This week, we had our Halves presentation on Wednesday. That meant that the first part of the week was dedicated to polishing our presentation – finalizing our slides, and rehearsing what we were going to say. At Shirley and Chris’s suggestion, we spent very little presentation time on QB1, and tried to clearly explain the product that we are making.
Here is a recording of our official presentation on Wednesday:
On Wednesday afternoon, we debriefed with our client, Philip, who had come to see the presentation. He was happy with the direction we had chosen for the project, and thought we did a good job detailing our plans. Then, Shirley came and gave us feedback from the faculty. Overall, faculty response to our presentation was fairly positive. One of our main concerns going into the presentation was that we could not properly justify the use of AR for this project, but the majority of the faculty were satisfied knowing that our client had requested that we use new technology. Additionally, faculty felt that we pivoted well from QB1 to Relationship Status, and had made progress on our project despite the huge change. As we near the end of the semester, the faculty expects us to polish our design and validate that the mechanics work for our target audience.
We were also lucky enough to talk to Christian, our client’s director, about our project. Christian was excited not only about our product, but also about the research we are doing into how audiences want to interact with extra content from shows. He also mentioned that it would be great if we could frame our product in a way that shows how it integrates with the Go90 mobile app. Since we don’t have access to the back end of the app, Philip suggested that we create a video-watching experience to go before the AR experience, which would look like the Go90 app. That is one of the things we’ll be working on next week.