Reimagining Virtual Reality

brittenhouse6 — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:02:22 +0000

Cutting-edge technologies like Unreal Engine, Plask, MoCap Solutions, Generated Photos, and MetaHuman Creator are helping filmmakers render incredibly complex, immersive worlds by combining visual effects, real-time animations, game engines, and A.I. The new wave of filmmaking that uses Unreal Engine as its principal pipeline is known as virtual productions (V.P.s). During the 2021- 2022 Academic year, a team of 30 graduate and undergraduate students collaborated with DILAC on Ireti. This immersive V.R. film follows a woman reflecting on fragmented events in her life that led to her closest friend's death. It combines V.R., animation, and live-action storytelling elements to challenge its audience to decipher the fragmented memories and uncover the truth about what happened to the story's protagonist.

The film is currently in post-production and will release in August 2022. Click the links below to view the movie trailer or behind-the-scenes mini-documentary.

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Trailer

Behind-the-Scenes Documentary

Project Year

2021-22

Project Leads

John Thornton

Project Format

Installation

Genre Tags

Digital Filmmaking

Virtual Reality

Contact Email

john.thornton@lmc.gatech.edu

360 Degrees of Atlanta: Introduction of Atlanta in Japanese

brittenhouse6 — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:28:52 +0000

360 Degrees of Atlanta: Introduction of Atlanta in Japanese

The pandemic prevented us from traveling around the world. To the students who are studying Japanese, visiting Japan is their dream. In this project, students will experience visiting Japan virtually using a VR system and create movies to introduce Atlanta to Japanese viewers using 360 cameras. Through this project, students will learn how to introduce sightseeing spots in Atlanta in Japanese, how to edit/organize the video and how to make attractive thumbnails for Japanese viewers.

The videos from Fall 2021 is archived on https://sites.gatech.edu/japn-atlanta360.

Play Video

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Publications, Exhibitions, Other Products

McDaniel, A & Goar E. (2022) “Pilot study of 360 degrees video: What we learned from the project” The 37^th Annual SEATJ Conference, Virtual. April 2022

Project Year

2021-22

Project Leads

Aya McDaniel

Genre Tags

Digital Filmmaking

Digital Pedagogy

Contact Email

aya.mcdaniel@modlangs.gatech.edu