Andi-12/9/2017

After the AUT Live, I found a problem that the words font is quite big. When people wear the headset and walk into the audio range, they must look around to read whole card. So I to reduced the size. Also, we will begin post the posters and invite some volunteer to test the space.

Andi-31/8/2017

Good news! The Virtural Reality Language Learning Space is done.This weel, the pictures of words corridor were made in blender and import in to domain successfully! Darryl helps us recording the audio. It's useful for students learning words. They could know how to pronounce it and follow the audio to read the sentences. I also set all of portals to connect different parts together. Furthermore, I made a map to introduce the places briefly. The quiz also done by today and I attached the link below.

http://surveyanyplace.com/s/autmenmstests

Andi-25/8/2017

After we deleted all of pictures which attached as web page, the space could work well again!

It's so hard to deleted all of them that when we move too much, the program would crashed again. Before we give up and decided to make a new one(based on the last backup), Simona updated the sandbox. This really helps. Once we login the Interface will crash, we couldn't do anything. Although the interface still could be crashed, after the updated, we can move a little bit and have sometime to delete some pictures.

So, everything goes well now!

Furthermore, I will remember to backup the sandbox everyday!

Andi-24/8/2017

The HiFi still not working! Simona send email to HiFi program team in order to get some help. I also publish a blog on the HiFi Forums to get some solutions. However, we didn't recieve any reply. I guess it would be too much webpage to crash the sever. So we tried to delete some webpage. Hope it would be worked.

Furthermore, we done some questions of the quiz.

Andi-22/8/2017

The HiFi interface crashed!😱😱Every time we login and turn around, the HiFi interface will shut down.We tried to pack the sandbox in to another computer and try again. However, it still not working and shut down again. I use another computer and tried their own sandbox, they're all good! It's so strange!

Andi-21/8/2017

There are some problem with the words' picture. It takes long time to loading the webpages. Users should wait a long time to see the pictures. I also changed some other website to show the pictures but it still looks not good. So I will attached the pictures as textures in blender.

Furthermore, I found a website which could make quiz online easily.

Andi-18/8/2017

The words corridor almost done. We put the word cards along the street. Every word have there explanation and picture.We put them together and locked so that other people coundn't move them.

Then we are going to make some dialogue and put them together.

Andi-16/8/2017

I found some pictures which could match the word list and copied the URLs of the pictures in to web pages in HiFi. The pictures shows brighter and clearer than upload them as models' textures.

I also attached a video into clothes shop. It's mainly about the people's conversation of buying clothes. However, the size quite small and when someone came into this domain the video will play. It's really noisy and annoyed me a lot.Now, I'm trying to find a way to limit it not to play unless some clicked on it. Maybe add a zone could be work.

Andi-14/8/2017

The HiFi goes not well again. I can't visit Simona's domain again! It is so diseater for us that I cannot work in my computer. So I told her to do the text part of the word corridor and I download some picture which could explain the words. However, some of words are difficult to show as pictures, such as cheers, cuz and eh. The pictures are attached below.

Bach

Biscuit 

Brekkie

Bush

 Car park

 Cheers

Chemist

 Chilly bin

 Chips

 Cuz

Dairy

 Duvet

Eh

Andi-11/8/2017

After we found that the web pages could be insert into HiFi, there is another way for us to make some quiz as teaching materials. The "online quiz" was searched by Google and there cames out lots of different ways to make quiz online. So we can insert the quiz link as a web page into HiFi, students could do some exercise easily. The online quiz is also easy to check answers and give marks.

Furthermore, I changed the rock road. Now it looks like walk on the high way!

began to build the words corridors. It is a good beginning to add some teaching materials and make this land meaningful.

Andi-9/8/2017

I put the stories in to the HiFi. I also set some chair for people which allow them to sit and have some rest while read those stories.

This is the room.

This is what people could read and others view. 

Andi-8/8/2017

The clothes shop is done and people could buy the clothes now!

Have a look! It is an overview of this shop.

People could sit of the sofa to have a rest and wait for their friends.

This shelve is for the bags.

Here is the shoes area.

The stuffs on this shelve could attach to the avatars.

It's looks good, isn't it?

Andi-7/8/2017

I found the way to copy the clothes shop stuffs from the Welcome to our clothes shops.

