Final Project & Independent Learning

I've got two words for this process: Uphill battle. I set out to make a little storyline of a character. I honestly didn't know where I was going with it, but I wanted to make some sort of story centering around one character with some sort of paranormal weird stuff going on. What I realized was the most selling part of the video would be the sheer amount of space it covers; it is the most lonely thing ever to be the focus of one of these videos with nobody...

Interactive

I solved my problems with the FPS controller and other smaller bugs simply by virtue of experience and understanding shorthand controls. My problems with the audio remained, however. The playmaker feature actually seems more intuitive than I would have imagined. Then one thing I'm still having problems with is the iTween animation; I keep trying to have the gold rise and map to the sphere I created when I move into another sphere I created. It didn't work that way. I'm not exactly sure where I messed up with that correlation,...

Presentation

My presentation is about the NBA's collaboration with NextVR. To begin the 2015-16 NBA season, the Golden State Warriors' game was live streamed for free in VR (accessible to anybody with Gear VR). There were positives, and negatives about this experience. In the end, the kernels of greatness makes this an experience worth improving and expanding on. Anything which combats the live television market is of interest because live events are the only thing keeping television alive.

First Unity Project

There were some peaks and valleys in this Unity scene. Not just environmental peaks and valleys, but metaphorical ones too. Firstly, I'm not sure what exactly happened to my project around its exportation. I was saving it pretty consistently, but after I exported I started to tweak things to improve the simulation. A few things I tried tweaking were the volumes of sounds, and the sounds themselves. Music plays in my scene no matter where you are on the map, even though I tried tying it directly to a certain...

Assignment Number Four

My group's project changed from recording the football game, to recording dance team practice and performance, to ultimately doing a campus tour. Luckily, the failures served as a learning experience. Firstly, confirming schedules; the football team didn't have a game the two weeks we had to develop our project. Secondly, confirm all the equipment is up to par. In our first shoot of dance team practice, the wifi did not work on two of the cameras. This set off a domino effect in which we had to manually fix the...

360 Video Proposals

My first proposal for a 360 video would be purely used for exhibition purposes. My first thought was a 6' high camera on center court/field of college sports arena/field. Most people have seen players from the stands; placing yourself on the court and viewing the thousands of people in their seats,  from centerstage, is an anxiety-inducing experience that can even impact the performance of elite athletes. Being able to see from the court would add the performer's perspective which the average viewer has lacked in years past. My second proposal is more immersive....

First VR Experience

My first experience using VR was physically, and mentally overwhelming. Previously, the closest experience I've had to VR was watching 360 videos playing on the wall of the Dick Clark Studios. I quickly learned the gap between the VR experience and the 360 video experience is the gap between guarding LeBron James and shooting around on a portable hoop with your dad. The first VR device I tried was the Gear. The first odd mental sensation I felt was the confusion as to how tall I was. I'm 6'3"; on the Gear, because...