Journocoders workshop: Making a VR Mars

This month Journocoders NYC will be hopping on the virtual reality bandwagon, learning how to create a 3D VR simulation of the surface of Mars.

We’ll be following a tutorial written by Armand Emamdjomeh of the LA Times. When you finish, you’ll basically have a simplified version of the publication’s “Discovering Gale Crater” (http://graphics.latimes.com/mars-gale-crater-vr/) interactive. You’ll also have a taste of what Three.js (http://threejs.org) can do.

Make sure to bring a laptop along (Mac or Linux machines are preferable, but Windows is ok too) as this will be a practical, hands-on workshop. No programming experience is required, but we strongly recommend having a grasp of HTML and JavaScript fundamentals. Codecademy has good introductory tutorials (https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-html).

Oh, and make sure to join the collaborative doc (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Journocoders-NYC-September-2018--AKu3yV6i2_bgM5O7FQA5rXdVAQ-oLWdOROS0B8tiSgYnwO7p) for the event!

This event is kindly hosted by the Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School, and refreshments are sponsored by The Wall Street Journal.

Schedule:
7.00: Doors open
7.30: Show & tell
7.40: Tutorial
9.00: Drinks!

Ps. Columbia will be hosting a panel on data journalism for Public Data Day from 3:30–5pm. It’s free and open to the public, and happening in the same venue as Journocoders. Find out more here: https://brown.columbia.edu/event/an-introduction-to-public-data/. If you want to join for the panel and work from the Brown Institute space before Journocoders, that’s fine too!