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...

5:15-5:30: Housekeeping Finds / news VRStorytelling Facebook group 5:30-6:15: Panotour Wasim Ahmad Also, how to put 360 videos into Unity 6:15-6:45: Presentations Ariel Wang: VR Coaster Tania Joseph: VR Advertising 6:45-7:30: Popup VR Google and Cyark Popup VR experiment, planning for next week 7:30-8: Work on your final project

5:15-5:20: Housekeeping Don't forget your Independent Learning post! It's a signficant part of your grade. What kinds of indie learning have you all done so far? Prof. Makana Chock (PhD) research opportunities. Grad students (Samarth and Jack), need to talk with you in second half of class about some extra work with 360 tour. And anyone else who wants to help for extra credit! 5:20-5:35: Finds / news LeapMotion's North Star. Ryan: How will Facebook's scandal affect Oculus? Ryan: Coachella and VR. Experience Burning Man in VR. Lucasfilm: the future of VR...

5:15-5:25: Housekeeping Finds, news Samarth, Firefox: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17192186/mozilla-firefox-reality-browser-announce-standalone-headset-vive-focus Tania, VR vs. AR: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/311290 Asa (5th Medium): AR Ready Player One reviews? 5:25-5:45: Photogrammetry Assignment 8 A couple examples Rachel Roth: sugar bag. Joel Sherman: a shoe (sort of). And from another of my classes using the same apps, check out these: A Syracuse hat. A Gatorade bottle. A teddy bear. What did you learn? Did anyone try viewing in cardboard? If not, try it now. Who else is still working on the assignment? If that's you, I have alternatives you can work on...

5:15-5:30: Housekeeping Finds / news. Ready Player One opens on Friday! And there are official VR apps for the movie, installing in the lab soon. Please install one of these apps during the pitches: iOS: Trnio Android: Scann3D 5:30-6:  Research Presentations Erin Qiu: Topic TBD Kyle Desiderio: VR for TV/Movie Ads Brittany Belo: Topic TBD 6-6:45: Speed pitches for final products 3 minutes each Voting. Winner gets a prize! 6:45-7:10: The 3D Web   WebGL Three.js Chrome Experiments Smithsonian X3D SketchFab WebVR AFrame, for creating 3D / VR stuff in...

Housekeeping Welcome back! Any good Spring Break stories? What I did on my Spring Break. There are only 5 weeks of class left!!! Lots of missing assignments in Blackboard. Remember, you have to post your URLs there too or you get a zero. Remember that Assignment 6: Use Mixamo to animate avatars with Playmaker is due Thursday. The latest in VR News HTC Vive tetherless headset now in preorder. Oculus Go standalone headset reportedly coming in May. CNN Virtual Reality launch. Epic Games releasing $12 million worth of characters and environments...

5:15-5:30: Housekeeping Schedule has changed. Note that Assignments 5 and 6 are both due together the Friday after Spring Break. Assignment 5: Make a scene interactive in Playmaker Assignment 6: Use Mixamo to animate avatars with Playmaker Check out some inspiring ones from last semester .... Cars crashing Angry animals. Dance party. Explosion triggers another explosion. Triggering a light effect. Assignment 7, due March 25, is to pitch your final project. You will pitch in a pitch session March 28, and the best pitch (chosen by all of you) will win...

5:15-5:25: Housekeeping We now have an HP Sprout 3D scanner / workstation. We also soon will have two backpack VR systems, one with a Vive and one with a Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headset. HP is giving them to us for free through Educause to test things out. If you want to use these technologies, come up with a final project idea that can utilize them. Industry news, finds... 5:25-5:50: Presentations Samarth Sharma Jack Clarendon Assignment 4 examples Kyle, cow and UFO: http://www.vrstorytelling.org/assignment-4-desiderio/ Brian: fireworks: http://www.vrstorytelling.org/assignment-4-brian-shantz/ Wenwen, waterfall: http://www.vrstorytelling.org/assignment4_erin_qiu/ Tania, beach scene....

5:15-5:45: Housekeeping Get a free Unity3D user ID here: https://unity3d.com/ Great work on team videos! I'm starting to watch them. You should, too (not just your own). Funk n Waffles concert (Samarth Sharma and Jack Clarendo) Remembrance Scholars (Katherine Conti, Max Nelson, Rachel Roth) Super Bowl Party (Kyle Desiderio, Ryan Kehr, Wenwen Qiu) Black Panther premiere (Brittany Belo, Brian Shantz, Tania Joseph) Fifth team: had production issues, turning in soon. Common issues: Lack of context (where am I?) and narrative structure (what's the story and how does it unfold?) Crooked or skewed 2D...