Given that
you have heard about the basics of VR and AR in class, and done
some projects to get a better handle on the application
development side of things, and recently seen a variety of
current work in the area, this week the class is going to break
into groups of 3 or 4 and brainstorm on creating a VR or AR
experience for a particular theme, as though you were a small
company trying to pitch this idea to a potential funder, say the
Field Museum, to try and pull a lot of the ideas and experiences
of the course together.
If you have
a group of 3 or 4, or part of a group, email Andy the names of
your members by 9pm on 11/15. If you need to be put into a group
please send me your name as well. Before class on 11/17 Andy
will randomize the students who have sent me their names into
groups of 3 or 4. If you do not send me your name I will assume
that you are not planning to participate in this activity; I
only want to form groups of students that are committing to
participate.
The first
half of the class should be devoted to data gathering, coming up
with the general concept for the experience, and agreeing on the
technology that you propose to use. The second half of the class is devoted to refining
the concepts and creating a pitch, which should take the form of
a pdf document web page
containing your proposal, including sketches and drawings
of what the experience would be like, and the rationale for your
choices based on the material from the course. Note that you
will not be graded on the quality of the sketches or drawings,
but they should be good enough to give the reader a good idea
what you are proposing. It should include a rough setup cost and
cost to run the experience, rough development timeline and cost
for your team to implement it, how many people would be able to
participate, hardware requirements, software and development
requirements, staffing requirements, location requirements, etc.
At the end of class your group
should convert your pitch to a pdf and have one of the members
upload it to gradescope. Include a selfie taken of your Tuesday
team, and the names of all the members on your team on the pdf
you upload to gradescope by the end of class.
The experience you design should be implementable on existing
technology - that is if someone wanted to fund you to create
this experience, you should be able to buy all of the necessary
hardware off the shelf tomorrow and create the software using
existing tools. It should also be reasonably affordable for
whomever is going to pay for this, and it should work within the
constraints of the space and its general use.
In past years we have done a variety of Chicago related themes:
the Chicago Fire of 1871, Hull House from the late 1800ds, the SS Eastland Disaster in 1915, the
Century of Progress Exposition in 1933, and the current Stanley
Field Hall in the Field Museum.
In the past this has been a 2 day activity where the first day
would be information gathering and brainstorming about the
topic. With only one day this term, we are going to work on a
familiar topic, which is UIC. How would you use AR/VR/MR to help
attract students to UIC in general and the CS department in
particular. These could be potential students from the Chicago
area, or other parts of Illinois, or other states, or other
countries.