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Portfolio@Jingren
My Portfolio
Welcome to my portfolio. Here you’ll find a selection of my work. Explore my projects to learn more about what I do.
Bunny Museum AR
In response to the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles in January 2025, I participated in the MIT Reality Hack LA emergency response track. Our project was inspired by the Bunny Museum, a beloved cultural landmark that went viral on social media after being devastated by the fires. Recognizing the emotional and social impact of this event, our team leveraged XR technology to design an interactive game that raises awareness, fosters community engagement, and supports both the Bunny Museum and the broader LA wildfire recovery efforts. By blending immersive storytelling with innovative gameplay, we aimed to turn collective grief into action, demonstrating the potential of XR in community-driven resilience and disaster response.
Tool: Unity, Blender, Figma, Xcode
Tool: Unity, Blender, Figma, Xcode
3D Modeling Mask of Crimson Omen 3D
Mask of the Crimson Omen is a 3D artifact created for a class project exploring ancient magical objects and their narratives. Inspired by mythical symbolism, ancient masks, and the philosophical theme of knowledge as both power and burden, this mask embodies a mythical seer’s ability to see through deception and foresee the future. Unearthed from a lost civilization, its design incorporates weathered surfaces, glowing cracks, and an ethereal third eye, illustrating the danger and allure of absolute truth—highlighting how profound insight can lead to unintended consequences.
Tools: Z Brush, Substance Painter.
Tools: Z Brush, Substance Painter.
Augmented Ink
Augmented Ink is a project that combines tattoo artistry with augmented reality technology to transform tattoos from static designs into dynamic, interactive experiences. The project addresses the evolving ways we tell stories and express personal identity through art. Using AR to enhance tattoos' emotional resonance and interactivity, Augmented Ink explores how traditional art forms can be expanded with XR technologies.
Intership in the Afterlife
Internship in the Afterlife is an immersive, gamified VR experience designed to explore the emotional challenges of navigating unfamiliar languages. By fostering empathy and inclusivity, the experience places players in a metaphorical afterlife where their linguistic skills—or lack thereof—determine their ultimate fate. Inspired by the real-world struggles of international students, tourists, and immigrants, the game sensitizes players to the complexities and emotional impact of language barriers.
Players engage with a mysterious box containing syllables of a foreign word. After a brief glimpse of the complete word, they must reconstruct it in the correct order from memory to progress. Failure results in being metaphorically “sent to hell,” symbolizing the high-stakes pressures of making critical decisions in an unfamiliar linguistic environment. As the game progresses, challenges become increasingly complex, involving multiple languages and more intricate words.
Internship in the Afterlife invites participants to experience the alienation and determination required to navigate a world where language becomes a puzzle, fostering understanding and compassion for those who face such barriers in their daily lives.
Players engage with a mysterious box containing syllables of a foreign word. After a brief glimpse of the complete word, they must reconstruct it in the correct order from memory to progress. Failure results in being metaphorically “sent to hell,” symbolizing the high-stakes pressures of making critical decisions in an unfamiliar linguistic environment. As the game progresses, challenges become increasingly complex, involving multiple languages and more intricate words.
Internship in the Afterlife invites participants to experience the alienation and determination required to navigate a world where language becomes a puzzle, fostering understanding and compassion for those who face such barriers in their daily lives.
Mind Mirror
Mind Reflect is a human-centered smart mirror experience designed to seamlessly embed mindfulness meditation into everyday routines. Drawing from my undergraduate research on meditation, this project aims to make meditation an effortless, integrated habit. Mind Reflect offers personalized guidance and visual cues to enhance the user’s meditation practice, adapting to individual preferences for a truly custom experience. Following each session, it transitions into a well-lit mirror, supporting users as they start or end their day. With features like progress tracking, reminder settings, and app synchronization, Mind Reflect fosters a holistic wellness journey, making balance, harmony, and mindfulness a consistent part of users’ lives.
ZouMaDeng AR
ZouMaDeng, also known as the “Walking Horse” Lantern, is a traditional artware of Chinese decorations for the Lantern Festival and Moon Festival. It is special because of its ability to rotate based on the power of the airflow heated by candles that blow the airscrew on top of it. ZouMaDeng symbolizes the early fascination with light and shadow, reality and imagination. Ancient Chinese tried to cut off the side paper of the lantern in the shapes of warriors and horses to get the projection of them walking inside the room as the lantern swirls.
ROAD RAGE Design for Social Good
The inspiration for the project comes from my personal experience. I often meet some irascible drivers on the road, sometimes their emotional reactions will also affect me. The roads that could have passed faster will become more congested, and even serious traffic accidents will occur because of trivial things. In this process, I found that many times people are out of control because of anxiety or the influence of other people's emotions, and make some irrational behaviors. If there are some reminders at this time, they may calm down, to avoid or reduce the occurrence of road rage.
I hope to awaken people's consciousness through the power of vision. Through illustration, people's irascible behavior in the process of road rage is reflected abstractly so that people know the improper and dangerous behavior, and some color and text elements are added to remind people to #STOP ROADRAGE.
I hope to awaken people's consciousness through the power of vision. Through illustration, people's irascible behavior in the process of road rage is reflected abstractly so that people know the improper and dangerous behavior, and some color and text elements are added to remind people to #STOP ROADRAGE.
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