Final Project: Osung

Welcome to Pan-mun-jom. As the virtual experience begins, please pay attention to the picture in front of you. This project is building the 3d model of the real scene, and the image contains the actual scene which I tried to reconstruct. The tall building looking over the image is called the House of Freedom, a structure which locates on the northern verge of the South Korean border. Going through the building, you will find the boundary between South and North Korea. Panmunjom was a village just north of the de...

Assignment 3: Team project – Animal Shelter

Summary Our project is inviting audience to a local animal shelter. This is the summary of producer's post: "My idea is to create a 360 video experience of a local animal shelter. The main idea behind this video is to create empathy and make the users feel like they are interacting with these different animals. Before I went to an animal shelter, I had a somewhat negative outlook towards them. I had thought they were locations to house stray animals or vicious pets (kind of like a jail for bad...

Assignment 1: Dive into VR (Osung Kwan)

I am a recreational diver. Occasionally dive into sea depending on an air tank with anticipation of experiencing a whole different world from the ground. Diving serves as metaphor of my first VR experience in this course handsomely for several reasons. The "aha!" moment of my experience happened while meeting Robot in Oculus Rift. It was when I was looking my hand. While pleasantly following the robot's tasks in the program, I unintentionally made my forefinger and pushed a can in the virtual reality. My finger in cyber space was...

Final project: Campus tour for Public Diplomacy Summit 2018

After talking to one of the co-chairs of the Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars APDS, they mentioned they are having a Public Diplomacy Summit in 2018 in Washington DC. Since the summit is not on campus, they wanted a 360 video that would allow the participants to see the campus and experience what Public Diplomacy scholars  go through on a daily basis. Syracuse University campus is a very beautiful campus with various spots to film the 360 video. I started to brainstorm with the APDS on where they often go,...

Assignment 5: Bird Library

For my assignment 5, I wanted to show how crowded Bird Library gets during a week like midterms or finals week. As someone who goes to the library my fair share, it is definitely obvious that there is more foot traffic going in and out of the building now that at regular times during the semester. As for the video, recording with the Samsung Gear 360 is way better than recording with the Omni, in my opinion. Stitching with Autopano can be a huge time-sucker, and may not look good...

Project 6: Wasim’s world of Warcraft (II) in Unity

(Apologies, it seems the salutation at the beginning was cut off. I swear I'm not calling you 'checo!) A little play on words for the title, but in the '90s I'd make a lot of maps in the real-time strategy game of Warcraft 2. That was a top-down, 2D view of the world in which orcs and humans engaged in combat. This is how I'd imagine a 3D Version of that would go, created for my first project in Unity. These are, of course, not the same models you'd find...