4/25 Lecture Notes

4/25 Lecture Notes


5:15-5:30: Housekeeping

  • Course evaluations.
  • Don't forget the Independent learning post!
  • Shared Unity assets and how to request new ones
  • How to turn in final projects
      • Create a screencast and upload to YouTube.
      • Write a blog post with the YouTube embedded.
      • Create an export of your project for the VR headset you are building it for (Oculus, Vive).
      • Put your export into the Final Projects folder on the desktop of the PC for your headset. Use your name as the folder title.
      • Make sure you test the project in the Oculus or Vive.If your project is in Unity:
    • If your project is a 360 video:
      • Write a blog post with the YouTube embedded.
      • Copy the full MP4 file to the Oculus PC, inside Final Project folder. Use your name as the folder title.
      • Make sure you test the MP4 in the Oculus using the GoPro VR app.

5:30-5:45: Find and news

5:45-6:15: Diversity discussion

  • My own diversity journey
  • Campus diversity issues, and our society's larger cultural issues around ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities and humanity
  • How can VR and its ability to create empathy help? How could it hurt?
  • Presentation.

6:15-6:45: Brainstorm

6:45-7:05: Presentation

  • Joel Sherman, horror and VR.

7:05-8: Work time

  • Work on your project.
  • Learn with Prof. Pacheco about how to use the Virtual Reality Toolkit.
  • Or ... do your course evaluation 🙂

Thanks for a great semester, and see most of you at graduation where you get a FREE HUG from me if you want it!!!!

I'm the lead professor for the VR Storytelling class and the Chair of Journalism Innovation at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

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