{"id":1719,"date":"2018-12-10T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dems.asc.ohio-state.edu\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2018-12-10T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:32:09","slug":"final-project-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dems.asc.ohio-state.edu\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"Final Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For our final project, we were instructed to create an experience that we would share at an open house type event.\u00a0 The idea was to have a project that could be iterated more than once.\u00a0 For my project, I elected to create an immersive experience based upon a song by Stravinsky called the Firebird.\u00a0 This song was used in a play with the same name.\u00a0 Ultimately, this project helped me explore the use of sound within a virtual space and also the additive<\/g> qualities of loading and unloading scenes within a game engine.\u00a0 In the first iteration, I had a logarithm that projected the music around the audience in a cylinder.\u00a0 Then I had an orb approach the user and was going to have them follow the orb around.\u00a0 However, when I shared the preliminary experiment\u00a0with the class, their feedback was not that enthusiastic.\u00a0 Going back to the drawing board, I decided to make something that anyone could “play”\u00a0 I decided to create an orb pickup experience\u00a0that was simple and one in which the gameplay wouldn’t overshadow that environment, or the song.\u00a0 It was really important to me that the actions didn’t overtake the original work.\u00a0 The final experience\u00a0was pretty straightforward.\u00a0 I have 9 pillars that are unlocked everytime\u00a0the user picks up 9 orbs.\u00a0 The levels load in the order that the main character in the Firebird ballet experiences them.\u00a0 At first, we are alone in the universe, we discover a magical land, we find an evil Zsar and then we again rejoin the Firebird in the universe. Also, the user has the ability to “fly” the Firebird.\u00a0 Even in this project, because of the 3DOF (degree of freedom) of the controller, I was able to add in 6DOF, by including a forward\u00a0and backward button, to give the Firebird 6DOF, even though the user only had 3DOF.\u00a0 For future projects, I would try and consider the audience more when creating a project.\u00a0 The isolated experiments I was attempting in the first experiment was no were near the reception of the second version of this project.\u00a0 I would reconfigure the controller to add in yaw, pitch, and roll in for the Firebird\u00a0as currently, it is stationary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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