Oct 20

CS Tea Talk Series

Thu, October 20, 2016 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm (1h) • CMC 209

Austin Mason, Assistant Director of the Humanities Center for the Digital Humanities and Visiting Assistant Professor of History here at Carleton College will be giving a talk.

 

Carleton circa 1910: Experiments with Augmented Reality in Unity3D

This talk will describe an ongoing project to construct an Augmented Reality application using Unity3D.  Working from the blueprint of Stuart Eve's concept of Embodied GIS, the application places 3D models of no-longer-standing buildings in their former locations around the Bald Spot and provides a narrated historical audio tour that incorporates archival photographs, documents and oral history recordings.  The talk will discuss the techniques and tools used in the work (3D modeling, GIS, command-line GDAL utilities, scripting in JS and C#), and some of the challenges in getting to a fully functional application that include turning LiDAR terrain data into a Unity heightmap and translating location data from GPS LatLongs to projected UTM15N to Unity gamespace coordinates.

 

Event Contact: Sue Jandro

Event Summary

CS Tea Talk Series
  • Intended For: Students, Faculty, Staff

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