Housekeeping

• Welcome back! Any good Spring Break stories?
• What I did on my Spring Break.
• There are only 5 weeks of class left!!!
• Lots of missing assignments in Blackboard. Remember, you have to post your URLs there too or you get a zero.
• Remember that Assignment 6: Use Mixamo to animate avatars with Playmaker is due Thursday.

The latest in VR News

• HTC Vive tetherless headset now in preorder. Oculus Go standalone headset reportedly coming in May.
• CNN Virtual Reality launch.
• Epic Games releasing $12 million worth of characters and environments free.
• Unity will support Magic Leap.
• What else?

Assignment 7: Final project pitch

•  Assignment 7, due March 25, is to pitch your final project. You will pitch in a pitch session March 28, and the best pitch (chosen by all of you) will win a cool prize. 🙂
• Things to keep in mind for final projects:
  • You get to choose the technology and platfom: 360 video, CGI with Unity.
  • You are showing everything you have learned but will be held to a professional standard.
  • The quality, scope and attention to storytelling should go well beyond your assignments.
  • Don't ask, "How long should it be?" Ask yourself, "What is the right experience for this particular story?"

Enabling for Oculus and Vive

• Oculus Utilities for Unity
• SteamVR
• VRTK

Visit to innovation lab

• We'll look at some simple projects that incorporate the Oculus and Vive controllers.
• Bring one of your projects on a flash drive to load it up and enable for Oculus or Vive.