🔵Week 02 Sep 10

IN CLASS

DUE: ALL PARTS OF ASSIGNMENT 01, READING/VIEWING 01, POST 01

Please POST Micro Assignments & Reading/Viewing Analysis on your personal Process Blog each week.

PRESENTATIONS of Virtual Object or Experience (class dicussion)

THE ULTIMATE DISPLAY (lecture) VR History, Mythologies, Art and Speculative Fiction:: Ivan Sutherland, Morton Heilig, Char Davies, Brenda Laurel, World on a Wire, Lawn Mower Man, Existenz, Steampunk: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Ready Player One, The Matrix. View presentation here.

TYPES OF VR (lecture) Room-Scale, Mobile, Standalone. View presentation here.

DEMOS

• Google Cardboard A-Frame and Glitch.com A web framework for building virtual reality experiences

  Make WebVR with HTML and Entity-Component

  Works on Vive, Rift, Daydream, GearVR, desktop

• Oculus Go an all-in-one virtual reality headset. Go virtually everywhere with no phone to drop in or PC to connect.

• Go Pro VR Player a 360 video desktop player. Play your 360° videos offline on your Windows, Mac and Linux computers, and showcase your content to your clients or friends, without an internet connection.

INTRO TO UNITY (demo) Basic Setup, Packages, Asset store - Next Week

ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK

MICRO ASSIGNMENT 02: (1) COMPLETE Field Study and Dream/Daydream Study. (2) CREATE a Unity Environment, a simple environment in Unity based on the tutorial today (a plane, with a few primitives is all that is required). Save this environment on a personal storage device or cloud storage for future reference.

READING/VIEWING 02: (1) READ "Virtual Reality vs. (Actual) Reality: Your Mind's View of Reality Isn't Often 'Real'" by Jim Blascovich, Ph.D. (2) READ Chapter 1 “What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Stay There,” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin; See: Required Textbook

POST 02: (1) WRITE a reading response to one of the assigned readings above ⬆️ -- the one that resonated with you the most. Do not write a summary. In other words, do not regurgitate the article. Discuss any epiphanies or insights that occurred while reading. (2) POST documentation and notes from your Field Study and Dream/Daydream Study Micro Assignment ⬆️.