Ada Zhao

President Washington and the Hedgehog

Update 7, Dec 9th
The game is almost completed and I feel it is a good time to do user testing! I tested the game on my roommate, with myself simulating the sound since I haven't added audio yet.
Here is the feedback I got from her:
1. When she was hesitating in the pyramid, she was thinking: every time I go through something, I go to the other side, so is there another way to go in the pyramid?
2. The tube inside the pyramid was not clear enough to tell
3. She didn't notice the eye ball effect
4. She noticed the key showing up after coming back to front side
5. She missed the Washington talking!!!!!!!

Update 6, Dec 2nd

Update 5, Nov 18th
This one has a bug...
I have a new demo but I didn't get time to document it

Storyboard~!

Update 4, Nov 11th

Update 3, Nov 4th

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5r3qGvk8W3PX1FzdmNwVk90YU0?usp=sharing

Update 2, Oct 28th
Problems:
switch the character to be the child of second platform?
objects based on the second image target appear without detecting the second image

Complete the test on a Android phone:

Reference for the hedgehog model:
http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/max-hedgehog-toy/534990

Update 1, Oct 21st

Imagine you are looking straight down from the camera. Please ignore the background. The gravity in the game is from the camera straight down, different from real world.

Done: 

set world center to be the camera

Physics-based

Next week to-do:

Better UI

give users the right to set the world center(gravity)

multi image target

Assignment 4

Vuforia with Unity

So I am thinking of adding a dimension to the map, which gives the users a sense of how tall those points of interests are.

Assignment 3

Geo Layers

Here is the story: I have been in New York for a while and I miss IMA in Shanghai a lot so I decided to send them a gift. However, due to the expensive international delivery fee, I finally sent the gift through Geo Layers!

wow! A gift box!

When I clicked on it, it comes to me and goes through me to the other side

so I turn around and find that I am in the box with a cute teddy bear!

I click on the teddy bear, it turns around and says: my gift for IMA, from ARStudio, IDM

Here is a video about my friend receiving the gift in IMA, Shanghai

Assignment 2

Layar!

This assignment was created based on a mobile game called KleptoCats. I have been playing this game for three days intensively and it is very interesting. (People said that it is actually a dark game)

I didn't print out a page but used a actual photo instead. I found that Layar requires the whole image to be complex so that it can detect enough points of interest to store the image information. I took several photos, even with SLR camera of a single bottle with a pure white background but Layar always told me the image is low quality. It took me a while to figure out what the problem was.

Here is a video of me seeing my water bottle through my phone. The top cat will lead you to KleptoCats website. The pink one will lead you to my website (still working on it). From the bottom button, you can get this App easily!

Enjoy the game!

Assignment 1

Recreate a memory

I recreated a trip to Heaven Mountain in Xinjiang province in China. We were driving over the main peak, which is over 5000 meter high when one of the tires suddenly went flat. We stopped by a yurt by the road. The host helped us repair the tire and treated us with BBQ lamb.

I followed the tutorial but most of my OBJ file cannot be opened properly in Maya. For example, the yurt has detailed window framework but it is just a grey square for now.