◆The core concept of my final project: I always believe VR can be used more than just an entertaining tool, so I hope my final project can be both funny and soul-touching. I would like to describe the project as my first attempt in testing the power of VR in philosophy and psychology. It is built upon a simple but profound philosophical idea: When you believe you are a giant and master the power that other people may not have, you may overlook and ignore the most subtle, precious, and beautiful things around you. I...
Interactive scene in Unity
by Sarah Luo
- April 12
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Making an interactive scene in Unity 3D In this assignment, I tried to add interactive logic to a box and a horse. The problem I met is that the animation can't play correctly, and then I realized that we should choose "legacy" when we import the object into the scene. For the box, I used the object itself to be a trigger to play the animation and sound. (Sorry that I didn't find the sound for the box, so you will hear a sound of wolf when you approach the...
As one of the cofounders of Nine Song Hanfu Club at Syracuse University, I plan to do my final VR project towards this cultural club. Hanfu is a kind of traditional Chinese costume with more than 1,000 years of history. My final project aims at showing the beauty of Hanfu and digging out the deep cultural meaning of Hanfu and the philosophy of the Club.
After you mastered the basic skills in Unity, the passion and curiosity will drive you to a place that you've never imaged before. My original idea of building my first scene in Unity is to design the end of world: You are standing on a cliff, overlooking the endless blue sky and amazing ocean. However, I found out that building a cliff by myself is actually a very difficult work. I spent a lot of time on building the mountains across the terrain, but when you changed into the first-person...
When Tea Meets Flower-Assignment 5 by Sarah
- March 8
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THE MAIN CONCEPT The purpose of making this VR video, When Tea Meets Flower, is to show people the interesting process of making Chinese red tea with rose flowers. Generally, VR is widely used in large and wide scene, so I'm trying to explore how to display the beauty of VR when the scene is relatively small, like a "microworld". I'm trying to design a highly immersive experience of making Chinese tea, so in the end of video, there is a scene that I actually shot it inside a tea cup. THE...
Final Team Video – Assignment 4
- February 22
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Assignment 4: Final Team Video Flying Wild Goose Dance Bingzhu Luo (Sarah) & Trang Tran THE MAIN CONCEPT The main idea of this VR video is to introduce one of the most famous sleeve dances in China: Flying Wild Goose. Compared with our first rough cut, we added more story background and basic introduction to this sleeve dance, such as the historical background, a related Chinese TV drama, and the meaning of this classical dance. My role is this section includes writing the dance introduction, doing the video cutting for...
Assignment 2: 360 Video Pitch Bingzhu Luo (Sarah) THE MAIN CONCEPT The main idea of this VR video is to highly immerse audience in a Chinese classical dance and enjoy the beauty of colorful long sleeves. The video will follow two dancers who will dance around the camera. THE SCENE 1) In a large hallway with great lightings It is the great time for audience to take a closer look to the dancer. The camera will capture both the overall dancing movements and details of the costume and dancer. 2) The camera...
Thoughts and Experiences about VR
- January 25
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I have a very high expectation on VR storytelling class, and our first meeting went beyond it. Among all different kinds of VR headsets, HTC gave me the most engaging and amazing VR experience. I felt physically present in the VR world because the quality of 3D sound, graphics, and even the angel of shooting are highly immersive. I remembered a scene of an island, probably in south Asia. I was seating in a boat and a woman in front me was rowing the boat. I felt myself can even...