"What is it?" Blog 10-29-10

On Monday, we were shown a pile of materials that resembled some mail to a Maria Vasquez in Arlington, Virginia. We then saw it and had to tell the two "holders of knowledge" through Oncourse mail what we thought the package's contents were. I told them what I had thought it was, though I gave both guys different answers. I had since searched through Google and then found out what it really was, but I don't want to spoil anything until Monday.

I think Mrs. Lykins wanted us to tell us what we thought the package was to create a story and/or world or to do independent research of a package's contents to discover the truth behind the contents and where they came from and to enhance problem-solving skills, though I'm leaning more towards research and problem-solving. Luckily, I was able to remember what the objects were, so that I could look their titles through Google. The internet really is a treasure-trove of information, especially in cases like this. I know it might be cheating, but none of the rules involved "not using any search engine at your disposal".

My "You Call It" blog 10-21-10

For this particular blog, I've used a combination of what I've used in the fear experiment and of the technology in the Virtual Reality Cave in the Advanced Visualization Lab to create a Virtual Reality Haunted House tour.

The haunted house would contain the following:

+3D glasses for the tour
+Virtual Reality Cave technology
+4-D technology(wind effects, water effects, etc)
+Random Monster/Ghost Appearances
+Randomly Generated Maps
+Treadmill

The reason I use random generation for this project is to play on people's fears of the unexpected and unknown, just like in Kyle's project and in my Bugaboo chair project.

Here is a "quick and dirty" mockup of what the front of the house would look like:



And this is what the inside of the house would look like:

I used "quick and dirty" sketches for the mock-ups of my creation, because I might go to Kings Island this Saturday and might spend the night at Ohio.