Production
In production this week, we met with our project instructors, Heather and Dave, where we discussed what success means for our team, a concept we are still grappling with. Constanza made four logo designs based on the team’s typography and shape preferences discussed in a meeting this week. Gillian began working on 1/4’s preparation including a slide deck, project description, Gantt chart, condensed schedule, and writing out our team’s goals and scope. The group together worked on a metrics matrix and jam board containing our composition box info.
Deeper Conceptualization
The conversation we had with Dave and Heather this week tied in well with out Jam Board, which discussed our goals, inspiration, research, experience, components, stakeholders’ needs, and brainstorming process. We also had the chance to take a Transformational Framework workshop, which helped us to begin distilling the “why” and “how” of our project goals. This workshop showed a lot of lenses we could use to consider our project under, particularly regarding how we view our audience.
Designing the Experience
We got a script for Equa’s “Tour of Your Senses” guided meditation session on Monday, which allowed us to break the meditation into five core sections: Introduction, See, Hear, Feel, and an Outro.
Based on this, Lauren proposed a storyboard and we began brainstorming potential VR oriented interactions to replace phone swiping on the Equa app.
We sent a formal request to Dr. Creswell to interview a meditation guide about their expectations for VR meditation experience. Constanza created a flow map of a potential interview including, after other team member contributions, upwards of 30 potential questions to ask.
Biometrics and Integration
Zibo researched and tested various methods to collect a user’s live respiration rate. After two days of testing, the team decided this was out of our scope for a semester project. Zibo then switched back to working on a demo for integrating the Apple Watch with the Quest 2.
White Boxing Environments
This week Faris and Lauren collectively white boxed 9 potential environments, which has been collected in this 5 minute YouTube playlist.