I have just arrived
back to LA after an unexpectedly prolonged journey because of the Swiss Air
flight cancellation in Venice, Italy. After finally landing on an Air France
flight to Paris - LA, where they still serve awesome wine with their food, it
took us 14 hours (instead of 12) to cross the Atlantic. I’ve never had such an
intense experience of flying back in time, and the shifting of mental frames
from European to American. The power of the different landscapes, their smells,
sounds, looks, and vibes really hit home in an unexpectedly renewed sense of
how incredibly powerful the changes VR is bringing to our experiential field
really are. I’m deeply determined to make my Amazon Medicine Garden project
happen one way or another. While researching other options to get it off the
ground, I’ve found some other potential contacts that will help me with
necessary materials to take it in a constructive direction. My plane is to
mobilize all my contacts and set up meetings to explore my options this week. I
am excited and hopeful I’ll be able to make more significant progress towards
materializing a concrete project proposal within next couple of weeks.
A brief, but memorable time on the Adriatic sea in Croatia.
I have just arrived
back to LA after an unexpectedly prolonged journey because of the Swiss Air
flight cancellation in Venice, Italy. After finally landing on an Air France
flight to Paris - LA, where they still serve awesome wine with their food, it
took us 14 hours (instead of 12) to cross the Atlantic. I’ve never had such an
intense experience of flying back in time, and the shifting of mental frames
from European to American. The power of the different landscapes, their smells,
sounds, looks, and vibes really hit home in an unexpectedly renewed sense of
how incredibly powerful the changes VR is bringing to our experiential field
really are. I’m deeply determined to make my Amazon Medicine Garden project
happen one way or another. While researching other options to get it off the
ground, I’ve found some other potential contacts that will help me with
necessary materials to take it in a constructive direction. My plane is to
mobilize all my contacts and set up meetings to explore my options this week. I
am excited and hopeful I’ll be able to make more significant progress towards
materializing a concrete project proposal within next couple of weeks.
A brief, but memorable time
I have just arrived
back to LA after an unexpectedly prolonged journey because of the Swiss Air
flight cancellation in Venice, Italy. After finally landing on an Air France
flight to Paris - LA, where they still serve awesome wine with their food, it
took us 14 hours (instead of 12) to cross the Atlantic. I’ve never had such an
intense experience of flying back in time, and the shifting of mental frames
from European to American. The power of the different landscapes, their smells,
sounds, looks, and vibes really hit home in an unexpectedly renewed sense of
how incredibly powerful the changes VR is bringing to our experiential field
really are. I’m deeply determined to make my Amazon Medicine Garden project
happen one way or another. While researching other options to get it off the
ground, I’ve found some other potential contacts that will help me with
necessary materials to take it in a constructive direction. My plane is to
mobilize all my contacts and set up meetings to explore my options this week. I
am excited and hopeful I’ll be able to make more significant progress towards
materializing a concrete project proposal within next couple of weeks.
A brief, but memorable time at the Adriatic coast in Croatia.
I have just arrived
back to LA after an unexpectedly prolonged journey because of the Swiss Air
flight cancellation in Venice, Italy. After finally landing on an Air France
flight to Paris - LA, where they still serve awesome wine with their food, it
took us 14 hours (instead of 12) to cross the Atlantic. I’ve never had such an
intense experience of flying back in time, and the shifting of mental frames
from European to American. The power of the different landscapes, their smells,
sounds, looks, and vibes really hit home in an unexpectedly renewed sense of
how incredibly powerful the changes VR is bringing to our experiential field
really are. I’m deeply determined to make my Amazon Medicine Garden project
happen one way or another. While researching other options to get it off the
ground, I’ve found some other potential contacts that will help me with
necessary materials to take it in a constructive direction. My plane is to
mobilize all my contacts and set up meetings to explore my options this week. I
am excited and hopeful I’ll be able to make more significant progress towards
materializing a concrete project proposal within next couple of weeks.
A brief, but memorable time on the Adriatic sea in Croatia.
I have just arrived
back to LA after an unexpectedly prolonged journey because of the Swiss Air
flight cancellation in Venice, Italy. After finally landing on an Air France
flight to Paris - LA, where they still serve awesome wine with their food, it
took us 14 hours (instead of 12) to cross the Atlantic. I’ve never had such an
intense experience of flying back in time, and the shifting of mental frames
from European to American. The power of the different landscapes, their smells,
sounds, looks, and vibes really hit home in an unexpectedly renewed sense of
how incredibly powerful the changes VR is bringing to our experiential field
really are. I’m deeply determined to make my Amazon Medicine Garden project
happen one way or another. While researching other options to get it off the
ground, I’ve found some other potential contacts that will help me with
necessary materials to take it in a constructive direction. My plane is to
mobilize all my contacts and set up meetings to explore my options this week. I
am excited and hopeful I’ll be able to make more significant progress towards
materializing a concrete project proposal within next couple of weeks.