Go to Create and click on the model. Go to List and click on the EXPORT SELECTION. Giving the model a name and save it. Then, go back to the clothes shops and go Create again. Click on the IMPORT ENTITIES(.JOSN) instead of open this domain's asset server. Choosing the model saved before and import it again.

Now, you can see the things were copied in to your domain!

Andi-3/8/2017

I found 5 pieces of short stories and I've already copy them into the Blogger Pages.

We tested our space in VR mode and everything looks excellent. However, the avatars could'n move by pressing Rifts' joystick. We can teleport to the select place by pressing the bottom A. There is another problem with the teleport--we can not teleport to the teleport point. Avatars could teleport near by the point and walk in it. I think it would be there is a invisiable Box which attached the teleport script to prohibit avatars teleport into it. Maybe the Box could change into the Zone thus avatars could teleport into the point. I will test this next week. Furthermore, the Words Corridors will be build in next week.

Andi-2/8/2017

I made a page in HiFi which could insert the webpage into it. I set one page of my blog. People could click on the bottom to view different page and make some comments. It just like the real webpage. I think it would be a great way to show something like a note card in Second life. I also found an area in blogger which named Pages. I can put the content in this page and link it into HiFi.

Andi-31/7/2017

I tried to make some note cards in HiFi. I login in to the Second Life and found out the script of note card. Then I copied the content of the script into HiFi. However, when I uploaded and attached it in to the object, I found that there is no space for the note card. As Second Life, each object could attach several different scripts, pictures or note card. Whereas HiFi only could attached 1 piece. So I need to find another way to show the words to others.
By the way, to write the words into Power Point and attach it in Blender always shows in low quality.

Andi-27/7/2017

I put several different house boxes with attached Queen Street Shops pictures. Now, it looks like in the city.
Besides, Simona added an apartment before, however, it do not have any door to get in it. So I turned off the Collisionless to make avatars could go through the glass walls. This makes another problem--avatars could not stand on the 2nd and 3rd floors. After the discussion, we decided to make some box and make them invisible. Then, avatars could stand on the floors.

Andi-26/7/2017

These days, I reduced the area of the island. It was so huge that makes people have to walk for a long time between different places. Then I re-organized the playground and skybox. There are there different skyboxes in different areas. I also made some chairs and blackboards as classrooms.

Andi-19/7/2017

Good news! Simona came back! We can work together again.

Another good news is I received an email from Project Sansar. I was invited to take part in Creator Preview. So I created an account and download Project Sansar this Monday and visited some spaces. They are really cool and looks better than HiFi. I did nothing this Tuesday because I drop off my left eye lenses by accident. So I tried to create something on Wednesday(today).

I found it is more flexible to move the objects in Sansar. By comparing with HiFi, Sansar could only move the things which already exist in this space in VR mode. I did not found out the way to add some new models into the space ubless close the VR mode. However, the interface of Sansar is more organized than HiFi. Furthermore, There are some problems to upload the models in Sansar. It requires the UVs of the models but I did not add this before. In addition,  Project Sanar also makes me feel dizzy. Sansar is better than HiFi because I can stay in there couple hours--just feel dizzy for hours after I exit. HiFi is so dizzy that I could only stay in there around half an hour. HiFi make me got heavy headache and Sansar makes me feel the world are moving in small range.

Andi-6/7/2017

I spend some time to lock all the models. So that the guests will not move the stuffs and mess up everything. However, I still leave some models for them to move and experience the VR funs. The other reason for me to lock the models is if all of models could be grabbable, the computer will be stucked.

Furthermore, Darryl and Tof came and saw what I did. We studied the script I wrote yesterday, however there are some problems did not solved so that it still could not use in Hifi.


Next Step.

1. New Menu.
2. Picture of the goods.
3. Queen St. Houses.
4. Words Corridors.
5. Script of the transfer voice into text.
6. NZ Style Panorama skybox.

I'll have a holiday next week so these works will be continue after I come back.

Andi-4/7/2017

When I walked on the rock road, I found that it was quite dark. So I made some of lights and put them along the street to make it brighter.

