Critical Practice: "AR ARchery"
Tens Suns Chinese Myth
The Story in which this Augmentead REality game is based upon..
In ancient Chinese mythology, the sky had not one, but 10 suns. Every day, the solar goddess Shiho would pick up one of these suns and her son, Yi, and wheel them across the sky in her chariot. In the meantime, the other nine would play among the leaves of the mythical Fusang tree, believed to be more than 10,000 feet tall.
This is the game capture of my AR application.
This animation is intended to be watched before my AR FPS Ten Suns game.
The YouTube video is by Tzseng CS.
VR Ten Suns was a collaboration project and my two partners created this VR experience along with collaborating with me to produce the AR experience.
Player
First-person Shooter Augmented Reality
My class was divided into groups and the group I joined had already begun with their story and VR experience so I decided that I could make an AR experience to make this project multiplatform.
In my AR experience, the user would play as Yi, the notorious archer.
Cross Platform
Our cross-platform experience contains a VR and AR version. The player begins participating in the AR experience where they watch an animation on the ancient Chinese Myth. The user plays as Yi in the AR experience and shoots down 9 suns to save the world. Later we extend the story by telling a different view where the character will play as the mother and feed the baby birds which results in them evolving into phoenixes and rising as playful and flaming suns.
Concept
Our cross-platform experience contains a VR and AR version. The player begins participating in the AR experience where they watch an animation on the ancient Chinese Myth. The user plays as Yi in the AR experience and shoots down 9 suns to save the world. Later we extend the story by telling a different view where the character will play as the mother and feed the baby birds which results in them evolving into phoenixes and rising as playful and flaming suns.
Augmented Reality Work by Lauren
Virtual Reality work done by team (Kunrong, Tsz Kwan, & Lauren)
Goal
Tell the original story and teach my players about this ancient Chinese Myth, once achieved: they are put into Yi’s Shoes and play a fun game where they see the world go from…
Here is the storyboard for my AR experience. I would be working on the functionality and mechanics of this project by themselves and using the same environment Kunrong is using to create his scene.
This is what the scene looks like at the beginning.
This is what the scene looks like after the user has shot down all ten suns.
Unity Process
I followed this tutorial to get the functional of the shooter working by using ray tracing
This was the error I got and could not find much documentation for it.
I got this error when I was trying to use the ARCore XR Toolkit. I changed and just used Apple at first. Later, I realized that this would be complicated as I needed a developed license and I switched to using Vuforia because I was familiar with the package.