Remixed Realities

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to workflows for authoring Augmented Reality (AR) content in the Unity 3D Video Game Engine, teach them skills in developing custom interactions with the C# coding language, and challenge them to create speculative mixed reality scenarios. Students will explore several forms of mixed reality in a series of exercises leading up to a final narrative-based AR experience built for the Meta Quest 3 headset. We will speculate on the occupation of physical/digital hybrids by using a calibration routine to align digital geometry to physical spaces in AR; create volumetric documentary experiences using reality capture techniques to record existing spaces and objects; and develop rich AR experiences using remixed volumetrically captured geometry, digital geometry, and physical spaces.