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...
Assignment 1 – Amanda Silvestri
by Amanda Silvestri
- February 12
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My experience in the first class was not my first experience using VR. I was introduced to it over the summer when I got to play with the Samsung Gear VR in the Innovation Lab. It was an incredible experience, yes, but I wanted to learn how I could do it too. I watched the New York Times VR video in the NYTVR app called "The Displaced." The storytelling techniques were effective because I got information and felt empathy with the people in the video. There were technical errors on...