One of the unique things about AR\/VR is the fact that it can detect where you are in relation to objects within the scene. This creates an interesting relationship. As humans, we have bodies. We exist in physical space. Because of this, we are constantly aware of how close or far we are from objects and also how large or small we are compared to those objects. This means that scale and proximity are extremely powerful tools in mixed reality. Experiences that (seem to) happen in your immediate physical space automatically feel personal and emotionally potent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ENTER PROXIMITY is one of the tools you can use to explore this relationship. It allows you to trigger actions when a user gets within a certain distance of an object. In this example, I wanted to create a bird animation that triggered as soon as you got too close to it (just like an actual skittish bird.)<\/em> The first step was to create a flight animation loop. I drew this, frame-by-frame, in Procreate. Then I brought it into After Effects, where I rendered it as a PNG sequence. After that, I compressed it into a zip file and imported it into Aero. If you\u2019d like a walk through of that process, check out this tutorial.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n