🔵Week 04 Sep 29

IN CLASS

DUE: ALL PARTS OF ASSIGNMENT 03, READING/VIEWING 03, POST 03

SPECIAL: Showing you all mmhmm :)

ANNOUNCE 01: Visiting Speakers for the semester: 🔵 Week 09 Nov 03 - Regine Gilbert : Accessibility in VR *Zoom talk 🔵 Week 10 Nov 10 - Martina Menegon & Wade Wallerstein : Social VR from an artistic, curatorial and educational point of view *Visit will take place in several Social VR spots, via headset 🔵 Week 10 Nov 10 - *also Leah Roh : VR & Social Consciousness & Justice 🔵 Week 11 Nov 17 - Neil Redding, Emerging Technologies & The Tech Industry *Zoom Talk 🔵 Week 12 Nov 24 - Zander Reyna, Creative Director in experience design, games and VR at MLB and Artist, Idealist, Tinkerer, Hacker and Doer *visit will be in VR, via headset

TUTORIAL: REMOTE LOG-IN TO IDM COMPUTERS Please go here on our class google drive to find all information on logging into the computers. You need to reserve time on the Skedda calendar here. You will need to set up an account.

ANNOUCE 02: VR Grad Assistant: Lynn Zhang will be beginning soon (date to be posted ASAP). Lynn has taken 3 courses in XR throughout her first year at IDM. She is very well-versed in Unity and C-Sharp. She will be available to help manage the remote IDM computers, update the XR Lab website with tutorials and other helpful information and will have a calendly schedule set up for tutoring students taking IDM XR courses.

• *Note: Several students applied for IDM grad assisting positions, due to the late start in the hiring process, we were not able to interview all candidates this semester.

ANNOUNCE 03: Last fall I required a textbook for this course: Rubin, Peter. Future Presence: How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life. (Price $6.63) HarperCollins Publishers. 2018. ISBN: 9781538498279 . I then found out in the Spring, IDM has a policy of NO required textbooks :) Your classmate Irwin has mentioned that in seeing this book reference on my syllabus, he was able to buy a copy for $5. I'm NOT going to require this book, but I will be posting additional readings from Future Presence, because it is a fantastic book (I own two copies). If you would like to purchase a copy and follow along, great! It can also be found at these libraries and can be checked out via scan, contact-less pick-up, or home/office delivery.

Where you can check out: NYU Libraries, NYPL (NY Public Library)

WATCH: Travis Scott and Fortnite Present: Astronomical and STREAMERS REACT TO FORTNITE TRAVIS SCOTT CONCERT

DISCUSSION 01: VR PLAY microassignment

DISCUSSION 02: Readings>> VR Sickness: Do You Need to Worry About It In 2020? and New Report from ILMxLab & Disability Visibility Project Shares Insights on VR Accessibility Design."

DISCUSSION 03 🌎 Macro Project brainstorming (coming up in Week 05)

INTRODUCTION to Mural

​OPEN WORK SESSION (OWS going forward)👥 04 CollabVRation Today you will break up into teams (teams that include local and remote students) which will include: Experience Designer, Programmer, Artist (Asset Producer), Sound Designer, Accessibility Champion, Producer [Creative Director](there are 18 of you, so that breaks down nicely into 6 per group) *I'll bring in post-its and write down your name and your 1st and 2nd choices for roles to play. Then from a random draw, your terms will be determined!

For inspiration: See 👉 Recommended Resources EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CATEGORIES

Using Draw.io, coggle, mural or any other flow drawing application you prefer *or* analog pen and paper, create a flow diagram or a mind map and chart for a VR experience prototype. *You are ideating, but you will not officially build this project (this is practice for your macro project)

CollabVRation Teams

TEAM 01 Tinrey (art) Monica (producer) Douglas (UX) Cameron (accessibility) Ben (programmer/sound) Junnan (art 2)

TEAM 02 Ash (art) Weiwei (UX) Irwin (producer) Sally (artist) Chester(programming/sound) Lily (sound)

TEAM 03 Maham (sound) Katelynn (UX/producer) Jenny (artist) Kevin (sound) Prakriti (accessibility) Minjie (programmer)

ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK

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.

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