Assignment – 2 Shir Mosan

Shir Mosan My story idea is to put a 360 camera on a soccer field while having a women soccer game.  I want to convey the feeling of the starting formation before the game when they are warming up and stretching, and I also want to convey the feeling of the bench players, the coach and of course the crowd.To do this, I'll split the video into several scenes: Scene One -  Warming Up Camera Position - Position the camera on the grass where the players perform the warming. Scene Purpose - presenting the...

Assignment 2 – Groh

My story idea is to put a 360 camera in the CitrusTV News room. I want to give a complete and immersive experience of what it's like to put together a 30-minute news broadcast. The video would start in the main room of CitrusTV where the majority of the writing for the show is done. I would like to have someone explaining what is going on, possibly the EP of that day's show. They would tell the viewer what they are seeing while also giving a disclaimer to "look around"....

Assignment 2: 360 Video Pitch — How a puppy sees the world

By Ying Chen We all love pets, especially dogs. Imagining that you walk to street, and suddenly see a fluffy puppy running and jumping in front of you. What do you want to do? You want to pet them and play with them. Pets are talented to please us. That's why those pets videos got tons of views everyday on YouTube. Now we can make the audience feel even more real to shoot 360 pets videos. My plan is to shoot my 7-month-old yorkie. There are two ideas here. One...

My First VR Experience — “All about experiencing”

By Ying Chen Last summer, when I was done from my graphic design class, walking down to the hallway, I heard people laughing loudly, with "Wow" sound all the time. It sounded like aliens just landed here. I ran there quickly and found people are playing with VR. It didn't seem very complicated, a person wearing a headset that connected with a PC through many cables. In the hands, the person held two remote controls. It was hard to tell what the person exactly saw or heard from the headset, but...

Assignment 1 – Definitively Ranked (by Opinion)

by Joshua Race I have experienced VR multiple times in the past, including some extended experience at my office’s VR lab this summer. The summer experience was mostly focused on gamification, not storytelling, so the time already spent in the innovation lab has helped me assess which forms of VR are best, and the respective values of each medium. Below, is my definitive ranking of nearly every VR headset in existence: HTC Vive It’s the most immersive format I was able to use. I watched the documentary After Solitary and...

Assignment 1

My first VR experience was in Shanghai on winter break. I was amazed when I put the headset on and hold the controllers to be totally emerged in the video game.  I am not a fan of video games but video games in VR can really bring me into the scenes and I became more willing to try those games that I swore I would not waste time on because of the sense of participation. I did not realized VR can be applied at many fields other than entertainment until I took...

Assignment 1: My VR Experience

To be honest, I didn't really have any experience with VR or AR. I was amazed last semester (I think) when Sundance VR came to campus. I remember I was only able to sign up for one short film because they whole event was so popular. For me the most compelling storytelling mode is the ones that have a narrative or story lines in them because combined with the headphone and the headset I can feel myself in the scene, in the story. I was there. I really liked it when...

Assignment 1 – Shuran Huang

Immersion is such a cool virtual reality experience. I, as a participant, would be there in the story physically. The sense of the body, the spirit and the mind feeling contribute to that feeling. I sort of experience a bit nausea because what I saw in virtual reality didn't completely line up with your head movements. When the surrounding in the virtual reality moves, my body stays still. When I saw the videos I pull out from my phone, the resolution was pretty high. However, it just doesn't have the refresh rate that...

Assignment 01 — My VR experience, or “Interactivity is Key”

Author: Lenny Martinez My first virtual reality experience was trying out Karim Ben Khelifa’s “The Enemy” (http://theenemyishere.org/) in September 2016.  “The Enemy”  brings humanity to the idea of “the other” by placing soldiers from select conflicts and hearing their answers to the same set of conflict-specific questions. For the experience, I put on a headset and carried a backpack that had the laptop that made sure I was connected to the experience. It was heavy, but it was the way the team was able to get multiple people to experience...