Katie Conti – Independent Learning

Independent Learning Post By Katie Conti VR Storytelling Spring 2018   Audio editing was one of the most challenging aspects of my final project, a 360° video experience of Own The Dome. Although I once messed around in Garage Band during a two-week DJ phase in high school, I largely have next to no experience editing sound for videos I have produced. All projects in the past were soundtracked by one single audio file or by voiceovers that had been recorded in a quiet room/recording studio. Going into the project,...

VR Experience Research Tania Joseph

VR Advertising and Marketing  OmniVirt is a VR/AR platform that works with multiple companies to create VR campaigns tailored towards your brand and services and generate more viewership and interactions. I wanted to learn about how VR can be used in advertising to fully immerse customers and viewers in an experience. Through VR advertising people are able to experience a wide variety of things without leaving the comfort of their own home. You are able to look at VR home design and picture yourself in a house with different furniture...

Final Project – Ariel Wang

In this class, I learned that virtual reality can be utilized in many different fields and areas of interests. Most importantly, VR is an empathy machine. This is why I decided to create a virtual reality experience on something that was always hard for me to explain to people who have never experienced it. In this case, it was men who don’t understand the pervasive nature of street harassment and catcalling. My final project simulates a woman walking through an urban neighborhood in the middle of the night. In this...

Ariel Wang Independent Learning

I spent a lot of time teaching myself c# script in order to adjust the character behaviors to my liking for my final project. In my scene, one of my characters approach you, then proceed to follow right behind you as you walk through the scene. Although I had no idea how to do this at first, I knew that I wanted to animate this in order to achieve a realistic effect. I looked up tutorials to write c# scripts for an "AI Enemy Follow" effect. It took a lot...

Katie Conti Final Project

Own the Dome: Syracuse University Admitted Student Experience By Katie Conti, NEW 400 (VR Storytelling) Spring 2018 Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/gn35RwJzQAY I'm unsure if WordPress will support my VR embed, but I figure I would at least try. ---- What a semester it has been. I came into this course fascinated by the potential that VR storytelling has to impact my future career in international communications, and now I'm thinking: how can I get my future career in VR to also include international relations?! I've dealt with a learning curve, that's one...

Brian Shantz Final Project

For my final project, I decided to film a 360 horror short film. I have always been a huge fan of the horror genre, and although I have never made films before, I decided to take a whack at it and use my knowledge of sound design to make the film. The equipment/software I used I used was my own Samsung Gear 360, my own tripod, Adobe Premier, Ableton Live, and Audacity, along with the Samsung 360 video stitcher. I chose to base my horror experience around the emergency blue...

Final Project Independent Learning Erin Qiu

My final project is a VR world for people to better understand the perspectives of colorblind people. When audiences come into my world, they will be placed into a room where its walls have the number 45 on them.  Audiences will also see a guide and six boxes in the room. When audiences approach to the guide, she will introduce the basic knowledge of colorblind briefly, and then explain the function of six boxes in the room. The wall behind each boxes will change to its correlated colorblindness type and...

Final Project and Independent Learning: Tania Joseph

"HBCUSE" -- A Black Celebration For my final project I wanted to highlight the different cultures that walk the campus of Syracuse University. This 360 video is made up of different spaces where people of color on campus have found their niche. I wanted to get a wide range of events, so I did multiple indoor and outdoor shoots. Due to my interest in storytelling, to tie everything together I started of with the historical context of  why Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were created. Through this video people...

Final Project – Yeagee Jung

My final project was covering the Mr. Asia pageant put on by the Asian Students in America. It's an event hosted by the club that celebrates diversity and inclusion on campus. What drew my attention to this particular event was that there was a male pageant aspect of the event that I thought was really fun and unique. The event was first put in place last year, so this year marked the second time that it was put on, and I think it went really well! I was worried because...