{"id":56,"date":"2022-02-03T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/?p=56"},"modified":"2022-02-13T23:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T23:24:34","slug":"week-2-dev-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/week-2-dev-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 &#8211; January 28th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Week 2, We:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meeting summary with Instructors :<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Our unified idea of MR Escape Room<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;&gt; existed, too long, can be imaged. Need to come up with more ideas. It could be a \u201cchallenge\u201d or a \u201cpuzzle\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meeting summary with David from HCI:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>We discussed a new method of tracking objects in a room using <strong>QR codes and cameras<\/strong> (Kinects) positioned around the room.<\/li><li>David L recommended using <strong>Photon <\/strong>as a multi user frame work for a peer to peer network for co-op.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>He also recommended <strong>Open CV, Opti-track, and Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) <\/strong>&nbsp;as possible solutions, however said that we should limit the number of frameworks for latency issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meet with clients from ETC IT, talk about QR Code, Experience &amp; Design, Air Tags, Sounds, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meeting summary of our Brainstorming<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team is approaching the project from Design side after thinking about some of the hardware.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Design centered approach might spark new ideas about the hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some different approaches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Design a Game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want an experience that is as fun to watch, or is easy to participate in without actually putting on the head set<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSomething for the mom that holds the bags because she doesn\u2019t want to go on the rollercoasters\u201d &#8211; David<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The VR equivalent of a water ride, where people not on the ride still get to shoot people on the ride with water guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asymmetrical \u201chide-n-seek\u201d like Prop Night<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Space ship crew like FTL or Space Crew, players have to share tools to fix issues on the spaceship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Design an Educational Game that isn\u2019t focused on education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could teach a variety of things in the realm of Natural Sciences, Animals, Astronomy, water cycle etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kid focused, <strong>Carnegie Science Center<\/strong> involvement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou develop skills just by playing a game, we can design this in such a way, that the skill developed playing the game extrapolates to something they will actually use\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idea: Gravity sling shot, playing dodgeball\/squash with stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Design experience to raise disability awareness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simulate what it would be like to have a type of disability<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Color blindness, Dementia\/Alzhiemer\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huijie worked on a VR experience to simulate Parkinson\u2019s&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This doesn\u2019t make for a great game, but would be very experiential and informational<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alzhiemer\u2019s could easily be simulated in VR with changing or blurring someones surroundings, inducing confusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could be an Asymmetrical Collaborative experience. One player is a caretaker, the other is a patient, the caretaker must help the patient do things that they can\u2019t do themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Week 2, We: Meeting summary with Instructors : Our unified idea of MR Escape Room &#8211;&gt; existed, too long, can be imaged. Need to come up with more ideas. It could be a \u201cchallenge\u201d or a \u201cpuzzle\u201d Meeting summary with David from HCI: We discussed a new method of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}