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The Ako team went on a team dinner this week! We had an amazing time at the Vespucci Italian Ristorante at San Mateo. Here are some pictures! Rest of the week was focussed on obtaining a working demo for the Quarters open house here at EA. We decided to prototype the core interaction mechanics for…
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Like mentioned in the last post, Ako explored both the passthrough AR and speech processing technologies last week. We did some prototyping, some vetting and, finally, settled on the design decisions to fit the tech. This was to make sure that we spend our next weeks focussing on the core essence of our project, which…
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This week our team dipped our toes into the tech and designs that we hope to use in the following months. We did some demos and prototyping to get ourselves familiar with them. This post will cover the following: Let’s play some games! Brainstorming agent roles The Design Workshop Character design research The Oculus-Zed-LeapMotion setup Speech-Text-Speech…
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Week 1 has been a pretty informative week for our team. We learned our project objective and familiarized ourselves with past similar projects. It helped us understand how our project would be differing from the previous projects. We also made it a point to go through the documentation and lessons from these teams before we…
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