Daniel He

Fine Art

A few pieces that I have worked on over the past few years.

David - Sketch | Pencil on Paper

Morning Shine - Landscape Painting | Acrylic on Canvas

Trapped - Creative Painting | Watercolor on Paper

Father - Portrait Sketch | Pencil on Paper

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Camping VR

Virtual Reality camping simulator developed in Unity for the Oculus Rift with various interactive tasks to complete around the campsite. There are 3 main tasks and 2 secret tasks in the game, and multiple hidden fun easter eggs!

Gameplay Demo

Link to google drive video file in case above video doesn't play: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1URcZw8xkfAQrZ76pWSlL_rB1Ytkocngi/view

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XR DeCal

The Extended Reality Development DeCal (XR DeCal) is a student-run course at UC Berkeley in which I was a student in and am now an instructor for. The following are assignments that I have worked on and/or helped develop in the course.

Rube Goldberg Ball Machine

Music Visualizer

Fractal Generation

Pong

FPS - Collisions, Raycasting, and Triggers

I have also developed the AR lab sequence and AR curriculum using Unity's AR Foundation as seen on the class webpage.

More information about homeworks, labs, lectures, and other content from the course can be found here: xr.berkeley.edu/decal

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Lines of Action

Lines of Action is a board game created by Claude Soucie.

In CS 61B, students were tasked to recreate Claude Soucie's board game Lines of Action using java. We implemented the game logic using alpha-beta pruning and minimax trees, as well as the GUI.

Credits: Spring 2020 UC Berkeley CS 61B (Data Structures)

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Gitlet

Gitlet is a version-control system that mimics some of the basic features of the popular system Git such as committing, branches, and checking out the history of files/commits. In this project, we built up the basic version-control system from scratch utilizing concepts such as file persistence, cryptographic hash functions, and many more; all while making sure to have an effiecient and low space/time complexity.

Credits: Spring 2020 UC Berkeley CS 61B (Data Structures)

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Playing Card System

Project I worked on at CodeDay LA 2018 with a group of other developers (far left is me :D). The challenge is to create an application or game within 24 hours and present it to the other participants at the end of the time limit. At this event, my team and I recieved the award for "Best in Show".

The project we decided to make was a deckbuilding card battle system similar to that of the game Slay the Spire. Players would be able to draw cards from a deck and place them on the playing field against the enemies. Sprites and assets are placeholders and look really bad due to the fact that we had 24 hours and our main focus was on developing the main systems.

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Shoot-the-Block!

Image of the scene in a simulated AR environment.

Shoot-the-Block! is a AR phone game for iOS and Android, similar to the classic arcade game Whack-a-Mole! built in Unity using AR Foundation.

See it in action here:

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Shoot-the-Block!

Image of the scene in a simulated AR environment.

Shoot-the-Block! is a AR phone game for iOS and Android, similar to the classic arcade game Whack-a-Mole! built in Unity using AR Foundation.

See it in action here:

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TutoriVR

In recent years, Virtual Reality (VR) has been an important medium for artists and creative professionals to express their thoughts and ideas. VR design - Painting, sketching, and sculpting in VR - are emerging forms of this artistic expression. In these VR design environments, users use their hands, typically with a game controller, to directly manipulate and create 3d objects.

It is not easy since VR design is a creative process that requires mastery of certain skills. Users may want to learn from tutorials, which are typically 2D screencast videos made from members of the community. However, there are inherent limitations of using these 2D screencast videos as tutorials in VR.

The Goal of TutoriVR is to improve tutorial systems and streamline the learning process for learners to better improve in VR-based design tasks. The ultimate goal is to build TutoriVR as proper Unity toolkit for design based VR applications, accessible for use by anyone on the internet. Using the TutoriVR toolkit, tutorials would be captured by instructors, and later viewed by learners.

This project is based on the research of the same name (TutoriVR: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300514).

Click here to learn more about the details, motivation, and implementation specifics here.

See it in action here:

Also, the project is currently being worked on to be implemented into Open Brush, the open source successor to Google's Tilt Brush. You can find the public TutoriVR repo here: https://github.com/tcdanielh/TutoriVR

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Weaponized Roman Candles

Weaponized Roman Candles is a real-time firework simulation rendered from scratch (not using Unity's Universal Render Pipeline) that can also be run in Virtual Reality. This was a final project for CS184 - Computer Graphics and Imaging.

Read more here: https://tcdanielh.github.io/WeaponizedRomanCandles/report.html

(VR implementation briefly shown at 1:30 in the video)

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