Last year was an exciting year, first I was invited to teach at NEWVIEW SCHOOL TAIPEI. Besides redesigning the curriculum, I worked with a group of brilliant designers and technologists and designed a M5 extension and framework that allow users to create alternative controller with very minimum programming. Here are some of the controllers I made using the framework.
When I found out NEWSCHOOL is interested in coming to NYC, I immediately proposed to have it at Parsons School of Design. At this point, I didn’t know one of the students in this collaboration studio will win the grant prize of the NEWVIEW Award 2021. I was just really excited that I can officially bring this code-less VR/AR/XR pipeline to my students at the Design and Technology program.
“One way to look for innovation in game design is to have non-game designers make games.” This is a saying that circulates in the indie game community for a long time. I believe spirit behind this saying is also the key to find the ultimate content type(s) that will help VR technology earn a place in our daily life. As a faulty at Parsons, I have been looking for ways to bring our artist and designer students to take their original content into virtual space for a spin. I co-created the first VR experiment course at Parsons called Recursive Reality in late 2013. This course and another popular course at our program, the New Arcade, became the curriculum barebone of this collaboration studio: NEWVIEW SCHOOL.
