11/7/2017 Lecture Notes

11-11:05: Housekeeping Grad students, register for your extra project. Fill out this form. 11:05-11:40: Photogrammetry The magic: if you have 30 photos of any object from different angles, software can interpolate 3D data! See examples of this in the Roman Forum and the old city of Dubrovnik. Overview of how it works in this Autodesk video. See an Emblematic Group employee 3D image a tank. Desktop software: Autodesk Remake (so-so), Agisoft Photoscan (better). (If you use Autodesk, be sure to get a free Autodesk for Education account first). Apps: Scann3D (Android), Trnio...

11/6/2017 Lecture Notes

3:45-4:10: Research Presentations Kanda Fang Shengjie Yao: VR exercising Julian Schonbohm: VR in Advertising 4:10-4:40: Photogrammetry The magic: if you have 30 photos of any object from different angles, software can interpolate 3D data! See examples of this in the Roman Forum and the old city of Dubrovnik. Overview of how it works in this Autodesk video. See an Emblematic Group employee 3D image a tank. Desktop software: Autodesk Remake (so-so), Agisoft Photoscan (better). (If you use Autodesk, be sure to get a free Autodesk for Education account first). Apps: Scann3D...

11/2/2017 Lecture Notes

11: Housekeeping Grad students, tell me what your apprenticeship project is. 11:10: Final Project Presentations Stick to 4 minutes each, with 2 minutes of discussion. Vote at the end and the winner gets a mobile charger. If you have not uploaded your presentation via Slideshare, Google Slides or something else and posted a link or embed on the class site, do that now. Tag it with the Class Presentations category. The Order of presentations is: Isabel Sanchez Young Koh Audrey Lee Qian Zhu Julian King Shir Mosan Marisa Joachim Ying Chen...

11/1 Lecture Notes

3:45: Housekeeping Grad students, tell me what your apprenticeship project is. 3:46: Final Project Presentations Stick to 3.5 minutes each! Vote at the end and the winner gets a mobile charger. If you have not uploaded your presentation via Slideshare, Google Slides or something else and posted a link or embed on the class site, do that now. Tag it with the P Order of presentations is: Wenzhu Li James Groh Kanda Fang Geoffrey Cook Shuran Huang Shengjie Yao Lillion Hunt Baiyu Gao Audra Linsner Ronojoy Sinha Julian Schonbohm Matthew...

10/31 Lecture Notes

11-11:10: Housekeeping Look, we have the Insta360 Pro 8K camera! What I've learned so far: Here's the manual if you want to help me figure it out today. There's a mobile control app, as well as desktop stitching software if you choose to not use automatic stitching. Get both from the downloads page. The control app requires you to be on the same network as the camera, which may not work at SU. The SD card must be of "V30" speed, which I think means it needs to record at 95...

10/30/2017 Lecture Notes

3:45-4: Research Presentations Shiyi Liu,BBC VR 4-4:20: The 3D Web WebGL and WebVR Three.js Chrome Experiments AFrame 4:20-4:40: Final project brainstorming with a buddy Assignment 7 is to pitch your final project (we will do that Wednesday). Pair up with another student you don't know that well and share what you plan to do, using the checklist from the assginment as a rough outline. Think of at least three problems or unknowns you may encounter and share it with your buddy. Your job is to each troubleshoot for each other. The...

10/26/17 Lecture Notes

Assignment 7 is due next Thursday, when you will pitch your final project. Today is flexible. You can: 1.  Continue going through dark / empathetic VR pieces: Hiroshima (if you haven't done it yet) Out of Exile Waves of Grace My Mother's Wing The Displaced Giant 2. Help one of the four visitors will be coming to the lab to try out Hiroshima. 3. Scan yourself and attempt to animate in Mixamo.  

10/24 Lecture Notes

We meet in the Innovation Lab today. Agenda: 11-11:10: Audrey Lee, research presentation. 11:10-12:20: Try out the following: Hiroshima VR (Vive) Waves of Grace - Ebola (Oculus, With.in app) My Mother's Wing - Gaza  (Oculus, With.in app) The Displaced - Children of wr (Oculus, With.in app) Giant - fictionalized child's experience in war, based on a true story  (Oculus, With.in app)  

10/19/2017 Lecture Notes

11-11:05: Housekeeping Keiko Ogura, Hiroshima survivor, next Wednesday, Oct. 25 3-4 p.m. in the Herg auditorium. Get more details on all of the events around Ms. Ogura here. Hiroshima VR demos in the Innovation Lab from 4-7 p.m. Sign up to help out here (and yes, you can get extra credit!) 11:05-11:20: Presentation Joshua Race, VR animation 11:20-11:30: Assignment 6 Today is a work day for Assignment 6. Let's see an example. Extra credit if you can get Playmaker to work with the Animator component. For example, watch this. 11:30-11:45: Fuse demonstration...