This week I decided to really delve into unity as we begin to move into production stage. I watched a lot of tutorials online, and is now familiar with finding assets, setting up environment, creating characters and their animations as…
Unity Workshop Week Two
I tried to make the camera move in the solar system that I build like a rocket. However due to the long distance between the planets and the limited view range of the camera the effect isn’t as great as…
Unity Experience
I tried to use what I know in Unity to build something meaningful to myself. At first it was a lot of fumbling around and confusion for what the function is. I googled a lot for how to use the…
Relevant Examples: Deep Nostalgia and “Her Story”
https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia Deep Nostalgia is a website with which one can animate a static photo. It reads the faces in the photo and makes the person in frame smile, blink and look around. It works on old black-and-white family photos as…
AR/VR News: Most Provisional and Most Dull
In my opinion, the three most provisional news are: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-considers-facial-recognition-smart-glasses Facebook Is Considering Facial Recognition For Its Upcoming Smart Glasses Significant decision I think it is a decision that we must face within five years in the unstoppable trend of AR/VR development,…
Social Immersive Experience: Choreography Improv
I took the choreography course in NYUSH last semester, and during the class we were asked to improvise without looking at the mirror to “get into our body”. The instructor would close the curtain before the big front mirror and…
Pirates of the Caribbean: Battles of the Sunken Treasure
The ride of the battles of the sunken treasure is an attraction site at Disney. It is by far the best immersive experience game that I’ve ever had. Because there are always a lot of people visiting Disneyland, the guests…
A Refreshing VR Experience
The first time I used a VR set was in the store of a mall. It was a few years ago. Staffs were doing some cool demos on something that looks like a boxing stage, but to my surprise they…
Reading Responses
Most Agree: Virtual Currency will become more relevent to our lives than traditional currency. It is quite imaginable that virtual currency would gradually replace traditional currency, as the trend is already prevelent in China. I haven’t used cash for more…
The Wand: Final Project Documentation
For the inspiration of Oliver and Harry Potter, we decided to make a wand for our final project. It was a dream of the child side of me, as a loyal, young believer of the wizard world to make the…