IML 400 Spring 2015

Assignment 7: Welcome to the Metaverse

Choose an online social media or entertainment service (facebook, twitter, youtube, netflix, etc), and develop a concept for a virtual reality experience using it’s content and data. Use writing, sketches, mockups and/or visual references from science fiction to illustrate your ideas.

Publish your design proposal online as a simple webpage.

Useful prototyping template from MozVR

• Quick VR mockups with Adobe Illustrator, by Josh Carpenter

Due Date

Monday, March 16th, 9:00am.

Readings - Web VR

1. The Verge - The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
2. Mozilla, Virtual Reality, and the Dawn of the Metaverse? - Interview with Josh Carpenter on WeVR
3. Google Chrome and the future of Virtual Reality - Interview with Brandon Jones on WeVR
4. Leading the Way to a Virtual Reality Web - Interview with Tony Parisi on WeVR

Readings Due Date

Monday, March 16th, 9:00am.

Additional Resources

Web VR tools and related content

1. Chrome Experiments for VR - Google Chrome Web VR tools for Google Cardboard
2. MozVR - Mozilla / Firefox Web VR tools for Oculus Rift
3. Vizor - Building VR in the browser
4. eleVR - Virtual Reality research group
5. eleVR VR video player - Web based 360° spherical video player
6. List of open source software for VR development - a lot if it web based, via WeVR

Web VR examples

1. Basic Google Chrome Cardboard Boilerplate - using ThreeJS. Works on WebGl-enabled mobile browsers
2. Basic MozVR Firefox / Oculus Rift Boilerplate - using ThreeJS. Requires Firefox nightly build
3. Simple MozVR Firefox / Oculus Rift web content browsing mockup - using ThreeJS. Requires Firefox nightly build. Warning: slow to load. Sometimes needs to reload a few times
4. Simple scene with cubemap implemented for three different platforms:
   • WebGL-enabled desktop / tablet / mobile browsers
   • Google Cardboard
   • MozVR Firefox / Oculus Rift
5. GLAM VR tutorial Adding a Cardboard viewport