by Ken Harper 5:15-5:25: Basic Stuff/News NAB news New stuff? 5:30-6:15 Guest Speaker Nonny de la Pena, "grandmother of VR" 6:20-7:20 Student Presentations Zhang, Dingyue Lai Shumin Evan Jenkins Marissa Blanchard 7:20-8:00 Student Presentations Draft video critiques
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5:15-5:25: Basic Stuff/News What did you find? Ryot to bring immersive video to the Huffington Post HoloLens will be in the innovation lab, but in a locked cabinet. You must arrange with me to use it (for now). New HoloLens discovery: Holo Studio, which lets you create 3D scenes in the air. 5:25–5:50 What is the 3D Web? WebGL, a Javascript API that lets modern web browsers display 3D content in 2D web browsers. ThreeJS, an open source library that’s used to create applications that display 3D stuff in web browsers....
by Ken Harper All majors welcome Go in-depth with 360 storytelling Learn the technique, applications and all about the latest gear
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5:15-5:25: News of VR Oculus ship dates, Facebook camera, what else? Game of Thrones opener coming to VR! Check out the 360 video. NY Times internships, request from editor Sam Dolnick. Send Dan and I you your best stuff! See the post in Facebook group. Cool guest lectures for last two classes: 4/20: Nonny de la Peña, "Godmother of VR" and CEO of Emblematic Group. 4.27: Dan Archer and Katharina Finger of Empathetic Media. 5:30-6:15: Virtual Reality Summit Move to 205A – Prof. Pacheco's gleanings from the Virtual Reality Summit in NYC and...
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5:15 - 5:45: VR Research presentations Carla Sertin Amanda Silvestri The rest of the presentations are rescheduled as following: 4/13: Marymargaret Treinin 4/20: Thomas Viola II 4/27: Dingyue Zhang, Shumin Lai & Evan Jenkins 5:50-6:00: Industry News & Such Big couple weeks! Oculus and HTC Vive shipped (sort of, both are experiencing delays). www.orah.co – What are the issues? Holoportation What else did you find? HoloLens is shipping to us now! It should integrate with Unity using a special HoloLens build of Unity for anyone who wants to try it out. Making360 -...
5:15 - 6:15 - HTC Vive and Even Jenkins (Innovation Lab) 6:20 - 6:30 - Vi Nguyen Presentation 6:30-6:40 - Housekeeping HTC Vive preorders. We're getting 3! HoloLens. We're getting one! 6:40 - 6:45 - #VRStorytelling Finds / news 6:50 - 7:00 - Assignment 6 review Blog post update, Assignment Six We didn't post a due date, so guess what, you have until Friday! How'd you do so far? Anyone want to show what they made? Review the basics of Playmaker if needed. 7:00-7:50 - Using Mixamo animations with playmaker Follow along here Confused? See a complete project...
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5:15–5:30 #VRStorytelling Finds 5:30–5:45 Ben Farr Presentation 5:45–7:00 Getting to Know Unity Today you will create your first CGI scene. If you get lost, everything I'm showing is in this video tutorial so you can watch it after class. But first, let's see Harvest of Change, which Prof. Dan worked on at Gannett Digital. Walk through the Mac downloadable version. We'll look at the scene in Unity. Missed something? Check out the video tutorial. Sketch of today's tutorial is live here, updated weekly. Time to get a tad more juicy! Your first scene won't be...
by Ken Harper 5:15–5:45 Presentation, Findings and Troubleshooting 5:45–6:30 Break into teams and stitch test footage from last week in APV 6:30–7:15 Eliminating ghosting exercise 7:15–8:00 Continue stitching exercises and work on Project 3 Guest Stitcher: Arron Nah on 360 video club and advanced editing. Please remember we still have presentations to get through that were assigned at the beginning of the semester. See link below for a reminder, very few of you have filled out your topic! You MUST login to google with your http://g.syr.edu/ email address to access! https://docs.google.com/a/g.syr.edu/spreadsheets/d/1-TE4v10OA0A3TexGt_VqZq3VyfUjLa9NsPBeDHNH7xg/edit?usp=sharing Related Links Step by step in-depth editing in giga Post-Production in APV and...
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