It’s a big update as I’ve been stockpiling changes due to things happening around the museum. See it now or read on for the changes. AnVRopomotron won Education Experience of the Year at the inaugural WebXR Awards! What a huge honor. My prize is a custom trophy model with an… Read more“AnVRopomotron 1.1.5 Update Notes”
A new semester is here and ahead of it are the latest additions to AnVRopomotron. See it now or read on for details on the changes. Upgraded to A-Frame 1.1.0 Upgraded A-Frame Extras. The motion controls are now confidently on the left hand. Before, they were on whichever hand loaded… Read more“AnVRopomotron 1.1.4 Update Notes”
An update to greet my students at the end of the semester with some additions to Grab Lab and Scale Model Hall. Check it out here or read on. A female eastern lowland gorilla joins the male and mouse lemur display. The male was the first model I made and… Read more“AnVRopomotron 1.1.3 Update Notes”
For posterity and possible help for others, here are some notes on the second wave of models that I made. The first part is here. Lar Gibbon Gibbons are known to be specialized brachiators, using their arms to propel themselves under their support, so I knew that the gibbon has… Read more“Making Models, part 2”
A nice autumn update is here with a new burial to examine and miscellaneous features! Check it out here or read on. Something changed with A-Frame from 0.9x to 1.0.4 where now if I rotate a model, its collision box will now move along with it. This allows me to… Read more“AnVRopomotron 1.1.2 Update Notes”
See it here or read on. Scale Model Hall and VR Grab Lab each got a thing! Various fixes also abound. Proconsul walks on a big branch into the scene! I took the rhesus monkey and conformed it to Proconsul proportions. It was probably a bit easier than making it from… Read more“AnVRopomotron 1.1.1 Update Notes”
We’re skipping straight to 1.1 with a lot of improvements. More tarsier! Poses 2 and 3 show stages of a leap and pose 4 shows the result of a successful pounce. Tarsier 1 also updated with a longer tail. A small new wing has opened up in the Scale Model Hall,… Read more“AnVRopomotron 1.1 Update Notes”
A new version is here with some improvements I’m pretty proud of. Visit AnVRopomotron! 1.0.5 (04/29/2020) The Philippine tarsier has clung to the Scale Model Hall! This is one of my favorite primates and a representative of one of the big primate lineages. The tarsier is modeled in ‘classic pose,’ holding… Read more“AnVRopomotron 1.0.5 Update Notes”
One half of AnVRopomotron used photogrammetric scans that others have made, but the Scale Model Hall half is mostly my own creation. When I was just getting started with A-Frame, I experimented with building models just from primitive shapes, but concluded that learning low-poly style modeling was an attainable and… Read more“Making Models”
Over the last semester, I’ve been working on a virtual reality anthropology experience called AnVRopomotron. Getting the site to release involved a lot of learning in different areas. This is the start of a series of posts about the challenges I went through to get to make something I thought… Read more“AnVRopomotron: The Origin”