When starting this research I honestly had no idea what to expect or what exactly SLAM could entail. Or even how it connected to AR and VR. SLAM is Simultaneous Localization And Mapping is pretty much what it sounds like. …

I recently decided to jump into the world of VR and got myself a 2nd Gen Oculus Quest. I was excited to explore the creative side of the VR platform. I have never been completely into the gaming aspect of VR, to me, that seems kind of like a novelty…

World effects in Spark AR are effects that are stationary using the smartphone’s gyroscope to stay in place and calculate how the effect should change and react. If an object is in world space, you can set it to be in a fixed location in someone’s environment. The difference between…

For many years people have been wondering what the culmination of all our developing technologies would look like; Where it would all lead. Science fiction has always been trying to predict what technologies would become a reality and a part of our routine lives. There is so many dystopian sci-fi…

A lut can be thought of almost as a filter for an image or footage. Usually when content creators are talking about a lut, they are referring to it when it comes to film. Luts allow creators to quickly color grade footage, and make it all look similar and have…

Virtual Reality in a simple definition is a “3 dimensional, computer generated environment”. This is an environment that is not real but can be interacted with through physical interfaces such as controllers or motion trackers. This is one of the fastest growing technological systems that many different companies are working…

Chapter one of the book goes over the basics and introduction of what light means in a photograph. He does this in a more symbolic way calling light “ the language of photography”. Also introduced are the principles of light, which are the size of the light source, The types…

I have really enjoyed my photography experience this quarter so far, I have been taking pictures with a DSLR for about 5 years now and even now this forced me to try new methods and techniques for taking pictures. It also taught me a lot of thing on speeding up…

This chapter goes over the many roles that photography plays in society. It takes a look at how people now have become somewhat addicted to taking photographs but everyone does it for a slightly different reason. Some of the reasons that people take photographs are to immortalize a moment, to…