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@argplay
Jacob’s ARG - PlayTest 1.0
This image is a homage to Melika’s stealth skills.
100 points for effort Melika!
Jacob is prototyping an ARG experience for the Microsoft Hololens. It is a DesFi (Design Fiction) for now... playtesting concepts and gameplay mechanics for future deployment. It resembles a capture-the-flag event with a Red team competing with a Blue team over the control of a powerful system device (capture target).
ARG Team Sprint Review
Here is one of the Masters Teams (Audrey, Rachael, Anh Thi and Melika) discussing their progress and presenting some of the initial assets produced for their ARG to be playtested in 2 weeks time...
Rachael has done a great job working out how to use Vuforia for their ARG project. This image demonstrates the integration of print assets with mobile 3D content. Rachael and Audrey reported that Vuforia was difficult to set up at first - mostly due to all of the various software needed such as Unity...
Melika has fabricated some physical game assets (wooden talisman) at J Block QUT... Anh Thi and Rachael are considering how to use the physical assets with the Vuforia AR they have prepared.
and 4. Melika discusses some of the graphic design details of the poster with Tracey... who had some terrific suggestions... as did the lovely Mel.
Fabrication Lab for ARG Puzzle Creation
The QUT School of Design has a very special place for the making of physical artefacts for Interaction Designers.
Today our 2016 Masters cohort got to visit the J Block Fabrication Lab... and now they can expand their imagination when designing objects for their ARG projects.
I can’t wait to see what they all make!
Talking Shak...
Giovanna Shakhovskoy presents!
Giovanna and her brothers are innovators in the field of designing and implementing augmented reality experiences here in Brisbane...
Our cohort of Masters students will be volunteering and evaluating their latest adventure on August 28, 2016: http://createx.qut.edu.au/project/copernicus-challenge
Formats
Escape the Room
Location-based games
Educational games in place
Skills that helped get us to market
Attitude:
Opportunistic
Relationship building
Experiment to learn
Seeking assistance and help
Ongoing learning
Design Elements:
Location
Narrative
World creation
Technology
Charactieristic/theatre
Objective
Our design process starts with...
I have an idea!
What if?
What would I like to do
Who would I like to be
Welcome to the Cohort of 2016!
We will be designing, play testing and presenting Augmented Realty experiences...
An Augmented Reality (AR) project creates a unique experience that blurs the edges between our everyday lives and imagined worlds. Participants are invited to interact with each other and fictional characters in an intersection of real and virtual space and time. AR comes in all shapes and sizes, tell a variety of different stories and inspire all kinds of interactions between people, their networks and sometimes the very streets in which they live. Some simply immerse you in complex fictional scenarios while others indulge you in quirky physical challenges. Some extend broadcast experiences, reveal hidden histories, promote a brand, and some remind us about important social and political causes.
Why make an ARG?
An ARG is an excuse for people from various disciplines to learn about the tools and services available for adoption without the difficulty of overcoming technological In the case of this project, you will design, produce and integrate multiple visual elements and interfaces for playful, thoughtful and communal user interaction.
Using the theoretical and practical concepts and techniques presented in this unit, you will learn how to motivate, engage, persuade, entertain, provoke and subvert people, ideas and places for multiple purposes and contexts.
These frameworks, techniques and processes can be re-applied to create innovative advertising campaigns, media promotions, game designs, business networking events, innovative film and TV production and distribution, artistic expression and exhibition…etc.
Image above: samples of student work from previous years
Lab Visit 05: Virtual Reality Part 2.
Today we visited HUB Studio to experience Oculus Rift VR Worlds for the first time.
Hub Studios VR Artist and Honours student, Wesley Heard, started off by showing us all how he constructs 3D assets in 3D Max and then introduced us to the Unreal Engine interface.
Then the HUB Studio Sound Designer and Honours student, Nathan Corporal, introduced us to recording and editing (Reaper) sound for 3D Audio integration in VR (FMOD).
We then got to try out the Unreal Engine 4 demo, Showdown and other works such as Colosse, Dread Halls by Sergio Hidalgo and Nighttime Terror by Mark Schramm... and others. Such fun!
This was our last Masters session for this special unit. The Lab Visits were a wonderful experience and I can only hope that the students were inspired by the access so many wonderful people gave us to their studios, technologies, projects, designers, developers and researchers.
And a massive thanks to all of the students of the MCI IVD program at QUT. I learned a great deal from you all and very was reinvigorated as a lecturer by your energy, enthusiasm, thoughtfulness and creativity throughout the semester.
Virtual Reality
Today in class we tried Virtual Reality glasses. It was awesome. People had some very funny reactions!
Lab Visit 04: Virtual Reality Part 1.
Eyewear for Mobile VR. So much fun hearing all of the squeals of delight form the students who were all surprised by the effectiveness of the experience using such seemingly simple technology - In this case, Google Cardboard.
Lab Visit 03: Biofabrication Lab at QUT
Associate Professor Mia Woodruff, Sean Powell, Naomi Paxton and other researchers greeted us at the QUT Institute of health and Biomedical Innovation and began the special session with a presentation outlining the background research, collaborators and the processes and techniques involved in the 3D printing of body parts. Then smaller groups took turns in visiting the Biofabrication Lab to see the printers and sample printed materials... and see a demonstration of the various software applications used in the Lab.
As interaction designers, some stand-out topics:
3D Scanning, Processing and Visualisation
Testing processes and requirements
Laboratory users and how they interface with data, technology and each other
3D data <> 3D Printing - controlling calibration and accuracy
3D modelling, animating and customisation
Patient experience - and how patients interface with the researchers, medical experts and laboratory processes
Tools (applications/devices) and control interfaces (input and output)
Communication systems - researchers, patients, government, organizations and the public
Design Process, Analysis and Intervention - before, during and after Printing occurs?
