Is that possible to develop simple VR for research purposes by a psychologist with minimal technical knowledge? - Yes. To do it efficient, I recommend organize special lessons/training/course during which you encourage them to use VR through for example: showing them possibilities, show that it is not difficult to use VR (or that benefits outweigh the effort put into the learning), maybe using gamification, show that there is a lack of scientists with such competences ad it is opportunieties to them, that with these knowledge there will be "wanted for/by projects" . And after that show, that it need a little bit of technical knowledge ;)
Yes - it could be hard, but that is why we are teachers and tutors: to teach youth difficult subjects in the easiest and enjoyable manner/way.
Pawel hi,
You may try our software, EventIDE (www.okazolab.com). The software is a stimulus presentation platform with visualized task design and programming, which are very comprehensive for students. Apart of of running traditional psychological tasks, EventIDE embeds a simple graphics engine for Oculus VR.
The engine does not require technical skills, save for writing simple scripts, when you want to animate a 3D scene. 3D scenes for the engine can imported from 3D editors or created with XML scripts. For example, we used this engine for a VR version of the multiple-object tracking task. For more complex VR task our software can also integrate with Unity.
If you want to see the VR MOT demo or just try the software on your PC, please write me.
Pawel Strojny the easiest way to create a realistic VR environment are videos:
https://www.psycho.uni-osnabrueck.de/fachgebiete/allgemeine_psychologie_i/luvre.html
Unity3D is simple enough, a great skill to acquire and free. It wouldn't hurt them to try learning it for a semester or less. When you use pre-made environments you usually lose the option to control the variables that you want to experiment with it and just mimic what was already done.
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