We Are Team Inner Matter
We kicked the first week of our semester project off with a lot of planning and discussion. Being a pitch project, we already had a good idea of each team member’s role and the sort of project we want to make. Our goal has not changed since our pitch project and we still aim to create a vertical slice of a single, high quality VR meditation that integrates heart rate based biofeedback. Gillian is the producer and responsible for managing project progress and communication both within and out of the team. Constanza is the UX Designer and Media Artist who will help design logos, posters, interviews, playtests, and our meditation user experience. Zibo is a programmer in charge of networking the Apple Watch and the Quest 2. Faris is both a programmer and technical artist specializing in shaders. Lauren is an artist responsible for storyboard development and environment art.
The core of our focus for the first couple days was preparing questions for meetings with our project instructors and for our meeting with Dr. David Creswell, the CEO of Equa Health. The main topic of our conversation with Dr. Creswell was to outline our relationship with Equa and set expectations for what we could deliver. We briefly discussed the value of looking at the viability of collecting other biometrics, like respiration rate. During this meeting, our team and Equa came to an agreement to use one of Equa’s research based meditation sessions in our VR experience.
By Friday we began pre-production. Zibo was able to create a build for the Apple Watch that collected BPM in real time. Lauren and Faris had set a goal for themselves to each create one white boxed environment a day during Week 2. Constanza started developing interview questions for a potential interview with an Equa meditation guide. Gillian began scheduling out the semester.