A brief, but memorable time
I had been out of town for 2 days of this week, recovering for another 2 days, so was pretty exhausted and wasn't sure if I would have much to show in time for this post--but will take a stab anyway on some of the work. I'd like to be farther along, but that's really just me sitting down and finishing all my own code/technical contributions (minus AI which comes later) and making sure every step integrating with each member of my team, our code doesn't break! Even folks sending samples (I realize not pushing to GH or using other Unity ways to share info, we are still prone to errors so I couldn't view the water transition scene that Angelo sent me last night, that I tried to open this morning).
1) Product/Project Management Update - Information Architecture/SiteMap and Overall Storyboarding
2) Landing Page Overview
a) LEARN
b) SHARE
c) STORY
3) Technical Update
-Controller Work + Transitions
-Cross Platform Development
-Data Capture
4) Creative Update
-Style choices of paintbrush
-Sound
1) Product/Project Management Update - Information Architecture/SiteMap and Overall Storyboarding
Outside of the updates below, I created another PM system for to-do lists and each time I think I'm done, we keep adding something (which I'm trying to avoid), but realize I forgot another thing, so that our meetings in-person or via G+ will be shorter and more efficient for stand-up to see what's missing/outstanding, and what we already accomplished.
I project managed the team on an update call this weekend as well and realized I needed to go over information architecture/sitemap one more time even though I referenced what I went over last week (for landing page), so I just made this to be more explicit. See below of what I just sent over to my team again to reiterate the title sequence being used for both parts of the landing page as well as story and how everything connects together, each section of the app: Learn, Story, and Share.
2) Landing Page Overview
a) LEARN
b) SHARE
c) STORY
LEARN
The tutorial piece for "LEARN" section is the marketing video that will help generate more traffic to our downloads.
Working on adding 3D text and then also the actual thing working rather than me just dropping in some fbx files of the script itself, but the prototype is what I want to have working well to generate the 3D character of maganda (beautiful/woman character) and malakas (strong/man character) this week so all of it is integrated well between learn-story-share (story is watch or interact, trying to come up with a better word for this since it's an interactive storytelling experience/education app).
SHARE
The share piece also helps with this as well, to showcase what 3D content is created in this app that can take advantage of the central offering for Facebook's social content that can allow folks to share word creations made in BaybayinVR as well as experimenting with the Facebook Live/Oculus Spaces featured we discussed in our team prior so that Kristian could teach a class of students of multiple people and edit their work within our app synced with other apps (for those that do not have Rift) with our AR enabled features so that more people can learn and participate in immersive tech and learn Baybayin and Tagalog to English translations.
STORY
The storytelling piece itself is the heaviest out of the 3 given wireframing each piece, which while I've specialized in microinteraction to some degree before for web/mobile, taking it on for a more involved piece for each movement beyond rigging and other areas I've learned prior, was a lot to take in working with my 3D artist Angelo on the storyboarding the last few weeks, each time we revisited whiteboards and spreadsheets and SketchboxVR prototypes.
3) Technical Update
Controller Work and Transitions
I've been in the weeds with VRTK and STEAMVR (understanding every single difference of the documentation and even writing almost what would be documentation of my friend Vasanth (O'Reilly book co-editor) and FusedVR founder, Fuseman who wrote and created the popular "How to Mmake Tiltbrush from Scratch," to really make sure line by line everything makes sense for our controller, swapping out object grabs with our paintbrush and that at each step (adding on sound, adding on other fancy glowing animation for letters for each one, to word to 3D character representing that word's meaning) does not break in our entire workflow.
I'm still wrestling with animation transitions from the letters/characters to the 3D characters (and their movement respectively) that other developers and animators on our team will handle as we integrate the whole app since there's a lot of moving pieces.
Cross platform development
Since we already know our experience works well in Rift and ARKit, I'm syncing later this week with the whole team for making everything more integrated on the cross platform-end to have our team test in Oculus Go, and Android since we did not get to do this the other week.
Data capture
I will be searching more with my other friends from Facebook Applied ML team (reaching out to folks this week once some more of my controller is polished with art and also working with other team members to ensure cross platform development is solid). I'm hoping to locate additional experts who can help advise me on making sure data capture makes sense for being statistically significant to some degree. While not as rich in datasets as Chinese, Japanese as mentioned in the previous post referencing Yann LeCun's more recent work, a simple NLP word embedding or auto-draw/auto-ML type of algorithm I believe is possible to apply create novel ML and AI techniques with our user generated data after the app is officially launched.
4) Creative Update
We went over stylistic choices of having what type of UI since this type of brush was more modern:
In reality (back in the day as in the ancient times of the Philippines, or dawn of humankind), we imagined that the paintbrush would be far simpler, so had done a bit more research for Pinterest pinning/Purple imports of our inspiration.
