Richard

Voyager

In this straightforward exercise with BlippAR, I used the stereo version of a 360 sound piece I recently created in the style of a Radio Lab episode. In researching the Voyager mission I stumbled upon the love story between Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan and decided that would be a more interesting focus. After some testing with BlippAR, I chose an image of the Golden Record (containing recordings of what humans are all about) as a marker for a 3D model of the Voyager and the sound piece. 

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Semiotic Wall-e

1.  

Dull color

Space debris / satellites

Thick atmosphere

2. 

Mounds of trash

Distant mounds visible - no end in sight

Energy generation a priority

Renewable energy built on top of trash

(after nuclear --> effort to fix situation)

3.

Trash pires in urban area

(--> no space outside of cities)

Still no vegetation

No visibility / smog

4. 

Desolate city - no cars/people/motion

Trash integrated into skyscarpers

Trash organized into square mounds with pathways

(--> these were built from the ground)

5. 

Less trash - smaller mounds

More sunshine/less smog

Well traveled path

Little guy moving around

(in direction of city --> cleaning/relocation effort)

Music (golden oldie) follows Wall-e

(--> only audio - suggests little guy's alone)

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Murder Mystery Game

- player scans a marker to reveal a crime scene/dead body (just an outline/chalk of the body, since the body turned into a zombie and is found later)

- player walks around scene to find evidence/clues (blood, ripped clothing, note, weapon, invisible writing on a wall)

- player has to walk around MAGNET to follow these clues/markers

- markers present at various locations around MAGNET, each marker scans and will show a model of the clue and some more information helping move the case/narrative along

- some markers can be combined (transparent paper) to combine clues (e.g. blood and test tubes being combined to figure out the victim had a disease, note and glasses to read the note and figure out the victim’s last words, special flashlight and invisible ink to see hidden message)

- once all the clues have been uncovered, a noise plays that alerts player to return to crime scene

- when player scans original marker, model of zombie pops up

  

AR Memory

I used this project to play around with the tilt brush sdk and shaders in Unity. At first I planned on showing memory pretty abstractly as a dream sequence that moved through few dreams. I "painted" a neuron network in Tilt Brush and animated it with light materials to mimic neural activity. At first I tried separating the dreams spatially and called their assets with an event listener. I later decided to have a stationary camera with the assets all moving downward to create sequencing.

As shaders and materials (especially video assets) failed me one after another, I focused on one memory of an infinity room exhibit and found the YUV material when applied to a bunch of planes, created this effect.

Final Proposal

Nick Bannon, Jaycee Holmes, Richard Lapham