Project Update 11-23-15

We have begun a different stage of our project and have capitalized on the dystopian future where oil industry has taken over and we have begun drilling in every location possible including our intersection. We have a bunch of new objects including tanks, supports, and futuristic oil drills. We are working on texturing currently. These drills will show ideally on the phone in the foreground of the VR

Project Update 11-16-15

Texturing is going well, we are hoping to get more detailed results later but these are the beginnings. The look is very gray so far but we are looking to ad more advertisements and add variation to many of the surface. Then we will export the file altogether as a .obj to be converted in the layar converter with an embedded texture map as well

Project Update 11-9-15

Working on preliminary modeling of intersection. Have the basics down with some embellishments added. Next steps will be texturing specific parts on the base objects with ads that hint at the utopia just before the fall of society. 

Project Update 11-2-15

Technical Rider

Art 451 Problems in Digital Media

Fall 2015

YOUR NAME(S): Zachary Cordisco and Mason Furr

TITLE OF PIECE: Utopia

MEDIUM: Mobile Augmented Reality

DESCRIPTION:  

Our project is a site specific piece that will involve the manipulation of the site through augmented reality. The goal is to render the corner of fourth and sierra, when facing the silver legacy, of downtown Reno. We are choosing to model a society that is balancing on hope and fear. We would like to depict a civilization just before the apocalypse happens.

PREFERED SPACE:

The work will be location specific. The corner of fourth and Sierra facing towards the Silver legacy will be our subject matter. 

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

In order to view our work, the user will need to have a smartphone with gps and to have downloaded the app called “Layar”.