Video!

 Wil Harris

Dec 07, 2021

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Hey! Here's a link to the video for the final project! it was super fun to make! I've had a blast interviewing all of my friends, while I wasn't able to fit them in with the earlier time I like how it turned out nonetheless. 

One challenge  I faced when uploading the video was the editing portion. For a bit there I was lost on what to do, hence my tardy hand in of the link. But the inspiration hit me like a truck and I was able to edit that video almost in one night which was a lot of fun! 

One thing I'd love to do again is make Project SAM a lot more open to other Content Creators. There are a lot of stories in clips and VOD's that I'm sure many would love to relive and recount so for a personal project I might just work on that! 

Either way, this opportunity to work on my own and pursue a project I enjoyed was amazing! I really appreciate the faith I was given to complete the Final Project and it was so fun to show that side of myself to the class! 

https://youtu.be/74nWkK2j9iU

(P.S. I have one other video I'd like to share, I did this video in two nights while trying to figure out how to finish my final project)

https://youtu.be/5ZVHqmvQl5Q

Virtual Reality and the Possible Futures

    Wil Harris

Dec 07, 2021

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    Virtual Reality is a very unique experience. While I personally haven't been able to see a lot of it with my own eyes I've watched playthroughs and videos about many VR games and spaces out today like VRChat, VR Minecraft, Etc. Augmented reality has a lot of cool potentials, touching on the amazing Guest Speaker that came in to speak to us a few days ago now was super cool! Seeing all the art projects and amazing visuals was stunning. I look forward to seeing future projects involving these ideas. 
Extended Reality seems to be the final evolution of VR. And there is a lot of cool things people could use this idea for. Construction workers could preview the build, use extended reality to lay out a plan in 3D or an engineering field where engineers can test and use XR to simulate tests.

Even in entertainment, there are a lot more possibilities, you could become a protagonist of an XR movie, I'm thinking about how horror movies are gonna become that much scarier with you having to run away. Even in everyday life, you'd be able to have a HUD like in video games, getting around town would be easier with a small map in the corner. 

With all this potential this also opens up more opportunities for tracking, ads, and a lot more surveillance of the population. Like in the video we watched in class; where the person on the bus heavily relied on the glasses to do work for them. the Credit system and all the ads spread about on housing and stuff. This XR stuff could easily take that route if the developers or company isn't careful. 

I'm hoping we have a fun idea to work with, something that'll hopefully remain more novel and less intrusive in our day-to-day lives. As fun as those devices would be, I wouldn't want it to become the next phone. Where we keep it on us at all times and rely on it for a lot. I'd just like to see the world for how it is and enjoy the fun sparkly art every now and then.