Activity Log

Activity Log

Week 01 (01/24 - 01/31) ~ 11.00 hrs

• 01/27/18, 11.00 - 01.00 PM: found and perused literature on graphics and VR (added under sources)

• 01/28/18, 01.00 - 06.00 PM: 3D modeling archaeological artifacts

• 01/29/18, 12.00 - 01.00 PM: lecture on AR/VR in Lubrano (CIT477)

• 01/31/18, 12.00 - 01.00 PM: lecture on MinVR by T. Sgouros @ 180 George Street

• 01/31/18, 08.00 - 09.00 PM: got in touch with the Rhode Island Virtual Reality group (on Thayer) - they have a mailing list!

• 01/31/18, 09.00 - 10.00 PM: updated literature under Manuscript > Literature

Week 02 (02/01 - 02/07) ~ 06.00 hrs

• 02/01/18, 09.00 - 10.00 PM: updated VR SW Review pages; updated journal page; experimented with Blender

• 02/03/18, 06.00 - 07.00 PM: got myself a (cheap) HMD  for experimentation purposes (and fun :) )

• 02/05/18, 09.00 - 12.00 PM: updated and reformatted journal, installed Visual Studio Community, installed VTK

• 02/07/18, 12.00 - 01.00 PM: lecture on VR in YURT by T. Sgouros @ 180 George Street

Week 03 (02/08 - 02/14) ~ 07.50 hrs

• 02/08/18, 01.30 - 02.30 PM: updated and reformatted literature pages on wiki; added notes page to profile; formulated questions for literature review; found interesting info on the history of VR (will extract the main sources and add to literature review);

• 02/12/18, 06.00 - 08.30 PM: read through a bunch of articles;

• 02/14/18, 12.00 - 01.00 PM: lecture on VR in YURT by T. Sgouros @ 180 George Street;

• 02/14/18, 05.00 - 08.00 PM: started on exploring Blender for tutorial;

Week 04 (02/15 - 02/21) ~ 07.75 hrs

• 02/16/18, 12.00 - 01.00 PM: tutorial on Blender with Kelly Egan at Multimedia Labs in the Granoff Center;

• 02/20/18, 10.00 - 12.45 AM: read 2 articles; updated VR SW Review pages; updated journal page; started putting up notes; experimented with Blender;

• 02/21/18, 12.00 - 01.00 PM: lecture on VR in YURT by T. Sgouros @ 180 George Street;

• 02/21/18, 03.00 - 04.00 PM: attempted to install MinVR on Windows 7 64-bit (not yet successful);

• 02/21/18, 07.00 - 09.00 PM: read 2 articles; watched tutorial on Blender;

Week 05 (02/22 - 02/28) ~ 11.00 hrs

• 02/25/18, 11.00 - 02.00 PM: read 2.5 articles; compiled notes for comparison;

• 02/26/18, 08.00 - 12.30 PM: watched two tutorials on animation and physics simulation in Blender and made my own simulations;

• 02/28/18, 12.00 - 02.30 PM: MinVR Tutorial and attempting to solve problems for installing on Windows;

• 02/28/18, 07.00 - 08.00 PM: Continued problem-solving on installing MinVR on Windows (still not successful); described steps so far of installing MinVR on Windows 7 64-bit machine;

Week 06 (03/01 - 03/07) ~ 08.75 hrs

• 03/01/18, 01.00 - 01.15 PM: signed up for Steam;

• 03/04/18, 10.00 - 01.00 PM: explored options to port from Blender to VR, using BlenderVR;

• 03/05/18, 12.00 - 04.00 PM: read 7 articles; updating notes pages;

• 03/07/18, 09.30 - 11.00 PM: updated Wiki pages;

Week 07 (03/08 - 03/14) ~ 05.50 hrs

• 03/09/18, 12.00 - 03.00 PM: downloaded and installed Unity; explored some of the user interface and browsed the online documentation;

