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?
One major risk is the unreliability of gesture recognition, as OpenPose struggles with noise and time consistency. To address this, the team pivoted to a location-based input model, where users interact with virtual buttons by holding their hands in place. This approach improves reliability and user feedback, with potential refinements like additional smoothing filters if needed.
Finally, GPU performance issues could affect real-time AR overlays. Ongoing shader optimizations prioritize stability and responsiveness, with fallback rendering techniques as a contingency if improvements are insufficient.
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 have been made.
Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
This week, the team is doing full system integration, finalizing input event handling, and testing eye-tracking.