🔵Week 03 Sep 22

IN CLASS

DUE: ALL PARTS OF ASSIGNMENT 02, READING/VIEWING 02, POST 02 INTRO TO UNITY (demo) Basic Setup, Packages, Asset store

CHECK IN: (1) Status on headsets (2) Blog entries and checking each other's posts at this process blogs link (3) In-person students logging in their seat numbers https://newclasses.nyu.edu/portal/site/c5042e83-6421-491e-879b-c6a158618404/?panel=Main

BRIEF DISCUSSION about some of the readings this week "Virtual Reality vs. (Actual) Reality: Your Mind's View of Reality Isn't Often 'Real'" by Jim Blascovich, Ph.D. and The Coronavirus Crisis Is Showing Us How to Live Online // some thoughts on how the first study and conclusions about "perceived threats" -- are we getting into predictive algorithm territory? and your thoughts about living online + I highly encourage you all to watch "World on a Wire" directed by Rainier Fassbinder, 1972 or at least read the premise - dovetails into Simulation Theory (the world could be a video game), and reflections on the "consciousness" of avatars in Virtual Reality.

PRESENTATIONS (we will not have time for every student to present on each assignment, but I encourage you to check out each others' blogs!) 🧠 02 Field Study and Dream/Daydream Study (class discussion) - 1 hour (presented in *new* outdoor classroom on Mozilla Hubs here>> https://hubs.mozilla.com/SBf8wE9/elementary-chocolate-barbecue, *if possible)

REVIEW - 30 minutes

• AUTHORING for Mozilla Hubs using Spoke

  • • Tutorial Videos:

      • (1) mozilla hubs tutorial 01 (12:42) - working in spoke

      • (2) mozilla hubs tutorial 02 (38:11) - working in spoke and playing in hubs

      • (3) mozilla hubs tutorial 03 (02:00) - teleporting/leaving hubs

• INTRO TO UNITY (demo) Basic Setup, Packages, Asset store

  (1) unity tutorial 01: installation (01:08) installing the editor to your computer

  • (2) unity tutorial 01: editor part 01 (11:17) getting to know the UI

  • (3) unity tutorial 01: editor part 02 (08:46) still getting to know the UI

  • (4) unity tutorial 01: editor part 03 (06:21) creating/assigning materials to objects

  • (5) unity tutorial 01: editor part 04 (17:21) game mode/adding simple physics to the objects/asset store/package manager/exporting as a package

BREAK - 10 minutes

DEMOS - 2 hours (*we will probably not finish all tutorials in class, see assignments section where you are expected to complete any tutorials not covered in class).

Before we begin, download the following assets files here.

• ASSET CREATION/MODIFICATION using Maya 2020

  • (1) maya 3D tutorial 01 (31:21) - interface, creating basic 3D objects in Maya, applying a shader, UV mapping

  • (2) maya 3D tutorial 02 (10:00) - finishing the UV mapping and applying a texture map

  • (3) maya 3D tutorial 03 (7:16) - setting project, importing a 3D file, exporting a 3D file

• SIMPLE ANIMATION Unity workflow

  • (1) unity tutorial 02: animation (29:38) - exporting from Maya, importing to Unity. Simple animation.

  • (2) unity tutorial 02: mouse view (22:19) - creating a mouse view experience in Unity Player

  • (3) unity tutorial 02 : first person (10:40) - first person using the first person all-in-one 2020

  • (4) unity tutorial 02: character animation (12:17) - first person demo file, plus adding a Mixamo 3D character and animating it in Unity

ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK

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.

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