For my graduate student project, I conduct an experiment doing research on the potential effect of virtual reality on viewer empathy in News Media. This study is guided by Prof. Carol Liebler together with Noah Buntain and Dongqing Xu from the Media Studies program. The origin of this study is quite simple. We have heard a lot of sayings of virtual reality can be treated as the ultimate empathy machine which is capable of arousing people's empathy towards a certain topic. Yet in the academic field, we can hardly find...

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In this assignment, I am trying to use third person instead of first person controller since I want to use Mixamo to create my own character which I can control. I also download a monster character to be the enemy which will react to my approach and run towards me and die when I trigger the gun. I've spent a lot of time working on third person view and smoothly follow my character. Also, set up two triggers using playmaker is not as easy as one trigger. In this assignment,...

In this assignment, I decided to make these zombies move towards me. I set up a trigger as a box collider and when first person controller approaches, the zombie will play an animation of attack and play audio of zombie's breathing. After that, it will go into chasing me. I used "move toward" and "smooth look at" functions in playmaker. Now that they are chasing the first person at a low speed while playing an animation of a walk.

I created a relatively small scene. The story is zombie eclipse when you are in a small town with a fancy car. I spend a lot of time trying to do some animation to the character I downloaded from the asset store. While I successfully make itself move using some embed animation, I am still having trouble with the AI to let it chase me or attack me. I will figure this out in a future creation. Also, I am having trouble in interacting with objects in the scene. The...

In this assignment, I would like to focus on possible family violence effects on children. My plan is to set up a family environment where two parents will begin arguing with each other while the audience takes the children's vision. Story On a Friday morning, when Father comes home late and drunk, Mother began to argue with Father about his not taking care of the family. With constant smashing things to the ground and towards the camera, I want to create a lively family conflict scene. Where is the camera...