Next week, I hope to post more screenshots of our prototype work with and without code that we will test.
This week our team met and discussed the following:
- Social and Marketing
- Language Issues
- Workflow
- Technical prototyping without code
- Standup/Next Actions Per Team member
1. Social and Marketing
Incorporating a social element for marketing and advertising the app and getting users to learn how to write their first names in the tutorial app video. I’ve asked Erica Layton (Oculus LaunchPad and ARVR Academy alumnus working at NormalVR) to give the demo she gave me this week to my team, so they can get an idea for various ways to incorporate more social aspects of learning language, including writing out our first/last names, sharing on social media, and UI brush choices with controllers to make the experience more interactive and fun. I’ve asked Erica to come visit us at Mozilla XR Studio during open office hours on Friday to showcase her invite-only demo for our team.
2. Language issues affecting our UI and interaction with the controller.
2. Language issues affecting our UI and interaction with the controller.
3. Workflow
We also talked about the workflow of our interaction for incorporating sound in preparation for the Adaptive Sound lecture by Niko to make sure we understood the handoff of each piece of our work, so that users can learn Tagalog words, with English translation verbally spoken and heard and visually seen in concert with our hip hop (graffiti spraycan, DJ scratch, drum sound), and Kulintang (traditional Philippine instrument) sounds that will trigger upon brush strokes for creating letters/characters and words in our app.
4. Technical prototyping without code
We discussed using Sketchbox and all the other content creation tools including Masterpiece VR in concert with Quill, Tiltbrush, and our tool for prototyping our ideas outside of a whiteboard before putting everything in Unity next week so that we have something to try whether or not my code breaks for whatever reason. We tested out downloading from our Oculus accounts at XR Studio to ensure that we can view my sketch prototypes so we have more product to work with and less on the whiteboard next week.
5. Standup/Next Actions Per Team member
Standup/Next Actions Per Team member - responsibilities each team member would share with the rest of the group next meeting
Erin - My major to-do items include- Coding the controller (with or without a fancy brush UI) from scratch based off of OpenBrushVR (Tango), FusedMan's work, Unity VR Tutorial: How To Build Tiltbrush from Scratch (my O'Reilly Creating Augmented + Virtual Realities co-editor Vasanth Mohan's work on YouTube, who is also in Oculus Start), AR cross-platform development from my other co-editor and friend, Steve Lukas, who is also in Oculus Start.
- Attending another community event in the FilipinX American community to obtain some pure sounds to capture, recording DJ scratch sounds from Filipino American world champion DJ’s, DJ-Q-Bert and DJ Shortkut of the Invisbl Skratch Piklz. The first one is more important but the 2nd one is fun too.
Kristian - more sound and script of what is said/pronounced
Troy - working with Erin on integration 3D art, controller and sound
Creative - Erin’s request to Angelo and Kristian on Creative is to find other UI similar to the brush below and bird.
Technical - Erin’s request to all team members, moreso Troy and Angelo on PC laptops they think meet their standard and preference to share with the team to make our VR portable for demos when we have a prototype we want to test for folks outside of Mozilla’s XR Studio on Fridays and into the community for user testing.
Administrative non-product stuff we discussed
Marketing our app
- What kind of laptop we would like to purchase that would have a fast GPU, that we find Apple MacBooks to be limited though preferable with a whole other suite of programs designed well for Mac including audio/sound editing and other creative art creation tools.
Stuff I forgot to mention last week
Pricing our App
I forgot to mention that we also discussed other various issues surrounding pricing our app. We want to keep it free since we are opt-ing in users to collect data, but if we had to charge for our app, we would keep it to no more than $5.00 per users. We want our app to be accessible for as far out the Philippine diaspora throughout the world and the Filipino America community exists in the U.S. Kristian’s views of his video doing Baybayin on A+J received numbers in the millions, so we wanted to consider how we would capitalize on this as a new project of his to expand reach for our audience beyond the Oculus store and traditional social media ads, knowing we already have a list of folks we can easily demo with to partner (Museums) and earned media from the Filipino, Asian American, and AI communities outside of XR in the Bay Area and nationally.
Budget
We also discussed our budget early on for our team and what we would like each member to contribute and receive based on that in the short term. Everyone is in agreement and has various expertise, capacities, and contributions to the project that are all valuable, complementary, and distinct.
This was some one of the concept arts we liked the most for the bird and paintbrush controller.
This was some of the type of ocean/sea art we used as inspiration for look and feel of our app's environment art.
