Month: May 2018

Detailed below is our postmortem. 1. Introduction and overview of the project Project Thin Line is a mobile VR experience dealing with women’s reproductive rights. Through the use of interactive narrative, we aimed to encourage healthcare providers to identify their biases towards women who had an abortion, evoke empathy, and raise discussion around this topic. 2. What went well (or what went right) 2.1. Pre-production Being a pitch project, some parts of the pre-production happened before the semester started. For […]

In this week, we finished our final presentation. We made final adjustments to the product, including making the phone call voice over spatial, so that the first time VR players could have a “wow” moment. We published our final product on the Google Play store, and we planned to port it to Oculus Rift in the next week to reach a broader audience. The whole experience can now be downloaded from Google Play store.  

This week we brought our product to Dr. Judy, a couple of medical students, and an abortion clinic for playtest. We also had an Open House on Friday, and playtested with 24 individuals, including CMU students, faculties, film makers, and professional game developers and designers. We conducted two sets of tests: Our user test showed promising results that most of our players were trying VR and Daydream for the first time, but almost all of them have no trouble going through the […]