Playground

An ongoing catalog of prototypes, experiments, and explorations in XR and creative technology

Look Up: Weather Forecast in AR

Date

2022

Duration

1 week

Project Type

AR prototyping

Keywords

AR Foundation, Lightship ARDK, ARKit

Role

Ideation, Prototyping

Team

Aria Xiying Bao

Look Up is an AR prototype imagining the future of weather forecasts. It utilizes Niantic's Lightship ARDK depth estimation and occlusion capabilities to allow the user to check the upcoming weather by simply looking up to the sky.

Cosmic Sampler

Date

2022

Duration

2 days

Project Type

VR prototyping

Keywords

Oculus Interaction SDK, Unity VFX

Role

Ideation, Design, Prototyping

A VR drum kit sampler paired with fireworks that celebrate every hit.

Motion Sculpture

Date

2020

Duration

4 weeks

Project Type

Digital Sculpture

Keywords

Rhino3D, Real-time Motion Capture, AR

Role

Ideation, Design, Prototyping

Exploring the memory of space through virtual sculptures of the human motion, projected back to space in augmented reality.

Crumbled Paper: Parametric Modeling

Date

2020

Duration

1 week

Project Type

Parametric Design

Keywords

Rhino3D, Grasshopper

Spatial series of points modelled in Grasshopper using parametric equations.

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Davide Zhang © 2016 - 2023. All Rights Reserved.

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