Vinh T. Nguyen

Personal Reflection

Communication in VR, March 12th 2020 Self-reflective thoughts This written document represents an account of my own learning process when completing the Knowledge Base project. When writing the self-reflection document, consider the following questions: What did you learn? I learned a ton of interesting information about Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality (or XR total), got to knowContinue reading “Personal Reflection”

Weekly Mission 10

The Final Weekly Mission X , the grand finale, the one to end all weekly missions for the Communication Studies 116. I’ve been having a blast at doing these missions so far, and this shouldn’t be an exception. I love writing, thinking, and making predictions on the future is like, and conveniently, this week missionContinue reading “Weekly Mission 10”

Weekly Mission 9

For this week’s mission, Watch& Think option stood out to me as the easiest think to do. As a young entrepreneur, finding the easiest way to solve the problem , in this case the Mission, would be this. With the Corona Virus roaming freely around the world, Election Day coming up, and now Daylight Saving,Continue reading “Weekly Mission 9”

Weekly Mission 8

I’ve noticed that for the last few weeks I’ve sticked to WATCH or TRY options, so to switch things up, I went with the LISTEN option for this week. Our ‘mission’ was to listen to one of the Voice of VR podcast episode, specifically #445: Shauna Heller on VR in Education, Medicine, & Enterprise. I’llContinue reading “Weekly Mission 8”

Weekly Mission 7

Back with another blog post, and for Mission 7, I am being a bit more ambitious than usual. I did all three sub-sections Watch, Play, and Think, and here is my thoughts on the Social World in VR. I will start out writing about Rec Room, a social VR app that is absolutely awesome, thenContinue reading “Weekly Mission 7”

Weekly Mission 6

I’m a little behind on the missions, but better late than never! For this week Mission, I decided to go with the Watch option, which is to watch a talk from Don Carson, one of the concept artists for Disney theme parks, who later started to work more frequently with virtual, rather than physical worlds. InContinue reading “Weekly Mission 6”

Weekly Mission 5

In this week’s mission, I will be talking about an article called “Making Great VR: Six Lessons Learned From I Expect You To Die” by Jesse Schell, a lead developer and UX designer for the experience of the same name. I believe he had a lot of interesting insight to share, so i’ll try myContinue reading “Weekly Mission 5”

Weekly Mission 4

As a music enthusiast, I absolutely love this week’s mission when the instructor asked me to listen to binaural (8D) audio for credit. For the first audio that was listed, I was placed in a virtual barbershop with an Italian barber. Although my name has an Italian origin, I am not a big fan ofContinue reading “Weekly Mission 4”

Weekly Mission 3

Alright this is going be week 3 of the Weekly Mission. This week’s theme is all about ideology of Immersion& Presence within the Virtual World. I decided to go with the WATCH option, in which you supposed to watch Unite Europe 2016 – Genius Loci in VR: Building presence in VR . Unite Europe 2016Continue reading “Weekly Mission 3”

Weekly Mission 2

For this week’s mission, I decided to watch a throwback 80’s or 90’s movie with VR as a main theme. As the concept of Virtual Reality was quite popular in that era, lots of “virtual reality movies” was created to accommodate for the curious & rebellious audience who wants more than just an ordinary film.Continue reading “Weekly Mission 2”