Week 11

User Flow

Previous week’s playtests suggested improvements in our user flow to enhance the guest’s experience. We revisited our user flow and iterated it based on the feedback.

Animation Room 2

New Feature – Ideation

Now with our animation pipeline developed we we brainstromed more ideas about how the first room can influence the experience of the second room.

We decided to add an interactive element to the second room as well to make it more cohesive with the first room. The idea was to use a Kinect with the immersive projection which would sense the guests and project the running man from the first room as walking with the guests here. The man would depict the reflection of the guest to make the guest feel like influencing the artists world. The guests playing the Pac-man and tree in the first room and then getting attached to the character again in the second room with make the experience more continuous and exciting. We started working on building the interaction and animation for this.

Materials

We tested several materials for the screen in room 1. Our specification was a material that was transparent enough to project on both sides of the screens.

We tested on different materials like fabric, projection screens and acrylic surface of different colors to understand the projection fall. The material most liked by our client was a milky white projection screen on a transparent acrylic board. (1st image below)

We spoke with various vendors to find the widest sizes available for the projection screen and acrylic which was 6ft. Beyond that we will have to join 2 screens leaving behind a seam. So we decided to order a 6ft wide and 10ft tall screen.

We also discovered that the 1080X1920p Optoma projectors we received from the Mattress Factory did not provide the resolution the artist expected. So we stared a back and forth between them to provide us with 4k projects. To sync 5 projectors with 1 desktop we built a custom PC which with the support of 2 graphic cards ca support 5 4k projectors.