We discussed our UX choices of types of paintbrushes or knives with bamboo, color, size that would be distinct from the split bamboo object in the main story scenes of the app to make it distinct from the controller. Having the user grab a paintbrush that looks as close or similar to what was used/is used to do Baybayin is similar to other Asian calligraphy though is still distinct than other East Asian cultures.
1) Product/Project Management Update - Information Architecture/SiteMap and Overall Storyboarding
2) Landing Page Overview
a) LEARN
b) SHARE
c) STORY
3) Technical Update
-Controller Work + Transitions
-Cross Platform Development
-Data Capture
4) Creative Update
-Style choices of paintbrush
-Sound
1) Product/Project Management Update - Information Architecture/SiteMap and Overall Storyboarding
Outside of the updates below, I created another PM system for to-do lists and each time I think I'm done, we keep adding something (which I'm trying to avoid), but realize I forgot another thing, so that our meetings in-person or via G+ will be shorter and more efficient for stand-up to see what's missing/outstanding, and what we already accomplished.
I project managed the team on an update call this weekend as well and realized I needed to go over information architecture/sitemap one more time even though I referenced what I went over last week (for landing page), so I just made this to be more explicit. See below of what I just sent over to my team again to reiterate the title sequence being used for both parts of the landing page as well as story and how everything connects together, each section of the app: Learn, Story, and Share.
2) Landing Page Overview
a) LEARN
b) SHARE
c) STORY
LEARN
The tutorial piece for "LEARN" section is the marketing video that will help generate more traffic to our downloads.
Working on adding 3D text and then also the actual thing working rather than me just dropping in some fbx files of the script itself, but the prototype is what I want to have working well to generate the 3D character of maganda (beautiful/woman character) and malakas (strong/man character) this week so all of it is integrated well between learn-story-share (story is watch or interact, trying to come up with a better word for this since it's an interactive storytelling experience/education app).
SHARE
The share piece also helps with this as well, to showcase what 3D content is created in this app that can take advantage of the central offering for Facebook's social content that can allow folks to share word creations made in BaybayinVR as well as experimenting with the Facebook Live/Oculus Spaces featured we discussed in our team prior so that Kristian could teach a class of students of multiple people and edit their work within our app synced with other apps (for those that do not have Rift) with our AR enabled features so that more people can learn and participate in immersive tech and learn Baybayin and Tagalog to English translations.
STORY
The storytelling piece itself is the heaviest out of the 3 given wireframing each piece, which while I've specialized in microinteraction to some degree before for web/mobile, taking it on for a more involved piece for each movement beyond rigging and other areas I've learned prior, was a lot to take in working with my 3D artist Angelo on the storyboarding the last few weeks, each time we revisited whiteboards and spreadsheets and SketchboxVR prototypes.
3) Technical Update
Controller Work and Transitions
I've been in the weeds with VRTK and STEAMVR (understanding every single difference of the documentation and even writing almost what would be documentation of my friend Vasanth (O'Reilly book co-editor) and FusedVR founder, Fuseman who wrote and created the popular "How to Mmake Tiltbrush from Scratch," to really make sure line by line everything makes sense for our controller, swapping out object grabs with our paintbrush and that at each step (adding on sound, adding on other fancy glowing animation for letters for each one, to word to 3D character representing that word's meaning) does not break in our entire workflow.
I'm still wrestling with animation transitions from the letters/characters to the 3D characters (and their movement respectively) that other developers and animators on our team will handle as we integrate the whole app since there's a lot of moving pieces.
Cross platform development
Since we already know our experience works well in Rift and ARKit, I'm syncing later this week with the whole team for making everything more integrated on the cross platform-end to have our team test in Oculus Go, and Android since we did not get to do this the other week.
Data capture
I will be searching more with my other friends from Facebook Applied ML team (reaching out to folks this week once some more of my controller is polished with art and also working with other team members to ensure cross platform development is solid). I'm hoping to locate additional experts who can help advise me on making sure data capture makes sense for being statistically significant to some degree. While not as rich in datasets as Chinese, Japanese as mentioned in the previous post referencing Yann LeCun's more recent work, a simple NLP word embedding or auto-draw/auto-ML type of algorithm I believe is possible to apply create novel ML and AI techniques with our user generated data after the app is officially launched.
4) Creative Update
We went over stylistic choices of having what type of UI since this type of brush was more modern:
In reality (back in the day as in the ancient times of the Philippines, or dawn of humankind), we imagined that the paintbrush would be far simpler, so had done a bit more research for Pinterest pinning/Purple imports of our inspiration.
We discussed our UX choices of types of paintbrushes or knives with bamboo, color, size that would be distinct from the split bamboo object in the main story scenes of the app to make it distinct from the controller. Having the user grab a paintbrush that looks as close or similar to what was used/is used to do Baybayin is similar to other Asian calligraphy though is still distinct than other East Asian cultures.
