After my first experience with Unity, I decided to go about creating my second one in a different way. Instead of finding assets in the store that I could somehow turn into a scene, I approached my scene with an idea - then had to find the assets that fit what I wanted to do. I knew I wanted to create a scene that had a lot of visual interest, was dark and required participation to interact with my PlayMaker component. I created a lake with choppy water, heavy rain,...

    A last minute change of plans made me completely rethink my final project. Originally I had proposed to do my final project on architecture thesis, but after reviewing what I needed for thesis and what I needed for this class, I found that there was no storytelling aspect in what I was doing for thesis. I am still excited to say that I am writing my senior thesis on virtual reality, and I have already created demos in unity to show to my critics, but I decided to...

For my final project, I had to learn about Movie Textures. Movie Textures are very similar to normal textures. However, the texture is a video file that you can just simply drag on to an object such as a cube. This sounds easy and all, but it wasn't. I had pulled videos that I wanted to use in my Unity scene, 6 of them. All of the videos were ranging in size and quality. First attempt at dragging one of the videos into my assets, Unity crashed. The second attempt,...

360 video of the Polar Plunge on 12/6/15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UjJcQcl6ZM

"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline (SPOILER ALERTS) "Ready Player One" is a novel written in 2011 by Ernest Cline.  It is a science fiction and dystopian story about the future.  The book is set in the year 2044, where Earth is a very ugly place, overrun by overpopulation, unemployment, and energy shortages.  The main protagonist, eighteen-year-old Wade Watts, is a very poor young man who only feels alive when he's plugged inside the virtual reality utopia known as the OASIS. Like for most people living on Earth, the OASIS is a...

I used a series of 360 video Stitch tutorials to stitch together footage for both my final project and my drone flight over Pratts Falls. I was starting with no knowledge of how to use the software, so I watched this overview tutorial to get started. This helped me get a feel for how the software works and gave me a basic understanding of what to expect when using it. I then watched this tutorial on synchronization. This is an important part of making sure the 6 videos are lined...