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Team Status Report for 03/06/21

will edit this and re-publish on saturday 03/06

Significant Risks:

  • As soon as the last parts for the glove arrive, we can begin assembling it. This is the first stage of our project but crucial as it determines whether we will even be able to continue with the project or not (if no controller for the game, then how do you play the game).
    • are all the parts going to fit on the glove?
    • is it going to be too heavy?
    • are all of the inter-connections between all of the parts going to work? (we will need to test this)

Changes made:

  • Some design details which are highlighted in the new block diagram that we worked on this week:

Schedule – No Changes (entering the glove assembling stage)

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Arthur’s Status Report for 03/06/21

This week, we ordered all of the parts that we need for our glove. A lot of these have already been received, but I am still waiting on a few that have not yet arrived. I will begin assembling the glove as soon as I have all of the parts. I worked on the Application Area and Project Management slides for the Design Presentation which we have next week.

We are still on schedule.

As I said above, next week we have our second presentation of the semester concerning the design details and implementation of our project. I will be giving this presentation. Furthermore, I hope that by some time next week I will have at least received all of the parts for the glove so that I can begin the assembling process.

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Arthur’s Status Report for 02/27/21

This week, after Logan gave the presentation on wednesday, I started making some research on what parts we are going to need for our glove controller. We will meet early next week to finalize this list and start ordering our parts.

We are still on schedule

Deliverables for next week: The design presentation as well as we should at least order all of the parts so that we can start assembling the glove.

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Arthur’s Status Report for 02/21/21

This week, our team focused on our Proposal Presentation and making sure that all required elements are present. I was tasked with the Requirements section as well as making the Gantt chart for our initial schedule. We did however finalize the tasks, starting dates, and end dates together. This chart can be seen in our team status report as well as in our Proposal Presentation.

We are on schedule for this project and next week we will order all of the parts that we need for our glove controller. As soon as those parts arrive, we can start assembling the glove. Since the glove is one of our main risks, we want to make sure that the glove works or doesn’t as soon as possible.

If the glove is assembled by next week, then we will be able to post a picture. Once the glove has been built, I will turn all of my attention towards testing this glove to make sure that all the parts work correctly. This will be helpful once we code the game environment in order to identify where the errors come from.

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Introduction and Project Summary

Fruit Ninja AR

For our project, we would like to implement the game Fruit Ninja in Augmented Reality with a glove controller. The traditional game is played on a tablet where the user needs to cut the fruits by swiping on a screen and avoid the bombs as they appear. Fruits that are cut earn the player points, while missed fruits make the player lose 1 life and cutting a bomb is an instant game-over. Multiple fruits go in an arc motion across the screen, and several fruits can be cut at the same time for combos.

What are our design goals?

The glove that we are going to build for this project needs to be wireless for optimized mobility. This glove represents the sword, which is the user input for this game: this is how the player can cut fruits. Translating the 2D Fruit Ninja environment to a 3D Augmented Reality game is our primary software focus.

Why this project is unique?

The game is traditionally in a 2D environment, even the VR versions of the game that have risen. The 3D designs of the fruits, bombs, and the sword combined with our unique glove controller will make this project distinctive.