SND AR/VR Workshop 2019

AR/VR workshop for The Society of News Design 2019. Introduces basic immersive media design topics, covers strategy for finding stories that have potential to work well in VR/AR brief introduction to production tools for lean teams focused on storytelling. Good gif of sloth puking rainbows.

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4. This afternoon’s structure: Immersive Media Basics Finding Your AR/VR Story Practical Accessibility Tips for Teams and Audiences
5. Immersive Media Basics
6. The goal of this section is to give you all the vocabulary you need to be really good at googling the stuff you want to learn , or communicating within a VR/AR team. SND 2019 @RebeccaPoulson
8. XR
9. Bad news: computers are reality.
10. Elizabeth Edwards
14. VR/AR design is has some of the features and constraints of both product and digital design
18. Lauren Bedal Designing for the Human Body in XR
19. Interfaces for Immersive GUI (Graphical User Interface): Interacting with data through graphic and visual indicators. HUD (Heads Up Display): Interacting with data layered over a fixed transparent display. VUI (Voice User Interface): Interacting with data through voice or speech. TUI (Tangible User Interface): Data influenced by interacting with the physical world.
21. Content Types Static: Content that is fixed in place, no movement or interaction Animated: Content that moves on a timeline or follows a sequence 3D: Content with width, height and depth or data with XYZ coordinates Dynamic: Content that changes due to interaction or over time. Procedural: Content generated automatically or algorithmically
22. Static and Fixed on Glass “A Quick Guide to Designing AR for Mobile”
24. Dynamic and Flexible on Glass
26. Dynamic Proportionate 3D
28. Quick Intro to 3d Model Vocab Mesh: A collection of points, edges and faces that describe an object. Light: A source of illumination that creates light and shadow in the scene. Material: contains information about how an object looks, including color, texture, and density. Shader: Similar to a material but contains procedural data about how an object should look.
29. You Aren’t Limited to 2 dimensional space, but you are limited by hardware
31. Computers “see” by acquiring, analyzing and processing data they collect.
33. How does my phone see? Depth Sensor, calculates depth, distance from your phone Gyroscope, calculates rotation Magnetometer, compass that keeps track of north Proximity sensor, measures how close and far Accelerometer, detects changes in velocity, movement and rotation Light sensor, detects light levels
34. Your computer makes sense of what it sees as a separate process from “doing the seeing” (collecting sensor data)
39. Finding Your XR Story
40. No one has a sustainable business model and the public doesn’t believe facts—how can journalists possibly invest in this weird computer stuff?
41. We understand more about things we have experienced than things we have only observed. Spatial computing makes the consumer an active participate which means their trust in content creators is earned.
42. Torch AR In the Blink of the Mind—Attention
43. XR needs you more than you need it.
44. Newsrooms prioritize the constraints that technology and entertainment companies don’t Accessibility of distribution Speed and ease of content production Clarity of comprehension Ethical impact
45. How to Find Your “VR/AR Thing”
46. The tech can’t turn something into a story. The story has to be there to begin with.
48. Will this story be more effective if the user is physically immersed in it?
50. Will this story will be more effective if the user’s experience isn’t constrained to 2d space?
52. Is this a story that is best represented as a process that takes place over time?
54. What broad types of stories are particularly well suited to XR?
55. Scale! “How big is it?” is a simple story that’s best experienced in the embodied 1stperson
56. Tell an old story with a new technology
58. Stories about spaces (especially the very large or the very small)
60. “I’ve seen a lot of VR/AR I don’t like. How can I make sure my content won’t be ‘bad'?”
61. Photographers and videographers have jobs for a reason. Most 360 video is “bad”
62. It’s OK (it’s even important) to make bad content. But here are some guidelines to make that less likely
78. Mozilla Hubs
80. Practical Tips to Make XR Accessible for Teams and Audiences
81. The Most Accessible Options Web Mobile
82. Who can write html?
83. How about Javascript?
85. https://css- tricks.com/minecraft -webvr-html-using- frame/
86. Want to build something native? Unity VRTK
87. What’s the deal with Sumerian?
88. Where to Find Free Models Sketchfab Google Poly 3d.si.edu Build in hmd with Blocks or Medium
90. How not to make your user puke Keep the framerate above 60 fps Keep Low latency—render in real time Low Avoid sharp and unexpected camera rotations Avoid Don’t try to fake cinematic depth of field (there’s no frame to encourage the viewer to focus on a specific area) Don’t try Avoid sudden lighting transitions. Avoid Consider dynamically reducing the field of view during movement Consider Get a fake nose. Giving the user a fixed point to concentrate on can reduce nausea Get
92. THANKS! You can find me on the Internet: @RebeccaPoulson