GMU:Critical VR Lab II WS21/Jakob Wulfert

How To Be Not Alone With Yourself

My first time in quarantine and simultaneously having an internet outage for a couple of days left the wish of not being alone in my flat. How can I audibly create a lively surrounding without having the opportunity to invite people or distract myself with an online entertainment system?

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Concept

• adding sounds to the environment with an AR App
• having suiting visual feedback for each sound added
• record sounds that leave the environment lively

Implementation Unity

• started a new AR project via the Unity Hub templates
• added the Image Tracking Script to the Session and the placeable Prefabs
• added the FMOD Audio Visualizer Script to those Prefabs and linked the FMOD audio events
• made meter object Prefabs and connected those to the FMOD Audio Visualizer
• created a Reference Image Library and linked it to the AR Tracked Image Manager
• added FMOD Studio Listener to AR Camera

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Implementation FMOD

• made 4 Audio events for each audio location
• spatialized those audio events suiting the flats distances

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Scripts

• Image Tracking [1]
• FMOD Audio Visualizer Script [2]

Issues / Outlook

• adding sound occlusion
• making the app more userfriendly by adding UI elements
• possibility to turn sounds on and off

Technical Setup

Recording:

• Zoom H5
• Lewitt LCT 040 MATCH stereo pair (Microphones)
• Mi­cro­phone Ac­cessor­ies for recording soundscapes

Software:

• Ableton
• Unity
• FMod
• Xcode
• Visual Studio Code

Tutorials:

• Dev Enabled - AR Foundation Improved Image Tracking - Multiple Objects/Images

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9j3MD7gS5Y

• Scott Game Sounds - FMOD & Unity | Creating An Audio Visualizer / Getting Spectrum Data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbv891Z_3fU