10/2/2017 Lecture Notes

3:45-4: Housekeeping Get a free Unity3D user ID here: https://id.unity3d.com/ Quick S. Korea report. VR treadmill, 360 videos of a Buddhist temple and palaces. Great work on team videos! I'm starting to watch them. You should, too (not just your own). Horror Story (Alina Li) SU Sailing Team (Glen Wolyner) Creepy Family Dinner (Lenny Martinez) Dog Park (Nadia Persaud) Wedding And from the other section: Coffee Roasters Women's Soccer Lava Pour Animal Shelter Public service announcement: Thurs-Saturday in Food.com, #Newhouse4PR giving to help Hurricane Maria victims in PR and Virgin Islands. 4-4:10: Presentation Audra Linser,...

9/25/17 Lecture Notes

3:45-4: Housekeeping Reminder: Wednesday's class is taught by Prof. Amber Bartosh from the SU Architecture school. You will meet in the Innovation Lab. Assignment 3 due Sunday by midnight. Review finds in Facebook and Twitter. 4-4:15: PanoTour demonstration An optional tool for projects. Publish by FTP. Extra credit for any team that also does a PanoTour! I will give you one week beyond the assignment to do it. 4:15-5:05: Work on assignment 3 with your team

9/21 Lecture Notes

11-11:10: Housekeeping Sign up for a research presentation time over the next week. Make sure it's for a day you are in class! Make sure you have filled out the Google spreadsheet of video teams. I will be in S. Korea next week. Next Tuesday, guest lecture by Jason Webb on creating 3D models in Maya. Next Thursday, optional guest lecture by Prof. Ken Harper. Get expert feedback on your 360 videos. Grad students: Amber Bartosh from the Architecture school is recruiting for people to help with these VR projects. If interested, ask...

9/20/2017 Lecture Notes

3:45-3:40: Housekeeping Sign up for a research presentation time over the next week. Make sure it's for a day you are in class! Next Wednesday, guest lecture by Amber Bartosh and Elizabeth Kreitemeyer on VR for architecture. Read about their work in SU Magazine. Grad students: Amber is recruiting for people to help with these VR projects. If interested, ask her about them next week! 3:50-4: Deconstruct Wasim's video Check out Wasim's video of SUNY Binghamton. How do you think he achieved these effects in Premiere? 4-4:15: Other helpful Premiere stuff...

9/19/2017 Lecture Notes

11-11:15: Housekeeping. Assignment 3 is due Oct. 1 by midnight. See notes I sent in email. Other due dates are now in the class schedule. Sign up for a slot to present for your VR research presentation. See examples from past classes on the Class Presentations page. And remember to share finds, either by posting to Twitter with #VRStorytelling as the hashtag, or in the Facebook group. let's try to take over the hashtag this week! RoadtoVR is a good site to check regularly. 11:15-11:45: Complete Adobe + Skybox training Finish up how to use the...

9/18 Lecture Notes

3:45-4: Housekeeping. Assignment 3 is due Oct. 1 by midnight. See notes I sent in email. Other due dates are now in the class schedule. Sign up for a slot to present for your VR research presentation. See examples from past classes on the Class Presentations page. 4-4:45: Complete Adobe + Skybox training Finish up how to use the SkyBox VR Tools / Mettle plugin effects. Using the Offset effect to change the default start position. Here's a good tutorial on how it works. Transitions between clips. Block dissolve. Effects not showing up...

9/14 Lecture Notes

11-11:30: Meet at the Cage. 11:30-12:20: 206B, Adobe Premiere and Skybox VR tools training. Open the Adobe Premiere tutorial from NHMediahelp.syr.edu. Work with the videos on this Google Drive folder. (Note: you must first be signed in with your G.syr.edu account, NOT your regular Google account!) Have this Adobe Premiere for 360 tip sheet open.

9/5/2017 Lecture Notes

- Welcome back! Labor Day stories? - Blackboard, turning in assignments. - Show a few student 360s in Cardboards (use Homidos) Newhouse school tour Roller derby When tea meets flower - 360 cameras, walk through them - Start shooting a simple video with two stitches, and GoPro rig - Begin processing and stitching videos

Class 1, Lecture Notes

1. Overview of class, introductions (3:45-4:30 – 40 mins) Presentation Grad student requirement: collaborative project, details coming soon. (Undergrads can also use this for extra credit). 2. Preparing your phone for VR (4:30-4:40 – 10 min) 4. Great final projects examples from last year (4:40-5) A day in the bio lab (Nuo Yin) Abolitionist museum in Seneca Falls (Aubrey Moore) Time Square (Trang Tran) Montauk Lighthout (Wasim Ahmad) 4. Go over first assignments and (5-5:05 – 5 min) Assignment 1, Pt 1:       Complete the class survey Assignment 1, Pt 2:   Blog post related to your first...

Want to take VRStorytelling, but can’t get in? There’s hope!

To current Syracuse University juniors, seniors and grad students you know who are interested in virtual and augmented reality: As in past semesters, the fall offering of my Virtual Reality Storytelling class has been filled. We are looking into the possibility of opening a second section that meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11-12:20 pm. But to do that we need enough students to sign up. The new section is now open in MySlice with these course numbers: Undergrads: NEW 400, course number 20722 Grads: NEW 600, course number 20723 If...