I hope everybody has had a good winter break as winter term has begun, and with that the return of the capstone project too. As a reminder, the team I am apart of is working on an Augmented Reality(AR) application that aims to show strain(now displacement) in real time. The intended users being in the Civil Engineering department at Oregon State University(OSU).
Winter term means that we are to begin development in full. Though, our project is slightly behind since we have a requirements change near the late end of the fall term. The changes were not drastic in terms of application scale or concept, but they changed what we are aiming to ‘solve’ with the application. As we are mainly looking for displacement of an object and showing the changes with a 3d object projected over the real object that is being experimented on. Similar in concept, but different in approach.
The beginning of the term though has had the team getting acquainted with the toolkit we will be working with to create the application using the Microsoft HoloLens(unknown if 1 or 2 still) and the toolkit(MRTK) that it uses bundled with Unity.
We have created a schedule in that our first sprint will be slightly shorter than anticipated since we did not get the ok to start the project from our project sponsor, Mike Bailey, yet(we have as of now though). The current plan is to meet with our project sponsor on 1/19/2021, and begin the second sprint on the same day since we now have the ok to begin implementing.
The aim of our schedule change is aimed to let us meet with professor Bailey at the beginning of each sprint and present him our current progress should he wish to see it and provide input as well. We thought it would be more beneficial to synchronize the meetings on the same day to keep feedback fresh and productive.
Otherwise, there is not much else to report on the project since we are just now getting into the midst of things. Hopefully I will have something interesting to bring up about the UI design then.
