Importing Objects From SketchUp to Unity

Here are two good resources for how to import objects from sketchup to unity   https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/HOWTO-ImportObjectSketchUp.html https://blog.sketchup.com/sketchupdate/using-sketchup-and-unity-craft-stunning-game-environments

Thursday’s Guest – David Gagnon

Our guest speaker for Thursday will be David Gagnon, Program Director of the Field Day Lab.  His research aims to produce tangible and testable products at the intersection of learning theory and […]

Links from Reading 2

From bdeaster http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19713617 From zhichenggu ESRB (for rating video games) http://www.esrb.org/ From mushahid   http://phys.org/news/2014-06-racial-gender-representation-video-games.html From gkerickson http://moralmachine.mit.edu/

Revit to Unity

This is a bit old but is still probably useful to understand the pipeline.

Reading 3

For class 10/4/16 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 10/2/16 Defining virtual reality: Dimensions determining telepresence Jonathan Steuer http://ww.cybertherapy.info/pages/telepresence.pdf  Having problems logging in?  Check out the post for Assignment 1 as it may […]

More Unity Tutorials on Lynda

As a UW-Madison Student you have access to Lynda.com.  However, logging in can be a bit strange.  I have found the best method is to click login, then click “Organization […]

Unity Getting Started

This document is meant to help get us started with some of the tools we will us in the class. First get Unity: https://store.unity.com/ The personal edition is fine   […]

Links from Reading 1

From bdeaster http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/americans-are-more-afraid-of-robots-than-death/410929/   From zhichenggu http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/06/06/googles-computers-are-creating-songs-making-music-may-never-be-the-same/ By 2018, Computers Will Be Able To See, Hear, Taste, Touch and Smell   From annielin [1]: http://www.fifthsense.org.uk/psychology-and-smell/ [2]: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/FeelReal-An-Oculus-Rift-Add-Lets-You-Smell-Virtual-Reality-70580.html [3]: http://creativity-online.com/work/ubisoft-south-park-mask/48690   From ldirkx (1) […]

Reading 2

For class 9/27/16 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 9/25/16   Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive virtual environments Mel Slater http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1535/3549.full.pdf+html The ethics of representation and action […]