Tony Parisi (Unity): Face the Future - Computing in an Augmented World

We capture only the photons in front of us.

The expense (of creating 3D content) has never been justified for rendering it on a flat screen - except for a game.
until now…

The creation and access are cheaper

Today’s kids are tomorrow’s xR natives.
With XR there’s nowhere to go but in.

3 areas (for growth):
Software
Content
Services 

4 Waves of AR - examples

This is how AR will be diffused and adopted.

Keynote - Into The Future: A World Without Edges with Graeme Devine

Conclusions:

• "Iteration in a new medium is a must"
  • seen with radio, television, video games.
• "It takes time for a platform to find itself (and construct a comfortable, unwritten contract with the player, the view viewer" for what that format for experience really is. i.e, "TV episode, that radio play, that video game" control and interaction system).
  
  Video games developed a formula where one controller moves the character, one controller moves the camera. It took about 20 years for us to reach that contract with the player. What is interaction in Mixed Reality?
   
• Cats always win

Catastrophe - from Magic Leap Pitchfest

Why Mixed Reality?
Would it be more fit for a different platform?
People often present something to me - and it might be better experienced in a normal, non-mixed reality format. Such as a map or normal app.

1. Theme park - increase entertainment.
2. Warehouse - increase productivity.
3. Profession - i.e.: Spinal surgery - I can look up at the spine but don’t have to look up at the monitor - the surgery takes less time, the person has a chance to heal better and survive better.

Reality Virtually Hackathon

http://www.realityvirtuallyhack.com/

4 Waves of AR

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/18/the-four-waves-of-augmented-reality-that-apple-owns/

AR VR Bootcamp at ITP NYU

AR VR Bootcamp at ITP NYU
Shot through the Hololens
https://youtu.be/RkJLDduEofk

we ARe everywhere

Facebook: 

Use cases for AR
information

digital objects

enhancements
Focused on the camera as the AR platform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkEHEWPZSU 

Building Blocks

-Precise Locaiton

(SLAM) Simultaneous Localization & Mapping
Mapping 3D scenes from still photos

-3D Effects

-Object recognition 

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Leave directions or notes for friends.
Give people more information about where they are

Drop digital objects other people can find and interact with right there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_bTzosFGUs

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MSFT

Google Lens:
“Vision based computing capabilities”

Apple: 

ARKit

Amazon has a game development engine.

The implications for commerce are huge.

Parsons Reunion 2016

Angela Luna / BFA Fashion Design 2016

founder and president of Adiff 

Sophia Sunwoo / BBA Strategic Design Management 2010 

principle & co-founder of Water Collective  

Lucy Jones / BFA Fashion Design 2015  

- recipient of unnatural "Social Innovator" fellowship resulting in residency at Eileen Fisher in partnership w Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) 

Nelsoj De Jesus Ubri / BFA  

audience question:

how do i make sure that I am achieving enough every day. 

Sophia Sunwoo quotes Tony Robbins: 

"You over estimate what you can accomplish in a year. But you underestimate what you can accomplish in 10 years" 

the common theme: 

Not set deadlines but a non-linear organic process 

Towers highlights a pattern among the panelists:

"What I hear you are saying  

how you approach to complexity - one step at a time  ...as you have to in order to solve wicked problems "

    - Joel Towers - Dean of Parsons 

"you you don't know the top until you've seen the bottom and worked our way up"

- Kay's dad

wrote a letter when she was 8 years old

built 125M business - had it all stolen by partner

fashion designer and entrepreneur  

traveled 39/40 years - every show - made sure to give back money  

everyday I am going back to school

 So often the arts are forgotten -

and that's how a lot of us learn

we learn differently

When I saw the space - not only in technology but in changing the futre

But with regards to hospitals [and other human contexts] is what we are teaching 

A letter Kay wrote when she was 8 years old stating she wants to be a fashion designer 

Tor of the new Making center

Jacquard  

27,000 sq ft out of a larger 80,000 sq ft in downtown Manhattan dedicated to making.

part of process focused on "redesigning the design school"

3D printers of all kinds FDM and STL

Printing set ups for screen printing with washing stations, lithographaohy etc. 

    - this is where Jeff Staple started - but upgraded  

Jacquard 

3D knitting machine - like the ones used to make Nike Flyknits - coming soon  

No luddiets allowed

Great to see how parts of the university change so often and so dramatically.

This constantly change may be driven by New York or as Dave Marin thinks - that in this field of creativity you constantly have to be reinventing yourself.

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Parsons is 120 years old