Thursday, 28 October 2010

week 5 - feed back and Presentation Skills

We have receive our feedback and as we have suspected it was quite bad, we only got a grade D. The only thing that is positive in our feedback is that we have a render 3D shape examples and using Prezi for our presentation. The feedback on the pitch is that our group lacked of energy and enthusiasm, insufficient of detail and concept wasn't clear.

This week an external lecturer Paul come to talk to us about how to present a good presentation. We have learn new things about presenting from the lecture. Me and Rob had a meeting with Brian after the session. Brian and Nick have come up with another idea "Augmented Reality" that they have both discuss after the presentation last week. For this idea we will still create architectural shapes in 3D Max then get a few early learning building blocks and put marker on each piece. Then use AR tool Kit and Virtual or Flash as the software to pick up the marker from the web camera and then display the 3D model over the block. So on the screen there will be the real world 3D block that is build by us will be over the real world block and user can rotate around (but the marker need to be seen by the camera) and interact with the real world block. Brian have show us an example of the Augmented Reality using Flash. We have a quick research on the Augmented Reality after the meeting with Brian. There are some interesting examples of Augmented Reality out there.

Rob and I have come out with some important problems that our group will face if we are going to the Augmented Reality route:

  1. None of the member in our group know anything about Augmented Reality. 
  2. After the quick research we found out that Augmented Reality need a few tool kit and programs. It also involves a lot of coding and scripting as well as knowledge in game engine. 
  3. In the real world each pieces of the block will be stack up and the marker need to face the camera. So if the marker of the block is been block and not pick up by the camera then it will not show the model. So user are only allow to build a single building just the front part and not all the building. 
Brian also suggested us to schedule a meeting with Nick Cope who has some experience in this field. And both us Me and Rob decided to keep this idea cause it sound interesting. If after meeting with Nick and feel like it is unrealistic then we will lean back to the Tumbling Tower Activity. 

Link to the Augmented reality Tutorial and research:






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