NVL | Actual Reality | Overview

American Food

The series explores the cuisine and culture of four ethnic enclaves around America: the prep, the chefs and the food's history. Through the lens of the Actual Reality application, viewers order virtual take-out from these culinary treasures. By placing delicious 3D multi-course meals on their tables, viewers will find themselves inside kitchens, across from patrons and restaurant owners. They'll even peer down into dollhouse-sized neighborhoods. Each course is packed with facts, stories and videos that give the audience a virtual foodie tour of the communities that the audience is invited to visit.

After months of planning, development and caffeine, we’re proud to launch Actual Reality, our experimental augmented reality app! The app includes two first-of-their-kind immersive nonfiction series — “What They Carried” and “American Food” — and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store today. https://bit.ly/2TIVKcQ

NVL | Photogrammetry

Screenshot of various assets optimized for NVL. The bulk of professional work done for NVL was photogrammetric cleanup for Actual Reality App, news articles, and Facebook GLB posts. In addition, I would lead trainings that helped local journalists learn the art of 3D.

What They Carried

"What They Carried" is based on the photography series "El Sueño Americano" (The American Dream) by Tom Kiefer. This three-episode AR experience features confiscated personal items from undocumented migrants who'd been apprehended trying to enter the US. Through the technical power of the Actual Reality application, audiences can place these intimate objects in their homes, examine them from every side and discover the hopes, fears and stories imbued in them by the migrants who carried them.

The story also brings viewers face-to-face with three dimensional "volumetric" interviews with characters like "dreamer" Karina Ruiz. Finally, original commissioned artwork by Micah Milner adds an interpretive layer to the story, illustrating meaning, history and memory. This experience can be downloaded at the Google Play store here https://bit.ly/2TIVKcQ

NVL | 3D Rendered

Outside of the Storytellers and Residence program I contributed to several projects. Stakeholders that tasked me with modeling and creating assets for animations for their video department, AR experiences, and embeds for new articles. Some projects are protected under NDA please contact me for certain details.