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Verse 1555
An interactive mixed-reality platform for memory preservation of NYU Shanghai Alumni.
Date: 2022
Project Duration: 3 months
Mentor: Professor Xingchen Zhang, NYU Shanghai.
My Role: Visual Artist/Game Engine Technical Artist
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Project Description
Verse: No. 1555' is an interactive online experience that visualizes users' personal memories of Century Avenue 1555 (NYU Shanghai campus). Through the web-based VR & mobile AR portal, users can access the virtual building of NYU Shanghai, while seeing other people's memory that they created in the virtual space.
The project contains our memorieses (and hopefully yours too) of our academic building in a virtual format. NYUSH community members can revisit these memories at any time and encounter stories that happened in the real Century Avenue No. 1555.
Project Concept: "Non-Essential"
Human Stories = Grand Narratives + Non -Essential stories
Grand Narrative on human history
"Non-essential" life moments filled with emotion
Our project focused on those “non-essential" life moments that seems subtle compared to the grand narratives of human history. We would like to convey the idea that: The "non-essential" stories matters.
Project Inspiration & Aesthetics
"Strands"
As all of our teammembers are fan of the game Death Stranding, we utlizes the concepts of strands as starting point of our visual references. This fits with our goal of connecting the community with virtual memories.
Technical Details
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Photogrammetry
We apply photogrammetry to digitally scan the whole campus building as the 3D models.
AR Occulusion
We applied AR Occulusion to determine what needs to be occluded and render content accurately.
UGC
Users can leave messages and upload images.
Real-time Audio Visualizatoin
I designed the audio-visualization to maximize user engagement.
User Test & Iteration
We iterated on several rounds of UI/UX. I helped our team gathered inspirations and designed several version of user experience.
Poster Design
I designed several series of posters for the project. The first theme is centered around the concept of "connection".
Exhibition
TedX NYU Shanghai: Non-Essential
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