.  To learn how to run the Alice Player in VR view the linked How tos:  Using the Alice Player With Oculus VR and Using the Alice Player With VIVE VR (Found in Useful Links on this page)

VR Input Mapping

This is an area we will be continuing to improve and change as we more explicitly add VR terminology and functionality into the Alice IDE.  The first pass of our implementation has mapped existing Alice events and objects to VR inputs to make it easy to translate existing worlds to VR and have creations work for both the desktop and the VR environment.  You can view the key translations in the How to: Overview of VR Input Mappings (Found in Useful Links on this page) as well as more detailed VR Programming How tos in the Alice 3 How to Resources section of the web-site.

VR Demo Worlds

We have attached the demos we ran at CSTA and ISTE.  The folder contains both the .a3p files for use with the IDE and the .a3w files to run with the player.  They are great examples of how some very entry level Alice programming and simple programs can create rich VR experiences.  The worlds are:

AmazonBoatRide – this world makes use of one of the starter worlds in the gallery and simple object marker moves for the boar with the camera vehicled to the boat.  It is an example of a good VR pattern for a ride experience.

UnderwaterExplore – this world also uses one of our starter worlds (underwater) and includes simple looping procedures to create a school of fish to the scene to show how easy it is to create a dynamic open world.