Independent study -Ying Chen

For this assignment, I watched videos at Lynda.com and learned something about design basics in unity. Since all we learned in the class is the basic knowledge about unity, I want to get a deeper understanding of it.   The instructor Adam Crespi illustrated the design basics from five aspects: planning the level, designing the building blocks, laying out levels, adding animation to bring the world to life and implementing user interaction elements. He pushed me to think something that I’ve never thought or just ignored before. Firstly, he said...

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Final Project – Alina Li

  Kanda and I decided to make a sequel (Let Me In) of team project (Let Me Out)  and we focused on creating the spatial audio by using the Sennheiser Ambisonics Microphone.   Plot: The audience seating in the room noticed some objects in the room moved automatically and the security footage on TV showed the ghost from Let Me Out was trying to get in.  As the security footage ended, the ghost came in. The filming was the easiest part. After filming the security footage and rehearsing the positions of...

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Final Project: Audrey Lee

For my final project I knew that I really wanted to explore photogrammetry and somehow incorporate a journalism/reporting component to it. Initially I wanted to do the project surrounding sculpture and 3D art but after a series of unfortunate events, I decided to tell a story through footwear instead. My final project showcases four different pairs of shoes, each with a different story to tell. I used Photogrammetry softwares Photoscan and Trnio to complete my models (read more about my struggles and triumphs in my independent learning post), and I...

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Independent Study – Alina Li

I learned how to create a nadir in a 360 film on YouTube and did it twice this semester (team project and final project). Use Photoshop to design a nadir: create 3 layers with 1000 x 1000 pixel and maker sure one layer is transparent draw a circle in second layer and add text in third layer and adjust  the background color save it as PNG open it again,  filter - distort -  Polar Coordinates - Polar to rectangular image -  image  rotation - Flip canvas Vertical and clip Flip canvas...

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Unity Final Project-Anqi Yuan

Anqi Yuan For my final project, I planned to create an imagined future world which integrates eastern and western cultures in Unity at the beginning. However, the appropriate assets are really hard to find. Thus, I changed the idea to make a story about dreaming about the ancient China. My final project is called "Dream". The whole story is about the player falls into sleep and has a mystical dream. When the player is dreaming, he/she can walk around the ancient town in China. I hope people can experience ancient...

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Independent Study- Audrey Lee

For my final project, I dove deep into the world of photogrammetry and learned a ton, both through internet tutorials and trial and error. I'll be comparing some of the different tools you can use to complete photogrammetry, which include Autodesk, Photoscan and Trnio, plus, some tips, and the issues I had. For starters, Autodesk isn't compatible with the Mac OS, so I quickly turned to Photoscan, which costs $179 for the standard version and About $3500 for Photoscan Pro. AGIsoft, Photoscan's developer, offers a free 30-day trial, which is...

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Independent Study: Gabriel Acosta

In order to improve my knowledge of 360-degree video, I attended the Ambisonic microphone workshop. The workshop was divided into two parts. The first was a short introduction to what the ambisonic microphone is and the second was an explanation of the 788t the style of recorder that is needed to use an ambisonic microphone. An ambisonic microphone is one that has 4 sub-cardiod mics in a tetrahedral directions. This means that it records in all directions, therefore making it the 360 camera of microphones. The second half focused on...

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Independent study – Tony Yao

For my independent study, I read Prof. Frank Biocca's book "Communication in the age of Virtual Reality". This book was written in the 90s which is quite amazing on what he has predicted to actually be true. In that time, the concept of virtual reality was not even seen by the public yet. This book contains a lot of professional papers describing a concept which is only doable in universities and militaries. Dr. Biocca realizes that this is a concept that will eventually be used in communication and a wide...

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Graduate student project – Tony Yao

For my graduate student project, I conduct an experiment doing research on the potential effect of virtual reality on viewer empathy in News Media. This study is guided by Prof. Carol Liebler together with Noah Buntain and Dongqing Xu from the Media Studies program. The origin of this study is quite simple. We have heard a lot of sayings of virtual reality can be treated as the ultimate empathy machine which is capable of arousing people's empathy towards a certain topic. Yet in the academic field, we can hardly find...

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Julian Kings Final Project

The sound has been removed from the video but is present in the demo. This is a virtual environment made in unity for the Oculus Rift. It was made to help Veterans better cope with stress and hopefully improve their mindfulness. Controls: Hover analog sticks- use the raycast and then use front triggers to select things Right B button- toggles interface Right A button- changes user perspective left X button- Allows you to breath in the oculus (only press once)

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