This week started with David’s class where we recapped the Aesthetica film festival. Then we reviewed more examples of browser based immersive media. My favorite was a website that David showed us. Its called within and it is created by Chris Milk. Its basically a hub for all different kinds of VR experiences. All you have to do is search up the website within your VR headset and boom, you have access. I hope to soon check out one of the VR headsets from campus and explore this website. The next class was Wednesday with Pierre. He introduced us to a program called Spark. Spark is a program created and powered by Facebook. Its commonly used for AR filters. We walked through the basics and created our own AR filter. Mine had blue glasses and a foreground overlay. Pierre assigned us another artifact which is to create our own AR filter that would represent us in the metaverse. We also have to write a 300 word description of it. I’m not totally sure what I want to do yet. At first I thought it would be cool to have part of my head masked out and missing, and through the hole, you can see my brain floating around in the middle of my head. Pierre said this would be very hard though so I’m gonna stick to something simpler. Later in the day, during Eric’s class, me and Lea worked on the interactive 360 film and made quite a bit of progress. All we have left to do is create the full room in After Effects and then program in all the buttons in Eevo. We wanted to save that till when Imani was there so we could all do it together. The next day there were train strikes so I attended Kelvins class from home. He reviewed textures which was helpful although I did already learn most of the information in a prior class I took at Escape Studios. I was mainly there to show him the homework I had completed for him. I stayed up till 3am working on it because I was so excited about the idea. Now I’m not quite as thrilled but it’s ok, that’s how all of my ideas go. For the homework we had to create a Halloween scene. I always like to do something out of the box though so I wanted my scene to be like a little planet floating in a giant rotting pumpkin. On the planet is another pumpkin wearing a witch hat. There will also be a little floating moon casting a blue light on the floating planet.
