Proposal Due Saturday 11/30
at 8:59pm Chicago time Application
and Documentation Due Friday 12/06
at 8:59pm Chicago time
Project X is an optional project.
Project 2 is an individual project.
Project X gives you the opportunity to replace the
application and web score from your lowest scoring project of
the first 2 projects in class.
Project X focuses on the creation of a immersive environment as
a historical or pre-historical reconstruction that would be part
of a museum exhibit to enhance the physical displays. That is
you could do a reconstruction of a historical site where human
beings once lived, or an exhibit on prehistoric creatures such
as dinosaurs, or an exhibit about the conditions on the early
Earth. The historical reconstruction should also at least be 30
years old, and preferably a lot older than that.
Your exhibit should be historically accurate, based on current
generally accepted scientific and historical records, and you
should be able to cite scientific or historical references for
your work. As a caveat, you could also create an exhibit on
previous scientific theories that have been proven wrong, since
those previous incorrect theories are still historical.
This project must be done individually and should have the same
amount of work as a single person version of project 2. The work
should be designed for the VIVE and will be tested on the VIVE
in the classroom. The environment should be educational - that
is, the user should learn something from the experience, and the
experience itself should obviously benefit from being
experienced in VR. The environment should be designed to fit
within a museum setting and give the user a 15 minute
experience. It should be highly interactive. You can assume that
the museum will have someone standing by the display to help
people with the equipment, but you should provide an easy way to
reset the application from the beginning.
The documentation requirements remain the same as Project 2 but
you should also describe how the VR display or displays fit into
the museum setting. That is, what does the overall room look
like? Are there other physical displays of artifacts, or videos
playing that share space with the VR display? How are you going
to keep the user from running into things or other people?
Remember that you need to think about the flow of people through
the exhibit. If you haven't been to a museum in a while then you
may want to take a visit to the Field Museum or the Museum of
Science and Industry and get a sense of how these kinds of
spaces are laid out.
By the proposal deadline you need to email andy the
location of a web page that describes the environment you want
to create, in order to get approval. Everyone doing Project X
will need to have a different topic for his / her exhibit. After
that you will have less than one week to complete the project.
The project should be turned in through git as usual. Be sure to
email andy the location of your git repository before the
deadline, and include the typical image of your exhibit.