Monthly Archives: October 2015


Team Object’s Project

Team Prop Hunt – Andrew, Sizhuo, Grayson Project – VR Game based on Prop Hunt called “Objective Hide and Seek” (or something, name is currently a placeholder) Our project is going to be a multiplayer video game, based on an existing game called Prop Hunt.  Prop Hunt is a game mode/add on […]


Reading 7

For class 10/27/15 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 10/25/15 Towards Virtual Reality for the Masses: 10 Years of Research at Disney’s VR Studio Mark Mine  http://www.dvschafer.com/files/disney_vr.pdf Serious games continuum: Between games for purpose and experiential environments for purpose Tim Marsh http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875952110000224 or on box at https://uwmadison.box.com/s/0ahbt32l7h4i02vuhikt6k8sgwdsynxm   Discussion Article 1 (write a paragraph […]


Links from Reading 6

from kevin from hkang http://www.wired.com/2015/09/pixar-vet-writing-grammar-virtual-reality-stories/ from erics from alex https://gigaom.com/2015/01/13/virtual-reality-opens-new-storytelling-challenges-for-animators/ from bsprecher


Group Assignments

Thank you all for your feedback. Here are the group assignments for final projects: Group 1: Andrew Grayson Sizhuo Group 2: Trevor Maddie Bryce Liang Group 3: Ryan Alex Dave Group 4: Kang Eric Tyler Ike


Reading 6

For class 10/20/15 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 10/18/15 Disney’s Aladdin: first steps toward storytelling in virtual reality Randy Pausch, Jon Snoddy, Robert Taylor, Scott Watson, Eric Haseltine http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/arya/Papers/ACM/SIGGRAPH-96/Storytelling%20in%20VR.pdf   Towards a model for a virtual reality experience: the virtual subjectiveness N Parés, R Parés http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~npares/publicacions/VR_Model_ParesPares_PresenceV15N5-2006.pdf   Discussion Article 1 (Pick 3, write […]


Project Selections

Send me an email by noon tomorrow with your project selections if you want to put in your input.  Here is a quick recap: Eric: Fully Interactive Google Maps Grayson: Virtual Labyrinth Maze Ike: Google Street View for Virtual Tourism, Entertainment in a virtual sports or music game Bryce: Tea Time, Shadow Groove or Space Elevator Sizhuo: 1st […]


Reading 5

For class 10/13/15 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 10/11/15 Virtual Reality as the End of the Enlightenment Project by Simon Penny Please print out these articles and bring them with you to class on Monday for discussion.  Alternatively, you can bring digital version of the reading with you. Discussion (Two […]