Tweetable: An editor and viewer for immersive 3D environments for the purpose of storytelling.

For my project I will be making a two part system for creating and viewing an immersive 3D environments composed of fully surrounding images (Skybox) and directional sounds. I will be focusing on the following features.

• Environment Viewer
  • Web viewable
  • Clickable regions
  • Intuitive click and drag and pinch to zoom controls
  • Fading between scenes
  • Play directional sounds and background music
• Scene Drawing Helper
  • Draw on panable and zoomable spherical scene view
  • Export to high resolution cube map / skybox format
  • Import models for shape definitions
  • Import cube map (to add more stuff or make notes on drawn parts)
  • Layers support
  • Click region definition
  • JSON or XML output of click regions and any other metadata
  • Scene linking tools
  • Full comic file export (an archive of metadata and media that can be opened in the viewer)

I will try to follow the following schedule.

• Week 1: 3/31 – 4/6
  • Create a skybox viewer in Three.js
  • Click and drag viewing
  • Be able to draw on skybox with simple lines and export to cubemap
  • Play sounds
• Week 2: 4/7 – 4/13
  • Add orientation axis
  • Import .obj models
  • Add layer support
  • Import cubemap as layer
  • Define file format for scenes
  • Scene switching in viewer using dynamic page loads
• Week 3: 4/14 – 4/20
  • Define click regions
  • Click regions to navigate
  • Better drawing tools (line, square, colors)
  • Comic export
• Week 4: 4/21 – 4/27
  • Stretch time (Either finishing previous tasks or polishing the results)