Recap Ridwan and I redid our Alice in Wonderland project. In this iteration, we wanted to embrace the physical aspect of AR, the experience it could afford, and bake it into the story better. Here’s what we planned for and what we ended up with: Scene 1: Getting Smaller / Bigger For this scene, we attached an image target on the bottom of two cups. Like Alice in the story, user does not know which of the “potion” would make them smaller. The idea was that the user has to actu

Alice in VR Wonderland V2 Ridwan and I are planning to improve our Alice in Wonderland project. The first project was more of an exploration of how the engine works and what can be done with it, but for this iteration we want to design the experience better. The AR medium is different from a fully-immersive VR and the typical digital screen because it incorporates real life objects in the experience. So the main questions we are going to tackle in this version are: How can we

I found an API that returns the coordinate of the ISS (International Space Station). { "message": "success", "timestamp": UNIX_TIME_STAMP, "iss_position": { "latitude": CURRENT_LATITUDE, "longitude": CURRENT_LONGITUDE } } It looks pretty simple to use so I thought of having a scene in Unity with the earth and ISS rotating around it. I used the in-class example code, but instead of calling the API once, I made it call the API 10x per second. After each successful call, the coo

The Concept We (Ridwan and I) wanted to tell the story Alice in Wonderland for this assignment, because it’s a whimsical story and we can potentially do fun interactions with the story. For context, here’s a short version of the story (that I can remember): Alice follows a rabbit through a rabbit hole, and she arrives at this Wonderland. She drinks some potions, gets bigger and smaller til she can get through the door. She meets Cheshire Cat, has a tea party, etc. She arrives

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