Category: Team Status Reports

This week, we prepared and then presented our design review presentation at the beginning of the week. Following the presentation, we received helpful feedback regarding the design of the live studio used to capture video feeds of an object. A key concern is how make it possible for an object could be rotated and shown easily, without obstructing the view of the object (as moving it by hand would do). Our possible solutions include the following: a rotating disk at the bottom of the live studio, and green tweezers that would be removed by chroma-keying. We are considering having different studio setups based on what object should be shown, and we plan to spend the next week finalizing our studio design.

Another issue we have come to realize is that our current schedule is not designed to have our MVP by the midpoint demo, but rather to have the full design only done by the end. We plan to rearrange our schedule in order to better meet the midpoint demo, which likely requires building the holographic pyramid and live studio earlier than currently planned, and building the image filters later.

Thus, going forward, our largest challenges are both finalizing the design of our studio and rearranging our schedule to better fit our needs. As our next week is currently accorded to “research”, we have the time to make these changes without jeopardizing our current or revised schedules.

This week, our group worked on creating our proposal presentation for our project. We’ve met several times both inside and outside of our mandatory lab time to discuss the content of the proposal, work on it as a group, and get feedback from the professors. Through this, we were able to come up with a concrete schedule and plan out our task list as seen below. Some of the biggest challenges we’ve had to face this week have been fleshing out some of the smaller details of our project, including the choice of hardware (FPGA vs Pi), the size of the projection, and how to quantitatively measure visual quality and sharpness. Through researching answers to these, we have been able to better understand both our project idea and our proposal itself. Going forward, we expect our next biggest challenge to be choosing the specific hardware we want to use to build our pyramid.