Hardware is hard!

The hardware working is a big part of the hospital project. When every setting steps finished, it does not work well, that is hardware. How about your version?

We've got SMD file, need run the software with HL environment, changing it into QC code, then combine them all together. That would be today's work, but we got stuck on the hardware working.

Vuzix VR920, the backup glasses for us. When the first settings happen, make sure adjust the screen pixel as 600x800, and 60 Hz, and the sensor box will be selected, that means without mouse. But everything is done, it just could control the screen but the game. Then change the game path will help. But it is unstable, so try to install Glovepie 0.3 (E-magin Z800, it is 600x800, and 60 Hz as well, and make sure the mirror selected.)

Wii remote: Reset the button into mouse button, it worked well in HL. But the back direction control is not comfortable. Solved the problem that how to separate the long and the short press, and defined every useful button as keyboard character.

The PC problem: Hard disk can not be found. We can not get into the system even BIOS, maybe because of the bad disk, the cable or the connect point. Then borrowed another PC, put the disk as the move disk for it, found it. So the disk is good. Lee do not need rebuild the map, Jovi is a lucky star.

Hope everything is well tomorrow, good luck guys!

Round Stairs.

1. Watched the record last time，everyone focus on the foot, expect changing somewhere, but no one focus on the video and the screen on the wall, so if just keep the top projector for the floor view, maybe the power of the work can be concentrated. But if the shadow of people will influence the show? Or change to two project on the floor slantways, or using the mirror to reflect on the floor, what happens?

2. Why keep the stair element? Stair has 2 property, one is up, another is down. That means one is searching out, another is back to your heart. This just tallies with the question about virtuality and truth. If we choose to continue the exploration, or choose to back to the nature? Contradiction as well.

3. Concept talk: Let people go into the stair game, with interaction, then people could think the value of this works. Whirl, is a good point for this game, lost into the virtual world, what the next step? does the game stop? how and when? according to what?

4. Sound problem: If using live steps sound, input the laptop and change into echo, then output to speakers. To catch the steps sound is question one and the feedback of the sound is question two. Maybe a mini microphone could be sticked on the shoes of the volunteer. Or if I put 4 microphone on the edge of the screen, what happens?

5. Now I've done a Patch for Bang signal startup by the sound intensity. Stair rotation direction is a problem. That is a square stair, if let a square rotate, people can not match the steps on the stairs. If change to a circle, maybe better. But, if the optical illusion could build a circle stair by 3D model? Or it can just be made by graphic? Ascher's works have some different model I could choose.

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Not matter what happens,

keep your heart hard enough.

Cheer up= Pull myself together!

Hello! I am starting to talk in English. Good luck! (Without dictionary is better!)

My modify for rebuilding the show:

Why your idea have not kept from beginning? Optical illusion.... and how to make the feeling like that we are into a virtual world. Can you think about the relationship between the element? Not just collection. We need interactive and experience.

I have made a patch like recording the steps sound, when the frequency up to right range, there is a bang. It can be used to open or make the video quick or slow.

Some modify brain storm:

1. According to the changing direction from the performer, the optical illusion picture will change by 90 degree， seems as the relativity move.

2. the frequency of move control the color changing, quick=red, slow=blue.

3. Using iWear VR920 to make an experience as going up stairs. Make a map in SL ？

4. If it could be separated into up and down stairs video, during people change the direction.

5. Think about how to make interaction between people and optical illusion? and make the show fun.

6. If focusing on the cycle, what will happen to build a clear topic?

Technology choose and test.... Delete the useless elements.

List why it can not be build, because of the tech. or the topic?

I need some illustration later.

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I am alone,

until birth to death,

put myself together,

after every dark,

make a new one....

Our show in Conservatoire at 12 Jan.2010

Welcome to our interactive environment based on the water tower at Queen Elizabeth hospital, Selly Oak, the environment will hold a number of spaces that reference the history of the area, workhouse history, age in the Second World War....

Bring our Emagin, come back to the old times and get more experiences of the new media!

Conservatoire, Birmingham, 12 Jan.2010, 2-5pm,
VRU, MA Digital Arts in Performance

Genius Prarnav Mistry and "Sixth Sense"

Can you believe there are someone come from MIT is trying to solve the problem between machines and human beings, while we are creating more and more new machines to change our life? Prarnav Mistry and his team focus on human nature, trying to release our nature from using machines. You won't be able to miss any seconds of this video, this technique will be written into the history of the world.

It will be inosculated between the data world and the real world by “ Sixth Sense", and the new age will begin from here.

by the way, all the code and source will be opened, the inventer hope more and more people could use it in their own area.... Brilliant !

Amazing 3D immersion technology

Today, we tried to preview the space we made in HL, found that the "E-magin machine" didn't match our body move a lot, after wear the glass 5 minutes, I feel giddy at all, maybe it need adjust....or maybe we will feel better on the big screen in conservatoire. Something like below:

"WATG’s incredible hotel and resort work provide a superb example of the power of this tool. Why not let a client walk through their new resort before ground has even been broken? Take them into one of these and they’ll never settle for blueprints and a miniature model again.

Part of what makes this experience so wonderful is the lack of heavy, complicated headgear. The viewer is free to walk around, and the environment responds to their every move. There’s no training required or cumbersome technology to stand in the way of the content. But the effect doesn’t come cheap: you’ll need over half a million dollars and a lot of space to pull this off."

Story Board

We need some detail works for the presentation in conservatoire, to make it a whole. So I have read some history of Selly Oak Hospital, and choose some important parts to rewrite, corrected by Iona. It will be at the entrance to explain Jovi's history pictures.

These are the story board of our working progress, will be at the wall of the exit.




We are going to the print work today, I have tried to explain we need the dull cover not the bright one, it is difficult, I just said "dark, dark....", so discomfiture... the print cost in UK is very expensive than China, far more, we talked about running a print studio, a joke....

Models by C4D

Finally, we are finished all the models, some is unbefitting at the very beginning, depending on the history or the space.

Important rule in Half-Life about imput the object is every object better owns around 1000 polygons, I made some complicated models before around 4000 polygons or more such as wheelchair, tank, sewing machine and so on. We can't imput them by HL so I have to figure out how to make the models as smooth as possible and use less polygons.

I found that more polygons maybe come from the circle or sphere, if it is small enough, the number of the polygons is not important for them, so I decided start from that kinds of things. After that I need to delete all of the texture on them, and then find some fitable texture with JPEG form share with Iona, she did very beautiful texture more than I found, very comfortable.


Tank

Tank_with texture


SewingMachine

SewingMachine_with texture

AntiTank

BloodBags

HospitalBed_old

HospitalBed_modern


BunkBeds


Babycot


OperatingTable


WheelChair

WheelChair_with texture

WavingMachine

Screens


C4D screenshot of edit interface