Then I wrote the script of transfer the voice into text by follow the tutorial from youtube. However, I found this script could not been used. I checked several times and all of words are followed the vidoe and not mistakes. The  system show it as "Bad syntax ([SyntaxError] Expected `)' in atp:/recordastext2.js:15(76))". I don't understand what does it mean but something wrong.


Script:

(function(){
var textID = "{2393f600-dc82-4f73-8a8c-9d520ea9b637}";

this.enterEntity = function(entityID){
print("Being listening to voice");
LimitlessSpeechRecognition.setAuthKey("TestKey");
LimitlessSpeechRecognition.setListeningToVoice(true);
};

this.leaveEntity = function(entityID){
LimitlessSpeechRecognition.setListeningToVoice(false);
print("Stop Listening to vioce");
};

LimitlessSpeechRecognition.onRecievedTranscription.connect(function(speech{
var newText = {"text" : JSON.stringify(speech)};
Entities.editEntity(textID, newText);
});

LimitlessSpeechRecognition.onFinishedSpeeking.connect(function(speech){
print("Finished speaking");
});
})

Andi-3/7/2017

I moved the fish and chip shop near to the road. All of stuffs were moved  with this fish and chip shop. However, when I put this shop down and the computer became stuck. I deleted some models which are chips, fishes, and cola. I guessed it's because of too much stuff could be moved. So I deleted them and it not got stuck any more. Then I reload the chips, fishes, and cola. Most of them could not be grabble, only one of each could be moved by rift.

Furthermore, I made a box of building and upload into Hifi and put it beside the rock road.

Andi-30/6/2017

I found another picture to make the skybox. The picture is attached below. Although it is not clear enough, this one do not have any edges and make avatars in a real ocean environment.

Furthermore, I made the rock road in Simona's domain.

Andi-29/6/2017

I tried do more building box but because of the picture are not suitable, it looks so ugly.

Furthermore, I contacted Simona and she said she will add snapper, terikihi and gurnard in fish and chip shop. She will renew the menu as well.

Last, I tried to do the skybox by using this panorama. However, I prefer to use the old one because this is also not clear enough. The edges are obvious. So I will change another panorama to make the skybox tomorrow.

Andi-27/6/2017

I talked with Darryl and he gave me lots supports. I will made another skybox because there are some problem with the old one. For the same picture, I upload it into different sandbox it showed differently. I didn't know the reason that the simona's sandbox not as clear as mine. So I'm going to do another one to fix this problem. Second, I'm going to build the expression street with some kiwi style words which same as the picture showed below.

Third, I will put some words like Kumara out of fish and chip shop. So students could know their meaning and get some practices in this shop. At last, I will get the script which could show the words people said in blackboard.

Andi-26/6/2017

I took some picture of Queen Street shops. The building there are so awesome! I love this kind of buildings. However, after I came back and tried to do some house box I found that the pixels are not clear enough. Furthermore, because of the distance from me to the buildings it always show not in a square in the photos. The cars and passengers will always showed on the photos as well. So I googled some pictures and made them into building box. Although there still have some cars, trees and passengers, the building box looks better than before.

Andi-23/6/2017

I made the portal center today.

I downloaded a Cantina from Market and deleted some sofa, lights and plants. However, I created a softer and brighter light instead them. I also created four portals. First one connected with the fish and chips shop. Second portal connected with the play ground for people relax and communicate with each other. Next is connected with a ground which is going to  build a words and phrases corridor.  In case of needed, we can add one more place in last portal.

I also tried to organized the play ground. I deleted the original stuffs, found some games from the market and put them at the corner of the island. I also find some chairs and a blackboard. I put them as a circle beside the lake. However, the avatar can not sit on the chair so I add some sitting cushions on the chair.


Next Step:

1. Record some words.
2. Take some pictures of Queen Street's shops.
3. Make a Corridor like Queen Street.
4. Put the words in Queen Street 2nd.
5. Add snapper,terikihi and gurnard in fish and chip shop.
6. Move the menu from the left to the back.

Andi-22/6/2017

I found the way to set the models could be moved in HiFi!

It is same as upload the models into asset browser. However, when you add the object into the sandbox, there is a window will show up.

For these four different choices, only the exact one could not select the Dynamic option. So change the Automatic Collision into others while add the model into the world. Then, the object in the sand box could be moved by people's rift.

