I have found this unit very enjoyable and it has been very good to work in a group as I am not normally involved in group work for my creative practises. If I could do the unit again I would spend more time creating sounds with other team members as I only really did this during the end of the unit and it was really fun and helped me improve on the work I was doing by getting another person’s point of view on the work. I also wish I had used more of the university’s resources and used the multitrack recorders more when recording samples so that I could have easily recorded the sounds for the space. I think that in the future I will engage myself in group work a lot more as I really liked the creativity that it brought out of me.

Beautiful psychedelic sound produced by movement and produces visual with VR headset. Leslie Deere. Long droning sounds that change slightly over time. this is inspiring for my VR sound work as it makes me think about how we could use the form of movement within the experience to create, manipulate and edit sound. Colour theory, therapeutic use of colours and sound.

Encoding formats – Vorbis defaults to 37%, AT9, Opus looses compression to 63%

Loading modes – Assets with compressed loading modes are loaded within the beginning. Decompressed are modes are decompressed into memory when loading. Streaming loading mode are continuously loaded, might buffer.

Potential disconnect between the sound and the experience. Disassociation.

Sound and the flow of time. Music can make time go faster but doesn’t change the immersive-ness. However sound effects can make the experience more immersive.

Vorbis Streaming.

In Virtual Reality the panning is replaced with HRTF, more accurate directional cues. Distance Attenuation. For VR should master with head tracking, how the mix works with head tracking.

DearVR. Oculus VST.

More effects ,more buffering.

Ethics within VR, when creating our project we should abide by ethics followed in the real world within our project. We have to keep our integrity and not create anything that would make others uncomfortable or offended.

Uncanny valley – how humanlike robots can elicit an emotional response to an object/robot. Takashi Minato coined the term and created a scale to show how as AI/Robotics get realer our reactions and responses to them change and we get progressively weary and uncomfortable with the object if it looks too real and not right. He found that there are robots and objects that we are comfortable with such as teddy bears, non-realistic robots and the bunraku puppet which is a traditional Japanese puppet with a humanlike face that people in black body suits control.

Unreal Engine have created the MetaHuman which is an engine that can easily scan human expressions and facial features within minutes and then transfer them into the engine so that they can be warped and changed to be suitable for film, video games and other forms of media. The models look scarily realistic and play into the Uncanny Valley theory.

Sonic sensibility

Escher effect

VR being used in health industry, doctors being trained in VR, VR can be used as therapy and can be used to treat PTSD with veterans to take them more comfortable and accepting to their past experiences that might be negatively effecting them in the present.

Forensic architecture is a site ran by Goldsmiths university that uses technologies such as unreal engine to show various incidents of war and crime and shows you reenactments of events.

Today we had a meeting on what we are going to do for the rest of the project. Rosa showed us what work she had done and we had a try at playing the work in progress experience on her headset. The sounds that have been integrated into the game have all been downloaded and our sounds are not in the game so far. I am going to start working on the sounds for the computer and bedroom sounds. I will need to make some ambient sounds, sounds for the guitar and piano.