PROPOSALS

Project 1 Proposal 

Presentation for Project 1 Proposal

Project 1 Proposal Evaluation

End Presentation for Project 1

Project 2 Proposal  

Presentation for Project 2 Proposal 

In-class Activity

Project 2 Final Presentation

Public Demo

HOURS journal

1/25/21 - 4 Hours

• Familiarized with Oculus Quest 2 over the weekend.

• Completed the setup

• Read papers for the first project

• Read the wiki page on Virtual Reality

• Brainstormed first ideas for future projects

1/27/21 - 6 Hours

• Grabbed images of interesting places from Google Earth

• Made a wiki contribution on the VR Social Media page

• Read papers on "Survey on virtual reality in social network"

• Found potential software for projects: OpenSpace,  ParaView, TiltBrush, VeloView

  • Amazon Lumberyard:

    • Amazon's new VR engine release

    • Supports multiplayer gaming experience through GameLift

  • OpenSpace:

    • Very cool and exciting!

    • Comes with dataset of images of surface of Mars, Mercury and Moon

• Potential project ideas:

  • Multiplayer space exploration with voice chat on OpenSpace 

  • Virtual party/DJing with friends and share musical experiences through Unity (Dance Central is a similar game)

    • Users will be able to queue up songs and interact/dance

  • Visualizing archeological data in VR using Unity

  • Product review in VR by teams using TiltBrush(?)

• Questions:

  • But how do I collect public data?  

    • Found this github repo of space data

    • Getting 3d models from Sketchfab

  • Am I choosing the right software?

• Read about DinoVR

1/27/21 - 3 Hours

• Feedback/suggestions for my potential project ideas:

  • Space exploration with voice chat:

    • There is existing versions where you sit next to a person, they see your view

    • Think about how you can make it multiplayer and collaborative

    • Classmates entertain the voice chat idea!

  • On Unity you can get player locations and have two players exist in the same game space

  • Lumberyard: check the previous journals to see if it is actually good

  • Perfect synchronization is a hard task

  • Checkout the Oculus app for movie watching (VR theater) might be similar/inspiring to the party idea

  • Download and explore the possibilities of OpenSpace

  • Unity is the safest choice

1/27/21 - 3 Hours

• OpenSpace installed on VM

2/2/21 - 4 Hours

• Project ideas:

  • Multiplayer space exploration with voice chat on OpenSpace 

    • Things I will do:

      • Create an Open Space exploration that features voice chat with a person sitting next to the main user

      • Allow taking screenshots of/annotate the screen

      • Allow streaming on other (non-vr) devices?

      • Messaging and voice chat feature

    • Class Activity:

      • Have a class demo of space exploration in pairs (or more) people synchronously

    • Deliverables:

      • Make a detailed explanation of the software and explain how it can be made collaborative.

      • Improve the OpenSpace wiki page

      • Add the resources for data I used to the website.

  • Virtual party/DJing with friends and share musical experiences through Unity (Dance Central is a similar game)

    • Things I will do:

      • Create a socializing room

2/8/21 - 10 Hours

• • • Installed OpenSpace locally following the tutorial and ran the binary.

    • Assessed the doability of the project goals.

    • OpenSpace worked successfully on a Mac out of the box but it can only be compiled on a Windows Machine, so the software development aspect has to take place on the Windows VM.

2/10/21 - 4 Hours

• Completed the first milestone, which is running OpenSpace on the headset and compiling the code on Paperspace.

• Installed Paraview and Volume renderer on PaperSpace

• Contribution to the wiki

2/11/21 - 2 Hours

• In class Volume rendering in-class activity:

  • Looked at the depth data histogram to adjust parameters and coloring to find the boundaries of a rat's heart vessel.

2/15/21 - 4 hours

• Added content to wiki

• Installed OpenSpace on VM

• OpenSpace crashes on PaperSpace 

• Solved the bug: "Unhandled win32 exception occurred in VR view"

• •Solution:  

  • Under Performance, click Settings

  • Click Data Excecution Prevention tab

  • Select Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only

  • Restart Windows

• •Source: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/24b356ad-59ef-446f-aa8b-df6b55fa78bb/an-unhandled-win32-exception-occurred?forum=Vsexpressinstall

2/17/21 - 5 hours

• Learned the steps for compiling OpenSpace on Windows. There is an option for compiling for viewing in Oculus Rift. Would that work with Oculus Quest 2? 

• Compiled OpenSpace on VM but that also crashed.

• Research done on how to implement multiplayer support and voice chat:

  • Findings:

    • Possible C++ package: Simple Voice Chat

    • https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1750/Simple-Voice-Chat

2/22/21 - 5 hours

• Added a peer journal review for Laila

• Followed Brandon Woodard's tutorial on Building OpenSpace from Spring 2020.

• I was trying to figure out why it did not compile and turns out that OpenSpace can only be compiled using Visual Studio 2017, which is older than the version I have. Ran into some memory issues while cloning the OpenSpace repo again. Then deleted some other downloads and we are back at it! 

• The instructions for the CMake.txt file are different from what I have.

• There were no warnings from the CMake output log but it failed to build in CMake although I've followed the instructions there.  

• Working more on figuring out why the build says there are errors in configuration. There is some missing references??

2/24/21 - 3 hours

• Read on the OpenSpace Support Channel on Slack that they do not  plan to support VR in the future! "we support VR on HTCVive and OculusRift, it’s still a work in progress and thus not part of our main download/release. In order to use OpenSpace in VR you must compile from the source code with OpenVR support enabled." (From the channel) 

• The instructions for the CMake.txt file are different from what I have.

• There were no warnings from the CMake output log but it failed to build in CMake although I've followed the instructions there.  

• Working more on figuring out why the build says there are errors in configuration. There is some missing references??

2/26/21 - 3 hours

• Improved the wiki page for OpenSpace.

• Contributed to the Engage wiki page.

• Prepared the classroom activity to survey Engage on Oculus for Tuesday's class.

• Attempted to compile OpenSpace again.

03/01/21 - 2 hours

• Completed the prep for Engage classroom activity 

• Created the Google form for feedback

  • Aimed to measure the amount of collaboration, usability and connection using Engage

• Worked on OpenSpace integration

03/02/21 - 2 hours

• Conducted the in-class demo for Engage

• Got verbal and written feedback from classmates and compiled results.

03/05/21 - 4 hours

• Started brainstorming ideas for Project 2

• Gathered material for Project 1 final presentation.

• Updated journal