Furthermore, this option could also be changed in Properties.

The next step is to find a way that make all the movable object could go back to their original place by themselves. 

Andi-20/6/2017

I tried to make the models I uploaded before could be moved by players' rift. However, I found Dynamic of all models could not be selected. So the models could not moved by players.

The second problem is the blackboard. I want to upload some board like a guide with white color. When I done the model in Blender everything goes well. But The white area will be changed with the skybox when the model imported into the HiFi. I changed a brighter sky box but still need to find a way to keep the white area always be white. Not influenced by skybox.

Andi-19/6/2017

I made a ketchup bottle which is looks so ugly. I tried to download some models from the blender market or other website, However, most of them should pay some money. Some of models could spend over 50 NZ dollars. It's really expensive. So I made a model in red. Otherwise, the color of this model can be changed into other colors to represent different sauces such as white  bottle is Mayo.

Andi-16/6/2017

I know how to make the models movable.

First, open the properties page of this model.
Then, change the number of Y as -10.0000 in Gravity page.
Next, click on the Behavior and keep the "Dynamic", the first column, "Grabbable"and "ignore inverse kinematics" on. Just same as the picture showed below.

Now, close this page and you can see the model could move by your VR hands.

Andi-14/6/2017

I found Simona's sandbox was reload a new one. It's scared me and I remembered that I didn't deleted that. I just backed up the sandbox and send it to her email. I guessed that maybe I drag the folder on the desktop instead of copy and paste. So I download the backups, put it in the folder, and reset the sandbox. Fortunately, the sandbox is coming back and all of things are good!

Then I went to some others place and tried to find something interesting. I also tried to copy some scripts and models into our spaces.

Andi-12/6/2017

When I work on putting some sound in HiFi, I found that I can't hear anything from HiFi. It's all good yesterday but broke today. I checked the audio of this computer and I have hear the voice come from the website and computer system, but not HiFi.I also checked several settings but not work. I guess it must ne the HiFi problem. Therefore I searched related topic from HiFi forums and someone said check your headphone. So I find out the earphone and it works. After I put off the earphone the audio of HiFi works again! I don't know the reason, but luckily, it works again and I could continue my works.

Andi-11/6/2017

I worked how to import the sound into High Fidelity during this weekend.


I tried to rewrite the code of Looping sound emitter for several times and last I stop the looping and make it only play for once. Just copy the script URL and paste in Browser, all of the code will comes up. Then we can save them into a notepad. Next step is to open the code, search the "loop" and you can see the code.

if (!injector) {
if (soundURL.downloaded) {
injector = Audio.playSound(soundURL, {
position: properties.position,
volume: soundVolume,
loop: true,//soundLoop,
localOnly: true//;//soundLocal

Change the yellow true behind red loop into false, the loop will be stop and sound will play only once.

I also found another player in the market which named Ambisonic Emitter - Coastal Ambience. For this player, I could change the sound URL as well. However, the difference between others is I users also could set the range of this sound. When I set the range as 3, the effective distance is 3 meters. Although the sound in this range will be looping again and again, when we walk outside of this space the sound will be disappear.

I think this script is better than last one because it provides the sound in specific place. It will not bother other places. I prefer to use this one unless I could write a new script which the sound will comes up by click the stuff.

By the way, I ask my friend for help and he said"The script( Looping sound emitter) is quite complicated,even some of them I don't understand. I could help you stop the loop but not to write a new one." 😅

Andi-9/6/2017

The words list were deleted by accident. However, Darryl put forward the word could appear with the pic and sound. For example, when you come in the Fish and Chips Shop, you could see the Kumara chips on the table. You could also see the name card shows on the top of the dish. When you walk near to the table, you could hear the sound to explain the meaning of Kumara. Therefore, we tried to add some sounds into this domain. However, to paste the URL into Collision sound URL doesn't work--URL from both of the internet and asset browser are don't work. The Looping Sound Emitter also been tried. This one is works but the sound is repeat again and again. This really annoying a lot. Furthermore, we found that we could add the sound by run the script. But to write a script which could run into High Fidelity is a challenge for me. I had never write any code like this. Next step is to found a way to add the sound or just write the script.

