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I Made a YouTube Tutorial - UE4 Spider-Man Web-Swinging

Over the break, I figured out how to do web swinging.

Today, I decided to give back to the community and make a tutorial for it.

Turns out, I forgot to save the project after recording. Well, at least my awkwardness gives people time to catch up ;)

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App wireframes and progress

Hi!

Seems its been a while since I have have updated my blog... Lets just say I didn’t get as much done in the break as I wanted to. But I did have new direction in how to go about going from a design stage to actually making the app. Talking to my dad about the app design process he talked about first making Wireframes of different designs. So i’ve made a couple wireframes getting design ideas from great IPad UI examples. So here they are...

The inspiration for this set came from a set of designs that the World Wildlife Fund made (WWF for short) I loved the simplistic look of it with only having an image and a photo so I sort of took the same idea and did something similar with mine. Now I may not be using a terminator in my final image but I wanted a laugh and couldn’t think of what to put there at the time. I guess it does still fit the theme right?

https://nz.pinterest.com/pin/85286986665483961/

This next one was stemmed from the idea of a Mercedes IPad design. First seeing the car made me think of having all the titles, menus, and the actual game based around the car. I think this has a lot of great potential with the different sequences possible, even the idea of adding a VR option could be available. I am definitely going to create a more in-depth wireframe for this idea. (I’ll be honest I’ve just had a light-bulb moment and I have a lot to do now).

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TZA: At The End Of 2016

At the start of 2015, I had forced myself to follow through with one of my ideas that had been brewing before I attended AUT. The Idea I decided to follow through with was my simple idea for a real-time social media app that could be used as a virtual business card to either break the ice for social interactions to connect you with someone/something when you are no longer in their radius. Semester 1:   Developed on the idea of TZA after doing some research into business cards and why they’re still around. This is the period when I was learning what an ‘app’ was and how it differed from websites. After being able to differentiate between the two, the idea of TZA began manifesting in my mind and I became obsessed with the thought of creating my own app. Semester 2: In this semester is when the research, design and functionality where developed and shown on a storyboard of the app. This story board attempted to show how the app would work if it was on a mobile phone, but looking back on that storyboard in 2017, It was a very basic sketch up of what could be done with the app from a living organism’s point of view, compared to now where the app can be used from a variety of perspectives.

Semester 3: This semester was used redeveloping the logo to make it more appealing. Also thinking about how I would go about promoting/selling this app on the streets of Auckland city, this semester concluded with me updating the Logo, finding a relevant tag line, and coming up with a uniform “image” I would want my company to be seen as.

Semester 4: This was a full on semester when it came to my app as I had decided to roll with the TZA idea in my entrepreneurial class, and continued to join the Autel Innovation challenge to practice pitching. This semester worked really well when it came to staying TZA focused because I utilized my Entrepreneurial class by making a sample video explaining the idea of TZA, and updating my previous TZA storyboard on an app simulator. Long story short, I then continued to develop on this descriptive video for the Autel competition, I got to the finals of the Autel competition and also got  a lot of public speaking practice for the pitch that had to be given.

Semester 5: This is where I am now in 2017, wanting to take my next step forward and creating a functional prototype app that works on a handheld device. This semester is going to be used to further study into ‘Mobile Singularity’ and creating separate story boards which show how TZA will use the same functional mechanics for profiles wanting to achieve/say something different.

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Felipe Cardona

Last week on Thursday we had the pleasure of being able to talk with Felipe Cardona. The topic of our discussion was Collaborating and creating fast/original mobile AR/VR content.

Not only did we discuss Felipe’s projects but we also talked about what the future of AR holds. In Felipe’s opinion AR is an avenue that has a lot of potential in integrating into everyday life, through videos, phone apps, and even CV’s (as he showed us).

As for the apps Felipe has experimented with the first one was Mobilementary. Mobilementary is an app that is used to make documentaries on the road with a IPhone. You don’t need to use any post-production, you can transfer the films directly to IMovie (on the phone). And create the music on Garageband, also on the phone.

The next app was Pocketvideo, an app used to create experimental quick videos and Gifs. Once you have the videos you can add images and draw on the video.

The last, which interested me the most was called Layar. On the app you can scan an image that has already been made into an interactive AR experience. Once scanned the said image displays pop ups, information and clickable links. The example he gave us was Felipe’s actual CV. Using Layar he overlaid his CV with interactable pop ups which were all unique to the part of the CV giving details and external links.

I enjoyed Felipe giving us insight into what AR is being used for now and the possible avenues it could lead to in future. Knowing what the future could hold for us in terms of future work is something that always has been fascinating to me because of how many avenues are available to head down. I look forward to actually seeing what the future holds for AR myself.

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Attempting to get a feel for 360 imagery. Has its ups and downs. - limited space to image size ratio - sometimes the photo comes out too blurred to make sense of it - its pretty uncomfortable!

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Proposal presentation

I just put a few slides together and voilà :)))) basically i just put in brief an introduction to my personal definition of the topic ‘singularity’ then went into two facets of it; ‘technological singularity’ and ‘social singularity’. using a few mind maps to show my thoughts surrounding what each theory and concept is defined by and how i came to my own understanding of the topics. I am still in a very early development stage and I am sure my definitions, ideas and thoughts will change as i go more in-depth in research and prototyping within the studio area of study. 

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Excuse the hand writing but here is a mind map of my thoughts linking to the word or theory of ‘singularity’. Based on research I’ve done, everything I’ve learnt so far has been summarised to words in links all surrounding the big question of singularity followed by its factors of 'technological singularity’ and 'social singularity’. For my presentation I’ve chosen to focus on technological singularity and possibly creating a 'singular system’. It may not be feasible but we’ll see. This mind map was also done on a small notebook so just don’t mind that 😁