APD_Week4_Play&Place

***This week’s response was made in collaboration with Ben Mansur***

Theme:

Play&Place

Method:

The idea and context were offered by Ben, and Ben makes several low poly models in Maya, and textured it as well. Then, I use those models to build the landscape.

Ben figure out how to manipulate portal in Unity, and I build an AR app based on Vofuria engine in Unity.

Context:

 How ‘I Spy’ Books Are Made - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8luEznxbM
A highly playful and captivating book series that creates spaces and places out of an assortment of inanimate objects, then asks the reader to engage with it to find the hidden objects within.

Where’s Wally - http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/the-history-of-wheres-waldo/

Another famous book series that further stretches the focus on space and place, creating chaotically crowded locations and asking the reader to look closer in order to search for Wally inside them.

The Ludic City - Quentin Stevens

Stevens discusses the ways play can be incorporated into urban spaces, pointing out that while playfulness is largely neglected in urban society, it helps to allow people to become re-enchanted with cities and other urban locations. We want to take this idea of allowing our users to become enchanted with the place that they’re experiencing.

Response:

There are a funny experience in MAGI, nice cooperation with Ben. Our original idea was using screen projectors as a "Window" to give audiences a view to imagine and observe. Ben mentions two useful context witch are "I Spy" and " Where's Wally" . So we decided to make an interactive AR game.

The players need found 4 objects (cat, bird, flower, kite) in the environment that we build.

Sahaj gives us a good reference "Portal", The idea is very close to the world that we want to paint.

Roles:

3D Modelling - Ben

Portal Investigation - Ben

3D Scene Arrangement - Rui

AR & Portal Implementation - Rui

Reflection:

I have to say again it was nice cooperation. We make a prototype of our idea, and it still has some problem can not fix yet. But it was a big step like this is my first times write down so many words in here. If we have time to dig more thing about this idea in the future and using screen projection to give more paly better user experience.