Andi-8/6/2017

I made the Words List for the Fish and chips shop. There are some words which used frequently in New Zealand and different from Chinese English books. Chinese didn't use cheers to express their appreciate. Students also been taught into say "How are you""I'm fine, thank you, and you?""I'm fine, too. Thank you." as their daily greeting. So I put these words in my first words list and I believe that would be helpful for international students new here. I also list some words about fish and chips shop such as Kumara, Ketchup and chips. They are really not as we know in China. We have Kumara, but never cook it in chips. In recent years we have shops do that but not very popular. We know what the name of tomato sauce is, but we didn't know what is ketchup. We also think the shape of chips are slices but here it also made into stick.

Furthermore, I put some trees near the road to make the scenery more beautiful.

Andi-7/6/2017

I found that the quality of skybox will drop off with the size became bigger. So I made the skybox size fitted the fish and chips shop. I also redesigned the road, However, another computer with the sandbox were occupied by other students that I didn't finished this work. Further more, I watched some videos about learning in Virtual Reality and visit some other places to see other people's work. It brings me some ideas when I don't know what to do next.

Andi-6/6/2017

I made a new skybox which looks better and makes the word list clear. It takes me long time to find a panorama pic could suit in the Equirectangular model size. I also spent an hour to edited the pic looks like an environment in the photoshop. Although it is not perfect, the edges still visible, the final result is good. For the next step, I will add some teaching materials in this fish and chips shop.

Andi-2/6/2017

I made a word list in blender and import it in HiFi, but is looks very dark. I adjust the shade in blender and import again but still doesn't work. So I made a textural board in HiFi and it looks dark as well. Maybe is it the problem of the skybox?  I'm not very sure but made light and put the light on the board and it looks better. Maybe i should change a brighter skybox.

Andi-1/6/2017

I could visit simona's domain! Just update the server.

Furthermore, I changed the skybox in a higher qualified mode. However, it still  looks not clear enough. I tried to make the size of the zone smaller to make the skybox clear but doesn't work. I also adjust the cushions position. Because of the land was moved a little bit higher than before, some of them were hide in the land. So I re-put the cushions and all of them use well!

Andi-31/5/2017

Today I tries to backup the sandbox to another computer.

I found three files in This PC. The Hidden Items should be seen.

C:\Users\hkj8918\AppData\Local\High Fidelity
C:\Users\hkj8918\AppData\Roaming\High Fidelity
C:\Users\hkj8918\AppData\Roaming\HighFidelitySandbox

When I copy these files to another computer, I found that the most important one is C:\Users\hkj8918\AppData\Roaming\High Fidelity. All of models in sandbox are backup in this folder. Others are not so necessary that wouldn't make any changes on your sandbox in another computer.

Furthermore, the skybox still looks like a box. I create a question in Hifi Forums and somebody replied me but still about the edges. All of the solves are about to adjust the edges and makes them combine well. I done this part good, however, it still looks like I am in a box but not environment. Maybe I didn't describe the requirements very clear.

Last, the question about visit others' domain has also be put forward in Hifi's blog. They said we just need to update the HiFi. Maybe this is a way we could try.

Andi-29/5/2017

I made a higher quality skybox which is use the Auckland night as texture. It's looks really cool! However, I still working on how to make the skybox shows like a sphere. It's always look like a box and really annoyed me a lot.

Furthermore, I found the documents which may include the folder of HiFi sandbox. I will try to backup this folder and move to another computer to test is that possible to move all my works as well.

Andi-26/5/2017

The problem didn't solved today. I still could not visit simona's place.

Furthermore, we tried to backup and restore the sandbox. We found the folder and copy them to another computer but it doesn't work! I think the sandbox should not in the High Fidelity folder. Maybe in somewhere far away from the main folder.

We also found some clothes models and we are going to build another cloth shop which could bring more teaching materials in the virtual world.

Andi-25/5/2017

New problems shows up!  I can't visit Simona's island!

I tried lots of way but doesn't work!  That's so horrible and I need to fix it up ASAP.

Andi-24/5/2017

I made the skybox in blender and import to the HIFI.

First step is to make a cube in blender. Selected some points and marked seam. Then unwrap it and change the view from 3D View into UV/Image Editor. It will look like this.

Next Step takes me lost of time to make the picture looks like attached below.