Quill - Lost at Sea by Nick Ladd on Sketchfab
Next week, I hope to post more screenshots of our prototype work with and without code that we will test.
This week our team met and discussed the following:
- Social and Marketing
- Language Issues
- Workflow
- Technical prototyping without code
- Standup/Next Actions Per Team member
1. Social and Marketing
Incorporating a social element for marketing and advertising the app and getting users to learn how to write their first names in the tutorial app video. I’ve asked Erica Layton (Oculus LaunchPad and ARVR Academy alumnus working at NormalVR) to give the demo she gave me this week to my team, so they can get an idea for various ways to incorporate more social aspects of learning language, including writing out our first/last names, sharing on social media, and UI brush choices with controllers to make the experience more interactive and fun. I’ve asked Erica to come visit us at Mozilla XR Studio during open office hours on Friday to showcase her invite-only demo for our team.
2. Language issues affecting our UI and interaction with the controller.
2. Language issues affecting our UI and interaction with the controller.
3. Workflow
We also talked about the workflow of our interaction for incorporating sound in preparation for the Adaptive Sound lecture by Niko to make sure we understood the handoff of each piece of our work, so that users can learn Tagalog words, with English translation verbally spoken and heard and visually seen in concert with our hip hop (graffiti spraycan, DJ scratch, drum sound), and Kulintang (traditional Philippine instrument) sounds that will trigger upon brush strokes for creating letters/characters and words in our app.
4. Technical prototyping without code
We discussed using Sketchbox and all the other content creation tools including Masterpiece VR in concert with Quill, Tiltbrush, and our tool for prototyping our ideas outside of a whiteboard before putting everything in Unity next week so that we have something to try whether or not my code breaks for whatever reason. We tested out downloading from our Oculus accounts at XR Studio to ensure that we can view my sketch prototypes so we have more product to work with and less on the whiteboard next week.
5. Standup/Next Actions Per Team member
Standup/Next Actions Per Team member - responsibilities each team member would share with the rest of the group next meeting
Erin - My major to-do items include- Coding the controller (with or without a fancy brush UI) from scratch based off of OpenBrushVR (Tango), FusedMan's work, Unity VR Tutorial: How To Build Tiltbrush from Scratch (my O'Reilly Creating Augmented + Virtual Realities co-editor Vasanth Mohan's work on YouTube, who is also in Oculus Start), AR cross-platform development from my other co-editor and friend, Steve Lukas, who is also in Oculus Start.
- Attending another community event in the FilipinX American community to obtain some pure sounds to capture, recording DJ scratch sounds from Filipino American world champion DJ’s, DJ-Q-Bert and DJ Shortkut of the Invisbl Skratch Piklz. The first one is more important but the 2nd one is fun too.
Kristian - more sound and script of what is said/pronounced
Troy - working with Erin on integration 3D art, controller and sound
Creative - Erin’s request to Angelo and Kristian on Creative is to find other UI similar to the brush below and bird.
Technical - Erin’s request to all team members, moreso Troy and Angelo on PC laptops they think meet their standard and preference to share with the team to make our VR portable for demos when we have a prototype we want to test for folks outside of Mozilla’s XR Studio on Fridays and into the community for user testing.
Administrative non-product stuff we discussed
Marketing our app
- What kind of laptop we would like to purchase that would have a fast GPU, that we find Apple MacBooks to be limited though preferable with a whole other suite of programs designed well for Mac including audio/sound editing and other creative art creation tools.
Stuff I forgot to mention last week
Pricing our App
I forgot to mention that we also discussed other various issues surrounding pricing our app. We want to keep it free since we are opt-ing in users to collect data, but if we had to charge for our app, we would keep it to no more than $5.00 per users. We want our app to be accessible for as far out the Philippine diaspora throughout the world and the Filipino America community exists in the U.S. Kristian’s views of his video doing Baybayin on A+J received numbers in the millions, so we wanted to consider how we would capitalize on this as a new project of his to expand reach for our audience beyond the Oculus store and traditional social media ads, knowing we already have a list of folks we can easily demo with to partner (Museums) and earned media from the Filipino, Asian American, and AI communities outside of XR in the Bay Area and nationally.
Budget
We also discussed our budget early on for our team and what we would like each member to contribute and receive based on that in the short term. Everyone is in agreement and has various expertise, capacities, and contributions to the project that are all valuable, complementary, and distinct.
This was some one of the concept arts we liked the most for the bird and paintbrush controller.
This was some of the type of ocean/sea art we used as inspiration for look and feel of our app's environment art.
Quill - Lost at Sea by Nick Ladd on Sketchfab