• 03/11/18, 01.00 - 03.30 PM: continued browsing the online documentation and explored our online tutorial for porting 'Hello World' to Google Cardboard (failed on my computer);

Week 08 (03/15 - 03/21) ~ 07.50 hrs

• 03/14/18, 12.00 - 01.30 PM: YURT meeting in the Robotics lab in CIT, exploring VR to control Baxter the robot; also first engagement with HoloLens;

• 03/14/18, 09.00 - 11.30 PM: looking up and going through HoloLens development in Unity and Visual Studios through a tutorial on Microsoft's website;

• 03/15/18, 02.00 - 03.30 PM: continued exploration for HoloLens development in Unity and updating Wiki pages;

• 03/19/18, 04.30 - 06.30 PM: rolling ball game tutorial and investigate physics simulations in Unity;

Week 09 (03/22 - 03/28) ~ Spring Break

Week 10 (03/29 - 04/04) ~ 11.50 hrs

• 30/03/2018: 01.00 - 06.00 PM: exploring World Machine & Blender

• 03/04/2018: 04.00 - 06.00 PM: exploring Unity, tutorials

• 03/04/2018: 07.30 - 09.00 PM: exploring Unity, tutorials

• 04/04/2018: 10.00 - 01.00 PM: exploring Unity, tutorials

Week 11 (04/05 - 04/11) ~ 07.25 hrs

• 06/04/2018: 01.00 - 02.00 PM: exploring Unity, tutorials

• 04/08/2018: 12.00 - 03.00 PM: exploring Unity, tutorials, World Machine

• 04/09/2018: 02.00 - 05.15 PM: World Machine tutorials

Week 12 (04/12 - 04/18) ~ 07.00 hrs

• 04/11/2018: 01.30 - 05.30 PM Making World Machine tutorial

• 04/11/2018: 09.00 - 12.00 PM Making World Machine tutorial

• 04/18/2018: Away for Conference

Week 13 (04/19 - 04/25) ~ 01.00 hrs

• 04/19/2018: Away for Conference

• 04/20/2018: Away for Conference

• 04/21/2018: Away for Conference

• 04/23/2018: Away for Conference

• 04/25/2018: 01.00 - 02.00 PM Install MinVR etc. for MinVR tutorial

Week 14 (04/26 - 05/02) ~ 09.50 hrs

• 04/26/2018: 08.00 - 10.00 PM: Looking up and skimming articles;

• 04/29/2018: 05.00 - 12.00 PM: Compiling notes in narrative and updating Wiki; updating journal;

• 04/30/2018: 12.00 - 12.30 AM: Compiling notes in narrative and updating Wiki; updating journal;

Week 15 (05/03 - 05/09) ~ 07.50 hrs

• 05/04/2018: 10.00 - 02.30 AM: Preparing final tutorial of integrating Unity and Blender;

• 05/05/2018: 11.00 - 02.00 PM: Making World in World Machine for demo;

Week 16 (05/10 - 05/16) ~ 21.25 hrs

• 05/10/2018: 09.00 - 10.45 PM: Making posters for demo day;

• 05/11/2018: 10.00 - 02.00 PM: Tour in Newport Navy base (oldskool VR stuff);

• 05/11/2018: 02.00 - 04.30 PM: Finalizing tutorials on Blender & World Machine;

• 05/11/2018: 06.30 - 08.00 PM: Finalizing tutorials on Blender;

• 05/11/2018: 10.00 - 12.00 PM: Finalizing tutorials on Blender;

• 05/12/2018: 12.00 - 02.30 AM: Finalizing tutorials on Blender and BlenderVR;

• 05/12/2018: 09.30 - 12.00 PM: Writing report and exploring more Blender (it is really a nice program once you get used to its quirks);

• 05/13/2018: 12.00 - 02.00 AM: Blender and making VR 360 degree video;

• 05/13/2018: 10.00 - 01.30 PM: Making second poster;