ETC Project spring 2023
XR plus ART
We iteratively design, prototype, and evaluate a virtual immersive gallery with marginalized Pittsburgh artists, which will be physically and virtually centered at the Andy Warhol Museum Pop District.
XRt
Virtual Immersive Art Gallery
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Week 14 – Wrap up!
This week, the team is wrapping up all of the deliverables, and testing the last iteration tested at the Main Campus and the ETC lawn. Considering expanding the places we want to enable the artists to place their artworks, and based on the alignment activities, we decided to deploy these 3 different places: They all…
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Week 13 – Soft Opening
This Monday, we had Heather Kelly with Nathan Black, John Dessler, and Jonathan Walton visiting the team, and trying out the product. Here are some feedback from each of the group. Group 1 – Heather and Nathan Group 2 – John Group 3 – Jonathan Alumni Playtest On Friday, we had the ETC alumni test…
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Week 12 – Final Refinements
This week, the team is mainly focusing on the refinements of the application. As we have designed both the artist end and the viewer end, we expect that the viewers’ experience would empower the artists, this week we are finally producing the viewer-end of our application. To make things as simple as possible, we chose…
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Week 11 – Testing
This week, the team invited several artists to test the 1st iteration of the application. We received valuable feedback, regarding the experience of placement and editing. For placement, as the accuracy largely depends on the GEO data, the quality of the GPS signal will massively affect the smoothness and consistency of placement. To make the…
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Week 10 – IP & 3rd Alignment
The team released the first iteration of the application and participated in the HiFi Prototype Alignment Activity with the local artists this week. There are several updates of UI from the design team as well. – Theme Color The design team has refined the colors we are going to use. This will also affect how…
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Week 9 – 2nd Alignment & GDC
4 out of 6 team members are heading to GDC (Game Development Conference) this week. This year, the GDC got a huge part for Metaverse and XR. The first thing to report this week is the MidFi alignment summary from last week. MidFi Prototype Alignment Activity The team had an online alignment activity with the…
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Week 8 – Recap
First, warm welcome to the advisor of team XRt, Mike! The team is focusing on the recap and confirming the next steps this week. The team met with Mike and Mo and discussed the feedback from the half presentation, as well as the future directions. Meet with the Advisor, Mike There were several important things…
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Week 7 – Half Presentation
This week, the team visited the pop art district for recording the demo video and had the half presentation. Demo The demo video was composed of 2 parts: the experience of the artist-end application and the experience of the viewer-end. Half Presentation The team received several questions after the presentation: Summary The team will discuss…
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Week 6 – Mid-Fi Refined
The main task for this week was to prepare for the half presentation in week 7. The team completed a draft of the presentation and went through the content. According to the feedback Mo provided, the storyboard needs to be clearer, and the demonstration of 2D editing should be specified as we are not using…
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Week 5 – Mid-Fi
The team decided to develop 2 separate prototype applications for this project: one for the artists and one for the users. For the artist end, the application enables the artists to set their artwork at specific locations, and edit the transformations and interactions as they want. The viewer end application lets the user who goes…
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Week 4 – LoFi
The team is focusing on developing the LoFi product for this week. There are both design and engineering updates for this week. Design-wise, based on the user flow confirmed last week, the team decided to prioritize the artist’s experience, especially the part of editing the artwork at the pop-art district, and the corresponding viewer’s experience.…
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Week 3 – Product Definition
First of all, we are very excited to show our team photo to everyone!! Name of the photo: The Platinum Era Director: Glendon Guo Equipment: Chenguang Deng Photography: Glendon Guo / Lena Du Edit: Lena Du This week we had 2 internal meetings including one for the initiation of week 3 and retrospective of 1/4…
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Week 2 – User Research & Analysis
The team had 4 internal meetings and 1 weekly instructor meeting for discussing the goal of the project. The progress went from Competitor Analysis to Prototype Initiation this week. Here are the summaries of each meeting: Jan 23, 2023 (Internal) XRt week 2 meeting 1 The team aligned the progress together today. Lena introduced the Slack…
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Week 1 – Field Research & Competitor Analysis
This week the team had 5 meetings. 2 for internal alignment, 2 for kickoff meetings with our instructor and our co-contributor Erica Cruz, and another was the producer having a conversation with Jesse Schell talking about the possibilities of the project. 1. Overview The team is working for Art across Realities at the Pop District,…