📱Required Readings/Viewings/Posts

MICRO ASSIGNMENT 01: (1) ACCEPT Slack Invitation if you have not already (2) DOWNLOAD or CREATE USER ACCOUNTS for required applications for this course (except for the ones I asked you to wait on) (4) CREATE class Process Blog and post the url here. (4) ARRIVE to second class with ✨ 01 Virtual Object or Experience assignment.

READING/VIEWING 01: (1) VIEW “An 'ethereal cube' from the 1960s is the reason the Oculus Rift exists” (2) READ “Controlled Immersion: a special 3D/VR collaboration” by Mark Riboldi​

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 01: (1) WRITE your responses to this weeks’ viewing & reading. Were you aware of these histories? What do you find most fascinating about the timeline of Virtual Reality development, either scientifically or speculatively? (2) POST a photo, link, or slide show presentation to your ✨ 01 Virtual Object or Experience assignment. Be prepared to share this in class next week.

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MICRO ASSIGNMENT 02: (1) COMPLETE 🧠 02 Field Study and Dream/Daydream Study (2) REVIEW CLASS DEMO FILES & CREATE a 🔧 03 Unity Environment, a simple environment in Unity based on the tutorial today (a plane, with a few simple 3D objects is all that is required). Save this environment on a personal storage device or cloud storage for future reference (*save the package file, as described in the demo). Your homework package file should be uploaded here.

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 The Coronavirus Crisis Is Showing Us How to Live Online

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 02: (1) WRITE a reading response to the assigned readings above. 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.

FINISH WATCHING: (*this of course does NOT need to be documented)

WATCH:

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________MICRO ASSIGNMENT 03: (1)🥽 03 VR Play (or Social VR Play) Depending on your assess to headset, spend time in Oculus Quest VR playing free games, OR in Mozilla Hubs on screen. A good list of hubs spots is here>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fCYUyRiD_mbVmupcUBwRbBEsd8jRopeB?usp=sharing || Other social VR sites include: https://altvr.com/, https://www.vrchat.com/, https://recroom.com/, + Ryan Schultz's comprehensive list of Social VR Platforms and Virtual Worlds https://ryanschultz.com/list-of-social-vr-virtual-worlds/

READING/VIEWING 03: (1) READ VR Sickness: Do You Need to Worry About It In 2020? (2) READ New Report from ILMxLab & Disability Visibility Project Shares Insights on VR Accessibility Design." *If I do not ask you to post about the readings, I still expect you to do the readings and be prepared to discuss in class the following week. This week you are NOT assigned to write about these readings.

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 03: On your class process blog WRITE a critical analysis of your play experiences from above ⬆. This should be at least two paragraphs (7-8 sentences) long. Discuss your comfort levels, your sense of presence and engagement. Did you feel like you had free will? Were you so immersed that you forgot about physical (actual) reality? *If you were experiencing this as a screen-based experience, you can also discuss presence, agency and engagement and also speak to its limitations.

ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS: REVIEW tutorials shared in class. WATCH & COMPLETE any tutorials posted above that were not covered in class. The Maya and Unity completed files can be dowloaded here.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 03: On your class process blog WRITE a critical analysis of your play experiences from above ⬆. This should be at least two paragraphs (7-8 sentences) long. Discuss your comfort levels, your sense of presence and engagement. Did you feel like you had free will? Were you so immersed that you forgot about physical (actual) reality? *If you were experiencing this as a screen-based experience, you can also discuss presence, agency and engagement and also speak to its limitations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ MICRO ASSIGNMENT 04: (1) WORK with your👥 04 CollabVRation team this week to create a prototype for a VR project. Put your presentation together in Google Slides, Prezi or whatever online presentation platform you prefer. You do not need to build it in VR!!! Include flow diagram, 2D & 3D low-fi assets, and audio clips (if sound is a component). PREPARE to present this in class NEXT WEEK, 🔵 Week 05 Oct 06 *Tips for your presentation are posted in Week 05.

READING/VIEWING 04: (1) VIEW “How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine” by Chris Milk (2) READ “It’s Ridiculous to Use Virtual Reality to Empathize With Refugees.” (3) VIEW Experiencing Racism in VR" by Courtney Cogburn (4) VIEW Can VR Teach Racial Empathy? | Mach | NBC News (5) !!OPTIONAL!! READ Chapters 3 & 4, “Hedgehog Love: Engineering Feelings with Social Presence” and “Empathy vs. Intimacy: Why Good Stories Need Someone Else” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 04: On your class process blog WRITE a critical response to the readings/viewing above⬆. They represent differing perspectives (at different times in the recent history of VR) on the ability for VR to elicit empathy.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________MICRO ASSIGNMENT 05: (1) WRITE collaboratively a team analysis of the feedback you received in class on your 👥 04 CollabVRation presentation.

READING/VIEWING 05: (1) READ (OPTIONAL) Chapters 5 & 6, “What to Do and Who to Do It With: How Social VR is Reinventing Everything from Game Night to Online Harassment” and “The Starry Night That Wasn’t There: Social Media, Intimacy, and the Memory of Experience.” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 05: POST your written team 👥 04 CollabVRation analysis (above) ⬆ on the Producer's class process blog. *All other team members should link to this post on their class process blogs.

