I had very little experience with VR before the first day of class. I had only watched a 360 video on google cardboard for a couple of seconds in my COM 117 class. It was fascinating to turn and see a 360 environment; however, it was not by any means immersive or as filled with potential as I now find it to be. The first VR experience I tried in class was The Night Café on Samsung’s Gear VR. This was a completely different experience from my  last time with...

This class time was the first time for me to get really exposed to the Virtual Reality experience. Overall, I was very impressed about how the technology could “fool” human brain.   Most of the VR system really did a great job on taking me into different world that I had never been before, and some of them really amazed me that I wanted to buy one for my own.   For my experiences on each of the system, I found two systems that worked pretty well for me: Oculus Rift...

Author: Julian Schoenbohm First of all, I am absolutely new to Virtual Reality and have only experienced Augmented Reality before. The first time experiencing VR totally exceeded my expectations and was a lot of fun. I was not aware that technology had gotten so far already. I tried three different systems: the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive and the Samsung Gear. All of them had their strengths and weaknesses, which I will discuss in this post. The first system I tried was the HTC Vive. When putting on the glasses...

This is not my first time to experience VR technologies. Because I majored in new media management, I’m really interested in different new technologies. I took new media business course last year, and I had a chance to try those VR devices in the innovation lab. It inspired my interest in VR technology. After that, I decided to take this VR storytelling course to know more about VR technology. On this Wednesday, I got the chance to take a closer look at different VR headsets and observe others to go...

Last Wednesday I had my first VR experience in the Innovation lab. I had never experienced VR technology before, however, I always wanted to experience it. So it was a really exciting experience to me to do some VR cool things. I am really grateful to Prof. Pacheco for providing us such a great chance and so many gears to have such a cool experience. At first, so many people were using all gears and I did not get one. So I followed Prof. Pacheco and experienced an amazing app in...

My first experience with virtual reality occurred in my freshman year COM 107 class when a classmate brought in their own VR headset and it was subsequently passed around for each student to try. This experience paled in comparison to my time experimenting in the innovation lab, which featured several different types of VR devices. Some of my favorite storytelling techniques included a music video for the song ‘Kids’ by Onerepublic which worked very well in VR. It felt very surreal being in the scene, almost as if I was...

Can I just start off by saying how amazing VR is! Last time I checked, I was standing in the Innovation Lab. As soon as I wore any one of the head sets, I was transported into an entirely different atmosphere. I started off wearing the Oculus headset and became completely immersed into the Google Earth experience. I honestly do not remember which destination I chose, but all I know was that I had never seen anything like it. Of course, we have all looked at Google Earth through our...

With any story telling medium, there is the concept of the frame, the container in which the story is told. For certain mediums, like film and photography, this is the frame of the shot, telling the audience what they should pay attention to. For writing the frame might be the extent of what you can convey with the written word where a writer has to best determine how to build a world for the reader without losing their attention. Music has the frame of being a series of sounds, painting...

Rivita Goyle While walking through the shopping mall sometime back, I saw a couple of people wearing their iPhone on their eyes and moving around in a strange fashion. A part of me was curious and a part of me was amused. What are they doing I thought? I had seen gamers playing video games in a 3 dimensional setting in a TV show too. The concept had definitely been there for some time, specially within the gaming community. Over a period of time “Virtual Reality” started becoming a more...

-Ronojoy Sinha Ok so this was my first experience with VR.I had heard a lot of things about Virtual Reality and how it’d change storytelling forever. The fact that I could pick up a course in VR and learn more about it in Newhouse was reason enough for me to take it. Not a lot of places offer this course, so in a way I’m kind of pretty excited about this opportunity. When I walked into the innovation lab for the first time, I was really amazed but the things...