Week 1 Action! – January 19th, 2024

In the first week, Team Flow gathered together to make alignment on our project objectives as well as arranged meetings with faculty members. 

• Project Overview 

Flow is an interactive immersive experience that leads the guests into a traditional Chinese

folklore through dance, light, and music. It paints the traditional Chinese folk tales through the

combination of digital installation and dance movements, utilizing light and virtual engines to

create the immersive experience which makes the guests surrounded by the characters from all

angles. As guests walk into the dark room and activate the world through interactions, the story

begins. The level of engagement will increase as guests immerse themselves into the world.

Starting with physical props, then virtual interactions with the world, and later guests are going to

collaborate. As the story moves to the climax both visually and emotionally, the guests will join in

the celebration, and dance freely.

• Design

– Flow Experience Design

Hours of brainstorming as a team on the experience journey, with more detailed, possible vision/ sound, potential interactions with specific physical props, (we are still trying to figure out the virtual interactions which will be leading the guests interacting with the world through gestures. We are finding ways to have indirect control rather than directly telling the guests what to do.) 

– Sketches on paper with markers, put sticky notes with unsolved questions

• Moodboard

• Technology

-Unreal Engine template setup, started testing in Cavern

-Hardware check out: Vive trackers, Kinects, Arduino, and Wacom Intuos5

-Motion capture lab: reached out to the technical support from the main campus, scheduled our first mocap tour

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• Plan for Next Week

-Motion capture tour on Monday

-Level design for climax scene, interactions brainstorming 

-Specific tasks for each role, preparing for quarters walkaround