5:15-5:45: Housekeeping

• Get a free Unity3D user ID here: https://unity3d.com/
• Great work on team videos! I'm starting to watch them. You should, too (not just your own).
  • Funk n Waffles concert (Samarth Sharma and Jack Clarendo)
  • Remembrance Scholars (Katherine Conti, Max Nelson, Rachel Roth)
  • Super Bowl Party (Kyle Desiderio, Ryan Kehr, Wenwen Qiu)
  • Black Panther premiere (Brittany Belo, Brian Shantz, Tania Joseph)
  • Fifth team: had production issues, turning in soon.
• Common issues:
  • Lack of context (where am I?) and narrative structure (what's the story and how does it unfold?)
  • Crooked or skewed 2D text.
  • Occasional misdirected attention (facing away from the action).

5:45-6:15: Gaming Engines and Unity

• What are the big ones?
  • Unity: http://unity3d.com. This is what we use.
  • Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/
  • On the horizon: Amazon's Sumerian; Sansar, from the creators of Second Life which was an early immersive world creator; Google Blocks; A-Frame.
• Immersive news projects, like Harvest of Change.
• Most projects from Emblematic (including Hunger in Los Angeles, one of the first) and anything walkaround in the Vive.
• Export for Mac, PC, and other platforms like gaming systems. Even the web!
• Let's look at that Harvest of Change project in Unity.

6:15-6:45: How Unity works. Follow along!

Now you will create a scene in Unity3D. If you get lost you can follow along in these notes. Today, focus on doing the following:

• Getting around the Unity environment
• Making a simple scene
• Creating a terrain and applying a texture
• Using the Asset Store
• Adding items from the Asset store to your scene
• Adding 3D sounds to your scene
• Moving through your scene using a First Person Controller
• Exporting your scene for Mac or PC
• Saving your project files to your portable hard drive
• Loading your project and/or scene on an Innovation Lab PC

6:45-8: Work on Assignment 4

• Assignment 4 is to create a Unity scene that you can move through. Note, you will need to use some of what you learn in the next class session to complete the assignment.
• If anyone finishes today, download the Oculus Utilities for Unity and you can enter your creation in the Innovation Lab.