Good news for the project! We met with Professor Bailey and we are confirmed to get a HoloLens 2. What this means though, is that we have to meet together as a group and make sure we have the right configuration for using the HoloLens 2 and it’s MRTK. There shouldn’t be too many noticeable differences other than some QoL stuff from what I am aware of. But we are doing it to be on the safe side since there are some deprecations from the older version.
In addition. What I have found while emulating the HoloLens is that my computer cries in agony in terms of memory usage. So before I can get a proper video of the test program I have been running. I will have to get some more RAM most likely. Thankfully I have been planning on getting some to begin with. So I am ordering some and am hopefully having it arrive about the same time we do the trade-off with Professor Higgins to get our hands on the HoloLens 2 to begin testing the mapping function of an area of the HoloLens.
Other than this. I can’t really provide a good video and a screenshot does feel incredibly artificial as I could just doctor it. So as I fail to meet expectations again(and rag on my self about it), I will have to ask for the ever extended patience of those who read this.
Moving on from the project, my weekly DnD game has had an exciting turn of events. A player has essentially walked into the hands of an unknown entity due to the cuteness of it. It turns out putting something that you would want as your pet sidekick as a threat is a dangerous thing to do.
After a merfolk sorceress played a flute to a god in an altar. The cave went pitch black and all that could be seen was the light from a Warlock’s staff, and this little guy. After ominous music began playing the party began to feel scales and slime go across their bodies even though they saw nothing.
This creature stood still. The sorceress could not contain her excitement of the cuteness that this frog-fish contained and got closer and closer. The group warned her, but as if she placed herself under a spell she continued to close the gap between them. Upon getting close enough to touch the creature the sorceress felt multiple pulls of magic and what felt like invisible hands pull her into the water nearby. Succeeding in what the attacks of the mind what ultimately pulled her in were the invisible force at hand.
That’s where we left our session as everyone was in disbelief of what had happened. I had a lot of fun GMing it and my players squealed in excitement of what would happen next.
Anyways I have ranted on enough about DnD this week. Maybe I’ll just keep doing DnD stories since this isn’t necessarily supposed to be CS content to begin with. But I feel like I owe it to myself to talk about updates we have in the project as it keeps getting more and more interesting even though we are slightly behind due to requirements changes and now hardware changes in the project.