So the class got really interesting as we were connected over to LCCS via an Owl 360 broadcast system. This was a very interesting piece of technology, that adjusted the scene to focus on who was currently speaking. It worked quite well most of the time. It seemed the children were a bit all over the place but there were interesting stories to be heard and I did like the novelty in how the classrooms were interconnected.

Simultaneously, we were being introduced to Rumii Virtual Reality classroom system. This piece of technology, was quite intriguing on its own, as I see some potential in such teaching being conducted. To think about it, I never liked just watching video tutorials or doing learning in an non-engaging and here is a system, which in a relatively low-fidelity way can interconnect people across the world, teachers, students, a technology I figured tech drivers at Microsoft would have introduced with their avatars on Xbox and others from Sony with their own virtual worlds or Second Life as it was mentioned during the class. Still, none of those went as far as to get that all rolling in a virtual reality world it would seem (and as far as I know), which has plenty of potential. Especially, if you can import your own 3D models and assets in Unity and throw them in. It’s a very interesting world we’re stepping into now.

For the third part of the class, we have created (from what I recall) sort of a system’s design in which we were to showcase the connections of the story in a cognitive dissonance form, where I suspect part of the loop gets broken. For that, a story of Rick and Morty, a popular animation-based TV Show featuring two main characters were involved in a spin-off of an episode in which Rick is involved with the president of the United States. I decided to re-drive the story-line in the context of plastic, where it comes from and throwing in rickandmortish dialogue lines and contexts that I assumed would be suitable to featured in (the show itself). I used screenshots of the show based on the web and traced them in Illustrator to achieve this particular cartoonish style of the storyboard.

Rick and Morty Storyboards: