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Michael Naimark Visiting Associate Arts Professor

Interactive Media Arts NYU Shanghai

VR / AR FundamentalsINTM-SHU 280C - 1 Topics in New Media & Entertainment Fall 2017

a practical guide to the big ideas

Week 6: Live & Social

Being immersed in live events and with other people.

Jiayi Wang

Week 1 - Introduction to VR and AR

Week 2 - FUNDAMENTALS 1: Audiovisual Resolution and Fidelity Fooling a single static eye and single static ear experiencing a framed representation.

Week 3 - FUNDAMENTALS 2: Audiovisual Spatiality and Immersion Fooling two static eyes and ears, then two moving eyes and ears, then removing the frame.

Week 4 - FUNDAMENTALS 3: Other Senses (Haptic, Smell, Taste, Mind) Fooling the other senses.

Week 5 - FUNDAMENTALS 4: Input and Interactivity Using our effectors and intentions as inputs and how they shape interactive experiences.

Week 6 - FUNDAMENTALS 5: Live and Social Being immersed in live events and with other people.

Week 7 - Current Dilemmas This is a lead-in, “pre-production,” to the second half-semester.

First half semesterClass Structure

VR / AR Fundamentals

Live & Social Being immersed in live events

and with other people.

Jiayi Wang

Live

What is Live? Live before the Telegraph Broadcasting Webcams Remote Control Live Bits How to Democratize Webcams?

Social

Symmetry (again) Early Live Social Teleconferencing MUDSs, MOOs, and MMORPGs Second Life Facebook and Social VR

What is LIVE?

What is LIVE?

Canned

Fresh




Jiayi Wang

Live


Social


Live before the Telegraph

Abraham | Jesus | Buddha | Mohammed | Confucius

Columbus (1492)

Jules Verne “Around the World in 80 Days” (1872)




Jiayi Wang

Live


Social


radio & television

https://nomadicvr.net/

https://www.thevoid.com/




Jiayi Wang

Live


Social


Trojan Room coffee pot, old Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge, England, 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge_Computer_Laboratory

camera zapper

https://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=en&dcr=0&source=hp&q=camera+zapper&oq=camera+zapper&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i22i30k1l7.926.5123.0.6416.22.13.0.0.0.0.267.267.2-1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..21.1.267.0...0.R6NyLtDkaSw




Jiayi Wang

Live


Social


Telegarden

Pachube

http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/garden/Ars/

http://www.haque.co.uk/pachube.php




Jiayi Wang

Live


Social


How to Democratize Webcams?




Jiayi Wang

Live


Social


telephone & internet



radio & television



telephone & internet






Jiayi Wang

Live


Social


Electronic Café 1984+

Interval Research live audio experiment 1994

http://www.ecafe.com/museum/history/ksoverview2.html




Jiayi Wang

Live


Social


eye contact

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9059-invention-apples-all-seeing-screen/

eye contact

half-silvered mirrors


eye contact

Apple’s All Seeing Screen

half-silvered mirrors





Jiayi Wang

Live


Social


Aardwolf MUD (1997)

World of Warcraft MMORPG (2007)

Second Life (2013)

“Not a game.”

"No manufactured conflict, no set objective".

Second Life (2013)

(2014)

(Last week)

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10104094186863501/


https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=Zuckerberg+%22Puerto+Rico%22

(Last week)





(Yesterday)

Facebook’s head of social VR talks about the futureFacebook’s head of social VR talks about the future


https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/15/16478084/interview-rachel-franklin-spaces-social-vr-facebook


(Yesterday)

Facebook’s head of social VR talks about the future

“One billion people in VR.”

Facebook’s head of social VR talks about the future





DEADLINE Wednesday OCTOBER 25: You are to experience, critique, and post your selected VR titles. This means:

1) Make sure your titles are here and running. (Work with platform point person.) 2) Write a brief review for each on the Documentation site. 3) Tag and rank your titles on the Catalog page. (Work with Ada and Dave.)

All platforms must be set up with instruction pages.

Week 6: Assignment for Wednesday

VR / AR News of the Week Mon 16 Oct


AR vandalism makes the NY Times

More big contentHere’s the trailer for the new Star Wars VR experience coming to Disney parksPixar Announces First VR Project ‘Coco VR’, a ‘Next level social experience’

Facebook Oculus announces 2 new VR headsets, both standalone Standalone Oculus Go VR headset shipping next year for $199 Oculus Santa Cruz offers standalone VR with full motion control Why is Oculus making four different VR headsets? Nokia drops Ozo VR camera Nokia Shuts Down VR Camera Unit, Citing Slow-Growing Virtual Reality Market

Surviving the hype

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/arts/design/augmented-reality-jeff-koons.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/arts/design/augmented-reality-jeff-koons.html

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/11/heres-the-trailer-for-the-new-star-wars-vr-experience-coming-to-disney-parks/

https://www.roadtovr.com/pixar-announces-first-vr-experience-coco-vr/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/10/11/standalone-oculus-go-vr-headset-shipping-next-year-199/754512001/

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/11/oculus-santa-cruz-offers-stand-alone-vr-with-full-motion-control/

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/13/16464310/oculus-santa-cruz-go-vr-headset-strategy

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/nokia-shuts-down-ozo-vr-camera-virtual-reality-1202585498/

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/11/16458806/oculus-rift-htc-vive-vr-hype-game-developers

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