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Ditherer

A VR art installation for Los Angeles artists Institute for New Feeling, commissioned by Ballroom Marfa.

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Ditherer premiered as part of Institute For New Feeling's's 2016 show This is Presence at Ballroom Marfa, with additional exhibitions at Art&&Code presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Frank Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, and M WOODS, Beijing.

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"Picking up virtual products from the shelves of a warehouse transports you to a vivid dream-like world representing the narrative of the product. In the currently available scene, grabbing a virtual avocado takes you to Tom Selleck’s controversial ranch where you are bombarded by trivia and bits of avocado history, eventually ending up in a perfect recreation of GW Bush’s living room to enjoy their “famous” guacamole, in a kind of farm-to-table reverie. It’s actually even weirder than it sounds..."

— Molleindustria, Weird Reality/VIA Highlights


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For more info, visit: http://www.institutefornewfeeling.com/ditherer

Development

Unity Editor Version

Unity 5.4.0f3 https://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-5.4.0

Accompanying Asset Downloads

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lh79g5uj3vkkfi4/AAC16O3apSCMVRzG9icIDG_ca?dl=0 Place all folders in /Assets folder: /Assets/StreamingAssets /Assets/Textures-Other /Assets/Textures-Substance

Hap Video Codec

https://github.com/Vidvox/hap This is an open-source codec for GPU based video playback. It is used by the AVPRO Video plugin, so only needed to view 360 video experiences.

Plugin Info

SteamVR

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/32647 Support Forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/358720/discussions/

AVPro Video (Windows) *Watermarked Demo Available

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/57969 Documentation: http://downloads.renderheads.com/docs/UnityAVProVideo.pdf

SteamVR Unity Toolkit

https://github.com/thestonefox/SteamVR_Unity_Toolkit Documentation: https://github.com/thestonefox/SteamVR_Unity_Toolkit/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION.md

Project Structure

/Audio

All audio files go here

/Animations

All Animation Object files for scenespace animations go here.

/Scenes

All Unity Scenes for this project go here

/Scripts

All custom scripts go here

/Materials-Util

Utility materials, not for use in final product

/Models

.FBX models, including a /Materials folder

/SceneAssets

Mostly older models and materials but some still in use. Use /Texture,/Model and other folders for new assets.

/StreamingAssets

Video files for playback by AVPro Video plugin, Product scene experience videos

/Textures-Other

Texture files not originated from Substance tools

/Textures-Substance

Texture files originated from Substance tools

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