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Storytellers, you can create Augmented Reality Experiences without having to write a line of code. Metaverse is a FREE Augmented Reality…

A bit more about Metaverse! Also… it’s free!

Learn the basics of using the Metaverse Studio to create Augmented Reality Experiences

A really fun and easy way to make some simple AR! This could be a great tool for classrooms and is serving as a prototyping tool for me for a final project!

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I often use this story to illustrate to my students how the most simple and powerful creative ideas are the ones that can be pitched visually.

John Robinson

This reminds me of some of the arguments in Creativity Inc. about the power of visual storytelling.

https://blog.marvelapp.com/sketching-will-make-smarter-designer/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=80237580&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_q6LXJL86YTVfJ_yxBM-RRBqMpp_kl7A-gQjiYZygHsJgDZfCt1ikBub3ays4m3-OO5DEv1DENey5yYDt5D1gds7s76w&_hsmi=80325811

I think this is a great way to get people to engage with endangered species and hopefully motivate them to care more about conservation… and then I realized that it might be the only way we will be able to engage with this animals pretty soon.

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Scientists predict that by 2025, nearly 2 billion of the population will consist of the Generation Alpha or the iGeneration.

Daniel Wilson, Guest writer for ARPost

https://arpost.co/2019/09/18/ar-apps-changing-education/

An interesting look at the how AR can be used in education… and an introduction to the iGeneration.

Link to publication page: http://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/live-texturing-of-augmented-reality-characters/ Coloring books capture the imagination of...

I’m really into the idea of seeing something you colored come to life in AR— or more broadly, the idea of the image coming off page to interact with the audience really appeals to me. I’m trying to learn a little bit about this technology and this video offers some insights. I also think it’s kind of cool that its coming from Disney Research!

In the first episode of our Cloud for Student Developers series, Arman Hezarkhani goes over what Google Cloud is, the products Google Cloud offers, and what ...

A resource for later!

Build unparalleled augmented reality experiences for hundreds of millions of users on iOS using ARKit 3, Reality Composer, and RealityKit.

Time to learn about some AR stuff!

I’m interested in the way self-care has merged with emerging media— there are so many apps offering digital solutions for services in the self-care/mental health field, and right now many of them are offering big discounts for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. I could see how Talkspace could be really useful for someone living in an area where there aren’t a lot of licensed therapists and the matching tool could be really useful. This site says that users found it 80% as effective as regular face-to-face therapy.

This was so interesting to watch after reading about it in Creativity, Inc. It’s easy to see it and not appreciate what an accomplishment it was back in 1984, so I’m really glad that I have the contextual background now to understanding how ground breaking it really was.

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Planning your next Netflix and chill? If you’re a designer, start with these 12 movies and shows.

After reading the Creativity Inc Book which is about the Pixar Animation, I find an article that is also about those talented animators’ works.

And the third one is the Pixar Story! Good to watch!

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Borrowing this from @deargracegu! Looks like a good list!

I’ve seen this pop up on Facebook a number of times and I’m really confused about the target audience. It’s $500 for this tablet and it’s basically just an e-reader with a note taking app. The ink-based technology intrigues me— I’d love to try it out so I can better judge the writing experience— but I can’t imagine that it’s actually better than writing on my iPad Pro with a matte screen protector and an Apple Pencil. I’m a very paper oriented person— I love the smell of old books and have more notebooks than a normal person should have, so in some sense I think I’d be part of the target audience group, but I honestly can’t imagine wanting a single function tablet like this when you can buy an iPad for less ($329). There are tons of fantastic note-taking apps available: GoodNotes, Notability, ZoomNotes (my favorite), Apple Notes and others. I guess with an iPad you risk getting distracted by social media, email, and pop-up notifications, but I’m pretty sure that if someone is prone to those types of distractions they will still find ways to check their phone or hop on their laptop while jotting down notes in ReMarkable. So for me this product feels like a big miss— subpart technology at too high a price point. I’d be curious to hear what others think!

I’ve been trying to figure out if my BookShare app would actually work with Kindle and came across Libby last week. Libby lets you borrow audiobooks and e-books from your library and read them on any device. If I decide to pursue BookShare as a capstone project, Libby could end up providing an alternate solution to trying to create something for Kindle.

Making // 11-18-19

The Georgia Review is in the beginning stages of redesigning our website and I’ve been meeting with our design and production manager to discuss wireframes, strategies, and research. As the person in charge of circulation for the magazine, I’m taking the lead on the redesign of our e-commerce shop. I think our shop functions pretty well right now, but I want to change things around a bit to better advertise some of our back issues and to clean up some of the visual clutter. For example, right now we sell one, two, three, and four year subscriptions, but these are represented with the same image in the shop. (see below)

My redesign would eliminate this repetition and highlight the benefits of a milt-year subscription. It would also, as mentioned, give shoppers more incentive to look at the catalog of back issues.

I started out thinking about how I wanted to change the shop by doing a good bit of research on how other literary magazines present their merchandise. Then I spent some time ideating and sketching out possible layouts. Here are a few of those sketches.

I ended up really liking the idea of focusing on the cover image and a short blurb about the contents of the issue. When I’m tabling at events I always get comments from people about how the GR has beautiful cover art, so I know it’s really important to our marketing to include a prominent image of the cover. At the same time, most people buying issues are avid readers, so it only makes sense to give them a little sneak peak about what makes the issue special.

Finally, I spent some time in Adobe XD converting my sketches into wireframes that I'll be able to have critiqued by my design and production manager. These are still pretty rough, but once I incorporate my coworker’s feedback I’ll be able to send them along to the web developer we are working with and move forward from there!

Here’s a link to the XD file: https://xd.adobe.com/view/320c2951-9243-4c3d-7e00-8672b33e9321-443d/

This is the same couple who also made the pop-up book that I posted— so beautiful!

Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, who work together as the Adrien M / Claire B Company (previously), explore the intersection of tangible

This is really one of the coolest things ever— merging AR and books makes me beyond excited, but this is BEAUTIFUL as well. Seriously, watch the video— you’ll forget that its in French in about two seconds.

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