Mindful Breathing

The competitive meditation game that yells at you if you are not being mindful enough.

Michael Morran

https://vimeo.com/489113320

Description

Inspired by a tendency to take meditation way too seriously, Mindful Breathing challenges users to accumulate breaths, add upgrades, and wager their progress on the journey to transcendence. Using ml5 and PoseNet, participants' bodies are tracked in order to log breaths and transform what is, at first, a simple interface into a claustrophobic cacophony of 'mindfulness enhancers.' After a certain amount of progress, players are able to measure their success against the self-actualization of others and bet their breaths for the chance to surpass the competition.

This project is inspired by Universal Paperclips by Frank Lantz. Big thanks to Mathura, Craig, Ellen, Lisa Jamhoury, Lisa Sokolov, and all my classmates for their help!

IMALR-GT.201 , IMALR-GT.201
Connections Lab, Connections Lab
Machine Learning,Play/Games

3D_land

A 3D video chat experience to interact and explore virtual spaces with others.

Jake Sherwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o45ApWF5CpE&feature=youtu.be

Description

Much of our post Covid19 life is now spent online in video conference settings.

How can we make those experiences more exciting and engaging?

3D_land is an exploration of webrtc, peer2peer, and threejs technologies and how they can be used to create a more exciting video chat experience.

Can this template be used for more engaging remote learning?

Can it be used for video conferencing?

Or is it just a place to explore with friends?

3D_land sets you in the world of a 3D space island. Participants can explore the world on their own or converse and explore with each other.

They can change their appearance by applying various video filters.

Proximity to other participants allow for improved audio and allow participants to “tattoo” or give gif gifts to other nearby participates.

Full experience here:

https://jps772.itp.io/

ITPG-GT.2734.00001
Live Web (Online)
Art,Play/Games

PComp Mountain

Theme parks, especially rollercoasters are incredibly inaccessible during the pandemic, so I built a model coaster complete with effects to simulate the excitement of going on a rollercoaster.

Zachary Kampf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2GxTO9iXE&feature=emb_logo

Description

Using K'nex (a children's construction toy) I built a fully working model rollercoaster. In addition to the coaster, I set up the track with lights and sound/animation triggers to bring home the fun and excitement of riding a rollercoaster while theme parks are largely inaccessible during the pandemic.

ITPG-GT.2301.00002
Intro to Phys. Comp.
Play/Games

Accessible maze game

The accessible maze game: test your hearing senses and increase your awareness of visual impairment in a playful format.

Kseniia Balaenkova

https://youtu.be/Nqdl1HFtyFw

Description

Me and another ITP student Wendy Wang created a maze that was made with visually impaired people in mind. The player can be guided through the maze only by sounds. For people, whose vision is not affected, the game offers an opportunity to understand how difficult it can be to rely just on hearing sense. At first, it is challenging and confusing to navigate through maze but once you get used to it, it becomes a fun and interesting challenge. The maze is generated randomly every time, and its complexity can be easily changed in the code. The player’s movement is controlled with the arrow keys on the keyboard. Sounds are played in a list format and the player can't move until the sounds are finished playing. All the sounds are easily distinguishable, and left and right sounds were made stereo so that they can be played in a left ear or right ear respectively. To understand the game easier, the greetings and instructions are played when the person first loads the game and can be listened again at any point by pressing Shift key.

ITPG-GT.2301.00004, ITPG-GT.2048.00004
Intro to Phys. Comp., ICM – Media
Play/Games,Accessible

Digital Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Zhiyue Huang

https://youtu.be/aX0LaNqhTPM

Description

This is an interactive season's greeting card. Please enable your web camera, and move around your hands or your head to complete the card! The hints of the tasks are listed on the right. If you're still confused about how to interact, please check the video documentation =P And… Merry Christmas!!

ITPG-GT.2233.00001
ICM
Play/Games

Star Machine

Catch a star and turn it into a star candy with the Star Machine✨

Sihan Zhang

https://youtu.be/6uFFp6LMZZA

Description

Experience the joy of catching a star with the Star Machine! When you stand in front of the Star Machine, the computer will track your right hand through webcam using the PoseNet machine learning model. If your hand position reaches a star on the projection, the star is “captured” and it will follow your hand. When you place the star inside the crystall ball of the Star Machine, the star will gradually disappear and a star candy will fall out.

ITPG-GT.2301.00005, ITPG-GT.2465.001
Intro to Phys. Comp., Machine Learning for the Web (Online)
Machine Learning,Play/Games

Amorphous

Amorphous is a social virtual reality experiment that explores how individual identities and group behaviors emerge in the guise of amorphous, undefined forms

Na Chen, Tianxu Zhou

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xbVzU-tMDFAPYv1N4HsRvzv5_xHwmWyT/view?usp=sharing

Description

Our goals is to allow users to explore how their self-perception might change as they abandon the normal human form and start to interact with others. The experience leverages minimal interactions and allows players to explore the group dynamics through a series of actions. Along the journey, they are able to interact with other users through four forms of actions: connect, split, detach and duplicate.

ITPG-GT.2461.001
Desert of the Real: Deep Dive into Social VR (Online)
VR\\\\AR,Play/Games

Cycle of the Universe

An interactive visual simulation of the universe from Big Bang to the heat death… then all over again and again.

Jack Chen

https://vimeo.com/487420451

Description

I took inspiration from “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov – a short science fiction story published in 1956 about humanity’s inability to prevent the eventual heat death of the universe. I was blown away by the story’s ambitious setting along with its philosophical approach in exploring the limits of existence on a cosmic scale.

Inspired by Asimov's story, my project is an interactive simulation of a universe where the user can initiate the “Big Bang” of their own universe, then look around while modifying attributes of their universe before it reaches the end of its life span. The simulated microcosm of the universe provides an opportunity to consider our existence on a cosmic scale – a perspective not often conjured up when preoccupied with the routines of day to day living.

This project was created using P5.js with WebGL. It is best experienced in full screen with the sound turned on, as the music will react to the user input alongside the visual elements, formulating an immersive interactive experience.

ITPG-GT.2048.00007
ICM – Media
Narrative/Storytelling,Play/Games