We met a major milestone this past weekend for Shifting POV ... we soft launched our ShiftingPOV.com website which will house our VR 360 Oculus Launchpad Projects including Klamath-Siskiyou and Chomolungma. We have hit a creative flow and are really ...
Week two of our VR endeavors for ROM, we're figuring what we can visually do and really exploring our options. We don't know how we want to capture the aesthetic and feel of ROM in three dimensions, so we experimented with lighting!
The only non-software project at Launch Pad:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/936134287/prsonal-realityA campaign for hardware consolidation and social change!
So i'm super super late for this. I've been shooting a reality show with youth in Detroit and I'm just catching up with the real world. The shoot was amazing! You can watch a sizzle here. In the middle of our shoot (with a diverse group of inner city...
Before I go about sharing my experiences with VR so far, I wanted to share some not so happy news and why it has taken me this long to write a blog post. Unfortunately, I had all of my Oculus gear stolen in San Francisco the same evening as the bootc...
Hello friends,I've been away longer than intended. In the wake of the Pulse tragedy, as I mentioned in my last update, I've been participating in many vigils, benefits, and memorials. That all culminated with a trip to an arts conference in Denver as...
As I'm sure you all know, in the early hours of Sunday, June 12th, a gunman walked into the Pulse Nightclub in downtown Orlando and committed a horrendous act, killing 49 people. Those people were my LGBT brothers and sisters. I've spent the past wee...
(Edited)Link to the Video of this talk in 2016https://www.facebook.com/563688046/videos/10155028922648047 The talk was "From Film to Headset"; however, I didn't share as we ended up having a pleasant, informal conversation instead of presenting the t...
This week has flown by and been chock-full of progress! I've posted the extended version of my Update on my blog here.Last Week’s goals° Complete the Pluralsight tutorial.° Play Ori and The Blind Forest. ° Start building out Moodboards/Styleguides.° ...
Oof. A few days late. It has been a long week. I'll upload another video post at my regularly scheduled Thursday.This week a few things happened:Had an interview with a VR startup that went pretty well. I got to check out a demo and then have an exte...
This week's discussion is about creating a new scene to replace the spider interaction of a much older scene, which to me, was really lame. In the old scene, the user had to virtually sit on the chair and look at an empty table, then wait for the not...
I have been taking a break from working on my Launch Pad project this past week. This is primarily because I hit a wall in writing the business plan around this because there are no numbers available, no empirical data on sales of vr titles and no de...
These past two weeks have not been as productive as I would have liked. I've been aggressively looking for a new job in a field that more closely aligns with my personal and professional goals, and have found myself working later and later at my curr...
Hello, everyone.This is my first discussion posting. I had to visit my country, South Korea by personal reason. To be honest, I am a little challenging for my project because of a kind of crunch time.Anyway, my project is to explore the relationship ...
Hey everyone! We're plugging away at making a Read Only Memories VR experience, learning as we go! Building in VR is a big departure from our 2D iteration, but we're figuring it out! Here's us fiddling with cameras, we can't afford an Oculus right no...
Hi guys! This week has been an intensely fun one! The idea for the game is not only taking shape but taking form – finally! I've made strides learning Blender and designing artwork in the low poly aesthetic. I've re-evaluated the flow I'm looking to ...
Week 4I've attempted to post this post about 10 times, so I guess I'm starting a new discussion instead. I think the words I'm using in the post must be flagging it, so now I will not mention any words that might be a problem for the forum.We have a ...
WEEK 1<< Shooting a movie around beautiful locations without actors producers or experience with given gear>>As many of you know, I am doing a project with SquawAlpine.com in which we are exploring VR together. We have started with a pilot VR 360 mov...
What really excites me about VR, are the possibilities for intimate interactions between people - not simply creating presence in a virtual space, but eliminating distance between friends & strangers and enabling people to connect in ways they couldn...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxFsB_7ofjCAbXE5ODJpTXE5cWc I've been doing some legwork for the robot interviews in Osaka (thinking spring) In addition to working with a tutor to learn conversational Japanese, I took a day long shooting and stitch...
For folks interested in trying multiplayer experiences, in VR, here is a presentation of techniques I have observed in various examples on the web. A link to the text notes used to create the following tutorial series can be found here: https://docs....
Hello all,Since participating in the launchpad event, I have begun working on a VR based project to support Aphasia therapy. Aphasia is a communication disorder often attributed to neurological damage, e.g. stroke survivors who loose capabilities in ...
I haven't had as much time or energy for development as I hoped. I started a full time gig for about 5-6 weeks teaching kids how to make games and apps. It's great and all...just draining to be on socially for so long and to have a 2 hour commute. 13...
It's a really sad day to be a black person in America today, as it was yesterday, as it will be tomorrow. Philando Castile is on my mind; I can't stop hearing the voice of his daughter trying to comfort her mother after she watched the life drain out...
This week I am happy to solve two challenges that make PHOBOS so much a better experience.Challenge One - Easier interaction with objects for PHOBOS newbies using gamepad controllerDuring Independence Day I had my visiting relatives try out PHOBOS wi...
Hi all,Ryan here from UW-Extension to give a much delayed Launch Pad update. Currently, our small team of five is working to determine best steps forward in creating data visualization in the VR space, with the mobile market in mind. After determinin...
Pretty slow week since I'm out of town, but got a few things going. I hadn't done any coding for a couple of weeks and it feels good to get back at it. I'm keeping things simple and modular for now. I'd like to have a dozen or so bits of functionalit...
Things I've completed in my GDD:Theme/Setting/GenreGamePlay Mechanics BriefTargeting PlatformsMonetization ModelInfluencesElevator Pitch/Brief project Description/Detailed Project DescriptionWhat sets game apartThings to come Next:Project Scope (Time...
This past week has been ultra productive for me! I'm about 90% through my Game Design Document (which I've adapted for my app, since Lincoln is more "gamification" than gaming.) I've also done some environment drawings, color scripts, as well as some...
I am putting my Little Red Riding Hood on the back burner while I develop more game engine skills and general experience. I think the budget necessary to do a good job is out of reach. So, I am going to try to do another project that I've been workin...
