{"id":260,"date":"2016-10-19T16:12:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/?p=260"},"modified":"2016-10-19T16:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:12:21","slug":"virtual-wild-life-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/2016\/10\/19\/virtual-wild-life-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Wild-life photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project Description:<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this project is to provide the feeling of being a wild life photographer. The users with HMDs can be taken into the virtual wild life with different animals around. Users movement can be tracked by Microsoft Kinect and projected using a default avatar in VE. User should be able to take pictures in virtual environment. The difficult part would be creating interactive animals and analyzing the degree to which they should react to user\u2019s movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Project Type:<\/p>\n<p>Experience\/Experiment<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interest:<\/p>\n<p>This is a project that I would like to do<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Device(s) to Be Used:<\/p>\n<p>HTC Vive\/Oculus Rift and Microsoft Kinect<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Things I Know How To Do:<\/p>\n<p>Never worked on VR\/graphics project before but have a good understanding of computer programming and using APIs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Things I Would Need Help With:<\/p>\n<p>Creating interactive animals in VE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Description: The goal of this project is to provide the feeling of being a wild life photographer. The users with HMDs can be taken into the virtual wild life with different animals around. Users movement can be tracked by Microsoft Kinect and projected using a default avatar in VE. User should be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}