It is so hard for me to cut the picture into this size and keep it look clearly as original pic. I tried lots of ways to edit the pic and doesn't work! At the last time I tried Photoshop. I had never use this App before so I spent a long time to cut the pic.

Then put this pic into blender and adjust the size. Add textures and export as fbx. model. Which model should be used into skybox in Hifi confused me a lot and finally chose the one I usually used. Remember, the texture should be copied when you export the model.

Last step is upload the skybox into Hifi. It just need to create a zone and only upload the texture which you copied before. Then open the properties and paste the url of the texture into the skybox url. 

Andi-19/5/2017

The good news is coming!

We've almost done the Fish and Chips shop! I made a bottle of coke, however, there still have some problems with the textures. Every time I wrap the coke texture on the model, the hole model turns red. Anyhow it is a low poly world, I gave up to wrap the texture and paint the model as red color. When I complain how difficult to make the texture looks good and I gave up to make it, she downloads the coke model from the internet! How convenience it is!

Furthermore, she got some lights to make the house looks brighter and made an advertisement on the wall. We also make the menu for the deep fried fishes and downloaded a cash register from another website.

We showed this shop to Darryl and he gave us lots of good suggestions. Such as making a New Zealand style fish and chips--use the newspaper but not plates, putting a sign above the door, making a New Zealand scenery skybox, making some trees or bushes which are very special in New Zealand.

Therefore, the next step is to complete fish and chips shop to makes it better and create an environment which is similar to New Zealand.

Andi-18/5/2017

Until today, we have done the main part of the Fish and Chips shop. Simona found a really good house and a counter from the website and they are free! Nobody knows how difficult to find a free model from the google! She also done a part of menu. For me, I did some dishes of fried fish, potato chips and kumara chips. For tomorrow, I plan to make some bottles of coke, sprite and fanta. The hardest part is to make a light and I really need it to make the inside of this house looks not too dark. However, I just could use the light which provided in the Market. I could not build by myself. I think it should be the light rely on something which is an object not insubstantial. Furthermore, I would like to make a board shows the words or sentences which could be used into this situation.

Andi-15/5/2017

Last week I read some articles and view some webpage. All of them are about New Zealand style English. I found some interesting words and slangs. Such as Kiwi means New Zealanders, a kind of native birds, also a kind of fruit. Haka means Maori war dance which commonly used by national rugby competitions.No worries means that's ok or not a problem.

For today, I discussed with Darryl and Simona about how the learning materials used into this space. As I thought, it could be a path with different Steps which includes the introduction, what knowledge will be learned in this space and different situations. In a different situation, there is a board shows the words or slangs and a situation which is a site to learners that they can use the words or slang into the conversation/dialogue.

For the first situation, it will be a fish & chips shop.

We also try to make a sitting script in to HIFI and already download some chairs from market. Some of them are work but some doesn't. We try to paste the zone which works well in the first chair and put it into second one. But when we go into the second zone the avatar always sit in the first chair. It should be the parent ID's problem but it doesn't work when we change it.

The other progress is the teleport. Once I always creat a Box to make the teleport. It could works well but looks so ugly and terrible. So I tried to make a zone to become a teleport point and it works! So we can make it become a beautiful teleport which could also shows where this teleport point will going.

Andi-09/05/2017

I complete the interview questions, participants advertisement, participant consent form, and participant information sheet. However, the information sheet is really complicated that there are some questions I don't know how to complete.

The other thing is I go some website and search the ''kiwi style English'' to get some ideas about how to make the learning materials useful and easy to use. I need some time to think about it and need more readings.

Andi-05/05/2017

After talk with Darryl, I found that it is quite complicated to make the content as English culture and Kiwi things. I have to change my PGR1 and Ethics. It's really a huge work and I need to do a new literature review. So the content should still about language. As we discussed, I chose to make it as English teaching but it's more about Kiwi style such as Kiwi style pronunciation, how kiwi use the word or sentence to make it in another meaning or to express one thing in another way.

For the space design, we decided to keep the adventure style. The main land will design into the road through the different knowledge point.

Andi-3/5/2017

I had discussed with Simona about what are we going to teach in this Virtual World and we decided to make it looks like an adventure experience.

