Ditherer

A VR art installation for Los Angeles artists Institute for New Feeling, commissioned by Ballroom Marfa.

Ditherer premiered as part of Institute For New Feeling's's 2016 show This is Presence at Ballroom Marfa, with additional exhibitions at Art&&Code presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Frank Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, and M WOODS, Beijing.

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"Picking up virtual products from the shelves of a warehouse transports you to a vivid dream-like world representing the narrative of the product. In the currently available scene, grabbing a virtual avocado takes you to Tom Selleck’s controversial ranch where you are bombarded by trivia and bits of avocado history, eventually ending up in a perfect recreation of GW Bush’s living room to enjoy their “famous” guacamole, in a kind of farm-to-table reverie. It’s actually even weirder than it sounds..."

— Molleindustria, Weird Reality/VIA Highlights

For more info, visit: http://www.institutefornewfeeling.com/ditherer

Development

Unity Editor Version

Unity 5.4.0f3 https://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-5.4.0

Accompanying Asset Downloads

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lh79g5uj3vkkfi4/AAC16O3apSCMVRzG9icIDG_ca?dl=0 Place all folders in /Assets folder: /Assets/StreamingAssets /Assets/Textures-Other /Assets/Textures-Substance

Hap Video Codec

https://github.com/Vidvox/hap This is an open-source codec for GPU based video playback. It is used by the AVPRO Video plugin, so only needed to view 360 video experiences.

Plugin Info

SteamVR

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/32647 Support Forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/358720/discussions/

AVPro Video (Windows) *Watermarked Demo Available

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/57969 Documentation: http://downloads.renderheads.com/docs/UnityAVProVideo.pdf

SteamVR Unity Toolkit

https://github.com/thestonefox/SteamVR_Unity_Toolkit Documentation: https://github.com/thestonefox/SteamVR_Unity_Toolkit/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION.md

Project Structure

/Audio

All audio files go here

/Animations

All Animation Object files for scenespace animations go here.

/Scenes

All Unity Scenes for this project go here

/Scripts

All custom scripts go here

/Materials-Util

Utility materials, not for use in final product

/Models

.FBX models, including a /Materials folder

/SceneAssets

Mostly older models and materials but some still in use. Use /Texture,/Model and other folders for new assets.

/StreamingAssets

Video files for playback by AVPro Video plugin, Product scene experience videos

/Textures-Other

Texture files not originated from Substance tools

/Textures-Substance

Texture files originated from Substance tools