We had soft opening this week and we received a lot of feedback from people on how to improve charlie even further to have her remember context from the user. We then implemented those features in the FSM for charlie. ‘ We then worked on creating the 3 minute video Read more…
We started working on the sticker API to add different stickers that charlie finds online and puts it in the scene. This is to give a different experience for every guest. We conducted playtests on friday to find out the best practice to place the sticker in the scene. We Read more…
We had the halves presentation this week. We went through many iterations to create a story for our presentation. After the presentation the team, Watched Halves presentation as a team: 1. Discussed briefly what we can improve and how to support the speaker when you are standing beside. 2. What is a better facial Read more…
We were working on the prototype for the halves and we started preparing for the halves presentation. We had Craig Wells talk about production and gave us feedback as to how we should proceed with the project and what our end goal should be. The team went to Microsoft Mix Read more…
We had Anthony Daniels visit this week. After playtesting our prototype he pointed out that we did not need text on the screen as it ruined the immersion of the experience. We also got other valuable feedback which we will be implementing in the halves prototype. We also had our Read more…
We began with personality and character design for Charlie. So, we started by defining CROW (Character, Relationship, Objective, Where) for Charlie. This helped us learn what kind of character we want charlie to be. Then we discussed about the interactions between the user and charlie and decided on the ideal Read more…
We had the quarters in Week 5 and learned a lot through the feedback on what we need to focus on and what areas we need to work on. Here is the feedback summarized: We also discussed on some ideas to include the ideas from the feedback in the future Read more…
We completed and discussed the composition box and the metrics matrix with Carl and Erin. The programmers started on working on a prototype to showcase it for quarter walkarounds. The artist worked on the UI for the website and we will be using this 3d model for the quarters. Read more…
Yang, Megh and Angie went for the CMU TOC in Pittsburgh. We had a short meeting sharing project updates about our photo assistant and making everyone back to the same page. Here are the highlights: Talked about our photo assistant’s persona: o What’s his background story? He lives in a HoloLens all Read more…
For week 2, We took the team photos. We also did research on different personalities for an AI assistant. We also brainstormed for some project ideas and decided with final three. 1) Photo assistant: We took this one into multiple dimensions: Basic photo composition, social media sharing and photo manipulation. Upload Read more…