​MACRO PROJECT ASSIGNMENT 01: PHASE 01 : (1) COMPLETE steps 1-6 in the instructions for this phase, including creating a section for your Macro Project on your process blog. (2) CREATE a Macro Project folder here> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rWzwIEwHWxhrzVevvor_52ev4x3nr2MG?usp=sharing (3) BE PREPARED to share an informal presentation of your ideas next week.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ READING VIEWING 06: (1) *STUDENT CHOICE* >> CHOOSE a READING/VIEWING for this week. Share link on Slack with class by Friday, this week. Each class member should choose one of the READING/VIEWINGS (other than your own) posted on Slack.

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 06: Respond to one your classmate's reading/viewing selections.

​MACRO PROJECT ASSIGNMENT 02: PHASE 02: (1) COMPLETE the requirements of 🌎 Macro Project🌒 Phase 02. This includes posting on your process blog in the Macro Project Section: 1. Schedule, 2. A description of your target audience, 3. Desired conditions for the visitor to experience your work, 4. Documentation or your physical world mapping of your virtual space. (2) PREPARE to share all of this with your instructor next week for ONE ON ONES.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________READING/VIEWING 07: (1) READ & VIEW Recording and mixing audio for virtual reality (2) ADDITIONAL READING/VIEWING TO BE POSTED

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 07: FREE FOR ALL POST: WRITE about what you are currently most excited about in school. This does not need to be limited to the VR course, of course :)

​MACRO PROJECT ASSIGNMENT 03: PHASE ALPHA (1) The Alpha version of this project is DUE NEXT WEEK, 🔵 Week 08 Oct 27, as a MIDTERM PRESENTATION. (2) RE-READ ALL presentation requirements in order to be thoroughly prepared.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________READING/VIEWING 08: READ & VIEW the website of our visiting expert https://reginegilbert.com/ coming next week. Prepare questions or observations.

MACRO PROJECT ASSIGNMENT 04: PHASE ALPHA FINAL STEPS >> (1) POST a Spreadsheet Analysis of your VR User Survey you had classmates fill out at today's midterm presentation. POST links to (2) the slides presentation you gave in class today, (3) your Google VR User Survey and to (4) your Spreadsheet Analysis on your class process blog. // (5) 🌎 Macro Project 🌕 Phase Beta (Final) WEEKS 08-11: Analysis and Iteration. Revisit your schedule and make necessary task and milestone updates. Make sure to schedule small changes (one or two at a time) and then schedule testing. ALL links to your analysis and revised schedule should be POSTED to your process blog (in the Macro Project section) each week.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________READING/VIEWING 09: READ & VIEW the website of our visiting expert coming next week. Prepare questions of observations: http://www.martinamenegon.com/ and https://www.wadewallerstein.com/ and https://leah.fyi/.

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 08: (08 b/c we skipped a week of posting to the Micro Assignment section of your blog) WRITE your responses to today's class visit.

​MACRO PROJECT ASSIGNMENT 05: PHASE BETA (1) WEEKS 09-12: Integrating Art Assets - Finishing and integrating into your project all assets you have been compiling. See Lighting and Post-Processing effects tutorials (to be posted) (2) MEETING with your COHORT GROUP to discuss progress, share tips and tricks, bounce ideas off of each other.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ READING/VIEWING 10: READ & VIEW the website of our visiting expert coming next week. Prepare questions of observations.

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 09: WRITE your responses to today's class visit.

​MACRO PROJECT ASSIGNMENT 05: PHASE BETA: (1) WEEKS 10-12: Integrating Scripts/Integrating + Art Assets/Animation - Finishing and integrating into your project all assets you have been compiling. See tutorials pertinent to class projects.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________READING/VIEWING 11: (1) READ (OPTIONAL) Chapter 8, “Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Headsets: Let’s Get Speculative," in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin; Please see Week 03 if you like to purchase this book for a nominal amount.

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 10: WRITE your responses to today's class visit.

​MACRO PROJECT ASSIGNMENT 05: PHASE BETA: (1) WEEKS 09-12: Integrating Art Assets - Finishing and integrating into your project all assets you have been compiling. (2) WEEKS 11-12: Playtesting (Create a new survey for playtesting) ∙ Schedule time for visitors to playtest simulations of your VR experience (if possible) or to experience through video documentation. Document all playtests and analysis of visitor feedback

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________READING/VIEWING 12: (1) READ (OPTIONAL) Conclusion, “When Hindsight is 2020: What Life in 2028 Might Actually Look Like,” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin Please see Week 03 if you like to purchase this book for a nominal amount.

MICRO ASSIGNMENT POST 11: WRITE your responses to the required reading (that you have read throughout the semester) Future Presence. This should be more than just a summary. Write a thoughtful response to Rubin's ideas and projections. What did you agree with? What did you not agree with? How do you see things differently?

​MACRO PROJECT PHASE BETA: PREPARE YOUR PROJECT FOR PRESENTATION _______________________________________________________________________________________________________READING/VIEWING 13: ❗ DUE NEXT WEEK ❗ END OF SEMESTER DELIVERABLES: MAKE SURE your have all files, blog posts and other required materials ready for final review ❗ NOW DUE NEXT WEEK DEC 18th ❗

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