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18Feb/18Off

ROSALIE YU TURNS HER SWEET TOOTH INTO A VIRTUAL REALITY ART FORM

The project, titled A Ritual of Habits, is composed of two parts. First, what Yu calls “virtual theater,” which consisted of a VR experience in which the viewer is transplanted into a world of sweets, and an augmented reality experience in which the sweets. Second, it’s an installation of 3D-printed objects.

Yu says the project was inspired by the way she says eating sweets was habitually passed down through generations of her family. “At some point, I noticed how much sugar we ate compared to other households,” she told The Verge. “When we visited my grandfather in the hospital, my mother would open a big bag of treats and lay them on the table. An assortment of Twix, Snickers, those cloying sweet instant coffees, and a random assortment of cookies that she had collected during the week.” After her grandfather passed away, Yu noticed the same sweets were being served at his funeral, and she decided to start documenting how she interacted with sugar.

The process of creating the VR experience was lengthy. After taking 20–50 close-up photos of a pastry, Yu would transfer photos into the desktop photogrammetry app Agisoft PhotoScan to generate a 3D model of the food. Then she used the digital sculpting tool ZBrush to make repairs after a scan and to apply texture. After the 3D models were finished, Yu used ARKit and Unity to build the AR and VR experiences.

See the full story here: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/17/16990752/rosalie-yu-virtual-reality-art-ritual-of-habits-sweets

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