At the beginning, people will teleport in to the Welcome. The instructions will be showed on the wall which will find out easily. This instruction will include the name of this space, what are we going to do, the aims(which kind of knowledge people will learn from this space) and how to complete this "class". After that, there will be showed a road or several roads and "class" is begin.

For the "class", there will be divided into different parts. Each part will include different part of knowledge and some small quiz. People can follow the guidance to learn the knowledge and complete the quiz. They also could decide which part they are more interested in and learn first.

In this learning space, people can learn by themselves. But we will also put the tutors contact details in an area for students when they need helps.

Then we denied the thoughts we have before which is going to teach language. It is quite difficult and not interesting to teach grammar in this situation. So we decided to introduce some culture and KIWI things about New Zealand.

Hope everything will goes well.

Andi-2/5/2017

The color problem was solved!

I just put the different materials in different visible layers and paint them separately. Then join different parts together in another visible layer. 

This is the island I build and I've already upload it into HIFI. This could be teleport center in this space.

Andi-1/5/2017

I created an island in blender. It is a low poly island which include sea, island and some coconut tree. However, when I going to make this island colorful, there are some problem such as I always paint the island with the sea color. It couldn't divide into two parts. Another problem is I couldn't paint the tree. It is so weird. For the next step, I'm going to paint the island and upload this island into HIFI.

Andi-28/4/2017

The touches are coming today! 

This afternoon, I set up the touches on the computer and try to use them in HIFI. It's really convenience for us to move avatars' hands. There are some scripts which have to use touches to complete. Such as whiteboard and finger print. It also make the building easier in HIFI. The touches quite like our hands and make the work easier.

However, the VR in HIFI make us so dizzy and do not have any way to solve this problem.

Andi-11/4/2017

The teleport is not a problem any more!!!

1st Step: Go to a place which you would like to teleport. Click the Navigate on the top of the screen and choose the last one "Copy Path to Clipboard".

2nd Step: Open the setting and click on the "Places/Paths". Then in the Paths form, create a new item, give it a name and paste the code into the Viewpoint. Click on Save and Restart.

3rd Step: Go to another place and create a box. In the user data, type the name which you create in the setting before.

4th Step: Select the Collisionless and Ignore inverse kinematics in Behavior. Copy the "atp:/portal.js"in Script URL. You also could change the color of the box.

Then, you can get in this box and enjoy your teleport trip.

Andi-10/4/2017

I'm trying to make a portal to help people transport from a place to another place. The good news is the portal is work well. It is just need to create a cube and change the user data as a place name in entity properties. This part is really easy. However, the hardest thing is how to make sure that you will teleport in an exactly position. I tried to find the way, but only found that would be in the settings. I checked but it need the code which looks like a position code. I didn't found out the exactly position code yet so this is the next step I will work on.

Andi-6/4/2017

Today, I discuss the design of the space which we are going to build. Here is the draft about our ideas.

This space includes four small lands and three main lands.

This first small land is more like a reception which include the introduction about this space, the map and teleport points. The second small land include the way of designer's and tutor's email.address and contact number. The third small land is a place which could collect feedback from users about the space design and courses. The fourth small land is a big lecture room which people should have access to get in.

The first main land is study space which include indoor classroom and opening rooms. In this land, students could take their class by different interests. The second space is self learning space. It include some note cards, recordings, videos, quiz and small games which could help students learning by themselves and do some practices. The third main land is a play ground for relax. The scenery there is beautiful and I design it will have beach, sunshine and sea. People could chat there or share their experience. This land also include some VR games such as sand box games or bowling.

Each land could use the teleport point, three main lands and first small land will have the bridge to connect to each other. The other small lands only could teleport in. If teleport does not work, I will combine the 1st, 2nd and 3rd small land in one land and put the lecture room into first main land. Each land will connect by the birdge.

Andi-3/4/2017

Today, I changed a sky box which is really cool. There are lots of star in the sky and it could change the time into day and night. I also learned how to use the EDIT option to make changes in HIFI. Furthermore, I also give the permission to Simona which allowed her create new entities.

For the last week question, 'How to add a note card like SL', I can add the text as a blackboard in EDIT. Then click on the entity properties. Both of the content and color of text and background could be changed at the end of the page.

We also have some new questions should discuss.

