What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
Most significant risk currently is the system integration failing. So far everyone has been working on their tasks pretty separately (software for gesture recognition/eye tracking, software for AR overlay, hardware for camera rig + UI). It looks like everyone has made significant progress on their tasks, and are close to the testing stage for the individual parts. However, not much testing/design has gone into how these subprojects will interface. We will discuss this in the further weeks. Moreover, we have made some time in the schedule for the integration, which gives us ample time for making sure everything works.
Another risk is performance, the compute requirement for the software is a lot and the Jetson may not be able to handle it. But this has already been mentioned in our last team status report, and we are currently working on it.
Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
No changes currently.
Updates & Schedule change
The team seems to be roughly on schedule.