Can you think of any others?
More information on the QUT Biofabrication Lab, their researchers and the very important work that they all do.
https://youtu.be/4PV6WZywE-4
https://youtu.be/71y-Pw9XYbw
http://theconversation.com/from-science-fiction-to-reality-the-dawn-of-the-biofabricator-45309
http://www.nature.com/news/the-printed-organs-coming-to-a-body-near-you-1.17320
And the broader community: https://twitter.com/hashtag/biofabrication
Kei C. Wong has posted some great photos of our Workshops, Lab Visits and Play Tests:
http://illusion-art.tumblr.com
Feel free to use his photographs... but remember to credit Kei C with his name and a link to where you sourced the photo from.
Thanks very much Kei C
PulzAR
PulzAR is PSVITA’s augmented reality puzzle game. The main theme of this game is to save the earth from colossal asteroids spinning just beyond earth’s outer atmosphere. The player has to redirect laser beams to the asteroid, which will ignite a rocket and shatter the asteroid to harmless meteor shower.
The player has to place a AR play card on a table which is used as markers for the game. The other AR Play Cards are then used to place objects such as mirrors, splitters and filters that activate the nodes to power up the rocket to fire the asteroid. The player has only a limited time to program the guidance system.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/pulzar-psvita/
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/05/im-actually-on-the-bandwagon-for-a-vita-game-called-pulzar-join-me/
http://au.ign.com/games/pulsar/vita-123205
Feedback session
Yesterday students from a Creative Writing class joined our session. We introduced our concepts for an Escape The Room game we are doing in collaboration with Calpoly and got valuable feedback that will help us develop our puzzle designs. The students gave us feedback on our ideas, especially our crossword idea with Australian-known words (In our group we are all from Denmark)
LAB VISIT 1
Om Monday the 3rd of August we went the The Cube at QUT Gardens Point, P block to have our first lab visit. Technical expert Adam Siliato introduced us to several different technologies and systems about Motion and gesture tracking.
G-speak The first thing he showed us was a G-speak glove and infra-red camera rig. The glove has several sensors on it and are able to track your “hand motions”. To be able to track the right directions you need to form a coordinate system with your fingers (point a finger in both x, y and z direction).
Laser tracking system Adam also showed us a laser tracking system using SICK sensors. The sensors are placed at the floor three places in the room and tracks motion on the floor. On a screen you can see when small red dots when people are standing or moving around in the tracking-area. It can not really differ from humans and objects yet, but a software is used to find the centrum of each object.
Adam told us that shopping malls want to use this kind of system to track the activity around each shop. He also told us that some people are trying to make a map like the Marauders map from Harry Potter that tracks where people are going using this technology.
Leap motion We were also introduced to Leap Motion. This is a small sensor that can track you hand motions. We saw the motions on a screen while Adam moved his hand over the sensor.
He also showed us what this sensor could be used for. We got some 3D glasses and on the big screen we saw some 3D fish and corals in the ocean. Adam held his hand over the sensor and started to turn it a little bit. When he turned his hand the picture on the screen followed.
Lab Visit 2.0: Biofabrication
On Monday the 14th of September we went to the QUT Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation for our second lab visit in a Biofabrication Lab. It was a very interesting visit.
Associate Professor Mia Woodruff and her team told us about the 3D Bioprinters, what they can print on them and what they can use the output for.
The material they print use is biocompatible polymer fibres in half the size of a human hair. The 3D bioprinter prints a network of these very fine fibres where they afterward can inject bio-ink to simulate the new body part. If the bioprinted object is going to replace something in the bone, they add stam cells from the bone, if it is going to simulate tissue, they add stam cells from the tissue and so on.
Metallic implants are permanent and can cause infections and needs a surgery to get it out. Resorbable polymer will disappear in time when the body has growth back it’s own body part again. For example if a person gets a very bad skull injury, instead of implanting a metallic implants it is now possible to scan the skull and make a polymer implant that simulates the skull and will disappear when the skull has healed.
In the future every hospital might have a 3D Bioprinter, so they can help injured people very quickly. Very cool!
Early Concepts + Energetic Sessions = Rapid Refinement
Each team of the Interaction Design Masters Cohort presented early concepts to an enthusiastic and energetic group of Creative Writing Masters students today encouraging excellent feedback that will inevitably result in the improvement of puzzle designs for the special Escape the Room Project to be hosted by CalPoly later this year.
Immediate Integration of User Feedback
This team of Interaction Design Masters students at QUT presented their concepts for puzzle designs today to a number of users groups from the Creative Writing Masters cohort at QUT.
After each round of concept presentation this team were immediately considering feedback to refine their concepts before presenting to the next group. This was a particularly efficient and effective use of the session time.
Working with a group of potential players
A great feedback session today...
Group One: From our MCI Cohort of Interaction Design students presenting their concepts for puzzle designs for an Escape the Room project we are doing with CalPoly later in the year.
Group Two: We invited a MCI Cohort of Creative Writing to provide feedback to the puzzle concepts presented. This group immediately responded with energy and intellect in a way that will progress the designs of our puzzles.
This group specifically assisted us in better understanding the complexity, feasibility and difficulty of our puzzle designs... and the effectiveness of the narrative theme and objectives of the overall experience.
Paper Prototyping Concepts for User Feedback
This group was especially well prepared for todays feedback session.
They had two specific types of artifacts that helped them get the best results:
Setting the scene: with a collection of archive artifacts to present their concept such as news articles, crossword puzzle, and collectable football cards
User feedback: with a series of response cards that invited the participating user groups to suggest clues for their puzzle designs
