Prototype

Right!
I've recovered from my lack of sleep. And thought it was about time to do another blog update. I've been quite slack lately.

So we had our prototype presentation on wednesday. It went rather well I thought. We had three things to present :

- A Basic version of the Simulation ( RSS feeds )
- Motion Capture
- The Interaction ( And Weather Simulation )

We presented the simulation first.

Although we didn't have the RSS Feed working, we did have the sun / moon moving across the screen depending on time of day.

For the final version we're going to have weather data brought in from an RSS feed. Ben is working on that, I'll then implement that code in our full flash file.

I cant remember which we presented next, I think it was the final interaction.

This was a working representation of our finished product. Fully interactive sun / moon and clouds. Grouped clouds would create a storm and then would rain. Very simple, Very Effective. Clouds could then be pulled apart and the storm would end.

Finally we had the motion capture.

The motion capture unfortunatley didnt work correctly. As the LEDs we were using decided to die just before the presentation :(.

However we managed to prove the intent, and Jaime suggested we look into using Infra Red lighting instead of LEDs. I've begun some research into it and will post more on it later.

Overall I think it was a successful day, and I almost missed the best part , we've now got a presentation space. We are presenting in a stairwell just outside our critique space. There's enough room to rear-project a decent sized image, with the user lying on a beanbag or some low chair interacting with it from below.

We've got Kevin working on some sketches etc.

Im also going to bring a camera to uni from now on so we can get a good amount of photo documentation for the final phase.

The three SWF's are all available in my swf repository :
http://members.optusnet.com.au/gmassingham/weatherroom/
( Mocap and Simulation are now out of date , WROOM_PROTO is up to date ).

anyway, Im still rather tired, so Im off to bed. Will post more updates as they come. Just a quick "where we're at" thing.

- Anthony