1. What are you going to "teach"?
2. What are learning situation are you going to create?
3. How will the affordances of VR/HF influence the learning/teaching situation?
4. Will the teaching situation/lesson involve only the student user/or the student user and a teacher/learning facilitator?
5. How might VR story world/narrative "theory" impact on what you do?Distance/movement, etc.

I will write the result into blogger after we have discuss.

Andi-27/3/2017

These days I still worked on upload stuffs with textures. It works! Thanks god. It just export the models from the Blender with choice shows as below.

Also, when import the '.fbx' into HiFi, it was need to upload both the models and texture. Mentioned, the texture should be the copy one. 

This is the model.

This is the texture folder of  the copy one.

This is the texture.

Last step is just add the model into the world.

Then, the model with texture will show like this!

Andi-24/3/2017

In these days, I build some different things in blender to practice my skill. I tried to add some textures on the building and upload into HiFi. However, it still failure. I didn't know which step is wrong. So I download some works from website [http://tf3dm.com/] and upload in to HiFi. IT STILL FAILURE. It must be the way to transfer or HiFi problem. I will work on this next week.

Furthermore, I would like to find a way to upload the notecards and some recordings. I have some ideas but I'm not sure is the way works. This is my another work next week.

Andi-22/3/2017

Last week, I attended a lecture which mainly talked about the story telling in Virtual Reality.

From this lecture, I have some ideas. Firstly, we can design the seat between students and teachers as different. We can make students closer. As the lecture stated, different distance from different relationships would bring people different feelings. For example, the distance from friends will be shorter than peers.
Secondly, we should have some interesting content to fill the space, in other words, text should be meaningful. We should not just build a space which only includes some classrooms or some open rooms for students, but also have some content could attract students like to stay here and we should provide some readings or recordings for self learning.
Third, we could  divided the different content(readings, recordings & etc.) into different themes. A systematic knowledge structure could help students learning effectively. So divide different knowledge into different themes  is necessary. This not only could keep students' motivation easily, but also could help students get the information systematically. Furthermore, this could help students more focus on one topic in each period.
Last idea is for the different themes, we could use the form of story telling to combine them. We could use story or only one road to connect the different places in sequence. It can make the whole space which include several themes seems well organized.

Andi-16/3/2017

Today I watched some videos about how to create grass and trees. I also learned how to create the beautiful fall road. Creating in Blender is a complicated thing which would spend lots of time and must have patience. However, I felt so successful when I see the thing I created. For next step, I'd like to learn more create skills from video and blender.

Andi-14/3/2017

For the third day, I tried to fix the texture problem but still failed. However, I found another way to show the color out in HF--do use the materials but not the textures. It is suitable for the simple things with the simple color. And I still need try to find how to use the textures in the future. I also learned how to make an apple in Blender. At the end, I uploaded the apple to the HF. Texture is still the problem which makes a lot of trouble.

Andi-13/3/2017

At the beginning of this day, I adjust the texture of the cup, its not a complicated job. After that I tired to upload the model into HF today but there are too much difficulties. We found that the sandbox of HF was disappeared and spend a lot of time to fix this problem. Fortunately, I could import the model after reload the sandbox. However, when I put the cup in to the world the color turned to black! The texture was disappeared! I tried to adjust the setting about the blender and HF but doesn't work. Maybe I should find another way to fix this tomorrow.

Andi-10/3/2017

This is the first day to begin my topic and I did two things.

First, I watched some video on the Youtube. Several days ago, I was log in to the High Fidelity. It was not a virtual world like Second Life. In Second Life, we have the menu which include many options in the topic of screen (this is really convenience) but we should call the menu out by right click in High Fidelity. Although this kind of design in HF makes the vision looks more clean and tidy, I need a some time to acquainted in this new world and learn how to use the different functions. So I watched some video to see how other users to use this system and what did they do in HF.

Secondly, I downloaded the Blender and did the tutorial. This is another thing I would like to complain! I did not find out how to build stuffs in HF directly! Maybe I just need some time to find this function out. Anyhow I downloaded the Blender and try to learn how to use it. It is really complicated to learn how to use it. After the tutorial, I only had one thought in my head--what did he said? So I found another video which explain the application in Chinese and I also find a video which is  teach how to make a cup in Blender.