Avriana Allen

I’m a fourth year double major in journalism and statistics, with a creative writing minor. I have a deep love of fantasy and sci-fi novels, but I also love building web pages, drawing characters and debating minor points of life.

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Mixed Reality > Resurrecting History for VR

Transforming Stereographs into Point Clouds

by Avriana Allen | https://twitter.com/avriana_a

Virtual and augmented reality, though often used for gaming purposes, may be turned to a more academic or journalistic purpose. Throughout the fall, we explored ways to make historical footage, such as videos and pictures, available in a more interactive space. One method we developed allowed us to create 3D point clouds from stereographs, (two photos taken an ocular distance apart which, when viewed through a stereoscope, appeared 3D). In the simplest of terms, we...

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Resurrecting History for VR

Automated Photogrammetry. As AR and VR increasingly becomes the focus as we move away from smartphones, media organizations will have to find ways to produce content native to those mediums. These same organizations have a wealth of stories that continue to have value over time. Flat video and photo will become less desirable as we continue to move into these new spaces. Previous projects in the lab have surfaced an opportunity to take existing video and process it using photogrammetry software to produce a 3D model.