Bryce: Learned about materials and shaders in Unity. Begin composing elevator scene. Found Earth and many shader, environment, and utility assets. Liang: Searched through the Unity Asset Store and found some 3D models that might be useful. Began work on writing the story line but found it would too complex […]
What we did Scheduling conflicts resulted in us not meeting this past week. Anticipating this, we all worked individually on our stated tasks from last week. Individual reports Alex worked with a leap motion, trying to get it to detect grasping motions. Dave added support for Xbox controllers as an […]
Individual Efforts Andrew “I continued to work on my multiplayer implementation, in order to get full functionality in terms of update player transforms/rotations (so it looks like you are moving around to other clients), as well as testing on multiple computers via LAN, which works! It involves using a local […]
For class 11/17/15 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 11/15/15 Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias Tabitha C. Peck, Sofia Seinfeld, Salvatore M. Agliotic, Mel Slater http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810013000597 or on Box at https://uwmadison.box.com/s/n5x5elx5r4b41jn0ra1pyjl9d0mk2ep3 The influence of racial embodiment on racial bias in immersive […]
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What Got Done Group: We set up GitHub so we can all commit to the same Unity project and work collaboratively across machines. Eric: Worked on First Person Camera/creating reticule to select objects. There was a need to decide between creating a main camera w/ a reticule or using the […]
What did we do this week? Bryce storyboarded some scenes from Bioshock to see how the game conveys motion and story through environment, and found scientific research on GMOs for interaction and visualization data. He also began setting up a scene in Unity and exposed himself to some tutorials on […]
What we did This week we began implementing our simplest test interface, where a user selects one of three target cubes. https://i.gyazo.com/9ba95cc96834df426577ff9e8fbd329d.gif Individual reports Alex explained the structure of a Unity project and created a base project with cube selection via mouse Dave is working on Xbox controller support Nicky is […]
Individual Efforts Andrew “I managed to figure out multiplayer implementation in Unity, in terms of setting up a server (as host) with 3 clients. The implementation is not finished, as I still have some scripts to write in order to properly update player information to all players. However, I have […]
For class 11/10/15 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 11/8/15 The Use of Immersive Virtual Reality in the Learning Sciences: Digital Transformations of Teachers, Students, and Social Context Jeremy N. Bailenson and Nick Yee, Jim Blascovich and Andrew C. Beall, Nicole Lundblad, Michael Jin http://www.life-slc.org/docs/Bailenson_etal-immersiveVR.pdf Discussion (Pick 3) In the […]