The best way I can describe my VR experiences is as quasi-religious events. Every time I take off the headset, I feel like I have just seen the future. Putting on the headset creates an immersive experience on a level like nothing I have ever seen before. It is an amazing feeling, like you are actually in a game, not just watching it on a screen right in front of your face. Playing through Aperture Robot Repair made me truly feel like I was in the Aperture Laboratory. Obviously VR...

So, we had our first VR class last Wednesday.  It was AMAZING.  This definitely is going to be an exciting semester.  The exercise we tried in class with the NY Times was awe-inspiring.  The possibilities for VR storytelling are endless.  The experience was immersive and the story was told in an intelligent way.  I was really impressed by the fluidity of the shots.  They were stitched well together to the point that it appeared seamless. The way the story was told was facilitated by the VR experience.  You can feel...

One of the most impressive apps on the samsung gear was the Avengers one, even asides from the fact that I am a huge Iron Man fan, it was amazing. Some things that really worked for me were that when you were flying through the room, it was in a single continuous line. This helped to reduce the nauseating feeling I usually have with VR. What also helped was the slow motion so that I had time to process all the action going on around. Slow motion is definitely something...

While my experience with VR and AR is relatively limited I will say the best experience I had with this new technology was getting to sail through Middle Earth on the Oculus Rift. Although the scene was relatively simple (just a boat sailing down a river towards two stone statues) it had the benefit of being set in an overarching narrative framework. Because of this overarching Narrative structure I was better able to immerse myself in this world. However, this was not a direct result of the VR simulation itself,...

For my final project I had an idea - I wanted to create a gym or locker room that I could make look like a practice facility and then I wanted to incorporate different Lakers and Kobe Bryant elements to tell a story of his career. To say I encountered some problems completing this project may be the understatement of the semester. My first step was to see what assets I could find online to make my project work. I got very excited because I found literally every asset I...

For my sound assignment, I decided to incorporate it into my Assignment 5 scene. For my 3D scan i had added myself into a scene of a deserted island, but when reviewing my scene I thought it needed something more to seem less boring. The whole process of finding sound for my scene was actually much easier than I would have thought. I found a website that had free sound effects and searched for beach sounds, but wasn't really happy with the results. Every sound effect sounded muddled or had people...

ASSIGNMENT 5 LINK For the 3D Scan assignment I decided I wanted to scan myself instead of an object, but first I needed to figure out what I wanted my scene to be. I know the assignment was to add yourself into a scene representing what you did over the summer, but I was taking classes all summer and incredibly bored - boring topic = boring project. I came to the conclusion that if I really wanted to represent myself this summer, I could create a scene that represented my...

My Mixamo assignment I actually completed along with my Playmaker assignment kind of by accident. When I was first doing my Playmaker assignment, I really wanted to add characters to my scene to give it a little more authenticity and visual interest. In searching for pre-made characters and animations to use I stumbled on Mixamo's website. When thinking about what I wanted to create, I had originally been looking for a character the FPC could interact with in order to get to the treasure. When looking around online at tutorials...