alice-teacher Final Alice VR Demo Video and Lessons Learned

[Vanderhyde, James]

Good job, Bill. I thumbed it up on YouTube, since I don’t have Twitter.

I noticed that in VR the objects have shadows. That is already an improvement over the Alice IDE.

James
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James Vanderhyde
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Computer Science
Saint Xavier University
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On Nov 30, 2021, at 11:25 AM, Barnum, William via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:


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Hey all,

Thanks so much for the feedback on the draft video of the Alice VR program demos!

I wanted to share a few things I learned from my experience:

1. When I first imported a student project into VR, I was disappointed. It seemed less realistic.  One student had created a neat narrative that depended on tight camera angles that focused on only what she wanted the viewer to see. It ruined the illusion when I could swivel my head to control the view because it didn't look right from different angles. It was kind of like if your favorite TV show turned the camera 5 degrees, and you could see the wood holding up the fake walls to the fake room. I realized that we needed to consider all possible camera angles when designing worlds.

2. The Alice Unity player doesn't work exactly the same as the desktop Alice player. In some cases, sloppy or processor-intensive code which didn't cause problems on the desktop player caused issues with the Unity player. I didn't realize that until students tried out their worlds, and we had to troubleshoot on the fly. Doing it again, I will install the Alice Unity player on each student's desktop and have them try their programs out ahead of time without VR goggles. That way, we can work out the bugs before we try it with the VR headset.

3. I've tweeted out the final version of the video. Any likes, comments, or retweets on the tweet would be humbly appreciated. 🙂
https://twitter.com/Bill_Barnum/status/1465351712386871298?s=20<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FBill_Barnum%2Fstatus%2F1465351712386871298%3Fs%3D20&data=04%7C01%7Cvanderhyde%40sxu.edu%7C778634482f6c42411b9808d9b42de75d%7Cfe272ab3cfce455f9427088b59a13be5%7C0%7C0%7C637738931513343154%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=com2efGghY9yQ0vE7Z2m0%2BH1bGQcRbJjFL61YsQqi6c%3D&reserved=0>

Bill

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